drug-bioactivity-assay

drug-bioactivity-assay is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills. It costs 23 tokens per session (662 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A PubChem lookup for the biological tests run on a chemical, including the proteins or genes it was tested against.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect a compound’s testing history, find active targets, and compare whether it affects many targets or mainly one.
Why use it?
It gathers scattered assay results in one place and can filter for tests where the chemical showed activity.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to inspect a compound’s testing history, find active targets, and compare whether it affects many targets or mainly one.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/learningmatter-mit/atomisticskills/drug-bioactivity-assay
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills --skill drug-bioactivity-assay
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 662 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00023 $0.00662
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00331
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00132
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00066

Measured 8d ago against content hash 1ce5dd540511, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

drug-bioactivity-assay scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/get_assays.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.agents/skills/drug-bioactivity-assay/SKILL.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bioactivity and Assay Data Retrieval

Goal

To programmatically retrieve the testing history of a specific chemical compound against biological targets using PubChem's Assay Summary endpoint. This skill allows filtering for "Active" outcomes, providing assay IDs (AIDs), target GeneIDs, and micromolar activity values to assess a compound's promiscuity or target specificity.

Instructions

1. Extract All Assays

Retrieve all assays for a given compound (CID), regardless of outcome:

# Env: base-agent
python .agents/skills/drug-bioactivity-assay/scripts/get_assays.py \
  --cid 2244 \
  --limit 50 \
  --outdir research/aspirin_assays \
  --output aspirin_all_assays.json

2. Extract Only 'Active' Results

Use the --active_only flag to strictly return assays where the compound was marked as "Active" or showed positive binding/inhibition.

# Env: base-agent
python .agents/skills/drug-bioactivity-assay/scripts/get_assays.py \
  --cid 5291 \
  --active_only \
  --limit 50 \
  --outdir research/imatinib_assays \
  --output imatinib_active_assays.json

Parameters:

  • --cid: PubChem CID of the target molecule (e.g., 5291 for Imatinib).
  • --outdir: Directory to save the resulting JSON file.
  • --active_only: (Optional) Flag to strictly filter results to assays where the test outcome was "Active".
  • --limit: (Optional) Maximum number of assays to retrieve (default: 1000) to keep JSON sizes manageable.
  • --output: (Optional) Output filename (default: assay_summary.json).

Examples

We can test extracting known active targets for the cancer drug Imatinib (CID: 5291).

# Env: base-agent
python .agents/skills/drug-bioactivity-assay/scripts/get_assays.py \
  --cid 5291 \
  --active_only \
  --limit 20 \
  --outdir .agents/skills/drug-bioactivity-assay/examples/imatinib \
  --output assays_imatinib_active.json

Constraints

  • Assay Availability: Compounds with no biological testing history in PubChem will return 0 results.
  • Reporting Variations: High-throughput screening (HTS) assay results often lack explicit target GeneIDs or quantitative Activity Values compared to confirmatory literature assays. The script retrieves whatever is available natively in the column.
  • Network Limits: PubChem can sporadically drop connections when rendering very large assay summaries. The script automatically handles connection drops and HTTP 503 blocking via exponential backoff.

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 70 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 1ce5dd540511

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drug-bioactivity-assay is a skill published in the GitHub repository learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills (161 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 662 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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