drug-db-pubchem

drug-db-pubchem is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,362 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A programmatic lookup tool for PubChem, a public database of chemical compounds. It finds compounds by names or chemical identifiers and can return identifiers, properties, synonyms, and 2D or 3D structure files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to look up compounds such as aspirin, retrieve molecular weight or other computed properties, find alternate names, and download available SDF structures.
Why use it?
It removes the need to search PubChem manually and helps turn a compound description into structured data for analysis. Queries can be repeated and rate-limited for automated workflows.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,362 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00035 $0.01362
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00681
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00272
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00136

Measured 6d ago against content hash beb059e75f6b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

drug-db-pubchem scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/query_pubchem.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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- **Dependencies**: Standard library only (`urllib`, `json`, `argparse`).
.agents/skills/drug-db-pubchem/SKILL.md · 155 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 155 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PubChem Database Query

Goal

To programmatically query the PubChem Compound database using the PUG-REST API and retrieve:

  • PubChem Compound IDs (CIDs) from names, SMILES, InChI, InChIKey, or molecular formulas,
  • computed molecular properties (e.g., molecular weight, XLogP, TPSA, HBD/HBA),
  • optional synonyms (names/identifiers),
  • optional structure files (SDF), preferring 3D records when available.

This skill is designed for reproducible, rate-limited queries suitable for automation workflows.

Instructions

1. Search by Compound Name

Look up a compound by its common name. Use --name_type complete (default) for exact match or --name_type word for partial matching.

# Env: base-agent
python .agents/skills/drug-db-pubchem/scripts/query_pubchem.py \
  --name "aspirin" \
  --name_type complete \
  --max_results 5 \
  --outdir research/pubchem/aspirin \
  --output aspirin.json

For partial name matching (can be noisier):

# Env: base-agent
python .agents/skills/drug-db-pubchem/scripts/query_pubchem.py \
  --name "atorvastatin" \
  --name_type word \
  --max_results 10 \
  --outdir research/pubchem/atorvastatin \
  --output atorvastatin_word.json

2. Search by SMILES

SMILES may contain characters reserved by URL syntax; this script uses HTTP POST to avoid common failures.

# Env: base-agent
python .agents/skills/drug-db-pubchem/scripts/query_pubchem.py \
  --smiles "CC(=O)Oc1ccccc1C(=O)O" \
  --max_results 5 \
  --outdir research/pubchem/aspirin_smiles \
  --output aspirin_smiles.json

3. Search by CID

Most unambiguous lookup method.

# Env: base-agent
python .agents/skills/drug-db-pubchem/scripts/query_pubchem.py \
  --cid 2244 \
  --outdir research/pubchem/CID_2244 \
  --output cid_2244.json

4. Search by InChI or InChIKey

InChI uses HTTP POST (like SMILES) to avoid URL syntax issues.

# Env: base-agent
python .agents/skills/drug-db-pubchem/scripts/query_pubchem.py \
  --inchikey "BSYNRYMUTXBXSQ-UHFFFAOYSA-N" \
  --outdir research/pubchem/aspirin_inchikey \
  --output aspirin_inchikey.json

Read the full file on GitHub · 155 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. 6d ago First seen · 155 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A beb059e75f6b

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drug-db-pubchem is a skill published in the GitHub repository learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills (161 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,362 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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