drug-pose-validation

drug-pose-validation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills. It costs 33 tokens per session (1,310 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A quality-checking tool for docked or computer-generated drug poses, meaning predicted positions of a small molecule inside a protein. It uses PoseBusters to check chemical geometry, stereochemistry, and clashes within or between molecules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to validate ligand poses in SDF files, optionally check clashes against a protein structure, and produce a filtered pose set with a machine-readable report.
Why use it?
It removes physically implausible poses before they are sent into more expensive simulations or refinement steps.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,310 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00033 $0.01310
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00655
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00262
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00131

Measured 4d ago against content hash 054d444bd937, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

drug-pose-validation 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate_poses.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-pose-validation/SKILL.md · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

drug-pose-validation

Goal

To filter docked or generated ligand poses through physical plausibility checks (bond lengths, angles, planarity, internal clashes, protein-ligand clashes, stereochemistry) using PoseBusters, producing a validated subset of poses plus a machine-readable report.

This skill sits between docking (drug-docking-vina) and downstream refinement (drug-complex-system-builder, drug-protein-ligand-md), ensuring that only physically reasonable poses enter expensive simulation stages.

Instructions

1. Prepare inputs

You need:

  • Docked poses: an SDF file containing one or more ligand poses (e.g., output from Vina converted to SDF, or from any pose-generation tool).
  • Receptor structure (optional but recommended): PDB file of the protein. When provided, PoseBusters also checks for protein-ligand steric clashes.

If your docked poses are in PDBQT format, convert them to SDF first:

# Env: drugdisc-agent
obabel docking/results/ligand_docked.pdbqt -O docking/results/ligand_docked.sdf -m

2. Run pose validation

# Env: drugdisc-agent
python .agents/skills/drug-pose-validation/scripts/validate_poses.py \
  --poses docking/results/ligand_docked.sdf \
  --receptor docking/inputs/protein_prepared.pdb \
  --output_dir docking/validation/

This produces:

  • docking/validation/validation_report.json: per-pose pass/fail results for each check
  • docking/validation/valid_poses.sdf: SDF containing only poses that pass all checks
  • docking/validation/summary.txt: human-readable summary

3. Run without receptor (ligand-only checks)

When no receptor is available, run ligand-only validation (checks bond geometry, planarity, stereochemistry, internal clashes):

# Env: drugdisc-agent
python .agents/skills/drug-pose-validation/scripts/validate_poses.py \
  --poses generated/conformers.sdf \
  --output_dir generated/validation/

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 lines

Changes

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  1. 4d ago First seen · 129 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 054d444bd937

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drug-pose-validation is a skill published in the GitHub repository learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills (158 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,310 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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