drug-retrosynthesis

drug-retrosynthesis is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills. It costs 22 tokens per session (639 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that predicts how a chemist might make a target molecule by working backward from its structure. It uses the IBM RXN for Chemistry service and needs the molecule’s SMILES notation, a text format for describing chemical structures.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to generate predicted retrosynthetic routes and a confidence score for the synthetic feasibility of a small molecule.
Why use it?
It helps assess whether a new molecule appears practical to synthesize before planning laboratory work.

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 generate predicted retrosynthetic routes and a confidence score for…

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

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 639 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.
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 $0.00022 $0.00639
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00319
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00128
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00064

Measured 7d ago against content hash 056f47af559e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

drug-retrosynthesis 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/evaluate_ibm_rxn.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-retrosynthesis/SKILL.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

drug-retrosynthesis

Goal

To predict the retrosynthetic pathways and synthetic accessibility of novel small molecules (such as undocumented fluorinated gases) using the state-of-the-art transformer models provided by IBM RXN for Chemistry.

Instructions

1. Identify Target Molecule

Ensure you have the valid canonical SMILES string for the target material or chemical you wish to synthesize.

2. Set Up the IBM RXN Environment

Because IBM RXN is a cloud-hosted API, you must have an API Key.

  1. Sign up for a free IBM RXN account at https://rxn.res.ibm.com/
  2. Generate an API Key in your user profile.
  3. Export the key in your terminal session before running the skill script:
export RXN_API_KEY="your-api-key-here"

3. Run Retrosynthesis Evaluation

Use the wrapper script to submit the SMILES string to the IBM RXN API. The script will poll the server and return the predicted pathway and a confidence score for synthetic feasibility.

# Env: drugdisc-agent
python .agents/skills/drug-retrosynthesis/scripts/evaluate_ibm_rxn.py "target_smiles" --steps 3

Examples

Evaluating the synthetic pathway for a fluorinated gas analog (e.g., 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene: FC(F)(F)C(F)=C):

# Env: drugdisc-agent
export RXN_API_KEY="api-key-here"
python .agents/skills/drug-retrosynthesis/scripts/evaluate_ibm_rxn.py "FC(F)(F)C(F)=C" --steps 3

Constraints

  • Environments: Requires the drugdisc-agent conda environment.
  • Dependencies: The script relies on the rxn4chemistry python library (pip install rxn4chemistry). If not installed, the script will gracefully exit with instructions.
  • Rate Limits: The IBM RXN free tier has API limits. Do not use this in a high-throughput loop for thousands of molecules without a premium tier.
  • Sourcing Constraints: This tool does not directly check commercial availability of the proposed precursors. You must manually verify if the starting materials proposed by IBM RXN are commercially available.

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 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. 7d ago First seen · 58 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 056f47af559e

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drug-retrosynthesis is a skill published in the GitHub repository learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills (161 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 639 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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