mat-synthesis-recommendation

mat-synthesis-recommendation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills. It costs 31 tokens per session (1,282 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A search tool for finding and ranking published synthesis recipes for inorganic materials. It uses Materials Project's database of procedures extracted from scientific papers and includes ingredients, steps, reaction equations, and paper references.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find precursors, synthesis procedures, reaction conditions, synthesis types, and DOI references for a specified material.
Why use it?
It saves time spent searching the literature for a workable way to make a target material. Recipes can be filtered by method and temperature and ranked using practical criteria.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,282 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00031 $0.01282
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00641
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00256
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00128

Measured today against content hash 1e05801efaf7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mat-synthesis-recommendation 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 today.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/recommend_synthesis.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/mat-synthesis-recommendation/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Synthesis Recommendation

Goal

To provide experimentally validated synthesis routes for target inorganic materials by querying Materials Project's text-mined database of synthesis recipes extracted from scientific literature. This skill returns precursor materials, synthesis procedures, reaction equations, and DOI references to published papers.

Instructions

1. Query Synthesis Recipes

Search for synthesis recipes for a target material using the Materials Project API:

# Env: base-agent
python .agents/skills/mat-synthesis-recommendation/scripts/recommend_synthesis.py "LiFePO4" --limit 10 --output synthesis_recipes.json

Parameters:

  • formula: Target material formula (e.g., "LiFePO4", "Li2CO3", "NMC811")
  • --limit: Maximum number of recipes to display (default: 10)
  • --output: Optional JSON file to save results
  • --type: Filter by synthesis type (e.g., "solid-state", "hydrothermal", "sol-gel")
  • --min-temp: Minimum synthesis temperature in °C
  • --max-temp: Maximum synthesis temperature in °C

Output: Recipes are automatically ranked by:

  1. Simplicity: Fewer precursors preferred
  2. Temperature: Lower synthesis temperatures preferred
  3. Synthesis type: Common methods (solid-state, hydrothermal) ranked higher

2. Interpret Results

Each recipe contains:

  • Target material: Normalized chemical formula
  • Precursors: Starting materials/reagents
  • Synthesis type: Method category (solid-state, hydrothermal, sol-gel, etc.)
  • Procedure: Step-by-step synthesis description from the paper
  • Reaction equation: Balanced chemical equation (when available)
  • DOI: Link to the source publication for full experimental details

3. Validate Synthesis Feasibility (Optional)

Cross-check the recommended precursors with other skills:

# Check if target material is thermodynamically stable
# See: ../mat-stability/SKILL.md
python .agents/skills/mat-stability/scripts/calculate_stability.py target.cif --output stability_analysis.json

# Calculate formation energy to verify synthesizability
# Energy above hull (E_hull) < 0.1 eV/atom indicates likely synthesizability

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. today First seen · 125 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 1e05801efaf7

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mat-synthesis-recommendation is a skill published in the GitHub repository learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills (158 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 1,282 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 2026-09-03.

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