fda-database

fda-database is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills. It costs 43 tokens per session (3,455 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of fda-database, MIT.

A way to query openFDA, the US Food and Drug Administration’s public data service. It provides structured information about medicines, medical devices, foods, veterinary products, and chemical substances.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate adverse events, recalls, product labels, approvals, drug shortages, device clearances, and substance identifiers.
Why use it?
It replaces manual searches across FDA pages and makes regulatory and safety records available for programmatic analysis. This helps track reports and decisions consistently.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to investigate adverse events, recalls, product labels, approvals, drug shortages, device clearances, and substance identifiers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/leonchaox/qinyan-academic-skills/fda-database
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 LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills --skill fda-database
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,455 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 98% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00043 $0.03455
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.01728
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00691
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00346

Measured 6d ago against content hash ec83be065065, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fda-database 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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/fda_examples.py, scripts/fda_query.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.

Origin

This is a copy

98% identical to fda-database — 3 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/07-临床医学与精准医疗/fda-database/SKILL.md · 517 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 517 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

FDA Database Access

Overview

Access comprehensive FDA regulatory data through openFDA, the FDA's initiative to provide open APIs for public datasets. Query information about drugs, medical devices, foods, animal/veterinary products, and substances using Python with standardized interfaces.

Key capabilities:

  • Query adverse events for drugs, devices, foods, and veterinary products
  • Access product labeling, approvals, and regulatory submissions
  • Monitor recalls and enforcement actions
  • Look up National Drug Codes (NDC) and substance identifiers (UNII)
  • Analyze device classifications and clearances (510k, PMA)
  • Track drug shortages and supply issues
  • Research chemical structures and substance relationships

When to Use This Skill

This skill should be used when working with:

  • Drug research: Safety profiles, adverse events, labeling, approvals, shortages
  • Medical device surveillance: Adverse events, recalls, 510(k) clearances, PMA approvals
  • Food safety: Recalls, allergen tracking, adverse events, dietary supplements
  • Veterinary medicine: Animal drug adverse events by species and breed
  • Chemical/substance data: UNII lookup, CAS number mapping, molecular structures
  • Regulatory analysis: Approval pathways, enforcement actions, compliance tracking
  • Pharmacovigilance: Post-market surveillance, safety signal detection
  • Scientific research: Drug interactions, comparative safety, epidemiological studies

Quick Start

1. Basic Setup

from scripts.fda_query import FDAQuery

# Initialize (API key optional but recommended)
fda = FDAQuery(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")

# Query drug adverse events
events = fda.query_drug_events("aspirin", limit=100)

# Get drug labeling
label = fda.query_drug_label("Lipitor", brand=True)

# Search device recalls
recalls = fda.query("device", "enforcement",
                   search="classification:Class+I",
                   limit=50)

2. API Key Setup

While the API works without a key, registering provides higher rate limits:

  • Without key: 240 requests/min, 1,000/day
  • With key: 240 requests/min, 120,000/day

Read the full file on GitHub · 517 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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 · 517 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A ec83be065065

Subscribe to this mod's changes

fda-database is a skill published in the GitHub repository LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills (877 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 3,455 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 98% identical to fda-database, differing in 3 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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