tooluniverse-drug-target-validation

tooluniverse-drug-target-validation is a skill for Claude Code from mims-harvard/ToolUniverse. It costs 82 tokens per session (4,235 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A research workflow for assessing whether a biological target is suitable for drug development. It combines evidence about disease genetics, druggability, safety, ADMET, and structural tractability into a Target Validation Score and a GO or NO-GO recommendation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prioritize drug targets, assess whether a target can likely be modulated safely, and support decisions about starting or stopping further development work.
Why use it?
It organizes the evidence needed before investing in laboratory work or medicinal chemistry. This helps expose weak target hypotheses and compare targets using the same criteria.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the tooluniverse plugin — 140 skills, 8 commands, 1 agent, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to prioritize drug targets, assess whether a target can likely be modulated safely, and support decisions about starting or stopping further development work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mims-harvard/tooluniverse/tooluniverse-drug-target-validation
About the project

ToolUniverse is a collection of tools, interfaces, and supporting components for building AI systems that perform scientific work. It is for developers creating AI scientist agents that use APIs, databases, machine-learning tools, and domain-specific utilities. The catalogue includes skills, commands, an MCP server, an agent, and a hook for working with the ecosystem.

mims-harvard/ToolUniverse · 1,680 stars · on GitHub · aiscientist.tools

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 mims-harvard/ToolUniverse --skill tooluniverse-drug-target-validation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install tooluniverse, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 140 skills, 8 commands, 1 agent, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,235 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 29 Mar 2026
  • Snyk warn 29 Mar 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium analysis-evasion · line 1
    Suspicious Unicode normalization or mixed-script content
    Fix: Review the flagged content for security risks. Ensure no credentials, secrets, or sensitive data are exposed.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 22
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00082 $0.04235
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.02117
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00847
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00424

Measured 12d ago against content hash ff83beacdfc5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tooluniverse-drug-target-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 12d ago.

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.

plugin/skills/tooluniverse-drug-target-validation/SKILL.md · 286 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 286 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Drug Target Validation Pipeline

Validate drug target hypotheses using multi-dimensional computational evidence before committing to wet-lab work. Produces a quantitative Target Validation Score (0-100) with priority tier classification and GO/NO-GO recommendation.

Reasoning Before Searching

A valid drug target must pass 4 gates in order. Failing an early gate makes later gates irrelevant:

  1. Genetic evidence linking it to disease: Does human genetic data (GWAS, rare variant studies, Mendelian genetics) support this target's role? Genetic evidence is the strongest predictor of clinical success. Use OpenTargets and GWAS catalog before anything else. If no genetic link exists, the hypothesis is speculative — document this clearly.
  2. Druggability: Can a molecule reach and modulate the target? Check structure availability (PDB, AlphaFold), binding pocket prediction (ProteinsPlus), target class (kinase, GPCR, nuclear receptor = favorable; transcription factor, scaffold protein = difficult), and existing chemical probes.
  3. Safety — essentiality in normal tissue: Is the target expressed in critical tissues (heart, liver, bone marrow)? Is knockout lethal in mice? High expression in essential tissue or lethality in mouse models is a strong safety red flag even before any clinical data.
  4. Competitive landscape: Are other drugs already approved or in late-stage trials for this target? If so, the bar is differentiation, not first-in-class. Check ChEMBL, DrugBank, and ClinicalTrials.gov early.

Do not proceed to Phase 3 (Chemical Matter) before completing Phase 1 (Disease Association). Gate 1 failures should prompt a NO-GO or pivot recommendation.

LOOK UP DON'T GUESS: Never assume a target is druggable based on its protein family alone, never assume expression is low in a tissue without checking GTEx or HPA, never assume no competitors without searching ClinicalTrials.gov.

RUN THE ML MODELS, DON'T SKIP THEM: When deep-learning predictors are available (ADMET-AI, ESMFold, AlphaFold, DoGSite, DynaMut2, DeepGO), run them even when database lookups or experimental data already cover the same property. The ML predictions provide an orthogonal, mechanistically-grounded estimate that's a first-class output of this skill — not a fallback. A target-validation report missing ML predictions is incomplete regardless of how much database evidence is present.

Read the full file on GitHub · 286 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 12d ago First seen · 286 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A ff83beacdfc5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tooluniverse-drug-target-validation is a skill published in the GitHub repository mims-harvard/ToolUniverse (1,680 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 4,235 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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