tooluniverse-protein-structure-prediction

tooluniverse-protein-structure-prediction is a skill for Claude Code from mims-harvard/ToolUniverse. It costs 71 tokens per session (3,557 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for predicting and examining a protein's three-dimensional shape from its amino-acid sequence. It can use ESMFold, AlphaFold models, experimental structures, and sequence-property calculations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to predict a protein fold, retrieve an AlphaFold model, compare it with experimental structures, check confidence scores, calculate sequence properties, and study variant impacts.
Why use it?
It helps assess a protein when no suitable experimental structure is available and provides confidence information for judging the prediction. It can also compare predictions with known structures and examine possible mutation effects.

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 predict a protein fold, retrieve an AlphaFold model, compare it with experimental structures, check confidence scores, calculate sequence properties, and study variant impacts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mims-harvard/tooluniverse/tooluniverse-protein-structure-prediction
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

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Any agent
npx skills add mims-harvard/ToolUniverse --skill tooluniverse-protein-structure-prediction
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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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,557 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00071 $0.03557
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01778
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00711
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00356

Measured 8d ago against content hash df814339216c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tooluniverse-protein-structure-prediction 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 8d 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-protein-structure-prediction/SKILL.md · 341 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 341 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Protein Structure Prediction and Analysis

End-to-end workflow for protein structure prediction starting from a sequence or UniProt accession. Combines ESMFold de novo prediction, AlphaFold database retrieval, experimental structure benchmarking from RCSB, ProtVar variant impact assessment, and ProtParam sequence property calculation.

KEY PRINCIPLES:

  1. Sequence first — obtain or verify the protein sequence before prediction
  2. ESMFold for fast de novo — works directly on sequence (up to ~800 residues); no database lookup needed
  3. AlphaFold for reference — retrieve precomputed AlphaFold model for comparison; use qualifier parameter (UniProt accession)
  4. Quality before interpretation — always report pLDDT scores; do not interpret low-confidence regions as folded
  5. Experimental validation — compare predictions to RCSB experimental structures when available
  6. ProtVar for variants — use when the question involves mutations or SNVs affecting structure
  7. English-first queries — use English protein names in all tool calls; respond in the user's language

LOOK UP, DON'T GUESS

When uncertain about any scientific fact, SEARCH databases first rather than reasoning from memory. A database-verified answer is always more reliable than a guess.


COMPUTE, DON'T DESCRIBE

When analysis requires computation (statistics, data processing, scoring, enrichment), write and run Python code via Bash. Don't describe what you would do — execute it and report actual results. Use ToolUniverse tools to retrieve data, then Python (pandas, scipy, statsmodels, matplotlib) to analyze it.

When to Use

Apply when users ask:

  • "Predict the structure of this sequence: [FASTA]"
  • "What does the AlphaFold model for [protein] look like?"
  • "How confident is the AlphaFold prediction for [protein]?"
  • "Is there an experimental structure for [protein] and how does it compare to AlphaFold?"
  • "How does mutation [variant] affect the structure of [protein]?"
  • "What are the physicochemical properties of [protein] sequence?"
  • "Predict the structure of this novel protein" / "I have a new sequence, can you model it?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 341 lines

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. 8d ago First seen · 341 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A df814339216c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tooluniverse-protein-structure-prediction is a skill published in the GitHub repository mims-harvard/ToolUniverse (1,680 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 3,557 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 2026-09-03.

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