bio-protac-degraders

bio-protac-degraders is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PKU-YuanGroup/OpenAI4S. It costs 126 tokens per session (4,657 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of bio-protac-degraders, MIT.

A drug-design workflow for creating PROTACs, molecular glues, and other degraders that bring a target protein together with an E3 ligase so the cell can destroy the target. It covers ligand choice, linker design, ternary-complex prediction, and degradation measurements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design bifunctional degraders, choose E3 ligases and linkers, predict ternary complexes, and reason about measures such as DC50, Dmax, cooperativity, and the hook effect.
Why use it?
It addresses the extra design problems of degraders, where success depends on the three-part target–degrader–ligase complex rather than target binding alone.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to design bifunctional degraders, choose E3 ligases and linkers, predict ternary complexes, and reason about measures such as DC50, Dmax, cooperativity, and the hook effect.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pku-yuangroup/openai4s/bio-chemoinformatics-protac-degraders
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 PKU-YuanGroup/OpenAI4S --skill bio-chemoinformatics-protac-degraders
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PKU-YuanGroup/OpenAI4S

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 126 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,657 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 95% 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 $0.00126 $0.04657
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.02329
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00931
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00466

Measured 9d ago against content hash c9fb1bb7d9cb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bio-protac-degraders 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/protac_enumerate.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

95% identical to bio-protac-degraders — 12 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/bioskills/bio-chemoinformatics-protac-degraders/SKILL.md · 279 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 279 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Version Compatibility

Reference examples tested with: PRosettaC (web service), DeepTernary research code, AlphaFold3, Boltz-1 / Boltz-2, RDKit 2024.09+, OpenMM 8.1+ (for ternary MD).

Before using code patterns, verify installed versions match. If versions differ:

  • Python: pip show <package> then help(module.function) to check signatures

If code throws ImportError, AttributeError, or TypeError, introspect the installed package and adapt the example to match the actual API rather than retrying.

PROTAC and Bivalent Degrader Design

Design bifunctional molecules (PROTACs) that recruit an E3 ubiquitin ligase to a target protein, inducing target ubiquitination and proteasomal degradation. PROTACs differ from traditional drugs: a productive ternary complex (target + PROTAC + E3) is required, not just target binding. The modality has produced clinical programs, but their development and regulatory status changes rapidly and must be checked from current sources. PROTAC design balances target ligand binding, E3 ligand binding, linker geometry (length, rigidity, chemistry), cooperativity, dose-dependent ternary-complex formation, and cell permeability. Negative cooperativity and the high-concentration hook effect are distinct phenomena, although cooperativity can influence the dose-response profile.

For target ligand design, see chemoinformatics/virtual-screening and chemoinformatics/admet-prediction. For linker-only enumeration, see chemoinformatics/reaction-enumeration. For generative linker design, see chemoinformatics/generative-design.

E3 Ligase Choice

Recruited UPS component Ligand series Published design context Limitations
VHL VL-269 (Gechijian et al. 2018) Published VHL-recruiting degraders Expression and productive geometry are system-dependent
CRBN (cereblon) thalidomide, pomalidomide Extensively used recruiter series Neosubstrate liabilities depend on recruiter and context
IAP (XIAP, cIAP1) SMAC-mimetic-derived recruiters Published IAP-recruiting degraders Target scope and cellular effects require validation
MDM2 nutlin-derived recruiters Published MDM2-recruiting degraders Target diversity and pathway effects require validation
KEAP1 KEAP1-directed recruiters CUL3-KEAP1 recruitment studies Specialized use and limited comparative validation
DCAF15 Aryl sulfonamides such as E7820 DDB1-CUL4 / DCAF15 systems Molecular-glue and degrader mechanisms require careful distinction
RNF114 Nimbolide, EN219 Covalent RNF114 recruitment Limited tooling
RNF4 CCW16 Covalent RNF4 recruitment Limited tooling
UBE2D (E2, not E3) EN450 Covalent molecular-glue mechanism involving NFKB1 Do not classify as an E3-ligase recruiter

Read the full file on GitHub · 279 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 9d ago First seen · 279 lines · 126 tokens per session scan A c9fb1bb7d9cb

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bio-protac-degraders is a skill published in the GitHub repository PKU-YuanGroup/OpenAI4S (407 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 126 tokens to every session and 4,657 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to bio-protac-degraders, differing in 12 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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