ase-framework

ase-framework is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from SFETNI/Deep-Matter-Chem-Skills. It costs 2 tokens per session (7,927 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for using the Atomic Simulation Environment (ASE), a Python toolkit for creating, changing, calculating, saving, and converting atomic structures. It connects simulations, machine-learning models, and materials-science tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to manipulate atomic structures, run calculations, relax geometries, perform molecular dynamics, create datasets, convert file formats, and connect tools such as VASP, LAMMPS, Phonopy, and machine-learning potentials.
Why use it?
It provides a common way to move structures and calculations between different scientific software while keeping workflow details organized.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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Good fit Use it to manipulate atomic structures, run calculations, relax geometries, perform molecular dynamics, create datasets, convert file formats, and connect tools such as VASP, LAMMPS, Phonopy, and machine-learning potentials.

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Install with agentmods
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Install

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Any agent
npx skills add SFETNI/Deep-Matter-Chem-Skills --skill ase-framework
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SFETNI/Deep-Matter-Chem-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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When invoked 7,927 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 original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00002 $0.07927
Opus 5 $0.00001 $0.03964
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.01585
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00793

Measured 11d ago against content hash 3be76d347698, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

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Grade A, and why

ase-framework 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 11d ago.

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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.

skills/scientific-data/ase-framework/SKILL.md · 627 lines

How it starts

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ASE Framework

Description

This skill covers the Atomic Simulation Environment (ASE) as a workflow hub for atomistic simulation: Atoms objects, calculators, constraints, optimizers, trajectories, file IO, structure manipulation, dataset generation, and conversion between DFT, MD, ML potentials, Phonopy, pymatgen, LAMMPS, and visualization tools. Invoke this skill when writing Python workflows that create, transform, calculate, relax, convert, or curate atomistic structures for computational materials science and chemistry.

Domain Context

ASE is a Python framework built around a small set of abstractions: an Atoms object stores symbols, positions, cell, periodic boundary conditions, arrays, constraints, and metadata; a calculator attaches an energy/force/stress backend; optimizers and molecular dynamics drivers move atoms using calculator results; IO functions convert between simulation formats. This makes ASE useful as glue code across VASP, Quantum ESPRESSO, CP2K, LAMMPS, EMT, MACE, CHGNet, and many other engines.

The convenience comes with responsibility. ASE does not know whether a converted structure is scientifically valid, whether a calculator working directory was reused incorrectly, whether a CIF lost partial occupancies, or whether a LAMMPS data file preserved element ordering. Many ASE failures are silent: cell and PBC metadata are dropped by XYZ, constraints are not supported by a target format, or an extxyz file stores forces in the wrong key. The workflow must check these invariants explicitly.

ASE sits at the boundary between representation and calculation. The same atomic configuration can be represented as a molecule with no periodic cell, a slab with pbc=[True, True, False], a fully periodic crystal, or a large supercell for phonons. The calculator interprets these choices physically: a DFT calculator with an unintended vacuum direction or missing PBC will compute a different problem, not just a differently formatted input.

For machine-learning potential work, ASE is often the canonical bridge between DFT outputs and training datasets. It reads VASP/QE/LAMMPS/XYZ trajectories, stores energies and forces in extxyz, applies constraints or filters, and evaluates MACE or CHGNet calculators during validation. This makes atom ordering, unit conventions, metadata, and provenance checks non-negotiable.

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  1. 11d ago First seen · 627 lines · 2 tokens per session scan A 3be76d347698

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ase-framework is a skill published in the GitHub repository SFETNI/Deep-Matter-Chem-Skills (6 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2 tokens to every session and 7,927 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-08-31.

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