materials-databases-access

materials-databases-access is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from SFETNI/Deep-Matter-Chem-Skills. It costs 5 tokens per session (7,286 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for retrieving materials structures, properties, and calculation records from databases such as Materials Project, AFLOW, OQMD, NOMAD, COD, and ICSD-style sources. It also records where the data came from and how it was obtained.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to authenticate with database APIs, retrieve and paginate results, avoid duplicates, match structures, preserve dataset snapshots, and prepare compatible data for screening or machine learning.
Why use it?
Different databases may use different simulation settings, corrections, and reference states, so combining their values without checks can produce misleading comparisons. Reproducible downloads, caching, and compatibility checks reduce that risk.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to authenticate with database APIs, retrieve and paginate results, avoid duplicates, match structures, preserve dataset snapshots, and prepare compatible data for screening or machine learning.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sfetni/deep-matter-chem-skills/materials-databases-access
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 SFETNI/Deep-Matter-Chem-Skills --skill materials-databases-access
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SFETNI/Deep-Matter-Chem-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 5 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,286 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00005 $0.07286
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.03643
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.01457
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00729

Measured 11d ago against content hash 7f2141108f9c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

materials-databases-access scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

response = requests.get(base_url, params=request_params, headers=headers, timeout=60)
skills/scientific-data/materials-databases-access/SKILL.md · 639 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 639 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Materials Databases Access

Description

This skill covers reproducible access to materials databases for computational materials science: Materials Project, AFLOW, OQMD, NOMAD, COD, and ICSD-style crystallographic sources; API authentication, pagination, rate limits, caching, snapshot provenance, structure matching, duplicate detection, energy compatibility, and dataset preparation for screening or ML. Invoke this skill when retrieving structures, entries, energies, band gaps, elastic data, phonons, tasks, or provenance metadata from external materials databases, or when auditing whether database-derived datasets are compatible enough for phase stability, ML training, or screening.

Domain Context

Materials databases are not neutral collections of facts. Each database encodes choices about DFT code, exchange-correlation functional, pseudopotentials, Hubbard U corrections, structural relaxation protocol, convergence thresholds, duplicate filtering, and post-processing. A formation energy from Materials Project, AFLOW, OQMD, or NOMAD may refer to a different reference state, correction scheme, or calculation generation. Combining them without compatibility checks creates a polished but physically inconsistent dataset.

The most common use cases are structure retrieval, property screening, phase stability analysis, and ML dataset construction. These are different tasks. Structure retrieval can tolerate mixed provenance if each structure is re-relaxed locally. Phase diagrams require energies on one compatible reference scale. ML datasets require clear target definitions, duplicate handling, train/test leakage control, and metadata that makes future re-querying possible.

Database APIs are also moving targets. Documents are added, deprecated, reprocessed, and corrected. The same query issued months apart can return different records. A reproducible workflow records query parameters, API versions, database release or build information where available, result identifiers, task identifiers, timestamps, and raw response caches. Without this, an ML benchmark or screening campaign cannot be reconstructed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 639 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. 11d ago First seen · 639 lines · 5 tokens per session scan A 7f2141108f9c

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materials-databases-access is a skill published in the GitHub repository SFETNI/Deep-Matter-Chem-Skills (6 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 5 tokens to every session and 7,286 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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