drug-design

drug-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from synthetic-sciences/openscience. It costs 44 tokens per session (2,779 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An automated drug-discovery workflow that connects structure prediction, binding-pocket detection, molecule design, docking, scoring, and ADMET filtering. ADMET means how a drug is absorbed, distributed, changed, excreted, and potentially toxic.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding candidates for a protein target, improving a known compound, screening a compound library, or assessing whether a target may be suitable for drug discovery.
Why use it?
It prevents stages from being run in the wrong order and checks that each stage passes the right data to the next one, while recording what happened.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

synthetic-sciences/openscience is an AI workbench that carries out scientific research by reading papers, forming hypotheses, writing and running code, conducting experiments, analyzing results, and preparing reports. Researchers use it for work in machine learning, biology, physics, and chemistry with remote or local models. Catalogue add-ons extend its scientific workflows through skills and instructions.

synthetic-sciences/openscience · 3,432 stars · on GitHub

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/synthetic-sciences/openscience/drug-design
Any agent
npx skills add synthetic-sciences/openscience --skill drug-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/synthetic-sciences/openscience

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,779 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00044 $0.02779
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.01389
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00556
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00278

Measured 5d ago against content hash ae45e28768fc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

drug-design 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/pipeline.py, tests/test_pipeline.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.

backend/cli/skills/chemistry/drug-design/SKILL.md · 275 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 275 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Drug Design Pipeline

Overview

This skill provides a deterministic pipeline orchestrator (pipeline.py) that auto-chains multiple drug discovery skills into reproducible workflows. Instead of manually invoking 10+ scripts in the correct order, the agent runs a single command that handles file wiring, schema validation, and manifest logging at every stage.

Why a script instead of manual chaining:

  • Guarantees correct execution order — the agent cannot skip or reorder stages
  • Validates I/O contracts between stages — catches schema mismatches early
  • Logs every invocation to _script_manifest.jsonl — critique agent can verify the full trace
  • Stops on first failure with clear diagnostics — no silent errors

Pipeline Mode Selection

Choose the mode based on what the user wants:

User Intent Mode Command
"Find drugs for target X" full --mode full --protein target.pdb
"Optimize this hit compound" lead-opt --mode lead-opt --protein target.pdb --ligand hit.sdf
"Screen this library" screen --mode screen --protein target.pdb --library compounds.sdf
"Is this target druggable?" assess --mode assess --protein target.pdb
"Design molecules for this pocket" denovo --mode denovo --protein target.pdb

Trigger phrases: "drug discovery pipeline", "find drugs", "design drugs", "screen compounds", "druggability assessment", "de novo design", "lead optimization"

Quick Start

Full Pipeline (target → drug candidates)

python scripts/pipeline.py \
    --mode full \
    --protein target.pdb \
    --output-dir results/ \
    --top-n 10

Lead Optimization (improve an existing hit)

python scripts/pipeline.py \
    --mode lead-opt \
    --protein target.pdb \
    --ligand hit_compound.sdf \
    --output-dir lead_opt_results/ \
    --top-n 20

Virtual Screening (screen a compound library)

python scripts/pipeline.py \
    --mode screen \
    --protein target.pdb \
    --library compound_library.sdf \
    --output-dir screening_results/ \
    --top-n 50

Read the full file on GitHub · 275 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. 5d ago First seen · 275 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A ae45e28768fc

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drug-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository synthetic-sciences/openscience (3,432 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 2,779 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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