proteinmpnn

proteinmpnn is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zongtingwei/Bioclaw_Skills_Hub. It costs 106 tokens per session (2,350 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for designing protein sequences that are likely to fold into a given three-dimensional structure. ProteinMPNN performs inverse folding, meaning it works backward from a structure to possible amino-acid sequences.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with PDB structure files to design new sequences, redesign proteins, keep specific residues fixed, or generate multiple candidates for expression, stability, or other design goals.
Why use it?
It reduces the manual work of proposing sequences for a protein structure or redesigning selected parts of an existing protein.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is **First time?** See [Installation Guide](../../docs/installation.md) to set up Modal and biomodals..

Good fit Use it with PDB structure files to design new sequences, redesign proteins, keep specific residues fixed, or generate multiple candidates for expression, stability, or other design goals.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zongtingwei/Bioclaw_Skills_Hub
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zongtingwei/bioclaw_skills_hub/proteinmpnn

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 106 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,350 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.
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 $0.00106 $0.02350
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.01175
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00470
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00235

Measured 12d ago against content hash 7941538ff640, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

proteinmpnn 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 12d 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.

skills/protein-design/skills/proteinmpnn/SKILL.md · 301 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 301 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ProteinMPNN Sequence Design

Prerequisites

Requirement Minimum Recommended
Python 3.8+ 3.10
CUDA 11.0+ 11.7+
GPU VRAM 8GB 16GB (T4)
RAM 8GB 16GB

How to run

First time? See Installation Guide to set up Modal and biomodals.

Option 1: Local installation (recommended)

git clone https://github.com/dauparas/ProteinMPNN.git
cd ProteinMPNN

python protein_mpnn_run.py \
  --pdb_path backbone.pdb \
  --out_folder output/ \
  --num_seq_per_target 16 \
  --sampling_temp "0.1"

GPU: T4 (16GB) sufficient | Time: ~50-100 sequences/minute

Option 2: Modal (via LigandMPNN wrapper)

cd biomodals
modal run modal_ligandmpnn.py \
  --pdb-path backbone.pdb \
  --num-seq-per-target 16

Note: LigandMPNN includes ProteinMPNN functionality.

Config Schema

Core Parameters

Parameter Default Range Description
--pdb_path required path Single PDB input
--pdb_path_chains all A,B Chains to design (comma-sep)
--out_folder required path Output directory
--num_seq_per_target 1 1-1000 Sequences per structure
--sampling_temp "0.1" "0.0001-1.0" Temperature (string!)
--seed 0 int Random seed
--batch_size 1 1-32 Batch size

Temperature Guide

0.1  -> Low diversity, high recovery (production)
0.2  -> Moderate diversity (default)
0.3  -> Higher diversity (exploration)
0.5+ -> Very diverse, lower quality

IMPORTANT: Temperature must be passed as a string, not float.

Common mistakes

Temperature Parameter

Correct:

--sampling_temp "0.1"    # String with quotes

Wrong:

--sampling_temp 0.1      # Float without quotes - may cause errors
--sampling_temp 0.1,0.2  # Multiple temps need proper format

Fixed Positions JSONL

Correct:

{"A": [1, 2, 3, 10, 11], "B": [5, 6]}

Read the full file on GitHub · 301 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. 12d ago First seen · 301 lines · 106 tokens per session scan A 7941538ff640

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proteinmpnn is a skill published in the GitHub repository zongtingwei/Bioclaw_Skills_Hub (26 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 106 tokens to every session and 2,350 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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