Agent skill

Computational Input

by Hello-QM in Hello-QM/catgo-LRG

A skill your agent uses when the user asks to generate DFT input files (VASP, Quantum ESPRESSO, LAMMPS), optimize structures with ML potentials (MACE, CHGNet, M3GNet), compute energy, or set up any…

AGPL-3.0Auto-check passedMobile

Install Computational Input

skills CLI
$ npx skills add Hello-QM/catgo-LRG --skill computational-input -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Hello-QM/catgo-LRG computational-input --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Hello-QM/catgo-LRG.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/catbot-plugin/skills/computational-input .claude/skills/computational-input && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
computational-input
GitHub stars
205
Token cost
~768 tokens
SKILL.md length
224 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
75
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
AGPL-3.0

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when the user asks to generate DFT input files (VASP, Quantum ESPRESSO, LAMMPS), optimize structures with ML potentials (MACE, CHGNet, M3GNet), compute energy, or set up any…

  • The user asks to generate DFT input files (VASP
  • SKILL.md covers Quick Decision Guide, VASP Input, Quantum ESPRESSO Input and LAMMPS Input, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Quantum ESPRESSO

What it does

Computational Input is an agent skill from Hello-QM/catgo-LRG. Use when the user asks to generate DFT input files (VASP, Quantum ESPRESSO, LAMMPS), optimize structures with ML potentials (MACE, CHGNet, M3GNet), compute energy, or set up any computational chemistry calculation.

Its SKILL.md is about 770 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Mobile, covering Mobile testing and debugging. The repository describes itself as: AI-driven workbench for computational materials science — interactive 3D structure viewer, natural-language CatBot assistant, visual DAG workflow engine, HPC job submission… The licence is AGPL-3.0.

When your agent uses it

  • The user asks to generate DFT input files (VASP
  • Quantum ESPRESSO
  • Optimize structures with ML potentials (MACE
  • Set up any computational chemistry calculation

Example prompts

  • “/computational-input”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit fd6291b. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are json).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Computational Input loads about 768 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 59 tokens; SKILL.md has 224 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~59
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~768

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from Hello-QM/catgo-LRG at commit fd6291b, republished under its AGPL-3.0 licence (© Hello-QM). 224 words, ~768 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/computational-input/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
computational-input
description
Use when the user asks to generate DFT input files (VASP, Quantum ESPRESSO, LAMMPS), optimize structures with ML potentials (MACE, CHGNet, M3GNet), compute energy, or set up any computational chemistry calculation.

Computational Input Generation

Quick Decision Guide

TaskTool
VASP input (INCAR/POSCAR/KPOINTS)catgo_vasp_generate
Quantum ESPRESSO pw.x inputcatgo_qe_generate
LAMMPS input + data filecatgo_lammps_generate
Multi-stage LAMMPS simulationcatgo_lammps_sequential
ML potential relaxationcatgo_optimize
Single-point energy/forcescatgo_energy
List available calculatorscatgo_calculators

VASP Input

catgo_vasp_generate
  • Calculation types: opt, scf, freq, bader, dos, ddec, elf
  • Key params: encut (default 450 eV), gga ("PE"=PBE), ispin (2=spin-polarized), ivdw (12=D3-BJ), kspacing, fixed_indices/fixed_z_below

Common patterns:

  • Bulk optimization: calculation_type="opt", isif=3 (relax cell+ions)
  • Slab optimization: calculation_type="opt", isif=2, fixed_z_below=Z
  • DOS: calculation_type="dos", dense k-mesh

Call catgo_vasp_calc_types to list all available types with defaults.

Quantum ESPRESSO Input

catgo_qe_generate
  • Calculation types: scf, relax, vc-relax, nscf, bands
  • Key params: ecutwfc (default 60 Ry), ecutrho (default 480 Ry), kspacing, occupations, smearing ("mv"=Marzari-Vanderbilt), nspin

Call catgo_qe_templates for recommended settings per calculation type.

LAMMPS Input

catgo_lammps_generate
  • Simulation types: minimize, nve, nvt, npt
  • Key params: pair_style, pair_coeff, potential_file, temperature, pressure
catgo_lammps_sequential — Multi-stage MD protocol:
json
{"stages": [
  {"name": "minimize", "simulation_type": "minimize"},
  {"name": "heat", "simulation_type": "nvt", "temperature": 300, "run_steps": 10000},
  {"name": "equilibrate", "simulation_type": "npt", "temperature": 300, "run_steps": 50000},
  {"name": "production", "simulation_type": "nvt", "temperature": 300, "run_steps": 100000}
]}

Call catgo_lammps_pair_styles for available force fields. Call catgo_lammps_validate before generating to check configuration.

ML Potential Optimization

catgo_optimize

Quick relaxation using ML interatomic potentials:

  • mace: Best accuracy for most systems
  • chgnet: Good for oxides
  • m3gnet: General purpose
  • emt: Fast, metals only (testing)

Params: fmax (default 0.05 eV/A), max_steps (200), relax_cell (True to relax lattice)

catgo_energy — Single-point energy + forces without optimization.

Workflow Recipes

ML Pre-Optimization then DFT
  1. catgo_optimize(calculator="mace", fmax=0.05) → 2. catgo_vasp_generate(calculation_type="opt")
VASP Slab Calculation
  1. Build slab → 2. catgo_vasp_generate(calculation_type="opt", isif=2, fixed_z_below=Z, encut=520)

© Hello-QM, AGPL-3.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in catbot-plugin/skills/computational-input of Hello-QM/catgo-LRG.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit fd6291b

Compare with similar skills

Computational Input next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

Computational Input compared with similar skills
SkillStarsUsed inTokensAuto-checkLicenceRepo updated
Computational Input this skillHello-QM/catgo-LRG205—~768Automated safety check: PassAGPL-3.0
Orca iOS Simulator Controlstablyai/orca87k1 repos~584Automated safety check: PassApache-2.0
UI Kitten Showcase QAakveo/react-native-ui-kitten11k—~2.3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Apple Crash Log .NET Symbolicationdotnet/skills5.6k1 repos~2.4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Mobilerun Docs Referencedroidrun/mobilerun9.6k—~943Automated safety check: PassMIT
VPhone Guest ControlLakr233/vphone-cli15k—~1.6kAutomated safety check: PassMIT

Similar skills

  • iOS Simulator control from inside Orca, with the live device view in Orca's emulator pane. Use when driving a booted Apple Simulator on macOS: taps, gestures…

    87k GitHub starsUsed in 1 repo~584 tokens
    MobileAuto-check passed
  • UI Kitten Showcase QA

    akveo/react-native-ui-kitten

    Drives the Expo showcase app in an iOS simulator with agent-device to sweep every UI Kitten component in all theme and mapping combinations, reporting regressions with evidence.

    11k GitHub stars~2.3k tokensUpdated 2 days ago
    MobileAuto-check passed
  • Official

    Resolves .NET runtime frames in Apple .ips crash logs to function names, source files and line numbers using dSYM symbols, atos and the Microsoft symbol server.

    5.6k GitHub starsUsed in 1 repo~2.4k tokens
    MobileAuto-check passed
  • Mobilerun Docs Reference

    droidrun/mobilerun

    Answers questions about Mobilerun, the LLM-agent framework for automating Android and iOS devices, by pointing the agent to the right page of its v5 documentation.

    9.6k GitHub stars~943 tokensUpdated 2 days ago
    MobileAuto-check passed
  • VPhone Guest Control

    Lakr233/vphone-cli

    Drives a virtual iPhone running on an Apple Silicon Mac through the vphone-launchpad-cli, from checking host setup and starting a machine to tapping, typing and installing apps in the guest.

    15k GitHub stars~1.6k tokensUpdated today
    MobileAuto-check passed
  • Appium

    blokadaorg/blokada

    A skill your agent uses for dynamic inspection and navigation of the Blokada app through the repo-local Appium machine session.

    3.3k GitHub stars~3.5k tokensUpdated yesterday
    MobileAuto-check passed

More from Hello-QM/catgo-LRG

All 75 skills in this repo
  • Campaign Md Orchestration

    Hello-QM/catgo-LRG

    Drive a file-first, agent-in-the-loop computational campaign via a folder + markdown tree (no DB).

    205 GitHub stars~1.6k tokensUpdated 15 days ago
    Auto-check passed
  • Lammps Deepmd

    Hello-QM/catgo-LRG

    Run LAMMPS molecular dynamics with DeePMD-kit machine learning potentials.

    205 GitHub starsUsed in 1 repo~1k tokens
    Auto-check passed
  • Catgo Gibbs Pipeline

    Hello-QM/catgo-LRG

    Compute adsorption/reaction Gibbs free energies, free-energy diagrams, and electrochemical overpotentials (HER/ORR/OER/CO2RR/NRR) with VASP.

    205 GitHub stars~669 tokensUpdated 15 days ago
    Auto-check passed
  • Abinit

    Hello-QM/catgo-LRG

    Generate and manage ABINIT DFT calculations. An agent skill from Hello-QM/catgo-LRG.

    205 GitHub stars~963 tokensUpdated 15 days ago
    Auto-check passed
  • Adsorbate Placement

    Hello-QM/catgo-LRG

    A skill your agent uses when the user asks to place an adsorbate molecule on a surface, find adsorption sites, or set up a surface+adsorbate model for DFT.

    205 GitHub stars~3k tokensUpdated 15 days ago
    Auto-check passed
  • Adsorption Energy

    Hello-QM/catgo-LRG

    A skill your agent uses when the user asks for adsorption energy, binding energy, or wants to compare how strongly a molecule binds to a surface.

    205 GitHub stars~1.4k tokensUpdated 15 days ago
    Auto-check passed

Questions about Computational Input

What does Computational Input do?

A skill your agent uses when the user asks to generate DFT input files (VASP, Quantum ESPRESSO, LAMMPS), optimize structures with ML potentials (MACE, CHGNet, M3GNet), compute energy, or set up any…. Computational Input is an agent skill from Hello-QM/catgo-LRG. Use when the user asks to generate DFT input files (VASP, Quantum ESPRESSO, LAMMPS), optimize structures with ML potentials (MACE, CHGNet, M3GNet), compute energy, or set up any computational chemistry calculation.

When should I use Computational Input?

Computational Input fits situations like: the user asks to generate DFT input files (VASP; quantum ESPRESSO; optimize structures with ML potentials (MACE; set up any computational chemistry calculation.

How do I install Computational Input in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add Hello-QM/catgo-LRG --skill computational-input -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (catbot-plugin/skills/computational-input in Hello-QM/catgo-LRG) into .claude/skills/computational-input in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Computational Input in Codex?

Run `npx skills add Hello-QM/catgo-LRG --skill computational-input -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (catbot-plugin/skills/computational-input in Hello-QM/catgo-LRG) into .agents/skills/computational-input in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Computational Input in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add Hello-QM/catgo-LRG --skill computational-input -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/computational-input, .gemini/skills/computational-input, .github/skills/computational-input and .opencode/skills/computational-input in your project.

What does Computational Input need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Computational Input is instructions for the agent only.

Does Computational Input access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Computational Input safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Computational Input use?

Computational Input is published under the AGPL-3.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Computational Input use?

About 768 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Computational Input?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Computational Input: Orca iOS Simulator Control (stablyai/orca, 87k stars), UI Kitten Showcase QA (akveo/react-native-ui-kitten, 11k stars), Apple Crash Log .NET Symbolication (dotnet/skills, 5.6k stars) and Mobilerun Docs Reference (droidrun/mobilerun, 9.6k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Computational Input?

Hello-QM (a GitHub user) maintains it in Hello-QM/catgo-LRG, which has 205 GitHub stars. The repository holds 75 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 22, 2026.

Source: Hello-QM/catgo-LRG on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.