Agent skill

General Chemical Pricing

by learningmatter-mit in learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills

Retrieves averaged elemental prices and provides direct vendor purchase links for elements and precursor compounds.

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Install General Chemical Pricing

skills CLI
$ npx skills add learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills --skill general-chemical-pricing -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills general-chemical-pricing --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/learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/general-chemical-pricing .claude/skills/general-chemical-pricing && 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
general-chemical-pricing
GitHub stars
176
Token cost
~566 tokens
SKILL.md length
220 words
Files
3 (incl. scripts)
Skills in repo
129
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Retrieves averaged elemental prices and provides direct vendor purchase links for elements and precursor compounds.

  • SKILL.md covers Goal, Instructions, Examples and Constraints, plus 1 more section
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder

What it does

General Chemical Pricing is an agent skill from learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills. Retrieves averaged elemental prices and provides direct vendor purchase links for elements and precursor compounds.

Its SKILL.md is about 570 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 5 other files, including scripts (for example `examples/lithium-carbonate/README.md` and `scripts/get_pricing.py`).

It works with Wikipedia. The repository describes itself as: Integrating AtomisticSkills into Agentic IDEs (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Google Antigravity, Hermes Agent, etc). The licence is MIT.

Example prompts

  • “Use the general-chemical-pricing skill to retrieve averaged elemental prices and provides direct vendor purchase links for elements and precursor…”
  • “/general-chemical-pricing”

Requirements

  • Python 3

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6257444. 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

    Ships 1 file in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

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

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • en.wikipedia.org
    • pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
    • github.com

    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

General Chemical Pricing loads about 566 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 35 tokens; SKILL.md has 220 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~35
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~566

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); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills at commit 6257444, republished under its MIT licence (© learningmatter-mit). 220 words, ~566 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/general-chemical-pricing/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 2 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
general-chemical-pricing
description
Retrieves averaged elemental prices and provides direct vendor purchase links for elements and precursor compounds.
metadata.category
general, materials, chemistry
metadata.venv
cpu

General Chemical Pricing

Goal

To programmatically query averaged bulk commodity prices for pure chemical elements (in USD/kg) and to retrieve direct chemical vendor links for ordering specific precursor compounds or elemental forms.

Instructions

Use this script to search for the pricing details of a given element or chemical compound. The script aggregates Wikipedia's USGS elemental data with PubChem's registered supplier vendor lists.

bash
${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../venv/run cpu python ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/get_pricing.py <Query Name or Symbol>

Parameters:

  • <Query Name or Symbol>: The name, symbol, or full compound name (e.g., "Lithium", "Li", "Lithium carbonate", "Li2CO3"). Ensure multi-word compounds are wrapped in quotes (e.g., "Lithium carbonate").

Examples

See examples/lithium-carbonate/README.md for a complete run of querying elemental lithium alongside a molecular precursor.

Constraints

  • Environments: The script requires the cpu environment because it uses standard requests, beautifulsoup4, and pubchempy libraries. Each code block MUST specify the environment.
  • Price Precision: Elemental bulk prices presented are averaged and highly dependent on market fluctuations and the reference year (scraped dynamically from Wikipedia's USGS Mineral Commodity list).
  • Vendor Links: For compounds, live price points are not freely accessible via unauthenticated APIs. The skill provides a robust PubChem URL that aggregates active supplier links where live pricing can be interactively observed.

References


Author: Bowen Deng Contact: GitHub @learningmatter-mit

© learningmatter-mit, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (scripts) in skills/general-chemical-pricing of learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills.

  • SKILL.md
  • examples/lithium-carbonate/README.md
  • scripts/get_pricing.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6257444

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Questions about General Chemical Pricing

What does General Chemical Pricing do?

Retrieves averaged elemental prices and provides direct vendor purchase links for elements and precursor compounds. General Chemical Pricing is an agent skill from learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills. Retrieves averaged elemental prices and provides direct vendor purchase links for elements and precursor compounds.

How do I install General Chemical Pricing in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills --skill general-chemical-pricing -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/general-chemical-pricing in learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills) into .claude/skills/general-chemical-pricing in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install General Chemical Pricing in Codex?

Run `npx skills add learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills --skill general-chemical-pricing -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/general-chemical-pricing in learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills) into .agents/skills/general-chemical-pricing in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use General Chemical Pricing 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 learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills --skill general-chemical-pricing -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/general-chemical-pricing, .gemini/skills/general-chemical-pricing, .github/skills/general-chemical-pricing and .opencode/skills/general-chemical-pricing in your project.

What does General Chemical Pricing need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, General Chemical Pricing needs Python for the scripts in its folder. Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does General Chemical Pricing access the network?

SKILL.md names 3 domains. As links in the text: en.wikipedia.org, pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov and github.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is General Chemical Pricing 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. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does General Chemical Pricing use?

General Chemical Pricing is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does General Chemical Pricing use?

About 566 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.3k 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 General Chemical Pricing?

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Who maintains General Chemical Pricing?

learningmatter-mit (a GitHub organization) maintains it in learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills, which has 176 GitHub stars. The repository holds 129 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

Source: learningmatter-mit/AtomisticSkills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.