AlphaFold

AlphaFold is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by BioTender-max in awesome-bio-agent-skills.

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Install AlphaFold

Copy AlphaFold into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/adaptyv/alphafold ~/.claude/skills/alphafold

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/adaptyv/alphafold/SKILL.md in BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/alphafold
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3475 skills

What AlphaFold does

AlphaFold validates protein designs with structure prediction for single chains and complexes. Use it to check folding, predict binder-target interfaces, and review confidence metrics like pLDDT, pTM, and ipTM.

AlphaFold is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. AlphaFold comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-agent, ai-agents, awesome and awesome-list.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

AlphaFold2 Structure Validation

Prerequisites

Requirement	Minimum	Recommended
Python	3.8+	3.10
CUDA	11.0+	12.0+
GPU VRAM	32GB	40GB (A100)
RAM	32GB	64GB
Disk	100GB	500GB (for databases)

How to run

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

Option 1: ColabFold (recommended for multimer)

cd biomodals
modal run modal_colabfold.py \
  --input-faa sequences.fasta \
  --out-dir output/

GPU: A100 (40GB) | Timeout: 3600s default

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about AlphaFold

What else does BioTender-max publish alongside AlphaFold?
AlphaFold is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include ATAC Seq, BindCraft Binder Design and Binder Design. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way AlphaFold does, and is maintained by BioTender-max in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills page.
How does AlphaFold compare to other AI Engineering skills?
AlphaFold ranks #3202 by stars among the 3475 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of AlphaFold against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.