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Use when the user asks about volcano plots, catalyst screening, activity descriptors, Sabatier principle, or comparing catalyst performance across a descriptor space.

Run phonon calculations using Phonopy. Computes phonon band structures, density of states, thermal properties, and checks dynamical stability. Works with VASP, QE, ABINIT, and other DFT codes as the force calculator.

Use when the user asks about OER (oxygen evolution reaction) overpotential, water oxidation catalysis, or the 4-electron water splitting pathway on a surface catalyst.

Use when the user asks about NRR (nitrogen reduction reaction), ammonia synthesis, N2 fixation, or the electrochemical reduction of N2 to NH3 on a catalyst surface.

Use when the user asks to reproduce the Kreitz 2021 Ni surface benchmark, run the MACE Ni benchmark, or compare a machine-learning potential (MACE, CHGNet, M3GNet) against DFT-D3 surface-science references. Invokes the "UMA Catalysis Tutorial" preset (template key `uma_catalysis_screening`).

Use when the user asks about HER (hydrogen evolution reaction), hydrogen adsorption free energy, or volcano plot descriptor for HER catalysts.

Use when the user asks for Gibbs free energy, zero-point energy (ZPE), thermal corrections, or thermodynamic properties from DFT + frequency data.

Use when the user asks to generate a reaction energy diagram, free energy profile, potential energy surface plot, or pathway comparison diagram for catalysis or reaction mechanism studies.

Use when the user asks about density of states (DOS), projected DOS (PDOS), d-band center, spin-resolved DOS, or electronic structure analysis from completed DFT calculations.

Use when the user asks to test ENCUT convergence, k-point convergence, or any parameter sweep to determine converged computational settings.

Use when the user asks about CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR), CO2 electroreduction intermediates, Faradaic efficiency, or selectivity toward CO, methanol, methane, formic acid, etc.

Use when the user asks about Bader charge analysis, charge transfer, oxidation states from DFT, or electron density partitioning.

Use when the user asks for adsorption energy, binding energy, or wants to compare how strongly a molecule binds to a surface.

Use when the user asks to analyze computational results: Gibbs free energy, OER/HER/CO2RR overpotentials, adsorption energy, convergence tests, DOS/d-band analysis, or Bader charge analysis.

Generate and manage ABINIT DFT calculations. Use when the user requests ABINIT, or needs DFPT phonons, GW calculations, or BSE optical spectra.

Route computational chemistry requests to the correct software and task skill. Entry point for all CatGo agent interactions.

Create and manage computational chemistry workflows with CatGo. Supports VASP, CP2K, ORCA, MLP, LAMMPS. Build OER/HER/CO2RR workflows, geometry optimization, frequency analysis, Gibbs energy calculations.

Use when the user asks to create, build, inspect, validate, or run computational workflows, DAG pipelines, relaxation→static chains, NEB/IRC workflows, or HPC job submission flows.

Use when the user asks about volcano plots, catalyst screening, activity descriptors, Sabatier principle, or comparing catalyst performance across a descriptor space.

VASP single-point energy calculation. Used standalone, as a pre-step for DOS/band structure, or to evaluate energy at a fixed geometry.

VASP geometry optimization (relaxation). Handles bulk, slab, and adsorbate-on-slab scenarios with correct ISIF, frozen layers, and convergence settings.

Ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) with VASP. NVT/NVE ensembles, temperature control, trajectory analysis.

VASP vibrational frequency calculation. Compute ZPE and thermodynamic corrections. Handles frozen atoms for slab systems with multiple freeze modes.

Density of states (DOS) workflow in VASP. Three-step process for accurate total and projected DOS, d-band center analysis.