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"name": "eva-skill",
"description": "Submit compact EVA REST requests for species metadata and archived variant lookups. Use when a user wants concise European Variation Archive summaries",
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"skill_md_contents": "---\nname: eva-skill\ndescription: Submit compact EVA REST requests for species metadata and archived variant lookups. Use when a user wants concise European Variation Archive summaries\n---\n\n## Source presentation\n<!-- source-presentation-contract:v2 -->\n- Add claim-adjacent links only for substantive claims supported by returned `sources`; never cite empty, metadata-only, or failed lookups.\n- Preserve `checked_sources`, use only supported `canonical_url` mappings, and leave requested raw or machine-readable output unchanged.\n- Use the `eva-skill` entry in `../../references/source-links.json` and follow `../../references/source-presentation.md`.\n\n## Operating rules\n- Use `scripts/rest_request.py` for all EVA calls.\n- Use `base_url=https://www.ebi.ac.uk/eva/webservices/identifiers/v1` for compact clustered-variant records or `base_url=https://www.ebi.ac.uk/eva/webservices/rest/v1` for documented study and assembly routes.\n- Prefer targeted, evidence-bearing variant or study lookups over broad genomic window pulls and metadata-only checks.\n- Keep region queries narrow by species, assembly, or small coordinate windows when possible.\n- Re-run requests in long conversations instead of relying on older tool output.\n\n## Execution behavior\n- Return concise markdown summaries from the script JSON by default.\n- Return raw JSON only if the user explicitly asks for machine-readable output.\n- Prefer compact paths such as `clustered-variants/17870277`; use `meta/species/list` only to discover supported assemblies, never as biological evidence.\n\n## Input\n- Read one JSON object from stdin.\n- Required fields: `base_url`, `path`\n- Optional fields: `method`, `params`, `headers`, `json_body`, `form_body`, `record_path`, `response_format`, `max_items`, `max_depth`, `timeout_sec`, `save_raw`, `raw_output_path`\n- Common EVA patterns:\n - `{\"base_url\":\"https://www.ebi.ac.uk/eva/webservices/identifiers/v1\",\"path\":\"clustered-variants/17870277\",\"max_items\":5}`\n - `{\"base_url\":\"https://www.ebi.ac.uk/eva/webservices/rest/v1\",\"path\":\"studies/PRJEB4019/summary\",\"record_path\":\"response.0.result\",\"max_items\":5}`\n\n## Output\n- Success returns `ok`, `source`, `path`, `method`, `status_code`, `warnings`, and either compact `records` or a compact `summary`.\n- Use `raw_output_path` when `save_raw=true`.\n- Failure returns `ok=false` with `error.code` and `error.message`.\n\n## Execution\n```bash\necho '{\"base_url\":\"https://www.ebi.ac.uk/eva/webservices/identifiers/v1\",\"path\":\"clustered-variants/17870277\",\"max_items\":5}' | python scripts/rest_request.py\n```\n"
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