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"name": "ncbi-entrez-skill",
"description": "Submit compact NCBI Entrez E-Utilities requests for PubMed, Gene, Protein, Nucleotide, PMC metadata, and GEO metadata workflows. Use when a user wants concise Entrez search, fetch, summary, or link results; save raw JSON or XML only on request.",
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"skill_md_contents": "---\nname: ncbi-entrez-skill\ndescription: Submit compact NCBI Entrez E-Utilities requests for PubMed, Gene, Protein, Nucleotide, PMC metadata, and GEO metadata workflows. Use when a user wants concise Entrez search, fetch, summary, or link results; save raw JSON or XML only on request.\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 `ncbi-entrez-skill` entry in `../../references/source-links.json` and follow `../../references/source-presentation.md`.\n\n## Operating rules\n- Use `scripts/ncbi_entrez.py` for all Entrez calls in this package.\n- Use explicit `endpoint` values such as `esearch`, `esummary`, `efetch`, `elink`, or `einfo`.\n- Search-style Entrez calls are better with `retmax=10` and `max_items=10`.\n- GEO is nested under this skill. Use `db=gds` or `db=geoprofiles` for GEO metadata and load `references/geo.md` only when the user is specifically asking about GEO.\n- BLAST workflows belong in `ncbi-blast-skill`. PMC Open Access workflows belong in `ncbi-pmc-skill`. Datasets v2 workflows belong in `ncbi-datasets-skill`.\n- Re-run requests in long conversations instead of relying on older tool output.\n- Treat displayed `...` in tool previews as UI truncation, not literal request content.\n\n## Execution behavior\n- Return concise markdown summaries from the script output by default.\n- Return raw JSON or XML only if the user explicitly asks for machine-readable output.\n- Prefer targeted endpoint calls instead of broad unfiltered dumps.\n- If the user needs the full raw response, set `save_raw=true` and report the saved file path.\n\n## Input\n- Read one JSON object from stdin.\n- Required field: `endpoint`\n- Optional fields: `params`, `record_path`, `response_format`, `max_items`, `max_depth`, `timeout_sec`, `save_raw`, `raw_output_path`\n- Common Entrez patterns:\n - `{\"endpoint\":\"esearch\",\"params\":{\"db\":\"pubmed\",\"term\":\"KRAS AND colorectal cancer\",\"retmode\":\"json\",\"retmax\":10},\"max_items\":10}`\n - `{\"endpoint\":\"esummary\",\"params\":{\"db\":\"gene\",\"id\":\"7157\",\"retmode\":\"json\"},\"max_items\":10}`\n - `{\"endpoint\":\"efetch\",\"params\":{\"db\":\"protein\",\"id\":\"NP_000537.3\",\"retmode\":\"xml\"},\"response_format\":\"xml\",\"max_items\":10}`\n - `{\"endpoint\":\"elink\",\"params\":{\"dbfrom\":\"gds\",\"db\":\"pubmed\",\"id\":\"200000001\",\"retmode\":\"json\"},\"max_items\":10}`\n\n## Output\n- Success returns `ok`, `source`, endpoint metadata, and either compact `records`, a compact `summary`, or `text_head`.\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 '{\"endpoint\":\"esearch\",\"params\":{\"db\":\"gene\",\"term\":\"TP53[gene] AND human[orgn]\",\"retmode\":\"json\",\"retmax\":10},\"max_items\":10}' | python scripts/ncbi_entrez.py\n```\n\n## References\n- Load `references/geo.md` only when the user specifically needs GEO query patterns.\n"
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