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"name": "biostudies-arrayexpress-skill",
"description": "Submit compact BioStudies and ArrayExpress API requests for free-text search and accession-based study retrieval. Use when a user wants concise BioStudies summaries",
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"skill_md_contents": "---\nname: biostudies-arrayexpress-skill\ndescription: Submit compact BioStudies and ArrayExpress API requests for free-text search and accession-based study retrieval. Use when a user wants concise BioStudies summaries\n---\n\n## Operating rules\n- Use `scripts/rest_request.py` for all BioStudies and ArrayExpress calls.\n- Use `base_url=https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/api/v1`.\n- Search pages are better with `pageSize=10` and `max_items=10`; accession lookups usually do not need `max_items`.\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 JSON by default.\n- Prefer these paths: `search`, `ArrayExpress/search`, `studies/<accession>`, and `studies/<accession>/info`.\n- If the user needs the full payload, set `save_raw=true` and report the saved file path instead of pasting large study records into chat.\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 BioStudies patterns:\n - `{\"base_url\":\"https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/api/v1\",\"path\":\"search\",\"params\":{\"query\":\"rna\",\"page\":1,\"pageSize\":10},\"record_path\":\"hits\",\"max_items\":10}`\n - `{\"base_url\":\"https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/api/v1\",\"path\":\"ArrayExpress/search\",\"params\":{\"query\":\"single cell\",\"page\":1,\"pageSize\":10},\"record_path\":\"hits\",\"max_items\":10}`\n - `{\"base_url\":\"https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/api/v1\",\"path\":\"studies/E-MTAB-6701\"}`\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/biostudies/api/v1\",\"path\":\"search\",\"params\":{\"query\":\"rna\",\"page\":1,\"pageSize\":10},\"record_path\":\"hits\",\"max_items\":10}' | python scripts/rest_request.py\n```\n\n## References\n- No additional runtime references are required; keep the import package limited to this file and `scripts/rest_request.py`.\n"
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