biostudies-arrayexpress-skill

Installation
SKILL.md

Operating rules

  • Use scripts/rest_request.py for all BioStudies and ArrayExpress calls.
  • Use base_url=https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/api/v1.
  • Search pages are better with pageSize=10 and max_items=10; accession lookups usually do not need max_items.
  • Re-run requests in long conversations instead of relying on older tool output.
  • Treat displayed ... in tool previews as UI truncation, not literal request content.

Execution behavior

  • Return concise markdown summaries from the script JSON by default.
  • Prefer these paths: search, ArrayExpress/search, studies/<accession>, and studies/<accession>/info.
  • 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.

Input

  • Read one JSON object from stdin.
  • Required fields: base_url, path
  • Optional fields: method, params, headers, json_body, form_body, record_path, response_format, max_items, max_depth, timeout_sec, save_raw, raw_output_path
  • Common BioStudies patterns:
    • {"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}
    • {"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}
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