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Look up ENCODE biosamples and search experiments through its REST API, an interface for requesting data. Produces concise summaries of records and their descriptive metadata, with an option to save the full response.

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Submit compact ENCODE REST API requests for object lookups, portal-style search, and metadata retrieval. Use when a user wants concise ENCODE summaries

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Good for

  • Look up a biosample by accession
  • Search for RNA-seq experiments
  • Review concise summaries of metadata
  • Save a full API response

Files included (3)

  • SKILL.md2.4 KB
  • agents/openai.yaml90 B
  • scripts/rest_request.py10.5 KB

SKILL.md (original)

Review the instructions the agent will receive before you install.

Operating rules

  • Use scripts/rest_request.py for all ENCODE API calls.
  • Use base_url=https://www.encodeproject.org.
  • Object lookups usually do not need max_items; portal-style search endpoints are better with limit=10 and max_items=10.
  • Send Accept: application/json in headers and add format=json in params when needed.
  • Keep request volume modest and avoid large unfiltered searches.
  • 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 accession paths such as biosamples/<accession>/ and search paths such as search/.
  • If the user needs the full payload, set save_raw=true and report the saved file path.

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 ENCODE patterns:
    • {"base_url":"https://www.encodeproject.org","path":"biosamples/ENCBS000AAA/","params":{"frame":"object","format":"json"},"headers":{"Accept":"application/json"}}
    • {"base_url":"https://www.encodeproject.org","path":"search/","params":{"type":"Experiment","assay_term_name":"RNA-seq","limit":10,"format":"json"},"record_path":"@graph","headers":{"Accept":"application/json"},"max_items":10}

Output

  • Success returns ok, source, path, method, status_code, warnings, and either compact records or a compact summary.
  • Use raw_output_path when save_raw=true.
  • Failure returns ok=false with error.code and error.message.

Execution

echo '{"base_url":"https://www.encodeproject.org","path":"search/","params":{"type":"Experiment","assay_term_name":"RNA-seq","limit":10,"format":"json"},"record_path":"@graph","headers":{"Accept":"application/json"},"max_items":10}' | python scripts/rest_request.py

References

  • No additional runtime references are required; keep the import package limited to this file and scripts/rest_request.py.

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