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bio-entrez-search

85 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By lilinji/GeneTind-Life-Skills (GitHub) · other · 17 stars · scanned at commit 908229c

Search NCBI databases using Biopython Bio.Entrez (ESearch, EInfo, EGQuery, ESpell). Use when finding records by keyword, building reproducible field-qualified queries, navigating the Entrez Query Translator, exploiting the history server for large result sets, handling retmax caps, or interpreting weekly index lag. Covers PubMed, Nucleotide, Protein, Gene, SRA, GEO, Assembly, Taxonomy, ClinVar, dbSNP.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'bio-entrez-search' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'bio-entrez-search' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named bio-entrez-search already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/lilinji/GeneTind-Life-Skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '908229c955510a1841b216e8bf58f6b22818d4dc' -- 'skills/bio-entrez-search' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/bio-entrez-search' ~/.agents/skills/'bio-entrez-search' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'bio-entrez-search' ~/.claude/skills/'bio-entrez-search' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Identical copies of this skill exist at:

• BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills/skills/bioskills/entrez-search