| name | efo-ontology-skill |
| description | Submit compact EFO OLS4 requests for search, term lookup, children, and descendants. Use when a user wants concise EFO resolution or ontology-expansion summaries |
Operating rules
- Use
scripts/rest_request.py for all OLS4 and EFO API calls.
- Use
base_url=https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols4/api.
- Search, children, and descendant endpoints are better with
max_items=10; single term lookups usually do not need max_items.
- Use the smallest ontology expansion that answers the question.
- 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, ontologies/efo/terms/<double-encoded-iri>, and the corresponding children or descendants paths.
- 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 OLS4 patterns:
{"base_url":"https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols4/api","path":"search","params":{"q":"asthma","ontology":"efo"},"record_path":"response.docs","max_items":10}
{"base_url":"https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols4/api","path":"ontologies/efo/terms/http%253A%252F%252Fwww.ebi.ac.uk%252Fefo%252FEFO_0000270"}
{"base_url":"https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols4/api","path":"ontologies/efo/terms/http%253A%252F%252Fwww.ebi.ac.uk%252Fefo%252FEFO_0000270/descendants","record_path":"_embedded.terms","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.ebi.ac.uk/ols4/api","path":"search","params":{"q":"asthma","ontology":"efo"},"record_path":"response.docs","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.