elnora-search

name

elnora-search

description

This skill should be used when the user asks to "search tasks", "find a protocol", "search files", "search file content", "search inside files", "find tasks about", "query Elnora", "search Elnora platform", "full text search", "search all", "search everything", "find", or any task involving searching the Elnora Platform for tasks, files, or all resources by keyword. NOT for web search — use elnora-agent for that.

Elnora Search

Search tasks, files, or all resources across projects by keyword.

Tool Access

Elnora is available via two methods. Use whichever is configured.

Option A — CLI via Bash (preferred)

Run commands via your Bash/Shell tool as elnora <group> <action> .... Verify with elnora --version. CLI uses ~5× fewer tokens than MCP.

Option B — MCP tools (when CLI isn't installed)

Look for tools prefixed mcp__elnora__ in your available tools. Call them with structured parameters (camelCase — e.g. projectId, not project-id). See the "MCP Tool Names" table below for the mapping.

If neither is available, tell the user to install one:

• CLI: curl -fsSL https://cli.elnora.ai/install.sh | bash (macOS/Linux) or irm https://cli.elnora.ai/install.ps1 | iex (Windows)
• MCP: claude mcp add elnora --transport http --scope user https://mcp.elnora.ai/mcp then /mcp to authenticate.

Never fabricate tool names. Valid commands are in the Commands section; their MCP equivalents are in the MCP Tool Names table.

Invocation

CLI="elnora"

Commands

Search Tasks

$CLI --compact search tasks --query "PCR protocol"
$CLI --compact search tasks --query "BRCA1" --page-size 10

Results include snippet with HTML-bold match highlights and rank for relevance:

{"items":[{"type":"task","id":"<UUID>","title":"...","snippet":"...with <b>highlighted</b> matches...","projectId":"<UUID>","rank":0.06}],"page":1,"totalCount":N,"hasNextPage":false}

Search Files

$CLI --compact search files --query "gel electrophoresis"
$CLI --compact search files --query "template" --page 2

Search File Content

$CLI --compact search file-content --query "annealing temperature"
$CLI --compact search file-content --query "BRCA1" --project-id <PROJECT_ID>

Full-text search inside file contents. Also available as files search-content (which uses --project instead of --project-id).

Note: search file-content uses --project-id (field name: projectId, optional so it's a flag). files search-content uses --project (field name: project).

Search All

$CLI --compact search all --query "BRCA1"
$CLI --compact search all --query "transfection" --page-size 50

Searches both tasks and files. Results include a type field ("task" or "file").

Shared Options

All four commands share:

Flag	Default	Notes
--query	Required	Search query string
--page	1	Page number
--page-size	25	Results per page (max 100)

MCP Tool Names

CLI command	MCP tool name
search tasks	elnora_search_tasks
search files	elnora_search_files
search file-content	elnora_search_fileContent
search all	elnora_search_all

Agent Recipes

Find a task, then read it:

TASK_ID=$($CLI --compact search tasks --query "BRCA1" | jq -r '.items[0].id')
$CLI --compact tasks messages "$TASK_ID"

Broad search:

$CLI --compact search all --query "HEK 293"