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biorxiv-skill

Submit compact bioRxiv and medRxiv API requests for details, publication-linkage, and DOI lookups. Use when a user wants concise preprint metadata summaries

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openai/plugins
Updated
2026-05-30
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openai--plugins--biorxiv-skill
View on GitHubRaw SKILL.md

// install — copy + paste into any project

mkdir -p .claude/skills && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openai/plugins/HEAD/plugins/life-science-research/skills/biorxiv-skill/SKILL.md -o .claude/skills/biorxiv-skill.md

Drops the SKILL.md into .claude/skills/biorxiv-skill.md. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any agent that loads SKILL.md files from .claude/skills/.

Operating rules

  • Use scripts/rest_request.py for all bioRxiv and medRxiv API calls.
  • Use base_url=https://api.biorxiv.org.
  • The script accepts max_items; for details and pubs pages, start around max_items=10.
  • Prefer one cursor page at a time instead of increasing page size or pasting long collections into chat.
  • Re-run requests in long conversations instead of relying on older tool output.
  • Treat displayed ... in tool previews as UI truncation, not part of the true request.

Execution behavior

  • Return concise markdown summaries from the script JSON by default.
  • Return the raw script JSON only if the user explicitly asks for machine-readable output.
  • Prefer these paths: details/<server>/<start>/<end>/<cursor>/json, details/<server>/<doi>/na/json, pubs/<server>/<start>/<end>/<cursor>, and pubs/<server>/<doi>/na/json.
  • If the user needs full page contents, set save_raw=true and report the saved file path rather than pasting large collections 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 biorxiv patterns:
    • {"base_url":"https://api.biorxiv.org","path":"details/biorxiv/2025-03-21/2025-03-28/0/json","record_path":"collection","max_items":10}
    • {"base_url":"https://api.biorxiv.org","path":"details/medrxiv/10.1101/2020.09.09.20191205/na/json","record_path":"collection","max_items":10}
    • {"base_url":"https://api.biorxiv.org","path":"pubs/medrxiv/2020-03-01/2020-03-30/0","record_path":"collection","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://api.biorxiv.org","path":"details/biorxiv/2025-03-21/2025-03-28/0/json","record_path":"collection","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.