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Ipd Skill

openai/ipd-skill

Submit compact IPD REST requests for HLA allele and cell-level metadata using the public IPD query API. Use when a user wants concise IPD summaries; save raw JSON or text only on request.

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Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository
npx skills add https://github.com/openai/plugins --skill ipd-skill

What comes with it

10 811 bytes besides the instruction
agents/openai.yaml
scripts/rest_request.py

The instruction itself

6 sections, as written by the author

Operating rules

  • Use scripts/rest_request.py for all IPD calls.
  • Use base_url=https://www.ebi.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ipd/api.
  • The most stable public routes are allele and cell.
  • For HLA allele browsing, pass project=HLA and keep limit modest.
  • Re-run requests in long conversations instead of relying on older tool output.

Execution behavior

  • Return concise markdown summaries from the script JSON by default.
  • Return raw JSON or text only if the user explicitly asks for machine-readable output.
  • Prefer these paths: allele, cell, and allele/download.

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 IPD patterns:
  • {"base_url":"https://www.ebi.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ipd/api","path":"allele","params":{"project":"HLA","limit":10},"record_path":"data","max_items":10}
  • {"base_url":"https://www.ebi.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ipd/api","path":"allele","params":{"project":"HLA","query":"contains(name,\"A*01\")","limit":10},"record_path":"data","max_items":10}
  • {"base_url":"https://www.ebi.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ipd/api","path":"cell","params":{"limit":10},"record_path":"data","max_items":10}

Output

  • Success returns ok, source, path, method, status_code, warnings, and either compact records, a compact summary, or text_head.
  • 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/cgi-bin/ipd/api","path":"allele","params":{"project":"HLA","limit":10},"record_path":"data","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.

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take openai/ipd-skill from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.