
hmdb-skill
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Submit compact HMDB search requests for metabolites, proteins, diseases, and pathways. Use when a user wants concise HMDB summaries
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🧩 One of 7 skills in the openai/plugins package — works on its own, and pairs well with its siblings.
This is the playbook your agent receives when the skill activates — you don't need to read it to use the skill, but it's here to audit before installing.
name: hmdb-skill description: Submit compact HMDB search requests for metabolites, proteins, diseases, and pathways. Use when a user wants concise HMDB summaries
Operating rules
- Use
scripts/rest_request.pyfor all HMDB calls. - Use
base_url=https://hmdb.ca. - Search endpoints are better with
per_page=10andmax_items=10. - Keep category-specific requests narrow instead of broad searches across multiple categories at once.
- 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
unearth/qwith explicitquery,category, andformat=json. - If the user needs the full payload, set
save_raw=trueand 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 HMDB patterns:
{"base_url":"https://hmdb.ca","path":"unearth/q","params":{"query":"serotonin","category":"metabolites","format":"json","per_page":10},"record_path":"metabolites","max_items":10}{"base_url":"https://hmdb.ca","path":"unearth/q","params":{"query":"glycolysis","category":"pathways","format":"json","per_page":10},"max_items":10}
Output
- Success returns
ok,source,path,method,status_code,warnings, and either compactrecordsor a compactsummary. - Use
raw_output_pathwhensave_raw=true. - Failure returns
ok=falsewitherror.codeanderror.message.
Execution
echo '{"base_url":"https://hmdb.ca","path":"unearth/q","params":{"query":"serotonin","category":"metabolites","format":"json","per_page":10},"record_path":"metabolites","max_items":10}' | python scripts/rest_request.pyReferences
- No additional runtime references are required; keep the import package limited to this file and
scripts/rest_request.py.
Copy & paste — that's it
npx skills add https://github.com/openai/plugins --skill hmdb-skillRun this in your project — your agent picks the skill up automatically.
No common issues documented yet. If you hit a problem, the repository's GitHub Issues page is the best place to look.