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Query the QuickGO and Evidence & Conclusion Ontology (ECO) REST API. Use this when you need to map genes to biological processes, molecular functions, or cellular components, find genes associated with a specific pathway/GO term, or explore the Gene Ontology hierarchy. Do not use for querying drug targets (use OpenTargets) or mechanistic signaling pathway diagrams (use KEGG).

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Content

86%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

Well-structured, highly actionable content with clean progressive disclosure to real reference files. Could tighten the introductory background and add explicit validation/error-recovery guidance for the multi-step workflows.

Suggestions

Trim or condense the opening background paragraph on what GO/QuickGO is, since Claude already knows this domain.

Add an explicit validation/inspection checkpoint in the multi-step workflows (e.g., confirm proc_id.json contains a UniProtKB ID before running Step 2, and what to do on an empty result).

Note how to detect and handle API/rate-limit errors at the workflow level, rather than relying solely on the wrapper script.

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Conciseness

Mostly lean with concise Core Rules bullets and executable commands; the opening paragraph briefly explains what GO/QuickGO is, which is mild over-explanation Claude largely already knows.

4 / 5

Actionability

Fully executable, copy-paste-ready `uv run scripts/quickgo_tool.py ...` commands with real flags cover the common cases across four workflows, plus concrete flag guidance in Core Rules.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Workflows are clearly sequenced (Step 1/Step 2) with inline inspection cues, but lack explicit validation checkpoints or error-recovery feedback loops; retry handling is delegated to the wrapper rather than shown.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The body is a clear overview where each of the four subcommands links to a real, one-level-deep reference file (go_terms.md, annotations.md, gene_products.md, eco_terms.md), with inline examples kept concise.

5 / 5

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Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong description: it states concrete capabilities, provides explicit use-when triggers, and draws clear boundaries against adjacent tools. Minor room to surface ECO-term querying and a few more synonyms.

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Specificity

Lists several concrete actions ('map genes to biological processes, molecular functions, or cellular components', 'find genes associated with a specific pathway/GO term', 'explore the Gene Ontology hierarchy'), but ECO-specific usage is only implied, leaving minor coverage gaps.

4 / 5

Completeness

Clearly states what it does ('Query the QuickGO and Evidence & Conclusion Ontology (ECO) REST API') and gives an explicit 'Use this when' trigger with concrete phrases, fully answering both what and when.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural terms a user would say ('genes', 'biological processes', 'pathway/GO term', 'Gene Ontology hierarchy'), with good coverage though a few synonyms (e.g. 'gene function', 'GO annotations') are absent.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Occupies a clear niche (QuickGO/ECO/GO) and explicitly disambiguates from neighboring tools ('Do not use for... use OpenTargets... use KEGG'), minimizing conflict risk.

5 / 5

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