Elnora Agent Capabilities

The Elnora Agent is a sandboxed Python environment with ~78 core tools + 2,100 ToolUniverse scientific tools. Interact via elnora_create_task / elnora_send_message — describe what you need in plain language, don't reference internal tool names.

MCP Tools for Agent Interaction

| Tool | Purpose | |------|---------| | elnora_create_task | Create a task with optional initial_message to start generation | | elnora_send_message | Send follow-up message. 30-120s for complex requests. | | elnora_get_task_messages | Read agent responses | | elnora_generate_protocol | Convenience: create task + send message in one call |

What the Agent Can Do

| Capability | Examples | |------------|----------| | Web search (34 tools) | Real-time search, neural/semantic search, deep research, URL extraction, site crawling. Providers: Tavily, Exa, Valyu, Perplexity | | Academic databases (12 tools) | PubMed, ArXiv, Semantic Scholar, bioRxiv, Europe PMC, OpenAlex, UniProt, ClinicalTrials.gov, ChEMBL, Wolfram Alpha | | 2,100+ scientific tools (ToolUniverse) | Protein structure (AlphaFold, PDB), genomics (Ensembl, ClinVar), chemistry (PubChem, DrugBank), pathways (KEGG, Reactome), drug safety (OpenFDA), and 21 more categories | | 35 domain skills | Literature review, experimental design, drug discovery workflow, protein engineering, single-cell RNA QC, statistical analysis, scientific writing | | File operations (11 tools) | Create/read/search files, full-text grep, upload attachments, link files to tasks | | Memory (9 tools) | Remember facts across tasks, share findings between agents, recall prior context | | Code execution | Persistent Python REPL with pandas, numpy, biopython. Variables survive across executions. 30s timeout, 1MB output max |

Good Prompts

Web research: > "Search for recent CRISPR delivery methods and summarize the top findings"

Literature review: > "Search PubMed for BRCA1 DNA repair papers from 2024, find the most cited ones"

Drug target research: > "Search for compounds targeting EGFR, cross-reference with active clinical trials"

Scientific computation: > "Use ToolUniverse to run AlphaFold on this sequence: MVLSPADKTNVKAAWGKVGA"

Memory: > "Remember that our lab uses Q5 polymerase for all high-fidelity PCR at 62C"

File search: > "Search all project files for mentions of 'annealing temperature' and summarize"

Reference existing files: Use file_ids in elnora_send_message or context_file_ids in elnora_create_task to give the agent context about existing protocols.