Elnora Search

Elnora Search

Search tasks, files, or all resources across projects by keyword.

Tool Access

Elnora is available via two methods. Use whichever is configured.

Option A — CLI via Bash (preferred)

Run commands via your Bash/Shell tool as elnora <group> <action> .... Verify with elnora --version. CLI uses ~5× fewer tokens than MCP.

Option B — MCP tools (when CLI isn't installed)

Look for tools prefixed mcp__elnora__ in your available tools. Call them with structured parameters (camelCase — e.g. projectId, not project-id). See the "MCP Tool Names" table below for the mapping.

If neither is available, tell the user to install one:

• CLI: curl -fsSL https://cli.elnora.ai/install.sh | bash (macOS/Linux) or irm https://cli.elnora.ai/install.ps1 | iex (Windows)
• MCP: claude mcp add elnora --transport http --scope user https://mcp.elnora.ai/mcp then /mcp to authenticate.

Never fabricate tool names. Valid commands are in the Commands section; their MCP equivalents are in the MCP Tool Names table.

Invocation

CLI="elnora"

Commands

Search Tasks

$CLI --compact search tasks --query "PCR protocol"
$CLI --compact search tasks --query "BRCA1" --page-size 10

Results include snippet with HTML-bold match highlights and rank for relevance:

{"items":[{"type":"task","id":"<UUID>","title":"...","snippet":"...with <b>highlighted</b> matches...","projectId":"<UUID>","rank":0.06}],"page":1,"totalCount":N,"hasNextPage":false}

Search Files

$CLI --compact search files --query "gel electrophoresis"
$CLI --compact search files --query "template" --page 2

Search File Content

$CLI --compact search file-content --query "annealing temperature"
$CLI --compact search file-content --query "BRCA1" --project-id <PROJECT_ID>

Full-text search inside file contents. Also available as files search-content (which uses --project instead of --project-id).

Note: search file-content uses --project-id (field name: projectId, optional so it's a flag). files search-content uses --project (field name: project).

Search All

$CLI --compact search all --query "BRCA1"
$CLI --compact search all --query "transfection" --page-size 50

Searches both tasks and files. Results include a type field ("task" or "file").

Shared Options

All four commands share:

MCP Tool Names

Agent Recipes

Find a task, then read it:

TASK_ID=$($CLI --compact search tasks --query "BRCA1" | jq -r '.items[0].id')
$CLI --compact tasks messages "$TASK_ID"

Broad search:

$CLI --compact search all --query "HEK 293"