Elnora Plugins — AI-Powered Bioprotocol Generation

The Elnora AI Platform for generating, optimizing, and managing bioprotocols for wet-lab experiments. This marketplace provides a Claude Code plugin with 10 skills + an MCP server declaration.

Installation (Claude Code)

There are three paths, depending on your setup. Path 1 is recommended.

Path 1: CLI + Plugin (recommended)

One command installs everything — CLI, plugin (skills + MCP), authentication. Pick the line for your OS or package manager:

macOS / Linux

curl -fsSL https://cli.elnora.ai/install.sh | bash

Windows

irm https://cli.elnora.ai/install.ps1 | iex

npm (any OS with Node.js 20+)

npm install -g @elnora-ai/cli

Homebrew (macOS / Linux)

brew install elnora-ai/cli/elnora

The installer prompts for your API key, then elnora setup claude registers the plugin. First MCP use triggers OAuth (one browser click), then cached.

Path 2: Plugin only — OAuth in browser

Prefer browser-based OAuth, or running without a CLI? Install the plugin alone. In Claude Code:

/plugin
# Choose: Add marketplace → Elnora-AI/elnora-plugins
/plugin
# Choose: Enable → elnora

Plugin provides: 10 skills + MCP declaration. Say "Use Elnora to list projects" — Claude invokes MCP, triggers OAuth on first use, then cached. No CLI needed.

Path 3: Advanced — API key MCP (CI / skip OAuth)

If you prefer API key auth over OAuth (useful for CI or non-interactive environments):

claude mcp add elnora --transport http --scope user \
  https://mcp.elnora.ai/mcp \
  --header "X-API-Key: <your-key-from-platform.elnora.ai>"

Use this instead of the plugin's built-in MCP declaration. If the plugin is also enabled, you'll have two entries named "elnora" — pick one or the other, don't enable both.

Installation (other platforms)

For Cursor, Codex, VS Code Copilot, Gemini CLI, and any other MCP-compatible client, configure the Elnora MCP server as follows.

MCP Server Config

Use this config snippet wherever your platform expects MCP server definitions:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elnora": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.elnora.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Cursor

Add the MCP config above to .cursor/mcp.json, then copy skills:

cp -r elnora/skills/* .cursor/skills/

OpenAI Codex

codex mcp add elnora -- https://mcp.elnora.ai/mcp
cp -r elnora/skills/* .codex/skills/

VS Code Copilot

Add the MCP config above to .vscode/mcp.json. Skills are loaded from .vscode/skills/:

cp -r elnora/skills/* .vscode/skills/

Gemini CLI

Add the MCP config to your Gemini settings, then copy skills:

cp -r elnora/skills/* .gemini/skills/

Generic MCP Client

Point any MCP-compatible client at:

https://mcp.elnora.ai/mcp

Authentication

The Elnora MCP server supports two authentication methods:

• OAuth 2.1 — A browser popup opens automatically on first connection; no manual configuration. Best for interactive clients (Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code).
• API Key — Generate a key at platform.elnora.ai and send it in a request header. Best for CI, scripts, and non-interactive clients. Use either:
  • X-API-Key: <your-key> — the standard header, or
  • Authorization: Bearer <your-key> — if your client only exposes a single bearer/token field.

For coding agents

Running Codex, Cursor, Aider, Continue, Amp, Jules, or Roo? Two files are written for agents rather than humans:

• AGENTS.md — usage conventions: the MCP endpoint, the elnora_* tools, and a dispatch table mapping user intent to the right skill. Auto-loaded at repo root by most agent harnesses.
• INSTALL_FOR_AGENTS.md — a gated, step-by-step setup runbook (verify → authenticate → copy skills → smoke test), with browser-assist offers for the OAuth and API-key steps.

Available Plugins

Plugin	Description
elnora	Connect to the Elnora AI Platform for bioprotocol generation, task management, and file workflows

Available Skills

Skill	Description
elnora-platform	Route requests across the Elnora platform — account, health checks, feature flags, and agreements
elnora-orgs	Manage organizations, members, invitations, billing, and the shared org library
elnora-projects	Create and manage projects, project members, and roles
elnora-tasks	Create, update, search, and manage tasks and task messages
elnora-files	Create, upload, download, version, and manage files and working copies
elnora-folders	Browse, create, rename, move, delete, and share Knowledge Base folders
elnora-review	Approve or reject Knowledge Base auto-tidy proposals
elnora-search	Search across files, tasks, and all resources in the platform
elnora-admin	Manage API keys, audit logs, and administrative operations
elnora-agent	Run scientific tools and literature lookups (PubMed, ArXiv, web search) via the cloud agent

Versioning & releasing

This plugin is a distribution of the @elnora-ai/cli skills, so its version tracks the CLI. On each CLI release, the CLI's sync-skills job copies the current skills here and stamps the CLI version into plugin.json and marketplace.json. There is no independent plugin version — the version you see is the CLI version. (The CHANGELOG.md in this repo is frozen history from before this change; the changelog that matters is the CLI's.)

Releasing a change to this repo: the marketplace is served from the default branch — Claude Code clones the repo and git pulls main on claude plugin marketplace update. So a plugin-only change (README, CI, docs) "releases" simply by merging to main; there's no tag or publish step. Only bump plugin.json version by hand if you make a change that affects the installed runtime (e.g. the MCP server URL) and it must reach already-installed users before the next CLI release; otherwise let the next CLI sync carry the version forward.

Links

• Website: elnora.ai
• Agent Skills Standard: agentskills.io
• MCP Endpoint: mcp.elnora.ai/mcp
• For agents: AGENTS.md · INSTALL_FOR_AGENTS.md
• Issues: GitHub Issues

License

Apache-2.0