Who eml

Skill BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills/skills/drugclaw/who_eml

Query the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines (23rd list, 2023). Use whenever the user asks about essential medicines, WHO-recommended drugs, dosage forms, therapeutic sections, or AWaRe antibiotic classification.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills --skill who_eml

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SKILL.md

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WHO Essential Medicines List Query Skill

Search ~500 WHO essential medicines by name, section, or section number. Case-insensitive substring match.

Input Example	Matches On
`amoxicillin`	medicine name
`antimalarial`	section hierarchy (full path)
`diabetes`	section hierarchy
`6.2`	section_num prefix

API

Function	Input	Returns
`load_eml(cache_path)`	JSON path	list[dict]
`build_cache(pdf_path, cache_path)`	PDF + cache paths	list[dict] (parses PDF → JSON)
`search(data, entity)`	single string	list[dict]
`search_batch(data, entities)`	list of strings	dict[str, list[dict]]
`summarize(hits, entity)`	list[dict] + label	compact text
`to_json(hits)`	list[dict]	list[dict]

Record Schema

Field	Example
`medicine`	`amoxicillin`
`section_num`	`6.2.1`
`section_name`	`Anti-infective medicines > Antibacterials > Access group antibiotics`
`dosage_forms`	`["Capsule: 250 mg; 500 mg", "Oral liquid: 125 mg/5 mL"]`

Usage

See if __name__ == "__main__" block in 59_WHO_EML.py for runnable examples.

Data

Source: WHO Model List of Essential Medicines – 23rd List (2023)
PDF: WHO EML 23rd List (2023).pdf in DATA_DIR
Cache: who_eml_23.json (auto-built on first run from PDF)
License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO
Dependency: pip install pypdf

What ships with it: 5 files

15.7 KB alongside SKILL.md, 4 of them executable

example.pyruns9.6 KB
__init__.pyruns176 B
README.md1.6 KB
retrieve.pyruns788 B
who_eml_skill.pyruns3.7 KB