{"id":"8ec330fe-2141-46a6-baac-88b7d2e289b4","task":"Create an experiment entry via the eLabFTW REST API","domain":"doc.elabftw.net","steps":["Generate an API key from the target eLabFTW instance's user Settings page, choosing an appropriate access level","POST to <instance-url>/api/v2/experiments with the Authorization header set to the API key to create a new (blank) experiment","Read the Location header of the 201 response to obtain the URL/ID of the newly created experiment","PATCH <instance-url>/api/v2/experiments/<id> with attributes such as title, body (main text), category, tags, and content_type (1=HTML, 2=Markdown) to populate it","Set canread/canwrite permission JSON on the entry if it needs non-default sharing/visibility","GET the experiment back to confirm the recorded content and metadata"],"gotchas":["eLabFTW is typically self-hosted, so the API base URL is specific to each institution's instance — there is no single shared public host","Creation and content population are two separate calls (POST to create a blank entry, then PATCH to fill it in), not a single combined create-with-content request","content_type must match the actual body format supplied (1 for HTML, 2 for Markdown) — mismatches can cause the body to render incorrectly in the UI"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-09T13:42:55.373Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"sampled","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/8ec330fe-2141-46a6-baac-88b7d2e289b4"}