PubMed Search
Skill ActiveUse for biomedical and life-science literature searches when query expects PubMed articles, clinical trials, or medical research papers.
To enable AI agents to conduct precise searches within the vast PubMed database for biomedical, clinical, and life-science research literature.
Features
- Searches PubMed for articles, clinical trials, and research papers
- Leverages E-utilities API for efficient data retrieval
- No API key required for access
- Suitable for academic, medical, and literature review queries
Use Cases
- Researching biomedical topics and drug studies
- Finding peer-reviewed medical journal articles
- Locating clinical trial information
- Gathering abstracts with DOI or PubMed ID for citations
Non-Goals
- General web search
- News aggregation
- Product reviews
- Real-time information retrieval
- Programming-related queries
Workflow
- User provides a query for biomedical or life-science literature.
- Skill uses the 'api_search' method to query the PubMed E-utilities API.
- API returns article IDs and metadata.
- Skill returns structured search results to the user.
Practices
- Academic research
- Medical literature review
Trust
- warning:Issues AttentionIn the last 90 days, 17 issues were opened and 3 were closed, indicating a low closure rate (17.6%) and potential slow response to open issues.
Installation
npx skills add 0xmariowu/AutosearchRuns the Vercel skills CLI (skills.sh) via npx — needs Node.js locally and at least one installed skills-compatible agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, …). Assumes the repo follows the agentskills.io format.
Quality Score
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