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alterlab-pubmed

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Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a research skill usually looks things up on the internet.

By AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills (GitHub) · research · 87 stars · scanned at commit 3ab6d03

Provide direct REST API access to PubMed via the NCBI E-utilities API, supporting advanced Boolean/MeSH queries, batch processing, and citation management. Use when searching biomedical literature by MeSH terms, retrieving abstracts or PMIDs in bulk, or scripting custom PubMed queries over raw HTTP/REST — for Python workflows prefer biopython (Bio.Entrez) instead, use this for direct REST work or custom API implementations. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

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What this skill can do

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'alterlab-pubmed' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'alterlab-pubmed' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named alterlab-pubmed already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '3ab6d034385ec4fedc3f6f4099292d4e91f60300' -- 'skills/databases/alterlab-pubmed' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/databases/alterlab-pubmed' ~/.agents/skills/'alterlab-pubmed' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'alterlab-pubmed' ~/.claude/skills/'alterlab-pubmed' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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