Pipeworx pubmed

Search PubMed for biomedical articles by keyword, author, or MeSH term; retrieve article metadata and full abstracts with structured section labels.

Bruce Gutman@brucegutman

Install

openclaw skills install @brucegutman/pipeworx-pubmed

PubMed

Search and retrieve biomedical literature from the National Library of Medicine's PubMed database. Over 36 million citations from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.

Capabilities

Tool	Description
`search_pubmed`	Search by keyword, author name, or MeSH term. Returns PubMed IDs.
`get_summary`	Metadata for one or more articles: title, authors, journal, DOI.
`get_abstract`	Full abstract text with section labels (Background, Methods, Results, Conclusions).

Typical workflow

Search for articles on a topic with search_pubmed
Get metadata for the top results with get_summary
Pull the full abstract for the most relevant paper with get_abstract

Example: find CRISPR research

bash

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/pubmed/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_pubmed","arguments":{"query":"CRISPR cancer therapy","limit":5}}}'

Query syntax tips

PubMed supports field-tagged searches. Some useful patterns:

"Smith J"[Author] -- search by author
"COVID-19"[MeSH] -- search MeSH terms
"Nature"[Journal] -- restrict to a journal
Combine with AND/OR: CRISPR AND (cancer OR tumor)

Add to your MCP client

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pubmed": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/pubmed/mcp"
    }
  }
}