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PubMed MCP Server

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Server Configuration

Describes the environment variables required to run the server.

Name	Required	Description	Default
`PUBMED_EMAIL`	Yes	Your email address (required by NCBI)
`PUBMED_API_KEY`	No	Optional API key for higher rate limits

Instructions

Guidance the server publishes about itself, which clients place ahead of the tool catalog so the model reads it before choosing anything.

This server publishes no instructions, or was last inspected before Glama recorded them.

Capabilities

Server capabilities have not been inspected yet.

Tools

Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions

Name	Description
search_pubmedA	Search PubMed and return a list of article JSON objects. Parameters: query: Free-text user query; boolean operators (AND/OR/NOT) supported by PubMed. max_results: Maximum number of records to retrieve (retmax). title: If True, include Title field in search restriction (ti / tiab). abstract: If True, include Abstract field in search restriction (ab / tiab). keywords: If True, expand search to Author Keywords (ot) and MeSH Headings (mh). Field logic: - title and abstract both True => core search uses [tiab] - only title True => uses [ti] - only abstract True => uses [ab] - neither title nor abstract True => no restriction (all fields) - keywords True => additionally OR with [ot] and [mh] versions of the query Returns: List[dict]: Each dict contains pmid, title, authors, abstract, journal, publication_year, publication_month, url.

Name

Description

search_pubmedA

Search PubMed and return a list of article JSON objects.

Parameters: query: Free-text user query; boolean operators (AND/OR/NOT) supported by PubMed. max_results: Maximum number of records to retrieve (retmax). title: If True, include Title field in search restriction (ti / tiab). abstract: If True, include Abstract field in search restriction (ab / tiab). keywords: If True, expand search to Author Keywords (ot) and MeSH Headings (mh).

Field logic: - title and abstract both True => core search uses [tiab] - only title True => uses [ti] - only abstract True => uses [ab] - neither title nor abstract True => no restriction (all fields) - keywords True => additionally OR with [ot] and [mh] versions of the query

Returns: List[dict]: Each dict contains pmid, title, authors, abstract, journal, publication_year, publication_month, url.

Prompts

Interactive templates invoked by user choice

Name	Description
`precise_pubmed_query`	Craft a precise PubMed Boolean query from a natural language information need.

Resources

Contextual data attached and managed by the client

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