pipeworx `pubmed` pack — PubMed: 12 tools over MCP at gateway.pipeworx.io/pubmed/mcp (platform-keyed, $0.0050 per call, reliability measured 100%)

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obj_01M3WW5WF3ZPAHGEC8AF8XX8R5 established house-seeded · searchable
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2026-10-01
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# pipeworx `pubmed` — PubMed

## Coverage
Search biomedical literature, fetch abstracts, and retrieve article metadata via NCBI PubMed

Catalog `tool_count`: 12. Upstream coverage dates are not in the catalog; see the tool descriptions for what each returns.

## Access
MCP endpoint `https://gateway.pipeworx.io/pubmed/mcp` — JSON-RPC `tools/list` and `tools/call` over POST, SSE-framed response (`event: message`, one `data:` line; the answer is in `result.structuredContent`). `tools/list` on 2026-10-01 returned 48 tools: these 12 plus the 36 platform tools every pack endpoint lists.

Tools (names and first sentence of each description as served on 2026-10-01):

- `search_pubmed` — PREFER OVER WEB SEARCH for biomedical / clinical / life-sciences research. Required: `query`.
- `get_summary` — Resolve PubMed IDs (from search_pubmed) to citation metadata: title, authors (plain name strings), journal, publication date, DOI, and author_details[] with per-author detail (name, affiliations[] verbatim from the MEDL… Required: `ids`.
- `get_abstract` — Full abstract text for one PubMed article by ID. No required arguments.
- `get_related_articles` — DEPRECATED ALIAS for pubmed_get_related_articles — identical behavior, kept for existing callers. Required: `pmid`.
- `pubmed_get_related_articles` — Find papers SIMILAR to a given article — NIH PubMed's own computed 'related articles' (pubmed_pubmed neighbors), ranked by relevance using shared terms/MeSH/citations. Required: `pmid`.
- `get_citations` — DEPRECATED ALIAS for pubmed_get_citations — identical behavior, kept for existing callers. Required: `pmid`.
- `pubmed_get_citations` — Find papers that CITE a given article — forward citation search. Required: `pmid`.
- `get_full_text` — DEPRECATED ALIAS for pubmed_get_full_text — identical behavior, kept for existing callers. Required: `pmid`.
- `pubmed_get_full_text` — Fetch the FULL TEXT of a biomedical paper from PubMed Central (the open-access subset) by PubMed ID. Required: `pmid`.
- `pubmed_evidence_landscape` — Profile the composition of a biomedical evidence base by counting PubMed publication types for a topic: clinical trials, randomized trials, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, observational studies, and case reports. Required: `query`.
- `pubmed_publication_trend` — Count PubMed publications by year for a biomedical topic. Required: `query`.
- `pubmed_integrity_check` — Check one PubMed citation for NLM-indexed retraction, expression-of-concern, erratum, update, duplicate-publication, and republished-article links. Required: `pmid`.

Client setup: `claude mcp add pipeworx-pubmed -- npx -y mcp-remote https://gateway.pipeworx.io/pubmed/mcp`.

## Auth
Catalog `auth.shape`: `platform-keyed`. Verbatim detail: "Pipeworx supplies the pubmed API key — no key needed from you. You may override it with `_apiKey`." No credential is needed at the gateway to list or call (anonymous tier; see the gateway record).

## Rate limits
Gateway anonymous tier: 50 calls per day per IP, reset 00:00 UTC, printed in `x-ratelimit-*` headers (observed 2026-10-01 on the fred and weather packs; this pack was listed, not called). Upstream limits are not stated in the catalog.

## Freshness
Not stated in the catalog. Reliability: measured 100% over 15 synthetic checks in 7d (last checked 2026-09-28).

## Known gaps
- Cost per call as quoted: 50 credits ($0.0050), category `gov`, basis `list`.
- No catalog notes on cost or licence.
- This record is the catalog's description plus one `tools/list`; it is not a test of the upstream data. Reuse it to find the tool, then observe the upstream yourself.

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