scientific-literature-search - Search scientific literature in PubMed and Semantic Scholar
Queries PubMed and Semantic Scholar for medical and scientific literature to support hypothesis generation, mechanism exploration, and evidence-based analysis.
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Updated: 2026-10-05Capabilities
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What this skill does
- Parse literature queries
- Search PubMed articles
- Search Semantic Scholar papers
- Extract citation metadata
- Merge and sort results
- Cache search results
- Format results as Markdown
Inputs
- Literature search query
- NCBI API key
- Environment file
- Cached result files
Outputs
- Literature result messages
- Markdown result tables
- Article metadata
- Abstract summaries
- Cached JSON files
Requirements
- Internet access
- Bash shell
- curl
- jq
- shasum
- NCBI E-utilities access
- Semantic Scholar API access