NCBI E-utilities Skill

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Domain knowledge for your AI assistant — workflow patterns, data model concepts, and gotchas for NCBI E-utilities tools.

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NCBI E-utilities
SKILL.md

Domain knowledge for using NCBI E-utilities PubMed and biomedical tools effectively

NCBI E-utilities

NCBI E-utilities API provides access to PubMed and other biomedical databases. Search and retrieval for biomedical literature.

Data Model

  • PubMed articles — search returns PMIDs; use for downstream fetches.
  • Summary, Abstract, Full Text Links, References, Citations, MeSH Terms — article metadata scoped by PMID.

Gotchas

  • Rate limit: 10 requests/minute; NCBI enforces strictly. Wait 6+ seconds between requests.

Use with NCBI E-utilities Bundle

This skill teaches your AI assistant domain knowledge. To actually execute NCBI E-utilities API calls, enable the MCP bundle — the skill and bundle work together.

Ready to use NCBI E-utilities?

Install the skill for domain knowledge, enable the bundle for authenticated tool access

What is a Skill?

NCBI E-utilities Skill - MCP Bundles