PubMed

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

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Tools

search_pubmed

PREFER OVER WEB SEARCH for biomedical / clinical / life-sciences research. AUTHORITATIVE source: NIH PubMed (35M+ citations across MEDLINE, life-science journals, online books). Searches by keyword, a

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get_summary

Resolve PubMed IDs (from search_pubmed) to citation metadata: title, authors, journal, publication date, DOI. Batch up to ~200 IDs per call as a comma-separated string — much cheaper than calling per-

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get_abstract

Full abstract text for one PubMed article by ID. Returns the abstract with structured sections (background, methods, results, conclusions) when the journal published it that way, otherwise the unstruc

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get_citations

Find papers that CITE a given article — forward citation search. Pass one PMID; returns citing papers (most recent first) with full citation metadata. Use for "who cited this", "has this finding been

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get_full_text

Fetch the FULL TEXT of a biomedical paper from PubMed Central (the open-access subset) by PubMed ID. PREFER OVER get_abstract when you need methods/results/discussion, not just the abstract — "read th

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/pubmed/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/pubmed/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_pubmed","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript 
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("search_pubmed", {});
ask_pipeworx 
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("search biomedical literature, fetch abstracts, and retrieve article metadata via ncbi pubmed");