pubmed-cli

pubmed-cli is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from drpedapati/sciclaw. It costs 142 tokens per session (1,667 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A command-line research tool for PubMed, the database of biomedical and health research papers. It searches articles, retrieves publication details, follows citation links, and looks up MeSH subject terms.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run Boolean or MeSH searches, retrieve papers by PMID, find papers that cite an article, and inspect article metadata.
Why use it?
It removes the need to search PubMed manually for each paper or citation relationship. It also gathers details such as abstracts, authors, DOIs, and subject terms in one workflow.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/drpedapati/sciclaw/pubmed-cli
Any agent
npx skills add drpedapati/sciclaw --skill pubmed-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/drpedapati/sciclaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for pubmed-cli

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/drpedapati/sciclaw/pubmed-cli"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/drpedapati/sciclaw/pubmed-cli.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 142 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,667 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00142 $0.01667
Opus 5 $0.00071 $0.00834
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00333
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00167

Measured 6d ago against content hash 9feb363d6fd3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pubmed-cli scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/pubmed-cli/SKILL.md · 186 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 186 lines · 142 tokens per session scan A 9feb363d6fd3

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pubmed-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository drpedapati/sciclaw (88 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 142 tokens to every session and 1,667 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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