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  {
    name: "pubmed-expert",
    type: "reference",
  }
]
The PubMed expert retrieves PubMed citations, abstracts, and related-article results via NCBI Entrez E-utilities. It is suited for literature searches, author searches, and fetching abstracts with formatted summaries, returning source-grounded results without speculation.
PubMed is the go-to expert for finding peer-reviewed biomedical literature, clinical studies, and citations to support evidence-based reasoning.

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Capabilities

The PubMed expert can:
  • Search PubMed for citations matching a query
  • Retrieve abstracts and metadata for specific publications
  • Find related articles for a given citation
  • Look up publications by author

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Use cases

  • Literature reviews and evidence retrieval
  • Pulling abstracts to ground a clinical synthesis
  • Finding studies relevant to a diagnosis, treatment, or intervention
  • Author and publication discovery

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Detailed information

The PubMed expert connects to an MCP server that exposes tools including search_pubmed, get_pubmed_abstract, get_related_articles, and find_by_author. It operates as a focused retrieval sub-agent: it follows orchestrator instructions precisely, avoids speculative medical interpretation, and returns concise structured outputs grounded in tool responses. Results include identifiers (PMID/PMCID when available) and preserve the original wording from PubMed when quoting. If PubMed returns no results or errors, the expert reports that explicitly.