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cyanheads/pubmed-mcp-server
MCP server for PubMed/NCBI E-utilities integration. Search articles, fetch metadata, generate citations, explore MeSH terms, and discover related research.
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// key findings
✅
No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation
Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.
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Open source with a license and README
Anyone can audit the code, the license is declared, and the publisher documents what it does.
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You'll be asked for 1 credential: NCBI_API_KEY
These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.
// required environment variables
This server reads these from
process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.config
FORCE_COLORconfig
GIT_PARAMSconfig
HUSKYconfig
NCBI_ADMIN_EMAIL— Contact email sent with NCBI requests (recommended by NCBI) none🔐 secret
NCBI_API_KEY— "": "your-key-here"config
NCBI_INTEGRATIONconfig
NCBI_MAX_RETRIES— Retry attempts for failed NCBI requests 6config
NCBI_REQUEST_DELAY_MS— Delay between NCBI requests in ms 334 (100 with key)config
NCBI_TIMEOUT_MS— NCBI request timeout in ms 30000config
NCBI_TOOL_IDENTIFIERconfig
NO_COLOR// full audit trail
The full breakdown of what we checked, the deductions that landed, the network hosts, the dependency advisories, and concrete fix guidance is available to verified publishers.
// improvement guidance — verified publishers only
We have 1 concrete improvement we can share with the publisher of this MCP. Each comes with specific guidance to raise the trust score.
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[](https://m8ven.ai/mcp/cyanheads-pubmed-mcp-server-efaz4u)commit: f676cf595ea55465c337351b4368603c1a7e5cc9
code hash: 18b2dbbf618429f2db198b0278e12947252d96705d51444cefb69492474cebb3
verified: 4/18/2026, 4:21:11 PM