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Simple PubMed

Access PubMed's medical research database via the Entrez API for biomedical literature search and analysis.

→ andybrandt/mcp-simple-pubmed· pypi: mcp-simple-pubmed· 17K installs· listed on pulsemcp

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Source: PulseMCP · also listed on modelscope

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// key findings
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2 tools verified — handlers match their declared behaviour
2 read-only tools verified — handlers contain no write/delete/exec
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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
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You'll be asked for 1 credential: PUBMED_API_KEY
These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.
// environment variables
To run this server yourself, you supply these values. They go in your own MCP client configuration and stay on your machine. The secret label means the value is sensitive, not that the server mishandles it.
configPUBMED_EMAILYour email address (required by NCBI)
configPUBMED_TOOL
🔐 secretPUBMED_API_KEYOptional API key for higher rate limits
// quality suggestions

All four hints declared on every tool

2/2 tools missing one or more hints — search_pubmed (missing: destructiveHint, idempotentHint); get_paper_fulltext (missing: destructiveHint, idempotentHint). OpenAI's directory rejects tools where any of the four hints are missing or non-boolean.

For every tool, set all four hints (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint) to explicit true/false values that match the handler’s actual behaviour.

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// full audit trail
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// 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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commit: 117149e10614e89afc2c8725028702617320df48
code hash: 0c7ab485e84c062d97aecefb62e34810d84e131ce5817f67adb91b153592ad9b
verified: 8/16/2026, 11:02:21 AM
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