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Pubmed MCP Server

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Pubmed MCP runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping.

Search PubMed biomedical literature and fetch article summaries. No key required.

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private.

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npm · @mrfentmen/pubmed-mcp
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Quiet is not dead — but it is worth knowing when it wakes up, or when someone else takes it over. We watch the repository and tell you either way.

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This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add pubmed-mcp -- npx -y @mrfentmen/pubmed-mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pubmed-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@mrfentmen/pubmed-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.pubmed-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@mrfentmen/pubmed-mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pubmed-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@mrfentmen/pubmed-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pubmed-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@mrfentmen/pubmed-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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Pubmed MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Pubmed MCP?
Pubmed MCP runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package @mrfentmen/pubmed-mcp.
Is Pubmed MCP still maintained?
The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.
How do I connect Pubmed MCP?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls @mrfentmen/pubmed-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.