Ncbi Pmc Skill for Codex

Submit compact NCBI PMC Open Access requests for article/file availability metadata. Use when a user wants concise PMC Open Access summaries; save raw XML only on request.

3k tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

ships runnable scripts

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

4915

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/openai/plugins --skill ncbi-pmc-skill

What comes with it

8 848 bytes besides the instruction

agents/openai.yaml

scripts/ncbi_pmc.py

The instruction itself

6 sections, as written by the author

Operating rules

Use scripts/ncbi_pmc.py for all PMC Open Access calls in this package.
This skill is intentionally narrow: it currently covers the PMC Open Access service rather than the full PMC API surface.
Pass endpoint-specific query parameters under params, typically id for a PMCID or DOI-style lookup supported by the OA service.
Re-run requests in long conversations instead of relying on older tool output.
Treat displayed ... in tool previews as UI truncation, not literal request content.

Execution behavior

Return concise markdown summaries from the script output by default.
Return raw XML only if the user explicitly asks for machine-readable output.
Prefer targeted endpoint calls instead of broad unfiltered dumps.
If the user needs the full raw response, set save_raw=true and report the saved file path.

Input

Read one JSON object from stdin.
Optional fields: params, record_path, max_items, max_depth, timeout_sec, save_raw, raw_output_path
Common PMC Open Access patterns:
{"params":{"id":"PMC3257301"},"max_items":10}
{"params":{"id":"10.1093/nar/gkr1184"},"max_items":10}

Output

Success returns ok, source, and a compact summary.
Use raw_output_path when save_raw=true.
Failure returns ok=false with error.code and error.message.

Execution

echo '{"params":{"id":"PMC3257301"},"max_items":10}' | python scripts/ncbi_pmc.py

References

No additional runtime references are required; keep the import package limited to this file and scripts/ncbi_pmc.py.

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Take openai/ncbi-pmc-skill from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

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