pubmed-mcp-smithery
Most developer tooling work still happens through a UI a human drives. PubMed Enhanced Search Server MCP server moves it into the conversation instead. pubmed-mcp-smithery.
A Model Content Protocol server that provides enhanced tools to search and retrieve academic papers from PubMed database, with additional features such as MeSH term lookup, publication count statistics, and PICO-based evidence search.
The server publishes 2 tools. What each one is for:
Prerequisites — The Prerequisites tool exposed by this serverInstallation — 2. Install dependencies: pip install fastmcp requestsThe server ships on PyPI as fastmcp, so your MCP client can launch it on demand — there is no separate build step. Add the server block to your client's configuration, restart it, and the tools register themselves.
This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. PubMed Enhanced Search Server's toolset — Prerequisites, Installation — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by leescot; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Prerequisites | The Prerequisites tool exposed by this server. |
| Installation | 2. Install dependencies: pip install fastmcp requests |
{
"mcpServers": {
"pubmed-mcp-smithery": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["fastmcp"]
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
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