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Direct PubMed and NCBI E-utilities search workflows for biomedical literature, MeSH queries, PMID lookup, citation retrieval, and API-backed literature monitoring. Use when a task needs biomedical literature from PubMed rather than general web search.

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A concise, highly actionable skill body with executable code, a validation-oriented checklist, and clean section organization. The main improvement would be embedding an explicit validate-then-retry loop inside the E-utilities batch workflow rather than only surfacing it in the checklist.

Suggestions

Add an inline 'validate -> fix -> retry' feedback loop within the E-utilities workflow (e.g., check raise_for_status and retry on transient failures) rather than only listing it in the review checklist.

Show a concrete history-server example (usehistory=y, WebEnv, query_key) end-to-end, since the batch guidance mentions it but does not demonstrate it.

Clarify rate-limit specifics numerically (the 0.35s sleep maps to the ~3 req/s without-API-key limit) so the guidance is unambiguous.

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Conciseness

The body is lean and assumes competence, giving terse field-tag tables, syntax examples, and executable code without explaining what PubMed or MeSH are, so every token earns its place.

5 / 5

Actionability

Concrete, copy-paste-ready Python using the real E-utilities endpoints, specific field tags and filters, and exact reference URLs cover the common cases fully.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A clear E-utilities sequence and a review checklist with validation checkpoints (raise_for_status, rate limits, reproducible search log) are present, but validation is framed as a checklist rather than an inline fix-and-retry feedback loop within the batch workflow.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Content is well-organized into clearly signaled sections with external reference URLs at one level; no bundle files exist, so it is appropriately self-contained, though there is no multi-file structure to disclose.

4 / 5

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Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong, specific description that clearly states both capabilities and trigger conditions with minimal conflict risk. The only minor gap is trigger-term synonym coverage, which keeps it just below perfect.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

The description enumerates multiple concrete actions ('MeSH queries, PMID lookup, citation retrieval, and API-backed literature monitoring'), matching the comprehensive-coverage anchor.

5 / 5

Completeness

It gives a clear 'what' (the enumerated search workflows) and an explicit 'Use when a task needs biomedical literature from PubMed rather than general web search' trigger, matching the both-what-and-when anchor.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Natural terms like 'PubMed', 'biomedical literature', 'MeSH', 'PMID', and 'NCBI E-utilities' are present and would be said by users, but a few common synonyms are not exhaustively listed.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The PubMed-specific niche and the 'rather than general web search' framing give it distinct triggers with minimal overlap risk against other skills.

5 / 5

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20

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Validation

93%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation15 / 16 Passed

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