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pubmed-database

Search PubMed for scientific literature, including published clinical trials. Fetch abstracts and full text. Link published research to biological databases (gene, protein, nucleotide, PubChem) to discover associations between papers and specific compounds or genes. Verify medical spelling, match raw citations, and cache result sets for bulk processing. Interfaces NCBI E-utilities and PMC BioC APIs.

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SKILL.md
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Content

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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.

The content is lean, executable, and well-structured: it gives copy-paste-ready CLI recipes, clear sequencing with validation/termination checkpoints for bulk workflows, and a clean one-level-deep reference structure pointing to real files.

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Conciseness

The body is lean — prerequisites, core rules, recipes, and a function index all earn their place, with no explanation of concepts Claude already knows and no padding.

3 / 3

Actionability

Provides a concrete CLI invocation pattern, executable bash examples (search, fetch, jq chaining, slimming, filtering), and specific flag/positional conventions that are copy-paste ready.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

Multi-step bulk processing is sequenced with explicit checkpoints — filter early, slim, bulk-fetch in a single turn, ground results in tool output, and terminate search after 3–5 queries — giving clear feedback and recovery guidance for batch operations.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

SKILL.md is a concise overview with one-level-deep references to all 8 real reference files, each clearly signaled by function group with links, and a mandatory read-before-call instruction; navigation is easy and content is appropriately split.

3 / 3

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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.

The description is specific, action-oriented, and occupies a clearly distinct niche, but it omits any explicit "Use when..." trigger guidance and lacks the natural phrasings a user would actually say when they need this skill.

Suggestions

Add an explicit trigger clause, e.g. "Use when searching medical literature, looking up PubMed papers or clinical trials, or linking research to genes, proteins, or compounds."

Include natural user phrasings like "find papers on", "search the medical literature", or "look up PubMed articles" to improve trigger-term coverage.

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Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions — "Search PubMed", "Fetch abstracts and full text", "Link published research to biological databases", "Verify medical spelling, match raw citations, and cache result sets" — each naming a specific operation rather than vague language.

3 / 3

Completeness

It clearly answers "what" the skill does, but there is no "Use when..." clause or equivalent explicit trigger guidance, which the guidelines cap at 2.

2 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Includes relevant terms ("clinical trials", "PubMed", "abstracts", "full text", "citations", "genes", "compounds") but lacks common natural phrasings a user would say such as "find papers on", "search the medical literature", or "look up PubMed articles".

2 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The PubMed/NCBI/PMC niche and biological-database linking scope are distinct and specific, making it unlikely to trigger for the wrong skill.

3 / 3

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Validation

100%

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

Validation16 / 16 Passed

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No warnings or errors.

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google-deepmind/science-skills
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