io.github.nickjlamb/pubcrawl
NPM · @PHARMATOOLS/PUBCRAWL · SCANNED SEP 20
PubMed & Europe PMC literature search, US/UK drug labelling, and clinical trials for AI assistants.
Available components
How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Supply Chain Security88
- No malware found by supply-chain analysis.Pass
- CVE check failed: a known medium-severity CVE affects fast-xml-parser 4.5.7, a direct dependency. A fixed version is available. View diagnostics → Fail
- No install/post-install scripts declared.Pass
- 34 of 121 dependencies flagged as unhealthy (1 deprecated). View diagnostics → Partial
Provenance & Transparency48
- Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL. View diagnostics → Pass
- Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
- Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).Pass
- Actively maintained (last published 25 days ago).Pass
- Publishes a security disclosure policy (SECURITY.md).Pass
Schema Quality & AI Usability81
- AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).Pass
- Tool/resource definitions use about 1311 tokens (~93/item across 14 items; 14 tools + 0 resources), lean.Pass
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management80
- Stability observed for 24 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage100
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 100% of tool parameters carry a description.Pass
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 14 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 14 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
- Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.Pass
How do I install the io.github.nickjlamb/pubcrawl MCP server?
io.github.nickjlamb/pubcrawl runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @pharmatools/pubcrawl. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
npm · @pharmatools/pubcrawl
claude mcp add nickjlamb-pubcrawl -- npx -y @pharmatools/pubcrawl
{
"mcpServers": {
"nickjlamb-pubcrawl": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pharmatools/pubcrawl"
]
}
}
} {
"servers": {
"nickjlamb-pubcrawl": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pharmatools/pubcrawl"
]
}
}
} codex mcp add nickjlamb-pubcrawl -- npx -y @pharmatools/pubcrawl
{
"$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
"mcp": {
"nickjlamb-pubcrawl": {
"type": "local",
"command": [
"npx",
"-y",
"@pharmatools/pubcrawl"
],
"enabled": true
}
}
} openclaw mcp add nickjlamb-pubcrawl --command npx --arg -y --arg @pharmatools/pubcrawl
mcp_servers:
nickjlamb-pubcrawl:
command: "npx"
args: ["-y", "@pharmatools/pubcrawl"] {
"McpServers": {
"nickjlamb-pubcrawl": {
"Transport": "stdio",
"Command": "npx",
"Arguments": [
"-y",
"@pharmatools/pubcrawl"
]
}
}
} assistant mcp add nickjlamb-pubcrawl -t stdio -c npx -a -y @pharmatools/pubcrawl
{
"mcpServers": {
"nickjlamb-pubcrawl": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pharmatools/pubcrawl"
]
}
}
} Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.
- 20 Sept 26 −3
- Stability: pass → 0.80 functional
- 19 Sept 26 +1
- Stability: 0.97 → pass security
- 17 Sept 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 90 to 93. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 27 days of observed history at the previous scan, 28 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 15 Sept 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 83 to 87. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 25 days of observed history at the previous scan, 26 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 14 Sept 26 +1
- Security disclosure: unverified → pass ▲ functional
- 13 Sept 26 −4
- Security disclosure: pass → unverified ▼ functional
- Stability: pass → 0.80 functional
- 12 Sept 26 +1
- Stability: 0.97 → pass security
- 10 Sept 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 90 to 93. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 27 days of observed history at the previous scan, 28 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.
Captured 20 Sept 2026 · Analysed npm/@pharmatools/pubcrawl@2.5.0
Provenance No attestation
The registry publishes no build provenance for this version, so there is nothing to verify.
| Result | No attestation |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | npm |
Background: How many MCP packages publish verified provenance →
Vulnerabilities 1 finding
| ID | CVE | Severity | Vector | Fix available |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-gh4j-gqv2-49f6 | CVE-2026-41650 | medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N | yes |
Background: What a vulnerability scan can and cannot prove →
Dependencies 121 packages
| Packages resolved | 121 |
|---|---|
| Deprecated | 1 |
| Stale | 33 |
| No linked repository | 1 |
| Tree resolution | Complete |
Background: SBOMs and build attestations, explained →
The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →
compare_labels ~98
Compare US FDA Prescribing Information vs UK/EU SmPC for a drug side-by-side. Maps equivalent sections (e.g., US Indications ↔ UK 4.1) and returns paired content.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| drug | string | yes | Drug name to compare across US and UK labelling |
| sections | array | – | Specific topics to compare (e.g., ['indications', 'adverse reactions']). Compares all mapped sections if omitted. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
find_related ~60
Find related articles for a given PubMed article. Returns similar papers ranked by relevance score using PubMed's neighbor algorithm.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| maxResults | number | – | Maximum number of results |
| pmid | string | yes | PubMed ID to find related articles for |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
format_citation ~50
Format a citation for a PubMed article in APA, Vancouver, Harvard, or BibTeX style.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| pmid | string | yes | PubMed ID |
| style | string | – | Citation style |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_abstract ~66
Get the full structured abstract and metadata for a PubMed article. Returns abstract sections (background, methods, results, conclusions), keywords, MeSH terms, and PMC ID.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| pmid | string | yes | PubMed ID |
| structured | boolean | – | Return structured abstract sections |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_full_text ~86
Get the full text of an open-access article from PubMed Central. Returns article sections, figure/table captions, and reference count. Only works for articles available in PMC.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| pmcid | string | – | PubMed Central ID (e.g., PMC1234567) |
| pmid | string | – | PubMed ID |
| sections | array | – | Filter to specific section titles |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_smpc ~97
Get UK/EU Summary of Product Characteristics (SmPC) for a drug from eMC (medicines.org.uk). Returns structured labelling sections.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| drug | string | yes | Drug name to look up (e.g., 'metformin', 'atorvastatin') |
| sections | array | – | Specific sections to retrieve — accepts numbers like '4.1' or names like 'indications'. Returns all sections if omitted. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_trial ~64
Get detailed information about a specific clinical trial from ClinicalTrials.gov. Returns eligibility criteria, study design, arms, outcomes, locations, and associated PubMed IDs.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| nctId | string | yes | ClinicalTrials.gov NCT identifier (e.g., NCT03086486) |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_uspi ~101
Get FDA US Prescribing Information (USPI) for a drug from openFDA (cited to DailyMed). Returns structured labelling sections with LOINC codes.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| drug | string | yes | Drug name to look up (e.g., 'metformin', 'atorvastatin') |
| sections | array | – | Specific sections to retrieve (e.g., ['indications', 'adverse reactions', 'contraindications']). Returns all sections if omitted. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
resolve_drug_name ~77
Convert a brand drug name to its generic name (or a generic to its US brand names), with drug class and common indications. Deterministic — sourced from RxNorm/openFDA, no AI.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| drug | string | yes | Brand or generic drug name to resolve (e.g., 'Lipitor' or 'atorvastatin') |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
search_by_indication ~82
Find drugs approved for a medical condition. Searches US FDA labelling for the condition, then checks UK (eMC) availability for each drug found.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| condition | string | yes | Medical condition or indication to search for (e.g., 'type 2 diabetes', 'hypertension') |
| maxResults | number | – | Maximum number of drug results to return |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
search_europepmc ~185
Search Europe PMC — a broader biomedical corpus than PubMed that also indexes preprints (bioRxiv, medRxiv), patents, and agricultural/biomedical databases. Unlike search_pubmed, each result includes an abstract snippet, citation count, open-access status, and whether a preprint. Use preprintsOnly to surface work ahead of formal publication.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| maxResults | number | – | Maximum number of results |
| openAccessOnly | boolean | – | Restrict to open-access articles |
| preprintsOnly | boolean | – | Restrict to preprints (bioRxiv, medRxiv, etc.) |
| query | string | yes | Search query (Europe PMC query syntax supported, e.g. field tags like AUTH, TITLE, JOURNAL) |
| sort | string | – | Sort order: relevance, date (newest first), or cited (most cited first) |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
search_pubmed ~112
Search PubMed for biomedical literature. Returns article summaries with PMIDs, titles, authors, journals, and DOIs.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| articleType | string | – | Article type filter (e.g., review, clinical trial) |
| dateFrom | string | – | Start date (YYYY/MM/DD) |
| dateTo | string | – | End date (YYYY/MM/DD) |
| maxResults | number | – | Maximum number of results |
| query | string | yes | PubMed search query |
| sort | string | – | Sort order |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
search_trials ~152
Search ClinicalTrials.gov for clinical trials. Filter by condition, intervention, status, and phase. Returns trial summaries with NCT IDs, status, sponsors, and enrollment info.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| condition | string | – | Disease or condition (e.g., 'breast cancer', 'diabetes') |
| intervention | string | – | Drug or therapy (e.g., 'pembrolizumab', 'radiation') |
| maxResults | number | – | Maximum number of results (1-100) |
| phase | string | – | Trial phase filter |
| sort | string | – | Sort order for results |
| status | string | – | Trial recruitment status filter |
| term | string | – | General search term (searches all fields) |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
trending_papers ~81
Find recent/trending papers on a topic. Sorted by date, with optional filtering to high-impact journals.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| days | number | – | Number of days to look back |
| highImpactOnly | boolean | – | Filter to high-impact journals only |
| maxResults | number | – | Maximum number of results |
| topic | string | yes | Topic or search term |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
What is the io.github.nickjlamb/pubcrawl MCP server?
io.github.nickjlamb/pubcrawl is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.nickjlamb/pubcrawl. PubMed & Europe PMC literature search, US/UK drug labelling, and clinical trials for AI assistants. This page covers its npm package (@pharmatools/pubcrawl).
Is the io.github.nickjlamb/pubcrawl MCP server safe to use?
io.github.nickjlamb/pubcrawl scores 80 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We recorded 1 known advisory against it as of 20 September 2026. It declares no install or post-install scripts. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.
What tools does the io.github.nickjlamb/pubcrawl MCP server expose?
io.github.nickjlamb/pubcrawl exposes 14 tools: search_pubmed, search_europepmc, get_abstract, get_full_text, find_related, and 9 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,311 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Is the io.github.nickjlamb/pubcrawl MCP server still maintained?
io.github.nickjlamb/pubcrawl is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 20 September 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.
What licence is the io.github.nickjlamb/pubcrawl MCP server under?
io.github.nickjlamb/pubcrawl declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.