pubmed-database
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Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on May 11, 2026
Risk Level: SAFE
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- [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill interacts with the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) official API at eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov to retrieve biomedical citations and metadata. This is a well-known and trusted service for scientific data.\n- [CREDENTIALS_UNSAFE]: The implementation provides a secure example for handling API authentication by retrieving the NCBI_API_KEY and NCBI_EMAIL from environment variables rather than hardcoding sensitive credentials.\n- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The provided Python script uses the standard 'requests' library to perform HTTP GET requests to the PubMed API. The code includes proper error handling using raise_for_status() and implements rate limiting with time.sleep().
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