Reference Management Skill

What problem does it solve?

Reduces the friction of saving, deduplicating, reading, and formatting biomedical references by providing direct PubMed-backed storage, local search, PDF reading, and citation formatting tied to research projects.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Direct PubMed saving: Prefer save_reference_mcp(pmid) to pull verified metadata from the pubmed-search API and persist it to a project.
• Fallback and validation: Accepts agent-provided article metadata via save_reference(article) when the API is unavailable and checks for existing PMIDs to avoid duplicates.
• Reference management tools: List saved references, search local references, retrieve formatted citation strings, set citation styles (Vancouver/APA/etc.), and rebuild Foam wikilink aliases for note integration.
• PDF and notes support: Read downloaded full text with character limits and attach concise agent_notes that summarize relevance, methods, and key findings for downstream drafting tasks.
• Use case: After a PubMed search, select key articles to save into a project, add structured agent notes about relevance, and generate a formatted reference list for manuscript export.

Quick Start

Save the PubMed article with PMID 12345678 into the current project and include an agent note summarizing relevance and key findings.