Use Case
PMC Harvest is a powerful AI agent skill that extends your assistant with new capabilities. Fetch and retrieve full-text or abstracts of open-access articles from PubMed Central by journal, year, or PMCID using NCBI's public APIs without an API key. This guide walks you through installing PMC Harvest, configuring it for your setup, and running your first commands β so you can start getting value in minutes.
Install PMC Harvest: npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install pmc-harvest
Restart your AI client (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, or OpenClaw)
Type a natural language request related to data & analytics to trigger PMC Harvest
Review the output and refine your prompt for better results
Combine PMC Harvest with other skills to build multi-step workflows
Copy these prompts and use them with your AI agent after installing PMC Harvest
Help me get started with PMC Harvest
What can PMC Harvest do for my data & analytics workflow?
Show me an example of using PMC Harvest
Select your agent
Option 1: Install via CLI (recommended)
Recommended (no pre-install needed)
npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install pmc-harvestOr via clawhub CLI (if already installed)
clawhub --dir ~/.claude/skills install pmc-harvestβ οΈ Requires Node.js 18+. No Node? Use Option 2 below to download the ZIP instead. Install Node.js β
Option 2: Manual install (no Node required)
Download the ZIP, extract it, and place the folder at the path below. Restart your agent to activate.
Install path
~/.claude/skills/pmc-harvest/π‘Extract and place the folder at the path above, then restart your agent.