Use Case
PMC Harvest isn't just for solo use β teams can share skills and build consistent AI workflows across the organization. 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 covers how to deploy PMC Harvest for your team, standardize prompts, and create shared workflows that everyone can use.
Install PMC Harvest in your project directory: .claude/skills/pmc-harvest/
Commit the skill folder to your repository so the whole team has access
Document your team's standard prompts in a shared README
Use PMC Harvest in code reviews, standups, and planning sessions
Iterate: collect feedback from the team and refine your prompts
Copy these prompts and use them with your AI agent after installing PMC Harvest
How can my team use PMC Harvest together?
Set up PMC Harvest for our project so everyone can use it
Create a shared workflow using PMC Harvest for our team
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.