Get full metadata for a specific PubMed article by PMID, including title, abstract, authors, journal, publication date, DOI, and MeSH terms.
AI agents call get_article to retrieve information from Mcp Pubmed without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool only queries and returns metadata from PubMed's biomedical literature database. It has no side effects—no data is created, modified, deleted, or executed. The action is a simple read/fetch operation against a public database, consistent with the 'Read' category definition.
From the tool's definition The tool 'get_article' retrieves 'full metadata for a specific PubMed article by PMID, including title, abstract, authors, journal, publication date, DOI, and MeSH terms.' It performs a straightforward data retrieval operation with no modification, deletion,…
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Get full metadata for a specific PubMed article by PMID, including title, abstract, authors, journal, publication date, DOI, and MeSH terms. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mcp Pubmed MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Mcp Pubmed MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_article: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Mcp Pubmed. Nothing to install.
get_article is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the get_article rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for get_article. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
get_article is provided by the Mcp Pubmed MCP server (petrefiedthunder/mcp-pubmed). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
get_article is one line of Mcp Pubmed's registry record.
The record carries the whole server: verified identity, auth posture, risk grade, every tool classified, recommended policy — re-checked continuously.
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