Agent skill

API Services

by cyanheads in cyanheads/pubmed-mcp-server

API reference for built-in service providers (LLM, Speech, Graph).

Apache-2.0Auto-check passedResearch & Science

Install API Services

skills CLI
$ npx skills add cyanheads/pubmed-mcp-server --skill api-services -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install cyanheads/pubmed-mcp-server api-services --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cyanheads/pubmed-mcp-server.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/framework-skills/api-services .claude/skills/api-services && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
api-services
GitHub stars
155
Token cost
~251 tokens
SKILL.md length
69 words
Files
4 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
30
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

API reference for built-in service providers (LLM, Speech, Graph).

  • Looking up service interfaces
  • SKILL.md covers Overview and References
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Provider capabilities

What it does

API Services is an agent skill from cyanheads/pubmed-mcp-server. API reference for built-in service providers (LLM, Speech, Graph). Use when looking up service interfaces, provider capabilities, or integration patterns.

Its SKILL.md is about 250 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 4 other files, including reference files (for example `references/graph.md`, `references/llm.md` and `references/speech.md`).

It sits in Research & Science, covering Third-party API integration. The repository describes itself as: Search PubMed/Europe PMC, fetch articles and full text (PMC/EPMC/Unpaywall), citations, MeSH terms via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Looking up service interfaces
  • Provider capabilities
  • Integration patterns

Example prompts

  • “/api-services”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 5a417fb. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

API Services loads about 251 tokens when it runs, and up to ~2.5k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 42 tokens; SKILL.md has 69 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~42
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~251
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~2.5k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from cyanheads/pubmed-mcp-server at commit 5a417fb, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© cyanheads). 69 words, ~251 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/api-services/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 3 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
api-services
description
API reference for built-in service providers (LLM, Speech, Graph). Use when looking up service interfaces, provider capabilities, or integration patterns.
metadata.author
cyanheads
metadata.version
1.5
metadata.audience
external
metadata.type
reference

Overview

Service providers are exported from @cyanheads/mcp-ts-core/services. These are documented here for servers that use the built-in providers.

All services follow the init/accessor pattern: initialized in setup(), accessed at request time via lazy accessor. See the add-service skill for the full pattern.

References

ReferencePathDescription
LLMreferences/llm.mdOpenRouter-based LLM provider (ILlmProvider, streaming, config)
Speechreferences/speech.mdTTS/STT providers (SpeechService, ElevenLabs, Whisper)
Graphreferences/graph.mdRelationship graph operations (IGraphProvider, traversal, pathfinding)

© cyanheads, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 3 other files (references) in framework-skills/api-services of cyanheads/pubmed-mcp-server.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/graph.md
  • references/llm.md
  • references/speech.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 5a417fb

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Questions about API Services

What does API Services do?

API reference for built-in service providers (LLM, Speech, Graph). API Services is an agent skill from cyanheads/pubmed-mcp-server. API reference for built-in service providers (LLM, Speech, Graph).

When should I use API Services?

API Services fits situations like: looking up service interfaces; provider capabilities; integration patterns.

How do I install API Services in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add cyanheads/pubmed-mcp-server --skill api-services -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (framework-skills/api-services in cyanheads/pubmed-mcp-server) into .claude/skills/api-services in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install API Services in Codex?

Run `npx skills add cyanheads/pubmed-mcp-server --skill api-services -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (framework-skills/api-services in cyanheads/pubmed-mcp-server) into .agents/skills/api-services in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use API Services in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add cyanheads/pubmed-mcp-server --skill api-services -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/api-services, .gemini/skills/api-services, .github/skills/api-services and .opencode/skills/api-services in your project.

What does API Services need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: API Services is instructions for the agent only.

Does API Services access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is API Services safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does API Services use?

API Services is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does API Services use?

About 251 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 2.2k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to API Services?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with API Services: FHIR Bundle Assembler (maziyarpanahi/openmed, 5.5k stars), YouTube Data via TranscriptAPI (ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills, 1k stars), Prediction Market Oracle Research (affaan-m/ECC, 275k stars) and MCP Server Builder (anthropics/skills, 180k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains API Services?

cyanheads (a GitHub user) maintains it in cyanheads/pubmed-mcp-server, which has 155 GitHub stars. The repository holds 30 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 4, 2026.

Source: cyanheads/pubmed-mcp-server on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.