Agent skill · research science · mvanhorn
pp-nejm
Browse, search, and triage New England Journal of Medicine articles from the terminal Trigger phrases: `what's in the current NEJM issue`, `search NEJM for`, `get NEJM article`, `recent NEJM articles`, `NEJM articles on`, `use nejm`, `run nejm`.
Why this skill is useful
Adds executable commands for querying and managing NEJM literature metadata that are not available through public APIs.
What it needs
Requires nejm-pp-cli installed locally. About 7k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-06. 1,890 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
New England Journal of Medicine — Printing Press CLI Prerequisites: Install the CLI This skill drives the nejm-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first: 1. Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to $HOME/.local/bin on macOS/Linux and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin on Windows: 2. Verify: nejm-pp-cli --version 3. Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill. If the npx install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.6 or newer). This installs into $GOPATH/bin (default $HOME/go/bin), so add that directory to $PATH instead: If --version reports "command not found" after install, the runtime cannot see the binary directory on $PATH. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds. NEJM has no public API. This CLI builds an offline-queryable, agent-native corpus of NEJM articles sourced from OpenAlex's CC0 scholarly index (abstracts, authors, publication types, open-access flags), plus per-article metadata by DOI and full-text search over everything you have synced. Novel local-state commands like 'since', 'digest', 'reading-list', 'trends', and 'open-access' do things the website and PubMed wrappers cannot. When to Use This CLI Use this CLI when an agent or clinician needs current peer-reviewed NEJM literature metadata programmatically: the current issue, recently published articles, an article's abstract and bibliographic data by DOI, or an offline searchable corpus filtered by specialty, type, author, or free-access. It is the right choice when you want structured, composable output without driving a Cloudflare-gated browser. Anti-triggers Do not use this CLI for: Do not use this CLI to read full article text behind the NEJM paywall; it surfaces abstracts and metadata only. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills mvanhorn/nejm