clinical-trial-finder
Find clinical trials for a gene, variant, or condition from ClinicalTrials.gov + EUCTR, with FHIR R4 output
npx skills add BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills --skill clinical-trial-finder --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
## Domain Decisions - **Source database**: ClinicalTrials.gov API v2 (`https://clinicaltrials.gov/api/v2`) — the authoritative US registry mandated by FDAAA 801 (2007) and mirrored by WHO ICTRP. Chosen over EudraCT/EUCTR because it covers the largest global trial volume (>500 000 studies), provides a stable versioned REST API, and is the primary registry for FDA-regulated interventions. Reference: Zarin et al., *NEJM* 2011; 364:852–860. - **Query field**: `query.cond` (condition/disease field), not `query.term` (free-text across all fields). `query.cond` is indexed against MeSH descriptors by the NLM indexing pipeline, giving substantially better recall for condition queries than unstructured text search. Reference: ClinicalTrials.gov API v2 specification, `https://clinicaltrials.gov/data-api/api`. - **MeSH condition coding**: MeSH IDs are read from `derivedSection.conditionBrowseModule.meshes` — the NLM-curated MeSH mapping that ClinicalTrials.gov computes internally during study indexing. This avoids a separate NLM API call and uses the same vocabulary that `query.cond` is indexed against, ensuring query/result consistency. Reference: NLM Medical Subject Headings, `https://www.nl
- Domain Decisions
- Safety Rules
- Agent Boundary
What does the clinical-trial-finder skill do?
Find clinical trials for a gene, variant, or condition from ClinicalTrials.gov + EUCTR, with FHIR R4 output
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills --skill clinical-trial-finder --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills, a repository with 135 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.