Faers

Skill BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills/skills/drugclaw/faers

Query the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) via openFDA API. Use whenever the user asks about adverse drug reactions, side effects, drug safety signals, or wants to look up reported adverse events for one or more drug names.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills --skill faers

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SKILL.md

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FAERS Query Skill

Query adverse event reports from FDA's FAERS database. No API key required.

API

Function	Input	Returns
`get_metadata()`	—	`{total, last_updated}`
`count_reactions(drug, top_n)`	single drug name	`[{term, count}, ...]`
`count_reactions_batch(drugs, top_n)`	list of drug names	`{drug: [{term, count}, ...]}`
`search_adverse_events(drug, limit)`	single drug name	raw openFDA response dict
`summarize_reactions(reactions, drug)`	reaction list + label	compact one-line text

Usage

See if __name__ == "__main__" block in faers_query.py for runnable examples covering: single drug query, batch query, metadata retrieval, raw report inspection, and LLM-friendly summary output.

Notes

Drug names should be uppercase (auto-converted internally).
Input accepts a single string or a list of strings for batch queries.
summarize_reactions produces compact DRUG: reaction(count), ... format suitable for LLM context.
Source: openFDA Drug Adverse Events endpoint (https://api.fda.gov/drug/event.json).

What ships with it: 5 files

12.0 KB alongside SKILL.md, 4 of them executable

example.pyruns3.7 KB
faers_skill.pyruns6.1 KB
__init__.pyruns126 B
README.md1.3 KB
retrieve.pyruns818 B