The DermLiving blog
Notes on grounded dermatology.
How software can find, cite and stay within dermatology knowledge: terminology, evidence, abstention and the agents that use them.
Introducing DermLiving: dermatology knowledge for software
A dermatology knowledge API for humans and agents, live today as a keyless sandbox on synthetic data. What it does, what it refuses to do, and how to try it in one request.
Cite or abstain: how DermLiving answers a dermatology question
Every claim in a DermLiving answer cites a versioned passage, and a claim without one is removed. When the evidence is missing or the question asks for a decision, the API abstains.
What does eczema mean? Mapping words to ICD-10-CM and ICD-11
People type lay terms, abbreviations and codes. Software needs one concept and its codes. Why ambiguous input should be flagged instead of guessed, and how the mapping route reports it.
Giving AI agents dermatology tools over MCP
Five read-only tools, scoped like the REST API and served from one remote MCP endpoint. How an agent finds them, calls them and gets cited answers back.