A skill your agent uses when targeting Hepatology or deciding whether a liver-biology or liver-disease study fits this venue.

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Hepatology

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill hepatology -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills hepatology --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/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/Clinical-Medicine-Journal-Skills/skills/hepatology .claude/skills/hepatology && 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
hepatology
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~2.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
822 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when targeting Hepatology or deciding whether a liver-biology or liver-disease study fits this venue.

  • Targeting Hepatology
  • SKILL.md covers Journal positioning, When to trigger, Scope & topic fit and Method & evidence bar, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Deciding whether a liver-biology

What it does

Hepatology is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when targeting Hepatology or deciding whether a liver-biology or liver-disease study fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the AASLD clinical-and-basic/translational evidence bar, reporting-guideline and registration requirements, AASLD/Wiley house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics. Venue-fit aid only, not clinical advice.

Its SKILL.md is about 2.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Research & Science, covering Clinical and healthcare research. The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. | 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Targeting Hepatology
  • Deciding whether a liver-biology
  • Liver-disease study fits this venue

Example prompts

  • “/hepatology”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. 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

Hepatology loads about 2.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 94 tokens; SKILL.md has 822 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~94
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.1k

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 brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 822 words, ~2,073 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/hepatology/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
hepatology
description
Use when targeting Hepatology or deciding whether a liver-biology or liver-disease study fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the AASLD clinical-and-basic/translational evidence bar, reporting-guideline and registration requirements, AASLD/Wiley house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics. Venue-fit aid only, not clinical advice.

Hepatology (hepatology)

Journal positioning

Hepatology is the flagship journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), publishing original research spanning liver biology and disease — from molecular and cellular hepatobiliary science through translational and clinical studies in viral, metabolic (MASLD/MASH), alcohol-related, autoimmune and cholestatic liver disease, cirrhosis and portal hypertension, liver cancer, and transplantation. It serves a North-American-anchored but international hepatology and hepatobiliary-science readership and the AASLD practice-guideline community, with a notable strength in mechanistic and basic/translational liver biology alongside practice-relevant clinical research. Confirmatory or descriptive work without a clear mechanistic or clinical advance, and studies with weak biological grounding, are a poor fit. This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing aid; it is not clinical or regulatory advice and does not replace the journal's current instructions for authors. Before submitting, re-check the live Hepatology author instructions.

When to trigger

  • The author names Hepatology for a basic, translational, or clinical liver study and wants a fit/framing check.
  • A liver study must be re-framed around a mechanistic advance in liver biology or an AASLD-relevant clinical finding for a North-American/international readership.
  • The author is choosing between Hepatology (AASLD), Journal of Hepatology (EASL), and a general GI or general-medicine venue.
  • The author needs the journal's reporting-guideline, registration, and desk-reject expectations for hepatology.

Scope & topic fit

  • Cellular and molecular hepatobiliary biology: hepatocyte/cholangiocyte and stellate-cell biology, liver immunology, fibrogenesis, regeneration, and metabolism.
  • Metabolic and steatotic liver disease (MASLD/MASH) and alcohol-related liver disease — mechanisms, models, biomarkers, and trials.
  • Viral hepatitis (HBV, HCV, HDV) virology, host response, and clinical/therapeutic studies.
  • Cirrhosis, portal hypertension, decompensation, and acute/acute-on-chronic liver failure — pathophysiology and outcomes.
  • Liver cancer (HCC, cholangiocarcinoma) tumor biology, microenvironment, and clinically anchored studies; autoimmune/cholestatic disease (AIH, PBC, PSC).
  • Liver transplantation biology and outcomes, including ischemia-reperfusion, rejection, and immunosuppression science.

Method & evidence bar

  • Basic/translational studies need rigorous controls, adequate biological replication, and validation across complementary models with disease relevance; single-cell-line claims are insufficient.
  • Clinical studies must be adequately powered with prespecified, clinically meaningful endpoints; surrogate/biomarker endpoints (fibrosis stage, viral markers) require validation and justification.
  • The applicable reporting guideline must be followed and its checklist supplied: CONSORT for trials, STROBE for observational studies, PRISMA for systematic reviews, STARD for diagnostic accuracy; ARRIVE-aligned animal-study reporting where relevant.
  • Interventional trials require prospective registration with the registration number and protocol/statistical-analysis plan.
  • Mechanistic claims must be supported by direct, manipulative evidence (gain/loss of function), not correlation alone; human-sample validation strengthens fit.
  • Observational and registry analyses must address confounding, selection, and competing risks; causal language must match the design.

Structure & house style

  • AASLD/Wiley format with a structured abstract; re-check current article types (Original Article, etc.), graphical-abstract requirements, and limits on the live guide.
  • The introduction frames a focused biological or clinical question and its significance; the discussion states the mechanistic interpretation and, where relevant, the clinical/guideline implication, using current AASLD nomenclature (MASLD/MASH).
  • Figures must include the controls, replication, and quantification supporting each mechanistic claim; CONSORT/STROBE/PRISMA flow diagrams are expected where applicable.
  • Supplements carry full methods, antibody/reagent and model details, the protocol, and extended analyses.
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Official-submission checklist

  • Before giving submission-ready advice, read ../../resources/source-basis.md and ../../resources/official-source-map.md; start from the ICMJE/EQUATOR and AASLD anchors, then cite the current Hepatology page you checked.
  • Search the live site for "Hepatology AASLD author guidelines" and follow the current AASLD/Wiley version.
  • Re-check article types, word/figure limits, structured- and graphical-abstract format, and statistical/reagent-reporting requirements.
  • Confirm trial registration, the reporting checklist (CONSORT/STROBE/PRISMA/STARD), data/code-sharing statement, and protocol/SAP submission.
  • Re-check IRB/ethics and consent, animal-use approval and ARRIVE-aligned reporting, ICMJE authorship and conflict-of-interest disclosure, funding, and AI-use disclosure.
  • If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official instructions win.

Pre-submission self-check

  • The study delivers a clear mechanistic advance in liver biology or an AASLD-relevant clinical finding.
  • Mechanistic claims rest on manipulative evidence with adequate controls and replication, ideally with human-sample validation.
  • Clinical endpoints are prespecified and meaningful; surrogate/biomarker endpoints are validated.
  • The correct reporting checklist (CONSORT/STROBE/PRISMA/STARD) and, for animal work, ARRIVE-aligned reporting are completed.
  • Trials are prospectively registered with the number in the manuscript; protocol/SAP provided.
  • IRB/animal ethics and consent, ICMJE disclosures, and a data-sharing statement are prepared; nomenclature follows current AASLD terms.

Common desk-reject triggers

  • Mechanistic claims from a single model or cell line with correlative-only data and no functional manipulation.
  • Descriptive clinical series with no mechanistic or practice advance and limited generalizability.
  • Biomarker/non-invasive-test studies without an independent validation cohort or reference standard.
  • Missing trial registration, protocol, animal-ethics approval, or the required reporting checklist; outdated steatotic-liver-disease nomenclature.
  • Observational analyses with inadequate confounding/competing-risk handling or overstated causal claims.
  • Topic with narrow local interest better served by a subspecialty GI, transplant, or general-medicine venue.

Re-routing decision

  • European/EASL audience emphasis or EASL-guideline framing → journal-of-hepatology.
  • Luminal-GI, endoscopy, or broad practice-relevant GI/hepatology with a US clinical readership → american-journal-of-gastroenterology.
  • Liver-cancer study dominated by a systemic-oncology endpoint → jama-oncology / annals-of-oncology.
  • Practice-changing, broadly significant trial → general medicine (jama / NEJM / The Lancet in the natural-science bundle).
  • Pure cell/molecular hepatobiliary mechanism with no disease translation → a basic-science venue in the natural-science bundle.

Output format

text
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] Hepatology (AASLD)
[Hepatology tags] <2–3 closest topics, e.g. fibrogenesis mechanism, MASH model, HBV virology>
[Study design / reporting guideline] <basic-ARRIVE / RCT-CONSORT / cohort-STROBE / review-PRISMA / diagnostic-STARD>
[Method/evidence] <controls/replication, human validation, power, registration>
[Top risk] <the single most likely reason for rejection>
[Official items to re-check] <article type / registration / checklist / animal ethics / disclosures>
[Re-route suggestion] <if not a fit, a better-matched venue>

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

Files

Just SKILL.md in Clinical-Medicine-Journal-Skills/skills/hepatology of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Hepatology

What does Hepatology do?

A skill your agent uses when targeting Hepatology or deciding whether a liver-biology or liver-disease study fits this venue. Hepatology is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when targeting Hepatology or deciding whether a liver-biology or liver-disease study fits this venue.

When should I use Hepatology?

Hepatology fits situations like: targeting Hepatology; deciding whether a liver-biology; liver-disease study fits this venue.

How do I install Hepatology in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill hepatology -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Clinical-Medicine-Journal-Skills/skills/hepatology in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/hepatology in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Hepatology in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill hepatology -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Clinical-Medicine-Journal-Skills/skills/hepatology in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/hepatology in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Hepatology 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 brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill hepatology -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/hepatology, .gemini/skills/hepatology, .github/skills/hepatology and .opencode/skills/hepatology in your project.

What does Hepatology need to run?

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

Does Hepatology 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 Hepatology 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 Hepatology use?

Hepatology is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Hepatology use?

About 2.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Hepatology?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,231 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.