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Molcell Summary

by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

A skill your agent uses to write Molecular Cell's Summary — a single unstructured paragraph (~150 words; re-check on the official site) that conveys the molecular question, the mechanism, and its…

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Install Molcell Summary

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills molcell-summary --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/Molecular-Cell-Skills/skills/molcell-summary .claude/skills/molcell-summary && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

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Facts

Skill name
molcell-summary
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
725 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses to write Molecular Cell's Summary — a single unstructured paragraph (~150 words; re-check on the official site) that conveys the molecular question, the mechanism, and its…

  • Works in 5 steps: Molecular context / stakes (1 sentence)… → Gap / question (1 sentence) — what… → What we did + what we found (2–3… → …
  • Write Molecular Cells Summary — a single unstructured paragraph (~150 words
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, What Molecular Cell calls it, Five-move structure (no labels… and Hard constraints, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Molcell Summary is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use to write Molecular Cell's Summary — a single unstructured paragraph (~150 words; re-check on the official site) that conveys the molecular question, the mechanism, and its physiological consequence, named and quantified for a molecular-biology readership. Late-stage polish.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

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

  • Write Molecular Cells Summary — a single unstructured paragraph (~150 words
  • Re-check on the official site) that conveys the molecular question
  • Its physiological consequence
  • Named and quantified for a molecular-biology readership

Example prompts

  • “/molcell-summary”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Molecular context / stakes (1 sentence) — the process and the step at issue.
  2. Gap / question (1 sentence) — what molecular event was unknown.
  3. What we did + what we found (2–3 sentences) — the mechanism, with the key quantified results and the orthogonal evidence that proves it.
  4. Mechanism stated explicitly — name the molecular cause (residue, base, interface, step), not just the phenotype.
  5. Physiological consequence (1 sentence) — why the mechanism matters in cells/in vivo.

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

Molcell Summary loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 74 tokens; SKILL.md has 725 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~74
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.5k

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). 725 words, ~1,452 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/molcell-summary/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
molcell-summary
description
Use to write Molecular Cell's Summary — a single unstructured paragraph (~150 words; re-check on the official site) that conveys the molecular question, the mechanism, and its physiological consequence, named and quantified for a molecular-biology readership. Late-stage polish.

Summary / Abstract (molcell-summary)

When to trigger

  • Mechanism, framing, and structure are settled (do this late).
  • The abstract reads like a method recap with no molecular mechanism or result.
  • It exceeds the word ceiling, uses subheadings, or is dense with undefined acronyms.
  • It states that something happens but never how at the molecular level.

What Molecular Cell calls it

Molecular Cell's abstract is the Summary: a single, unstructured paragraph (no subheadings, no citations) of roughly ≤150 words (treat as a ceiling; confirm the current cap). It is written for a molecular-biology readership — you can assume familiarity with the process but must still name the mechanism and quantify. It must convey the molecular question, the mechanism, and why it matters physiologically.

Five-move structure (no labels in the text)

  1. Molecular context / stakes (1 sentence) — the process and the step at issue.
  2. Gap / question (1 sentence) — what molecular event was unknown.
  3. What we did + what we found (2–3 sentences) — the mechanism, with the key quantified results and the orthogonal evidence that proves it.
  4. Mechanism stated explicitly — name the molecular cause (residue, base, interface, step), not just the phenotype.
  5. Physiological consequence (1 sentence) — why the mechanism matters in cells/in vivo.

Because Molecular Cell rewards depth, the Summary should make clear the mechanism is established by independent methods, not merely proposed.

Hard constraints

  • ≤ ~150 words (confirm the current cap on the official site).
  • Single paragraph; no subheadings, no citations, no figure/table references.
  • Define any acronym on first use, or avoid it.
  • Names the molecular mechanism explicitly (the how), not only the observation.
  • At least one quantified result (e.g., "10-fold faster," "a 2.9 Å structure," not "significantly").
  • First sentence is legible to a molecular biologist outside the exact subfield.

Jargon blacklist (rewrite on sight)

  • "Herein we report…", "Importantly,", "Interestingly,", "Notably,", "Strikingly,"
  • Strings of ≥2 undefined gene/protein/complex acronyms in one sentence.
  • "elucidate", "delineate", "interrogate", "dissect", "shed light on" as filler verbs.
  • Hedging stacks: "may potentially suggest that it could…".
  • Ending on "further studies are needed" — end on the physiological consequence.

Quantification check

Every effect claim should carry a number somewhere in the paper, and the headline belongs in the Summary: a rate, a fold-change, an affinity, a resolution, an occupancy. A Summary with zero numbers is not finished.

What the in-house editor reads first

Molecular Cell's initial triage is run by professional in-house scientific editors. They decide in minutes whether the paper goes to review, and the Summary plus the title are usually all they read when they decide. Two questions dominate: (1) is there a molecular mechanism here, worked out and validated — or only a phenotype with a proposed cause; and (2) is the mechanism proven by more than one approach. Write the Summary so both answers are visible without the figures. A Summary that names a molecule, a molecular action, and a physiological consequence survives triage; a Summary that lists assays performed does not.

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Worked micro-example (before → after)

Before (method recap, no mechanism, no number, 39 words):

Here we studied the helicase XYZ using cryo-EM and biochemistry. We solved several structures and performed unwinding assays. XYZ was important for replication. These findings advance our understanding of DNA replication.

After (mechanism named, quantified, physiological stake, ~85 words):

How replicative helicases couple ATP hydrolysis to strand separation at a stalled fork is unclear. Combining a 2.9 Å cryo-EM structure with single-molecule unwinding, we find that the helicase XYZ grips the lagging strand through a conserved β-hairpin and that hydrolysis at a single subunit ratchets one nucleotide per step. A hairpin point mutant uncouples ATPase from unwinding, slowing fork progression 12-fold and sensitizing cells to replication stress. XYZ thus converts nucleotide hydrolysis into processive, strand-selective translocation that safeguards genome duplication.

The "after" version names the actor (XYZ), the molecular mechanism (β-hairpin grip; single-subunit ratchet), a quantified effect (2.9 Å; 12-fold), orthogonal evidence (structure + single-molecule + mutant), and a physiological consequence.

Output format

【Summary】 single paragraph (word count: N ≤ ~150)
【Five moves present?】 context / gap / approach+result / mechanism named / physiological consequence
【Mechanism explicit?】 yes/no — the named molecular cause
【Quantified headline result?】 yes/no + the number
【Jargon hits removed】 [...]
【Next】 molcell-highlights

Anti-patterns

  • Do not use subheadings or a structured-abstract format — the Summary is one paragraph.
  • Do not describe only the phenomenon; name the molecular mechanism.
  • Do not open with the technique; open with the molecular stake.
  • Do not pad past the ceiling; the limit is a feature.
  • Do not confuse the Summary with the eTOC blurb (that one is third-person and lay; see molcell-highlights).

The ~150-word cap is a working default — confirm against the current Molecular Cell information-for-authors page.

© 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 Molecular-Cell-Skills/skills/molcell-summary of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Molcell Summary

What does Molcell Summary do?

A skill your agent uses to write Molecular Cell's Summary — a single unstructured paragraph (~150 words; re-check on the official site) that conveys the molecular question, the mechanism, and its…. Molcell Summary is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use to write Molecular Cell's Summary — a single unstructured paragraph (~150 words; re-check on the official site) that conveys the molecular question, the mechanism, and its physiological consequence, named and quantified for a molecular-biology readership.

When should I use Molcell Summary?

Molcell Summary fits situations like: write Molecular Cells Summary — a single unstructured paragraph (~150 words; re-check on the official site) that conveys the molecular question; its physiological consequence; named and quantified for a molecular-biology readership.

How do I install Molcell Summary in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Molcell Summary in Codex?

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

Can I use Molcell Summary 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 molcell-summary -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/molcell-summary, .gemini/skills/molcell-summary, .github/skills/molcell-summary and .opencode/skills/molcell-summary in your project.

What does Molcell Summary need to run?

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

Does Molcell Summary 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 Molcell Summary 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 Molcell Summary use?

Molcell Summary 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 Molcell Summary use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.8k 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 Molcell Summary?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,228 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.