A skill your agent uses when targeting The Lancet Psychiatry or deciding whether a psychiatry or mental-health study fits this venue.

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install The Lancet Psychiatry

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills the-lancet-psychiatry --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/the-lancet-psychiatry .claude/skills/the-lancet-psychiatry && 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
the-lancet-psychiatry
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~2k tokens
SKILL.md length
818 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when targeting The Lancet Psychiatry or deciding whether a psychiatry or mental-health study fits this venue.

  • Targeting The Lancet Psychiatry
  • 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 psychiatry

What it does

The Lancet Psychiatry is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when targeting The Lancet Psychiatry or deciding whether a psychiatry or mental-health study fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the clinical-trial, population, and policy evidence bar, reporting-guideline and registration requirements, Lancet specialty house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics. Venue-fit aid only, not clinical advice.

Its SKILL.md is about 2k 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 and Health and fitness tracking. 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 The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Deciding whether a psychiatry
  • Mental-health study fits this venue

Example prompts

  • “/the-lancet-psychiatry”

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

The Lancet Psychiatry loads about 2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 100 tokens; SKILL.md has 818 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~100
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2k

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). 818 words, ~2,036 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/the-lancet-psychiatry/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
the-lancet-psychiatry
description
Use when targeting The Lancet Psychiatry or deciding whether a psychiatry or mental-health study fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the clinical-trial, population, and policy evidence bar, reporting-guideline and registration requirements, Lancet specialty house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics. Venue-fit aid only, not clinical advice.

The Lancet Psychiatry (the-lancet-psychiatry)

Journal positioning

The Lancet Psychiatry is a Lancet specialty journal for high-impact clinical and population research across psychiatry and mental health — mood, anxiety, psychotic, and neurodevelopmental disorders, substance use, child and adolescent and old-age psychiatry, and the mental-health consequences of physical illness and social adversity. It favors practice- or policy-changing randomized trials, large cohorts, and population/epidemiological analyses with global reach and mental-health-systems relevance, with a strong emphasis on rigorous design, patient-important outcomes, and attention to stigma, equity, and lived experience. Small single-site studies, mechanistic neuroscience without a clinical or population endpoint, and underpowered intervention pilots are a weak fit and belong in a specialist psychiatry or neuroscience venue. 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 The Lancet Psychiatry author instructions.

When to trigger

  • The author names The Lancet Psychiatry for a psychiatry or mental-health clinical/population study and wants a fit/framing check.
  • A trial or cohort must be re-framed around a globally relevant, practice- or policy-changing mental-health question.
  • The author is choosing between The Lancet Psychiatry, JAMA Psychiatry, and a specialist psychiatry journal.
  • The author needs the journal's reporting-guideline, registration, and desk-reject expectations for mental-health evidence.

Scope & topic fit

  • Randomized trials of psychological, pharmacological, digital, and service-level interventions for mental disorders, with patient-important outcomes.
  • Large prospective cohorts and high-quality observational studies on mental-disorder incidence, course, prognosis, and outcomes at scale.
  • Population, epidemiological, and global-mental-health studies, including low- and middle-income settings and health-equity framing.
  • Mental-health-services, policy, and implementation research with system-level relevance.
  • Studies on the mental-health effects of physical illness, social adversity, and inequalities, and on stigma and lived experience, with rigorous methods.
  • Systematic reviews and meta-analyses resolving a focused, clinically or policy consequential mental-health question.

Method & evidence bar

  • Trials must be adequately powered with prespecified, patient-important primary outcomes (validated symptom or functioning measures, remission, quality of life); outcome-measure choice and blinding feasibility must be justified.
  • The applicable reporting guideline and completed checklist are expected: CONSORT (incl. for non-pharmacological/psychological interventions) for trials, STROBE for observational studies, PRISMA for systematic reviews.
  • Trials require prospective registration; the registration number, protocol, and statistical-analysis plan are expected; patient and public involvement is valued.
  • Observational and epidemiological claims must address confounding, reverse causation, selection bias, and missing data; causal language must match the design.
  • Effect estimates need confidence intervals and clinically meaningful (not only statistically significant) thresholds; generalizability across settings and cultures should be argued.
  • Multi-site, international, and registry-scale evidence strengthens fit; underpowered single-site pilots rarely clear the bar.

Structure & house style

  • Lancet specialty format with a structured summary and a Research in context / evidence-before-this-study panel; re-check current article types and limits on the live guide.
  • The introduction frames the global clinical or policy gap in mental health; the discussion states the practice or policy consequence and limitations plainly.
  • A CONSORT/STROBE/PRISMA flow diagram is expected where applicable; non-stigmatizing, person-first language and attention to lived experience are expected.
  • The role of the funding source statement and a data-sharing statement are expected; appendices carry protocol, full statistical methods, and additional 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 Lancet anchors, then cite the current The Lancet Psychiatry page you checked.
  • Search the live site for "The Lancet Psychiatry information for authors" and follow the current version.
  • Re-check article types, structured-summary and Research in context format, and word/reference/figure limits.
  • Confirm trial registration, the reporting checklist (CONSORT/STROBE/PRISMA), protocol/SAP, the role-of-funding-source statement, and data-sharing statement.
  • Re-check IRB/ethics and consent (including capacity and vulnerable-population safeguards), 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 answers a globally relevant, practice- or policy-changing mental-health question.
  • The primary outcome is prespecified, validated, and patient-important; the study is adequately powered.
  • The correct reporting checklist (CONSORT/STROBE/PRISMA) is completed and attached.
  • Trials are prospectively registered with the number in the manuscript; protocol/SAP provided.
  • Confounding, reverse causation, and missing data are addressed; causal language matches the design.
  • Ethics/consent (capacity, vulnerable populations), ICMJE disclosures, role-of-funding-source, and a data-sharing statement are prepared.

Common desk-reject triggers

  • Underpowered single-site pilots or feasibility studies presented as definitive.
  • Mechanistic neuroscience or neuroimaging with no clinical or population mental-health endpoint.
  • Non-validated or idiosyncratic outcome measures without justification or clinical anchoring.
  • Missing trial registration, protocol, or the required reporting checklist.
  • Observational analyses with unaddressed reverse causation or overstated causal claims.
  • Narrow or locally bounded scope without global or policy relevance; stigmatizing framing or language.

Re-routing decision

  • JAMA Network family or US-centric clinical psychiatry framing → jama-psychiatry.
  • Population mental-health research without a clinical/service endpoint and with broad public-health framing → the-lancet-public-health.
  • Mental-health comorbidity of metabolic disease as the core contribution → the-lancet-diabetes-and-endocrinology.
  • Mechanistic psychiatric neuroscience → a specialist psychiatry or neuroscience journal.
  • Broad, practice-changing significance beyond psychiatry → general medicine (jama / NEJM / The Lancet in the natural-science bundle).

Output format

text
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] The Lancet Psychiatry
[Specialty tags] <2–3 closest psychiatry/mental-health topics>
[Study design / reporting guideline] <RCT-CONSORT / cohort-STROBE / review-PRISMA>
[Method/evidence] <power, validated outcome, registration, generalizability — does it clear the practice/policy bar?>
[Top risk] <the single most likely reason for rejection>
[Official items to re-check] <article type / registration / checklist / role-of-funding / ethics / disclosures>
[Re-route suggestion] <if not a fit, a better-matched venue>

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Files

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

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about The Lancet Psychiatry

What does The Lancet Psychiatry do?

A skill your agent uses when targeting The Lancet Psychiatry or deciding whether a psychiatry or mental-health study fits this venue. The Lancet Psychiatry is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when targeting The Lancet Psychiatry or deciding whether a psychiatry or mental-health study fits this venue.

When should I use The Lancet Psychiatry?

The Lancet Psychiatry fits situations like: targeting The Lancet Psychiatry; deciding whether a psychiatry; mental-health study fits this venue.

How do I install The Lancet Psychiatry in Claude Code?

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

How do I install The Lancet Psychiatry in Codex?

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

Can I use The Lancet Psychiatry 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 the-lancet-psychiatry -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/the-lancet-psychiatry, .gemini/skills/the-lancet-psychiatry, .github/skills/the-lancet-psychiatry and .opencode/skills/the-lancet-psychiatry in your project.

What does The Lancet Psychiatry need to run?

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

Does The Lancet Psychiatry 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 The Lancet Psychiatry 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 The Lancet Psychiatry use?

The Lancet Psychiatry 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 The Lancet Psychiatry use?

About 2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.1k 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 The Lancet Psychiatry?

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.