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Cell

by franklee16 in franklee16/academic-research-skills

A skill your agent uses when targeting Cell (Cell Press) or deciding whether a cell/molecular-biology manuscript fits this flagship venue.

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Install Cell

skills CLI
$ npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill cell -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills cell --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/franklee16/academic-research-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/English-NaturalScience-Journal-Skills/skills/cell .claude/skills/cell && 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
cell
GitHub stars
223
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~2.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,044 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,616
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when targeting Cell (Cell Press) or deciding whether a cell/molecular-biology manuscript fits this flagship venue.

  • Targeting Cell (Cell Press)
  • 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 cell/molecular-biology manuscript fits this flagship venue

What it does

Cell is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when targeting Cell (Cell Press) or deciding whether a cell/molecular-biology manuscript fits this flagship venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

Its SKILL.md is about 2.2k 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: Comprehensive collection of Claude Code skills for academic research in economics, finance, and social sciences.

When your agent uses it

  • Targeting Cell (Cell Press)
  • Deciding whether a cell/molecular-biology manuscript fits this flagship venue

Example prompts

  • “/cell”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9a4b2db. 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

Cell loads about 2.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 64 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,044 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~64
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.2k

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

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,044 words (~2,247 tokens).

“Cell is the Cell Press flagship and one of the most prestigious journals in life science, publishing conceptually transformative papers in cell and molecular biology, systems biology, genetics, and adjacent fields where the cell or molecule is the unit of…”

— opening of SKILL.md by franklee16
name
cell

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/English-NaturalScience-Journal-Skills/skills/cell of franklee16/academic-research-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9a4b2db

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in franklee16/academic-research-skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Cell

What does Cell do?

A skill your agent uses when targeting Cell (Cell Press) or deciding whether a cell/molecular-biology manuscript fits this flagship venue. Cell is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when targeting Cell (Cell Press) or deciding whether a cell/molecular-biology manuscript fits this flagship venue.

When should I use Cell?

Cell fits situations like: targeting Cell (Cell Press); deciding whether a cell/molecular-biology manuscript fits this flagship venue.

How do I install Cell in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill cell -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/English-NaturalScience-Journal-Skills/skills/cell in franklee16/academic-research-skills) into .claude/skills/cell in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Cell in Codex?

Run `npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill cell -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/English-NaturalScience-Journal-Skills/skills/cell in franklee16/academic-research-skills) into .agents/skills/cell in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Cell 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 franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill cell -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/cell, .gemini/skills/cell, .github/skills/cell and .opencode/skills/cell in your project.

What does Cell need to run?

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

Does Cell 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 Cell 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 Cell use?

No licence was found for Cell or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Cell use?

About 2.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 9k 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 Cell?

franklee16 (a GitHub user) maintains it in franklee16/academic-research-skills, which has 223 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,616 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 18, 2026.

Source: franklee16/academic-research-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.