Agent skill

Cell Star Methods

by franklee16 in franklee16/academic-research-skills

A skill your agent uses to build Cell's mandatory STAR Methods — the Key Resources Table, the three Resource Availability subsections, Experimental Model and Subject Details, Method Details, and…

No licenceAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Cell Star Methods

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills cell-star-methods --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/Cell-Skills/skills/cell-star-methods .claude/skills/cell-star-methods && 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-star-methods
GitHub stars
223
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
560 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,616
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

A skill your agent uses to build Cell's mandatory STAR Methods — the Key Resources Table, the three Resource Availability subsections, Experimental Model and Subject Details, Method Details, and…

  • Works in 5 steps: Key Resources Table (KRT) → Resource Availability (three required… → Experimental Model and Subject Details → …
  • Build Cells mandatory STAR Methods — the Key Resources Table
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Mandatory STAR Methods…, 1. Key Resources Table (KRT) and 2. Resource Availability…, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Cell Star Methods is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use to build Cell's mandatory STAR Methods — the Key Resources Table, the three Resource Availability subsections, Experimental Model and Subject Details, Method Details, and Quantification and Statistical Analysis, in the exact required order.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k 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 Business, Finance & HR, covering Interview preparation and Statistics. 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

  • Build Cells mandatory STAR Methods — the Key Resources Table
  • The three Resource Availability subsections
  • Experimental Model and Subject Details
  • Quantification and Statistical Analysis

Example prompts

  • “/cell-star-methods”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Key Resources Table (KRT)
  2. Resource Availability (three required subsections)
  3. Experimental Model and Subject Details
  4. Method Details
  5. Quantification and Statistical Analysis (QSA)

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 Star Methods loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 66 tokens; SKILL.md has 560 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~66
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

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 560 words (~1,342 tokens).

“STAR Methods = Structured, Transparent, Accessible Reporting. It is a Cell Press signature and is mandatory. This is the single most important Cell-specific deliverable.”

— opening of SKILL.md by franklee16
name
cell-star-methods

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Cell-Skills/skills/cell-star-methods 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 Star Methods

What does Cell Star Methods do?

A skill your agent uses to build Cell's mandatory STAR Methods — the Key Resources Table, the three Resource Availability subsections, Experimental Model and Subject Details, Method Details, and…. Cell Star Methods is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use to build Cell's mandatory STAR Methods — the Key Resources Table, the three Resource Availability subsections, Experimental Model and Subject Details, Method Details, and Quantification and Statistical Analysis, in the exact required order.

When should I use Cell Star Methods?

Cell Star Methods fits situations like: build Cells mandatory STAR Methods — the Key Resources Table; the three Resource Availability subsections; experimental Model and Subject Details; quantification and Statistical Analysis.

How do I install Cell Star Methods in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Cell Star Methods in Codex?

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

Can I use Cell Star Methods 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-star-methods -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-star-methods, .gemini/skills/cell-star-methods, .github/skills/cell-star-methods and .opencode/skills/cell-star-methods in your project.

What does Cell Star Methods need to run?

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

Does Cell Star Methods 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 Star Methods 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 Star Methods use?

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

How many tokens does Cell Star Methods use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Cell Star Methods?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Cell Star Methods: Molcell Star Methods (brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, 1.2k stars), Risk Measurement and Stress Testing (HKUDS/Vibe-Trading, 35k stars), Track (andrew-shwetzer/career-ops-plugin-do-not-fork-currently-updating-v2-, 501 stars) and Correlation and Cointegration Analysis (HKUDS/Vibe-Trading, 35k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Cell Star Methods?

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.