Agent skill

Cell Summary

by franklee16 in franklee16/academic-research-skills

A skill your agent uses to write Cell's Summary — a single unstructured paragraph of ≤ ~150 words that conveys the complete story, the mechanism, and the broad significance, quantified and readable…

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Install Cell Summary

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills cell-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/franklee16/academic-research-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Cell-Skills/skills/cell-summary .claude/skills/cell-summary && 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-summary
GitHub stars
223
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~895 tokens
SKILL.md length
413 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,617
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

A skill your agent uses to write Cell's Summary — a single unstructured paragraph of ≤ ~150 words that conveys the complete story, the mechanism, and the broad significance, quantified and readable…

  • Works in 5 steps: Context / stakes (1 sentence) — the… → Gap / question (1 sentence) — what was… → What we did + what we found (2–3… → …
  • Write Cells Summary — a single unstructured paragraph of ≤ ~150 words that conveys the complete story
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, What Cell calls it, Five-move structure (no labels… and Hard constraints, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Cell Summary is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use to write Cell's Summary — a single unstructured paragraph of ≤ ~150 words that conveys the complete story, the mechanism, and the broad significance, quantified and readable by a general life-scientist. Late-stage polish.

Its SKILL.md is about 900 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

  • Write Cells Summary — a single unstructured paragraph of ≤ ~150 words that conveys the complete story
  • The broad significance
  • Quantified and readable by a general life-scientist

Example prompts

  • “/cell-summary”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Context / stakes (1 sentence) — the broad biological problem.
  2. Gap / question (1 sentence) — what was unknown.
  3. What we did + what we found (2–3 sentences) — the mechanism, with the key quantified results and the converging evidence that makes it a…
  4. Mechanism stated explicitly — name the molecular/cellular cause, not just the phenotype.
  5. Significance (1 sentence) — why a broad community should care.

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 Summary loads about 895 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 60 tokens; SKILL.md has 413 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~60
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~895

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 413 words (~895 tokens).

“Cell's abstract is the Summary: a single, unstructured paragraph (no subheadings, no citations) of roughly ≤150 words, written for a broad life-sciences readership — not your subfield. It must convey the complete story: the question, the mechanism, and why it…”

— opening of SKILL.md by franklee16
name
cell-summary

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Cell-Skills/skills/cell-summary 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 Summary

What does Cell Summary do?

A skill your agent uses to write Cell's Summary — a single unstructured paragraph of ≤ ~150 words that conveys the complete story, the mechanism, and the broad significance, quantified and readable…. Cell Summary is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use to write Cell's Summary — a single unstructured paragraph of ≤ ~150 words that conveys the complete story, the mechanism, and the broad significance, quantified and readable by a general life-scientist.

When should I use Cell Summary?

Cell Summary fits situations like: write Cells Summary — a single unstructured paragraph of ≤ ~150 words that conveys the complete story; the broad significance; quantified and readable by a general life-scientist.

How do I install Cell Summary in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Cell Summary in Codex?

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

Can I use Cell 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 franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill cell-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/cell-summary, .gemini/skills/cell-summary, .github/skills/cell-summary and .opencode/skills/cell-summary in your project.

What does Cell Summary need to run?

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

Does Cell 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 Cell 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 Cell Summary use?

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

How many tokens does Cell Summary use?

About 895 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.6k 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 Summary?

franklee16 (a GitHub user) maintains it in franklee16/academic-research-skills, which has 223 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,617 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.