Agent skill

Developmental Cell

by franklee16 in franklee16/academic-research-skills

A skill your agent uses when targeting Developmental Cell or deciding whether a developmental or cell-biology manuscript fits this venue.

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Install Developmental Cell

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills developmental-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/developmental-cell .claude/skills/developmental-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
developmental-cell
GitHub stars
223
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~2k tokens
SKILL.md length
856 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,617
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when targeting Developmental Cell or deciding whether a developmental or cell-biology manuscript fits this venue.

  • Targeting Developmental Cell
  • 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 developmental

What it does

Developmental Cell is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when targeting Developmental Cell or deciding whether a developmental or cell-biology manuscript fits this 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 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 Developmental Cell
  • Deciding whether a developmental
  • Cell-biology manuscript fits this venue

Example prompts

  • “/developmental-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

Developmental Cell loads about 2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 67 tokens; SKILL.md has 856 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~67
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

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 856 words (~1,966 tokens).

“Developmental Cell is Cell Press's dedicated venue for developmental biology and cell biology, publishing mechanistic studies of how cells are built, how they acquire identity, divide, migrate, and organize into tissues and organs — and how these processes go wrong…”

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

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/English-NaturalScience-Journal-Skills/skills/developmental-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 Developmental Cell

What does Developmental Cell do?

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

When should I use Developmental Cell?

Developmental Cell fits situations like: targeting Developmental Cell; deciding whether a developmental; cell-biology manuscript fits this venue.

How do I install Developmental Cell in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Developmental Cell in Codex?

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

Can I use Developmental 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 developmental-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/developmental-cell, .gemini/skills/developmental-cell, .github/skills/developmental-cell and .opencode/skills/developmental-cell in your project.

What does Developmental Cell need to run?

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

Does Developmental 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 Developmental 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 Developmental Cell use?

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

How many tokens does Developmental Cell use?

About 2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.9k 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 Developmental Cell?

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Who maintains Developmental Cell?

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.