Agent skill

Jama Cover Letter

by franklee16 in franklee16/academic-research-skills

A skill your agent uses when drafting the editor-facing cover letter that pitches a JAMA manuscript's general medical importance and confirms compliance.

No licenceAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Jama Cover Letter

skills CLI
$ npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill jama-cover-letter -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills jama-cover-letter --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/JAMA-Skills/skills/jama-cover-letter .claude/skills/jama-cover-letter && 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
jama-cover-letter
GitHub stars
223
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~936 tokens
SKILL.md length
318 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,617
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when drafting the editor-facing cover letter that pitches a JAMA manuscript's general medical importance and confirms compliance.

  • Works in 6 steps: Address it to the JAMA editors (verify… → State the question and the headline… → Make the importance case: who the… → …
  • Drafting the editor-facing cover letter that pitches a JAMA manuscripts general medical importance and confirms compliance
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, What the cover letter must do, Skeleton and Checklist, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Jama Cover Letter is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when drafting the editor-facing cover letter that pitches a JAMA manuscript's general medical importance and confirms compliance. Frames the pitch and declarations; it does NOT write the manuscript or the abstract.

Its SKILL.md is about 940 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 Resume and CV writing. 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

  • Drafting the editor-facing cover letter that pitches a JAMA manuscripts general medical importance and confirms compliance
  • Tasks that involve Resume and CV writing

Example prompts

  • “/jama-cover-letter”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Address it to the JAMA editors (verify the current editor-in-chief / addressing convention on the journal site rather than naming a…
  2. State the question and the headline result in 2–3 sentences, with the primary outcome's effect size and 95% CI.
  3. Make the importance case: who the finding affects, how it changes practice or guidelines, and why a broad clinician audience — not just a…
  4. Name the design and reporting standard (e.g., "a multicenter randomized clinical trial reported per CONSORT").
  5. Declarations: the work is original and not under consideration elsewhere; the trial was prospectively registered (give the identifier)…
  6. Article type and any requests: state the intended JAMA article type; note suggested or non-preferred reviewers if the portal allows.

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

Jama Cover Letter loads about 936 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 59 tokens; SKILL.md has 318 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~59
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~936

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 318 words (~936 tokens).

“The editors triage on general medical importance first. The letter is a short, specific pitch — not a summary of the abstract. One page.”

— opening of SKILL.md by franklee16
name
jama-cover-letter

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/JAMA-Skills/skills/jama-cover-letter 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 Jama Cover Letter

What does Jama Cover Letter do?

A skill your agent uses when drafting the editor-facing cover letter that pitches a JAMA manuscript's general medical importance and confirms compliance. Jama Cover Letter is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when drafting the editor-facing cover letter that pitches a JAMA manuscript's general medical importance and confirms compliance.

When should I use Jama Cover Letter?

Jama Cover Letter fits situations like: drafting the editor-facing cover letter that pitches a JAMA manuscripts general medical importance and confirms compliance; tasks that involve Resume and CV writing.

How do I install Jama Cover Letter in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Jama Cover Letter in Codex?

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

Can I use Jama Cover Letter 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 jama-cover-letter -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/jama-cover-letter, .gemini/skills/jama-cover-letter, .github/skills/jama-cover-letter and .opencode/skills/jama-cover-letter in your project.

What does Jama Cover Letter need to run?

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

Does Jama Cover Letter 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 Jama Cover Letter 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 Jama Cover Letter use?

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

How many tokens does Jama Cover Letter use?

About 936 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.7k 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 Jama Cover Letter?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Jama Cover Letter: Career-Ops Job Search Center (career-ops-hq/career-ops, 74k stars), Reactive Resume Builder (reactive-resume/reactive-resume, 44k stars), Internship Project Preparation Tool (LiuMengxuan04/shushu-internship-tool, 2.1k stars) and Resume Tailoring (varunr89/resume-tailoring-skill, 769 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Jama Cover Letter?

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.