Agent skill

Journal Club Agent

by hh-health-AI in hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity

A skill your agent uses to prepare a journal club, critical-appraisal discussion guide or eight-slide medical research briefing.

MITAuto-check passedDocuments & Office

Install Journal Club Agent

skills CLI
$ npx skills add hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity --skill journal-club-agent -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity journal-club-agent --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/hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/hh-health-ai-research/skills/journal-club-agent .claude/skills/journal-club-agent && 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
journal-club-agent
GitHub stars
101
Token cost
~753 tokens
SKILL.md length
365 words
Files
6 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
72
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses to prepare a journal club, critical-appraisal discussion guide or eight-slide medical research briefing.

  • Works in 8 steps: Identify paper, clinical question,… → Read the paper, methods and supplement;… → Build a bounded evidence packet with… → …
  • Prepare a journal club
  • SKILL.md covers Workflow, Upstream distinction and Shared controls and output
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Journal Club Agent is an agent skill from hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity. Use to prepare a journal club, critical-appraisal discussion guide or eight-slide medical research briefing. Read the actual study and methods, preserve evidence boundaries, and distinguish a Markdown outline from an exported presentation file.

Its SKILL.md is about 750 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 7 other files, including reference files (for example `agents/openai.yaml`, `references/connector-routing.md` and `references/evidence-brief.md`).

It sits in Documents & Office, covering Slides and decks. The repository describes itself as: Synthesis engine for buy-side healthcare equity research. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Prepare a journal club
  • Critical-appraisal discussion guide
  • Eight-slide medical research briefing

Example prompts

  • “/journal-club-agent”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

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

  1. Identify paper, clinical question, audience and discussion time from the request. Unless another format is specified, use a concise…
  2. Read the paper, methods and supplement; obtain registry, protocol or statistical analysis plan where material. Use Clinical Trial Analyst…
  3. Build a bounded evidence packet with actual observations, short supporting passages, appraisals, uncertainty and unresolved questions…
  4. Draft eight slides: clinical question; study design; intervention/comparator; endpoints and analysis; effects and uncertainty; harms and…
  5. Add useful speaker notes, three discussion questions and a short explanation of the most consequential statistical concept for this study…
  6. Check denominators, timepoints, relative versus absolute effects, confidence intervals, prespecified versus exploratory findings and…
  7. Deliver the actual format produced. Markdown is not PowerPoint. For a requested PPTX, PDF or other artifact, use an available artifact…
  8. Close with what the study supports, what it cannot establish and the evidence that would change the interpretation. No personalized…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6c7bda8. 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

Journal Club Agent loads about 753 tokens when it runs, and up to ~3k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 66 tokens; SKILL.md has 365 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
~753
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~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

The full file from hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity at commit 6c7bda8, republished under its MIT licence (© hh-health-AI). 365 words, ~753 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/journal-club-agent/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 5 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
journal-club-agent
description
Use to prepare a journal club, critical-appraisal discussion guide or eight-slide medical research briefing. Read the actual study and methods, preserve evidence boundaries, and distinguish a Markdown outline from an exported presentation file.

Journal Club Agent

Workflow

  1. Identify paper, clinical question, audience and discussion time from the request. Unless another format is specified, use a concise eight-slide Markdown briefing. Do not treat this default as an instruction to ignore a requested presentation format.
  2. Read the paper, methods and supplement; obtain registry, protocol or statistical analysis plan where material. Use Clinical Trial Analyst for an interventional trial. Record access gaps and precise source locators. Do not fill unreported methods with expected textbook practices.
  3. Build a bounded evidence packet with actual observations, short supporting passages, appraisals, uncertainty and unresolved questions. Separate the authors' conclusion from what the design supports.
  4. Draft eight slides: clinical question; study design; intervention/comparator; endpoints and analysis; effects and uncertainty; harms and missingness; validity and applicability; conclusions and open questions. Put the appropriate citation alongside each factual result.
  5. Add useful speaker notes, three discussion questions and a short explanation of the most consequential statistical concept for this study. Clearly label any synthetic teaching example and keep it separate from the study data.
  6. Check denominators, timepoints, relative versus absolute effects, confidence intervals, prespecified versus exploratory findings and applicability. Do not simplify away a limitation that could reverse the conclusion.
  7. Deliver the actual format produced. Markdown is not PowerPoint. For a requested PPTX, PDF or other artifact, use an available artifact tool, preserve citations, inspect the resulting file and provide a real download link. If export is unavailable, state that only the outline was produced.
  8. Close with what the study supports, what it cannot establish and the evidence that would change the interpretation. No personalized clinical treatment recommendation follows automatically from the teaching brief.
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Upstream distinction

The repository's optional journal-club command exports Markdown and JSON, not a PPTX file. This plugin supplies the appraisal workflow; it does not install that command or certify that the output has undergone independent clinical review.

Shared controls and output

Read evidence controls before executing this workflow and use the connector map for source selection. Use the evidence brief when producing investment-related evidence. The workflows use the host's available tools; upstream Python utilities and the local MCP server are not included or deployed by this plugin.

© hh-health-AI, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 5 other files (references) in plugins/hh-health-ai-research/skills/journal-club-agent of hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml
  • references/connector-routing.md
  • references/evidence-brief.md
  • references/evidence-controls.md
  • references/source-notes.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6c7bda8

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Questions about Journal Club Agent

What does Journal Club Agent do?

A skill your agent uses to prepare a journal club, critical-appraisal discussion guide or eight-slide medical research briefing. Journal Club Agent is an agent skill from hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity. Use to prepare a journal club, critical-appraisal discussion guide or eight-slide medical research briefing.

When should I use Journal Club Agent?

Journal Club Agent fits situations like: prepare a journal club; critical-appraisal discussion guide; eight-slide medical research briefing.

How do I install Journal Club Agent in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity --skill journal-club-agent -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/hh-health-ai-research/skills/journal-club-agent in hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity) into .claude/skills/journal-club-agent in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Journal Club Agent in Codex?

Run `npx skills add hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity --skill journal-club-agent -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/hh-health-ai-research/skills/journal-club-agent in hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity) into .agents/skills/journal-club-agent in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Journal Club Agent 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 hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity --skill journal-club-agent -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/journal-club-agent, .gemini/skills/journal-club-agent, .github/skills/journal-club-agent and .opencode/skills/journal-club-agent in your project.

What does Journal Club Agent need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Journal Club Agent is instructions for the agent only. Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Journal Club Agent 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 Journal Club Agent 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 Journal Club Agent use?

Journal Club Agent is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Journal Club Agent use?

About 753 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 2.2k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Journal Club Agent?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Journal Club Agent: Image To Editable Ppt (ningzimu/image-to-editable-ppt-skill, 2.9k stars), Slides (fcakyon/claude-codex-settings, 1.2k stars), Ppt Image First (NyxTides/ppt-image-first, 1.2k stars) and Vibe to Agentic Engineering Framework (shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice, 67k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Journal Club Agent?

hh-health-AI (a GitHub user) maintains it in hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity, which has 101 GitHub stars. The repository holds 72 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.