Medical Research Agent Skills is a library of agent instructions for medical and biomedical research, covering evidence analysis, study protocol design, data analysis, and academic writing. Researchers use it to guide compatible coding agents through common scientific workflows. The catalogue contains many of the library's skills and commands.
Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
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What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00049 | $0.01263 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00024 | $0.00632 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00010 | $0.00253 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00126 |
Grade A, and why
cover-letter-generator scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 188 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Cover Letter Generator
Draft a submission-ready academic cover letter for a target journal. This skill is for editor-facing academic writing, not for inventing missing paper content.
When to Use
- The user is preparing an initial manuscript submission.
- The user has a paper title, contribution summary, and target-journal context.
- The user wants a professional cover letter with journal fit, novelty, declarations, and closing details.
- The user needs a deterministic structure rather than ad-hoc prose.
When Not to Use
- The user has not chosen a target journal and only wants a generic marketing blurb.
- The user is asking for peer-review responses, rebuttal letters, or grant cover pages.
- The user wants you to invent results, journal scope, reviewer identities, or declarations that were not supplied.
Required Inputs
Minimum required:
- manuscript title
- target journal
2-4core contributions or innovation points- corresponding author name, affiliation, and email
Strongly recommended:
- one-sentence journal fit rationale
- brief methods summary
- brief key-results summary
- originality / exclusive-submission statement
- optional reviewer suggestions
- optional conflict-of-interest or ethics statement
Missing-Input Recovery
If any required field is missing, do not output a fake journal-ready letter. Use this structure first:
Cannot finalize the cover letter yet.
Missing required items:
- <item 1>
- <item 2>
Usable fallback:
- I can draft a partial letter shell after these items are supplied.
Only draft a partial shell if the user explicitly wants one after seeing the missing items.
Output Contract
Return a complete letter using the structure below:
- Salutation to the editor
- Submission request with manuscript title and journal name
- Journal-fit paragraph
- Novelty / contribution paragraph
- Methods + key-results paragraph
- Relevance / readership / reproducibility paragraph
- Required declarations paragraph
- Optional reviewer / COI paragraph
- Professional closing with corresponding-author identity
What ships with it
2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 9d ago First seen · 188 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A e8474c8d52b4
cover-letter-generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository aipoch/medical-research-skills (1,869 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,263 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.
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