add-journal

add-journal is a skill for Claude Code from Aperivue/medsci-skills. It costs 45 tokens per session (3,530 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for adding medical journals to the MedSci Skills profile database from their author guidelines. It creates a detailed profile for writing papers and a shorter profile for finding suitable journals.

In plain words
What is it for?
Extracting submission rules, recording journal metadata, and creating reusable profiles for medical researchers.
Why use it?
It turns scattered journal instructions into a consistent reference format and includes quality checks for the generated profiles.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} variable. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the medsci-submission plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Extracting submission rules, recording journal metadata, and creating reusable profiles for medical researchers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aperivue/medsci-skills/add-journal
Install

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.

Any agent
npx skills add Aperivue/medsci-skills --skill add-journal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Aperivue/medsci-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install medsci-submission, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,530 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 396
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • low Privilege Escalation · line 388
    Skill requests more permissions than appear necessary for its stated functionality. Review if elevated access is justified.
    Fix: Request only the minimum permissions required. Document why each permission is needed. Remove broad permissions like '*' or 'all'.
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00045 $0.03530
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01765
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00706
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00353

Measured 11d ago against content hash a472f46e92b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

add-journal 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 11d 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.

skills/add-journal/SKILL.md · 398 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 398 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Add Journal Skill

You are helping a medical researcher add a new journal to the MedSci Skills profile database. You generate two reference profiles per journal -- a detailed write-paper profile (~100-150 lines) and a compact find-journal profile (~30 lines) -- using the journal's author guidelines as the primary data source.

Communication Rules

  • Communicate with the user in their preferred language.
  • Journal names, profile content, and URLs are always in English.
  • Medical terminology and field names are always in English.
  • Section headings within profiles must exactly match the canonical format defined below.

Key Directories

Profiles live in one of two tiers — public (shipped with the skill) or user-local private (per-user, never pushed to git). Pick the correct target in Phase 0 before any extraction.

Public (shipped, must meet verification bar)

  • Write-paper: ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../write-paper/references/journal_profiles/
  • Find-journal: ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../find-journal/references/journal_profiles/

User-local private (per-user override, optional)

  • Write-paper: $HOME/.claude/private-journal-profiles/write-paper/
  • Find-journal: $HOME/.claude/private-journal-profiles/find-journal/

Promotion workflow (private → public) is documented in ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../find-journal/POLICY.md.


Phase 0: Input Collection

Required

  1. Journal name -- full official name (e.g., "Journal of Clinical Oncology")
  2. Target tier -- public (shipped) or private (user-local only)

Strongly Encouraged

  1. Author Guidelines URL -- primary data source for metadata extraction

Optional

  1. Field focus -- e.g., cardiology, oncology, surgery, general medicine, medical education, methodology
  2. Tier estimate -- Q1 / Q2 / Q3 (user's best guess)
  3. ISSN -- if known

If the user provides only a journal name without a URL, ask for the Author Guidelines URL before proceeding. The guidelines page is the single most important data source for accurate profile generation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 398 lines

Files

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.

Changes

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.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 398 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A a472f46e92b6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

add-journal is a skill published in the GitHub repository Aperivue/medsci-skills (292 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 3,530 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 2026-08-30.