Lancet Skills

Agent skill stack for submitting to The Lancet — the flagship clinical-medicine and global-health journal. Encodes The Lancet's editorial bar (clinically/public-health important, globally relevant, equity- and policy-oriented), prospective trial registration and protocol/SAP discipline, EQUATOR reporting guidelines (CONSORT/STROBE/PRISMA) with the mandatory study-flow diagram, the signature Resear

by @brycewang-stanford 11 skills

Install

npx skillmds@latest add plugin:brycewang-stanford/lancet-skills

One command, no setup. In Claude Code it lands as a managed plugin you can enable, disable or remove with /plugin. On any other agent it installs the 11 skills into that agent's own folder.

Or inside Claude Code

In the Plugins tab, add this marketplace:

skillmds/skillmd
/plugin install brycewang-stanford-lancet-skills@skillmd

Adds the marketplace once; later plugins need the second line only.

Or install by hand

Download the plugin and unzip its skills/ folder into your agent's skills directory. Works with every agent, no CLI needed.

Download plugin Paths per agent

Just the markdown? SKILL.md files only.

This plugin

skills: 11
authors: 1

Published by a registry member. Review its skills before installing.

Skills in this plugin

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Lancet Ethics · brycewang-stanford
Use to satisfy The Lancet's clinical-ethics and research-integrity requirements — ethics-committee approval and informed consent under the Declaration of Helsinki, the Declaration of interests, ICMJE author contributions, the role-of-the-funding-source statement, the data-sharing statement, patient and public involvement, and SAGER sex/gender plus equity reporting.

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Lancet Writing · brycewang-stanford
Use to structure and hold the length of a Lancet Article main text — Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion (~3000–3500 words), the Research in context panel, a limited reference list (~30), and a cautious, globally minded Discussion that does not overstate.

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Lancet Abstract · brycewang-stanford
Use to write The Lancet's structured abstract — ≤300 words under the exact headings Background, Methods, Findings, Interpretation, Funding — leading with the clinical question, reporting the primary outcome with effect size and 95% CI, citing the registration number, and naming the funder.

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Lancet Rebuttal · brycewang-stanford
Use after Lancet reviews arrive (including the statistical reviewer and the editor's letter) to triage the decision, answer statistical and clinical comments, and draft a point-by-point response that quotes the reviewer, gives evidence, quotes the revised manuscript text, and keeps causal language cautious. Do not run before the main text is actually revised.

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Lancet Workflow · brycewang-stanford
Use when deciding which lancet-* sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing a clinical or global-health manuscript from significance test through reviewer rebuttal for The Lancet. Routes — it does not replace — the specialized skills.

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Lancet Reporting · brycewang-stanford
Use to select and apply the correct EQUATOR reporting guideline for a Lancet manuscript — CONSORT for RCTs (with the mandatory flow diagram), STROBE for observational studies, PRISMA for systematic reviews/meta-analyses, SPIRIT for protocols — and to attach the completed checklist and study-flow diagram.

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Lancet Statistics · brycewang-stanford
Use to enforce The Lancet's clinical-statistics reporting — confidence intervals over bare P values, a pre-specified primary analysis, intention-to-treat with per-protocol sensitivity, multiplicity control for secondary endpoints, cautious pre-specified subgroup analyses with interaction tests, missing-data handling, and absolute plus relative effects.

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Lancet Submission · brycewang-stanford bundle
Use as the final preflight before submitting to The Lancet — a complete checklist across importance, registration, reporting guideline + flow diagram, statistics, structured abstract, the Research in context panel, ethics/declarations/data-sharing, and required files. Bundles a checklist and a cover-letter template.

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Lancet Study Design · brycewang-stanford
Use to lock study design and mandatory prospective registration for a Lancet clinical manuscript — trial registration before enrollment, protocol + statistical analysis plan, and design rigor (randomization, allocation concealment, blinding, pre-specified endpoints, power, ITT). Covers observational design choices too.

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Lancet Figures Tables · brycewang-stanford
Use to build and check The Lancet's clinical display items — the Table 1 baseline characteristics, Kaplan–Meier curves with numbers at risk, forest plots for subgroups/meta-analyses, the CONSORT/study-flow diagram, and maps for multi-country studies — all with confidence intervals shown.

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Lancet Research In Context · brycewang-stanford
Use to build The Lancet's signature Research in context panel — the three mandatory headed parts (Evidence before this study, Added value of this study, Implications of all the available evidence), grounded in a systematic literature search with stated databases, terms, and dates. Mandatory for original research Articles.

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