Medical Briefs

Generate daily or on-demand medical research briefs for any medical specialty. Searches latest research from top-tier journals, delivers concise summaries wi...

Security Scan

The skill's requirements and instructions are internally consistent with its stated purpose of generating medical research briefs; it asks for no unrelated credentials or installs, but a few operational details are left implicit (web access, persistence for tracking) which the user should understand.

Purpose & Capability

Name/description (medical research briefs) align with the SKILL.md: search journals, summarize, include links/images, and present clinical relevance. The skill requests no unrelated binaries, env vars, or installs — those would be unnecessary for its stated task.

Instruction Scope

Instructions are focused on searching/formatting journal items. They do not instruct reading local files or unrelated environment variables. Two operational gaps are implicit: (1) how to perform searches (which APIs or scraping) and (2) how to fetch images/links from external sites. These are reasonable but leave implementation details to the agent and could affect behavior (e.g., scraping vs. using publisher APIs).

Install Mechanism

Instruction-only skill with no install spec or code files — lowest-risk from an install perspective. Nothing will be written to disk by this skill itself as packaged.

Credentials

The skill declares no required environment variables or credentials, which is consistent for a read-only summarization task. Note: access to paywalled journals or some publisher APIs may require credentials that are not requested here; the skill does not explain how it will handle paywalled content or restricted APIs.

Persistence & Privilege

Skill requests tracking of delivered articles to avoid repeats but does not declare where or how to persist that state. This is not inherently privileged, but it assumes some storage (agent memory or external storage). The skill is not marked always:true and does not request system-wide config changes.

Assessment

This skill appears to do what it says: search recent journals and produce clinician-focused briefs, and it doesn't request extra credentials or installs. Before installing, note that: (1) it doesn't specify how searches are performed — the agent will need web access or publisher APIs, and summaries may be limited by paywalls; (2) it asks to track delivered articles but doesn't declare storage — ask how the agent will persist that (memory vs. external storage) if you care about data retention; (3) medical summaries are informational — verify the original articles before acting clinically. If you want paywalled/full-text access, be prepared to provide appropriate API keys or subscriptions and confirm where tracking data will be stored.

Medical Specialty Briefs

Generate curated medical research briefs for any medical specialty in a Google News-style format.

When to Use This Skill

• User asks for "medical news" or "research updates" for a specific specialty
• User wants a "daily brief" for their medical field
• User mentions journal names (NEJM, JAMA, Lancet, etc.) with research queries
• User is a clinician seeking specialty-specific updates

Output Format

Each brief item should include:

1. Headline - Clear, concise title
2. One-Sentence Summary - Key takeaway for clinicians
3. Source - Journal name + publication date
4. Image - Include if available from source
5. Link - Direct URL to original article
6. Clinical Relevance Badge - One of:
   • 🔴 High Impact (practice-changing)
   • 🟡 Moderate (consider for practice)
   • 🟢 Low (awareness only)

Search Strategy

Priority Journals (in order)

1. New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)
2. The Lancet
3. JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association)
4. Specialty-specific top journals
5. BMJ (British Medical Journal)
6. Nature / Nature Medicine
7. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM)
8. Endocrine Practice
9. Thyroid
10. Specialty-specific top journals

Search Parameters

• Time window: Last 7 days (configurable)
• Content: Clinical research, guidelines, AI/ML applications, drug approvals, device approvals
• Exclude: Case reports, preprints (unless high impact), non-peer reviewed

Workflow

1. Identify Specialty - Ask if not specified
2. Set Time Window - Default 7 days, ask if different needed
3. Search - Query priority journals for specialty + date range
4. Filter - Remove duplicates, prioritize clinical relevance
5. Format - Generate Google News-style cards
6. Deliver - Present to user with specialty header

Example Queries by Specialty

Specialty	Example Search
Endocrinology	"Weight loss medication" "thyroid nodule ultrasound"
Cardiology	"heart failure SGLT2" "AFib catheter ablation"
Oncology	"immunotherapy checkpoint inhibitor" "liquid biopsy"
Neurology	"Alzheimer lecanemab" "stroke thrombectomy"

Usage

User: "Give me today's cardiology brief" → Search cardiology journals from last 7 days → Return 3-5 formatted brief items User: "Weekly neurology update" → Search neurology journals from last 7 days → Return formatted brief

Notes

• If no new articles found, state: "No new high-impact articles found for [specialty] in the last [time window]."
• Track delivered articles to avoid repeats in subsequent briefs
• Prioritize articles with clinical utility metrics (sensitivity/specificity, AUC, hazard ratios)