Agent skill · mvanhorn
pp-thelancet
Search Lancet articles offline and analyze author impact, institutional networks Trigger phrases: `search Lancet articles for`, `rank the top authors in Lancet`, `which institutions publish most in`, `how has this journal's focus changed`, `build a reading list on`.
What it needs
About 7k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
The Lancet — Printing Press CLI Prerequisites: Install the CLI This skill drives the thelancet-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first: 1. Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to $HOME/.local/bin on macOS/Linux and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin on Windows: 2. Verify: thelancet-pp-cli --version 3. Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill. If the npx install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.4 or newer). This installs into $GOPATH/bin (default $HOME/go/bin), so add that directory to $PATH instead: If --version reports "command not found" after install, the runtime cannot see the binary directory on $PATH. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds. The Lancet CLI gives researchers and institutions offline access to The Lancet family of journals via OpenAlex. Beyond search and fetch, it ranks researchers by citation impact within a specialty (rank-authors), maps institutional co-authorship networks (mesh), tracks which institutions are publishing more over time (affiliation-growth), and detects how a journal's editorial focus shifts (drift) — insights impossible from single API queries or paywalled tools. When to Use This CLI Use this CLI to answer questions about The Lancet's research landscape offline and without API throttling: literature reviews, tracking institutional publication trends, finding collaborators, and analyzing how medical research evolves over time. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills mvanhorn/thelancet