ClaudSkills / Science & Research / biology-medicine

Lay Summary For Cross Disciplinary Teams

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Science & Research · Sub-category: biology-medicine

Rewrites technical research content into a structured lay summary that cross-disciplinary teams can quickly understand and act on. Use when the user wants to explain research to colleagues outside their specialty — clinicians, wet-lab scientists, bioinformaticians, product managers, or leadership. Trigger on: "lay summary", "explain my research to the team", "non-technical summary", "cross-disciplinary summary", "translate my findings", "align our team on the study", or any request to communicate research goals, findings, or next steps to a mixed or non-specialist audience. Part of the AIPOCH Academic Writing skill hub. Sits midstream: after research content is clarified, before downstream deliverables like slide decks or graphical abstracts.

What this skill does

Lay Summary For Cross Disciplinary Teams is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the biology-medicine sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/lay-summary-for-cross-disciplinary-teams/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when the user wants to explain research to colleagues outside their specialty — clinicians, wet-lab scientists, bioinformaticians, product managers, or leadership. Trigger on: "lay summary", "explain my research to the team", "non-technical summary", "cross-disciplinary summary", "translate my findings", "align our team on the study", or any request to communicate research goals, findings, or next steps to a mixed or non-specialist audience.

Who uses this skill

The Lay Summary For Cross Disciplinary Teams skill is built for researchers, data scientists, academics, and analysts working with complex data and scientific literature. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/lay-summary-for-cross-disciplinary-teams
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/lay-summary-for-cross-disciplinary-teams/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/lay-summary-for-cross-disciplinary-teams/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/lay-summary-for-cross-disciplinary-teams/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/lay-summary-for-cross-disciplinary-teams/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\lay-summary-for-cross-disciplinary-teams\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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