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Lay Summary For Cross Disciplinary Teams

Q: What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Lay Summary For Cross Disciplinary Teams skill fit in?

A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Lay Summary For Cross Disciplinary Teams is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Science & Research category. Learn more at https://claudskills.com/learn/what-is-skill-md/.

Category: Science & Research · Sub-category: biology-medicine · Last updated: 2026-05-21

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.

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About this skill (catalog notes)

Lay Summary For Cross Disciplinary Teams is published as a SKILL.md file in this catalog. The SKILL.md is on the shorter side at about 492 words.

License: MIT
Original author: AIPOCH
Indexed lastmod: 2026-05-21
Catalog position: Science & Research · biology-medicine
Indexed related skills: 10

How Lay Summary For Cross Disciplinary Teams fits the catalog

Lay Summary For Cross Disciplinary Teams sits in the Science & Research category under the biology-medicine sub-topic in the ClaudSkills catalog. There are 10 related skills indexed alongside it; comparing a few before installing usually reveals which fits your workflow best.

These notes are auto-generated from features detected in the SKILL.md file and from this catalog's structure — they aren't part of the source repository.

From the source SKILL.md

Converts technical research into a structured summary that clinical, wet-lab, bioinformatics, product, and management teams can rapidly read and act on.

What this skill does

Lay Summary For Cross Disciplinary Teams is a community-contributed Claude Code skill 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 Claude Code skill is built for researchers, data scientists, academics, and analysts working with complex data and scientific literature. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 115,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

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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Frequently asked questions

How do I install the Lay Summary For Cross Disciplinary Teams Claude Code skill?

Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/lay-summary-for-cross-disciplinary-teams/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.

What does the Lay Summary For Cross Disciplinary Teams skill do?

Is this skill free to install?

Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.

When should I use the Lay Summary For Cross Disciplinary Teams skill?

Use Lay Summary For Cross Disciplinary Teams when your Claude Code task falls under the Science & Research category — specifically in the biology medicine area. Claude Code auto-discovers installed skills and invokes the right one based on the task description, so you can also ask Claude directly (e.g. "use Lay Summary For Cross Disciplinary Teams" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at /category/science/.

What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Lay Summary For Cross Disciplinary Teams skill fit in?

A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Lay Summary For Cross Disciplinary Teams is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Science & Research category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.

Attribution & license

License: MIT
Author: AIPOCH

Cite this skill

If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:

APA

AIPOCH. (2026). Lay Summary For Cross Disciplinary Teams [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/lay-summary-for-cross-disciplinary-teams/

BibTeX

@misc{lay-summary-for-cross-disciplinary-teams-2026,
  author    = {AIPOCH},
  title     = {Lay Summary For Cross Disciplinary Teams [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/lay-summary-for-cross-disciplinary-teams/}
}

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