Is the Cover Letter Drafter skill free?

Yes. The skill itself is free from aipoch/medical-research-skills. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.

What is the Cover Letter Drafter SkillProof Score?

8.8/10 — installs cleanly 5/5, triggers reliably 5/5, output vs. baseline 8/10, docs & honesty 4/5.

How do I install Cover Letter Drafter?

Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.

Can I use Cover Letter Drafter with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?

The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.

Cover Letter Drafter

Drafts journal-ready manuscript submission cover letters with a disciplined 5-paragraph structure.

by aipoch · aipoch/medical-research-skills

Tested · Works

Install — copy the command Download source ↗

Test report

Verdict: Tested · Works
Score: 8.8/10
Tested: Jul 20, 2026
Environment: Claude Code 2.x (agent harness)
Upstream re-checked: Aug 10, 2026 · f108edd

Fetched the repo tree via gh (main branch) and pulled the raw SKILL.md plus both referenced files (assets/cover_letter_template.md, references/guide.md) — both exist and are benign, no scripts/exfil/secrets. Frontmatter parses with name+description. Note the slug maps to two dirs; I tested the curated awesome-med-research-skills version (self-contained pure prompt), not the scientific-skills duplicate which is auto-generated boilerplate around a scripts/main.py. Minor docs ding: the body header reads "Cover Letter Generator" while the skill is named cover-letter-drafter.

Scored on four weighted criteria — install, triggering, output vs. baseline, docs. How scoring works

Installs cleanly 5/5
Triggers reliably 5/5
Output vs. baseline 8/10
Docs & honesty 4/5

What Cover Letter Drafter does

A self-contained prompt skill that drafts editor-facing cover letters for journal manuscript submissions, enforcing a 5-paragraph structure (fit, novelty, methods/results, impact, declarations), banning marketing tone, and using a placeholder for unconfirmed conflicts of interest instead of fabricating "none". Triggers on requests like "write a cover letter for my paper" or "draft a submission cover letter for [journal]". Does not handle abstracts, job/fellowship letters (in this version), or acceptance-likelihood claims.

How to install Cover Letter Drafter

Copy the cover-letter-drafter/ directory (SKILL.md + assets/cover_letter_template.md + references/guide.md) into ~/.claude/skills/ or your project's .claude/skills/. Pure prompt, no dependencies or external tools.

Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ (per-project). Restart Claude Code after installing.

Commands — how to trigger Cover Letter Drafter

/cover-letter-drafter Drafts journal-ready manuscript submission cover letters with a disciplined 5-paragraph structure.

It also activates on plain-language prompts like these:

Write a cover letter for my paper submission
Draft a cover letter for this journal's editor
Help me frame the novelty of this manuscript

Frequently asked questions

Is the Cover Letter Drafter skill free?: Yes. The skill itself is free from aipoch/medical-research-skills. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.
Does Cover Letter Drafter work with Claude Code?: We tested it with Claude Code 2.x (agent harness) on Jul 20, 2026. Verdict: Tested · Works. Fetched the repo tree via gh (main branch) and pulled the raw SKILL.md plus both referenced files (assets/cover_letter_template.md, references/guide.md) — both exist and are benign, no scripts/exfil/secrets. Frontmatter parses with name+description. Note the slug maps to two dirs; I tested the curated awesome-med-research-skills version (self-contained pure prompt), not the scientific-skills duplicate which is auto-generated boilerplate around a scripts/main.py. Minor docs ding: the body header reads "Cover Letter Generator" while the skill is named cover-letter-drafter.
What is the Cover Letter Drafter SkillProof Score?: 8.8/10 — installs cleanly 5/5, triggers reliably 5/5, output vs. baseline 8/10, docs & honesty 4/5.
How do I install Cover Letter Drafter?: Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.
Can I use Cover Letter Drafter with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?: The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.