Use when targeting JAMA Psychiatry or deciding whether a clinical-psychiatry or mental-health study fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the psychiatric-trial and observational/neuropsychiatric evidence bar, reporting-guideline and trial-registration requirements, JAMA Network house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics. Venue-fit aid only, not clinical advice.
SkillScore86Maintained
Automatic
◆Research pack
Last verified 9/1/2026
What it changes
Passed 19 of 22 test cases with the skill, and 16 of 22 without it.
Without skill73%
With skill86%
Checks it passed that the model alone missed
The response requires a structured abstract and Key Points box
The response declines to provide direct patient treatment or clinical prescription advice
The response specifies verifying specific word and figure limits on the live author instructions
and 1 more in the full report
3 fixed16 passed either way3 still failing0 broke
Pass-rate lift
+14 pp
Tokens
+32%
Agent turns
0%
Response time
-25%
Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 9/1/2026v119 of 22 cases passed with skill
Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.
See it in action
One of 3 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
1 of 3
Prompt
We conducted a double-blind RCT comparing psilocybin-assisted therapy versus niacin placebo for major depression (N=100) with MADRS primary endpoint at 6 weeks. Provide the venue assessment.
What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked
Without skill
With skill
The fit rating is evaluated as High
Passed
Passed
The response specifies CONSORT reporting standards and prospective trial registration verification
Missed
Passed
case-15 · gemini-3.6-flash · 9/1/2026 · answers are capped and redacted
What's inside
The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.
SKILL.md125 linessingle file
JAMA Psychiatry (jama-psychiatry)
Journal positioning
JAMA Psychiatry is a JAMA Network specialty journal for clinical psychiatry and
mental-health research relevant to the practice of psychiatry. It favors rigorous,
practice-relevant work — randomized psychiatric and psychotherapy trials, large
epidemiologic and registry studies, and neuropsychiatric/biomarker and neuroimaging
studies tied to clinical phenotypes — with JAMA's emphasis on validated outcomes,
adequate power, and direct relevance to mental-health care. It is a JAMA Network venue
with a North-American clinical center of gravity, distinct from the Lancet family's
global-mental-health reach. Small symptom-scale studies, underpowered neuroimaging
with no replication, and biomarker correlations without clinical endpoints are a weak
fit. This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing aid; it is not clinical or
regulatory advice and does not replace the journal's current instructions for authors.
Before submitting, re-check the live JAMA Psychiatry author instructions.
When to trigger
The author names JAMA Psychiatry for a psychiatric trial, epidemiologic, or
neuropsychiatric study and wants a fit/framing check.
A mental-health study must be re-framed around a validated clinical outcome and a
practice-relevant question for a psychiatry readership.
The author is choosing between JAMA Psychiatry, JAMA, and the Lancet family
(the-lancet-psychiatry).
The author needs the journal's reporting-guideline, registration, and desk-reject
expectations for psychiatry work.
Scope & topic fit
Randomized trials of pharmacologic, psychotherapeutic, neuromodulation, or digital
mental-health interventions with validated symptom or functional outcomes.
Large psychiatric epidemiology, registry, and longitudinal cohort studies on
incidence, course, comorbidity, and mortality.
Neuropsychiatric and neuroimaging studies (structural/functional MRI, EEG) tied to
diagnosis, prognosis, or treatment response, with adequate power and replication.
Genetic and biomarker studies validated against a clinical phenotype or outcome.
Suicide, substance-use, and severe-mental-illness research with appropriate ethics
and safety monitoring.
Health-services, disparities, and mental-health-policy research; focused systematic
Use when targeting JAMA Neurology or deciding whether a clinical-neurology study fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the neurological-trial and observational evidence bar, reporting-guideline and trial-registration requirements, JAMA Network house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics. Venue-fit aid only, not clinical advice.