From jacs-skills
Drafts the cover letter for a JACS manuscript, stating the advance, broad interest, and fit. Use when submitting to the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/jacs-skills:jacs-cover-letterThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
- The manuscript is ready and you need the cover letter for Paragon Plus
The handling editor triages on broad interest and fit before sending to review. The cover letter is your one paragraph to make that case clearly — it complements, never repeats, the abstract.
jacs-referee-strategy).Treat this skill as an executable review pass, not a prose hint. First lock the chemical novelty, characterization chain, controls, and scope or mechanism evidence; then judge whether the current manuscript answers the venue's real reader: chemistry reviewers who expect a molecule/material/reaction claim to be supported by rigorous characterization and mechanistic insight.
claim / evidence / risk / manuscript location rows, so the next agent can edit rather than rediscover the issue.resources/official-source-map.md has been checked for volatile rules and the manuscript has one concrete fix for the largest venue-specific risk.【Type/title】Article|Communication — <title>
【Advance】≤2 sentences
【Broad interest】driver + audience
【Decisive evidence】one line
【Disclosures】original / preprint / related / conflicts — status
【Reviewers】suggested: [...]; excluded (reason): [...]
【Next】jacs-submission
jacs-referee-strategy — choosing suggested and excluded reviewers../jacs-submission/templates/checklist.md — full submission preflightnpx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin jacs-skillsDrafts cover letters and presubmission inquiries for Cancer Cell (Cell Press) submissions, framing significance, fit, novelty, and reviewer suggestions.
Drafts the editorial cover letter for a Physical Review Letters submission, arguing why the work meets PRL's importance-and-broad-interest criteria for APS editors.
Writes an editor-facing cover letter for Science submissions, focusing on broad significance and rapid triage. Structures the letter as a significance argument rather than a summary.