Agent skill

Advmat Length Management

by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

A skill your agent uses when an Advanced Materials manuscript must be fit to its article-type format — Communication versus Research Article — where word count and display items are budgeted…

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Install Advmat Length Management

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill advmat-length-management -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills advmat-length-management --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/Advanced-Materials-Skills/skills/advmat-length-management .claude/skills/advmat-length-management && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
advmat-length-management
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
621 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when an Advanced Materials manuscript must be fit to its article-type format — Communication versus Research Article — where word count and display items are budgeted…

  • Works in 5 steps: Hype and boilerplate — delete… → Redundant prose — remove sentences that… → Optimization and secondary data — move… → …
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Article type sets the budget, Choosing Communication vs.… and Trimming order (cut in this…, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Advmat Length Management is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when an Advanced Materials manuscript must be fit to its article-type format — Communication versus Research Article — where word count and display items are budgeted together against a typeset page limit. Manages the length budget; does not restructure the science or polish prose line by line.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. | 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.

Example prompts

  • “/advmat-length-management”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Hype and boilerplate — delete "novel/unprecedented/facile/remarkable"; collapse background paragraphs to one sentence (see…
  2. Redundant prose — remove sentences that transcribe figure values; interpret instead.
  3. Optimization and secondary data — move process sweeps, extra samples, and control experiments to the SI (see advmat-supplementary).
  4. Display items — merge panels that prove one link; move non-essential figures to the SI; avoid double-column figures unless the data demand…
  5. Reference pruning — keep the citations that establish novelty and support trust; drop padding.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Advmat Length Management loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 81 tokens; SKILL.md has 621 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~81
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.4k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 621 words, ~1,360 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/advmat-length-management/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
advmat-length-management
description
Use when an Advanced Materials manuscript must be fit to its article-type format — Communication versus Research Article — where word count and display items are budgeted together against a typeset page limit. Manages the length budget; does not restructure the science or polish prose line by line.

Advanced Materials Length Management (advmat-length-management)

When to trigger

  • You are unsure whether the work is a Communication or a full Research Article
  • The manuscript overruns the typeset page limit for its article type
  • Figures/schemes are large and you must trade display items against text
  • A reviewer or editor asked you to condense to a Communication, or expand to an Article
  • You are in late polish, after the science and figures are stable

Article type sets the budget

Advanced Materials counts length in typeset published pages, not manuscript pages — a double-spaced 25-page manuscript may typeset to far fewer pages in the two-column layout. Word count and display items (figures, schemes, tables) count together against the page budget. Approximate targets (verify current limits on the author page):

Article typeTypeset budget (approx.)AbstractDisplay items (approx.)
Communication~4 published pages (~3500 words)none — opening paragraph acts as abstract~4 figures/tables
Research Article~10 published pages (~3000–8000 words)short abstract (~200 words) + 3–7 keywords~3–8 display items
Review / Progresslonger, by invitation/agreementstructured per typemany

A large or multi-panel figure consumes a disproportionate slice of the page budget: adding a panel can cost a paragraph of text.

Choosing Communication vs. Article

  • Communication — one sharp, urgent advance that a specialist audience needs now; concise, high-impact, no room for exhaustive characterization in the body (it goes to the SI).
  • Research Article — the same class of advance but requiring the full structure → property → function story, multiple device configurations, or a mechanism study that a Communication cannot hold.
  • If your "Communication" needs eight figures to be believed, it is an Article. If your "Article" has one figure and one claim, it is a Communication.

Trimming order (cut in this sequence)

Trim only after the central advance, characterization, and figures are stable, so you cut padding, not evidence:

  1. Hype and boilerplate — delete "novel/unprecedented/facile/remarkable"; collapse background paragraphs to one sentence (see advmat-writing-style).
  2. Redundant prose — remove sentences that transcribe figure values; interpret instead.
  3. Optimization and secondary data — move process sweeps, extra samples, and control experiments to the SI (see advmat-supplementary).
  4. Display items — merge panels that prove one link; move non-essential figures to the SI; avoid double-column figures unless the data demand it.
  5. Reference pruning — keep the citations that establish novelty and support trust; drop padding.

Never trim: the decisive characterization, the benchmarking, or the headline metric's statistics.

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Fit-check routine

  • Typeset a draft in the Wiley template to see real page count, not manuscript pages.
  • Budget each figure by its printed area; tally figures + text together.
  • Leave a margin under the limit so revision additions do not overrun.
  • If still over after trimming padding, the honest fixes are: promote to a Research Article, or move a supporting result wholesale to the SI — not shrinking fonts or figures below legibility.

Checklist

  • Article type chosen deliberately (Communication vs. Research Article) and matches the content
  • Length measured as typeset pages in the Wiley template, not manuscript pages
  • Display items counted together with text against the budget
  • Hype words and background padding removed first
  • Optimization/secondary data moved to the SI, not deleted
  • No double-column figure unless the data require it
  • Abstract/keywords conform to the article type
  • Decisive characterization, benchmarking, and statistics untouched

Anti-patterns

  • Trimming characterization or benchmarking to hit the page limit
  • Counting manuscript pages instead of typeset pages and being surprised at proof
  • Shrinking figures below legibility to save space
  • Forcing a full study into a Communication by hiding the evidence in the SI
  • Padding a thin Communication into an Article with filler characterization
  • Discovering the overrun only at production, after acceptance

Output format

【Article type】Communication / Research Article — matches content?  yes / reconsider
【Typeset page estimate】within budget?  yes / over by ~X
【Display items】counted with text?  N figures + M tables
【Trim done】hype / prose / secondary-data-to-SI / figures / refs
【Untouched】characterization + benchmarking + statistics intact?  yes
【Next】advmat-cover-letter or advmat-submission

Page limits, word counts, abstract/keyword rules, and display-item allowances differ by article type and change — verify all on the official Wiley Advanced Materials author page.

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Advanced-Materials-Skills/skills/advmat-length-management of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Advmat Length Management

What does Advmat Length Management do?

A skill your agent uses when an Advanced Materials manuscript must be fit to its article-type format — Communication versus Research Article — where word count and display items are budgeted…. Advmat Length Management is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when an Advanced Materials manuscript must be fit to its article-type format — Communication versus Research Article — where word count and display items are budgeted together against a typeset page limit.

How do I install Advmat Length Management in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill advmat-length-management -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Advanced-Materials-Skills/skills/advmat-length-management in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/advmat-length-management in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Advmat Length Management in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill advmat-length-management -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Advanced-Materials-Skills/skills/advmat-length-management in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/advmat-length-management in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Advmat Length Management in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill advmat-length-management -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/advmat-length-management, .gemini/skills/advmat-length-management, .github/skills/advmat-length-management and .opencode/skills/advmat-length-management in your project.

What does Advmat Length Management need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Advmat Length Management is instructions for the agent only.

Does Advmat Length Management access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Advmat Length Management safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Advmat Length Management use?

Advmat Length Management is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Advmat Length Management use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Advmat Length Management?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,231 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.