A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a materials result clears Advanced Materials' advance-and-broad-impact gate, or whether it belongs in Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Science…

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Install Advmat Scope Fit

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills advmat-scope-fit --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-scope-fit .claude/skills/advmat-scope-fit && 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-scope-fit
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
610 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a materials result clears Advanced Materials' advance-and-broad-impact gate, or whether it belongs in Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Science…

  • Works in 2 steps: Genuine advance — Is there a new… → Broad impact — Would researchers in a…
  • Deciding whether a materials result clears Advanced Materials advance-and-broad-impact gate
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The two-part gate (both must…, Decision table and How to stress-test the gate, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Advmat Scope Fit is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a materials result clears Advanced Materials' advance-and-broad-impact gate, or whether it belongs in Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Science, Small, or Advanced Materials Interfaces. Diagnoses venue fit; does not write or characterize the material.

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.

When your agent uses it

  • Deciding whether a materials result clears Advanced Materials advance-and-broad-impact gate
  • Whether it belongs in Advanced Functional Materials
  • Advanced Science
  • Advanced Materials Interfaces

Example prompts

  • “/advmat-scope-fit”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Genuine advance — Is there a new material, a new mechanism, or a new property/performance regime — not an incremental gain on an existing…
  2. Broad impact — Would researchers in a neighboring materials community (or a device/application field) find this consequential? An advance…

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 Scope Fit loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 75 tokens; SKILL.md has 610 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~75
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). 610 words, ~1,356 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/advmat-scope-fit/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
advmat-scope-fit
description
Use when deciding whether a materials result clears Advanced Materials' advance-and-broad-impact gate, or whether it belongs in Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Science, Small, or Advanced Materials Interfaces. Diagnoses venue fit; does not write or characterize the material.

Advanced Materials Scope Fit (advmat-scope-fit)

When to trigger

  • You suspect the work is solid but may be "incremental optimization"
  • You cannot articulate why a materials scientist outside your subfield should care
  • A coauthor asks "Adv. Mater. or Adv. Funct. Mater.?"
  • An editor has previously bounced similar work on novelty/impact grounds
  • Before investing in cover-quality figures and full characterization, you want a go / no-go on venue

The two-part gate (both must pass)

Advanced Materials publishes across all of materials science — materials chemistry, nanotechnology, energy materials (batteries, photovoltaics, catalysis), electronics and optoelectronics, biomaterials, soft matter, and structural materials. The gate is two tests, AND-ed:

  1. Genuine advance — Is there a new material, a new mechanism, or a new property/performance regime — not an incremental gain on an existing system? A record efficiency alone is not an advance if it comes from routine tuning; a new design principle that unlocks it is.
  2. Broad impact — Would researchers in a neighboring materials community (or a device/application field) find this consequential? An advance is broad if it transfers a design rule, opens a new material class, or resets a performance–property trade-off others were stuck on.

A careful, well-characterized, but incremental result can pass rigor and still fail the gate. That is the most common Adv. Mater. rejection mode, and it is a venue judgment, not a quality judgment.

Decision table

SituationVerdict
New material class or design principle + clear cross-field relevanceAdv. Mater. — strong fit
New mechanism explaining a property, with general design consequencesAdv. Mater. — strong fit
Record device metric driven by a genuinely new material/interface conceptAdv. Mater. — fit (frame the advance)
Solid performance gain by established optimization on a known systemAdv. Funct. Mater. (functional focus)
Rigorous nanoscale study, well-defined but specialist audienceSmall
Sound, broad, but best served by gold open access and rapid disseminationAdvanced Science
Interface / thin-film / surface study, incremental or specialistAdvanced Materials Interfaces
Characterization-only paper with no property or device consequenceSpecialist / methods journal
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How to stress-test the gate

  • The neighbor test: name a specific researcher in a different materials subfield and state, in one sentence, why they would read this. If you cannot, broad impact is weak.
  • The design-rule test: does the paper hand the reader a transferable rule ("do X to the lattice/interface and Y follows"), or just one more optimized sample? A rule travels; a sample does not.
  • The trade-off test: does the advance break a known property trade-off (strength vs. ductility, efficiency vs. stability, conductivity vs. transparency)? Breaking one is a classic Adv. Mater. story.
  • The "so a record?" test: if the headline is "highest X to date," ask what new material physics or chemistry produced it. No new principle → likely a functional/specialist venue.

Checklist

  • The single central advance is stated in one sentence (new material / mechanism / property)
  • The advance is distinguished from incremental optimization, explicitly
  • Broad impact is named for a concrete out-of-subfield or device audience
  • You can name the design rule or trade-off the result changes
  • You have honestly considered AFM / Adv. Sci. / Small / AMI as the better venue
  • If borderline, you have an impact argument ready for the cover letter

Anti-patterns

  • Equating a record number with an advance — Adv. Mater. rewards the new principle behind the number
  • Claiming broad impact by listing applications the material has not been shown to enable
  • "Salami-slicing" a broader study into a thin Communication to chase the venue
  • Submitting an optimization paper reframed with impact language but no new material science
  • Ignoring that editors desk-reject on novelty/impact before any characterization is read

Output format

【Central advance】one sentence (new material / mechanism / property)
【Not incremental because】...
【Broad impact】named out-of-subfield or device audience + why they care
【Design rule / trade-off changed】...
【Verdict】Adv. Mater. strong / Adv. Mater. with impact framing / retarget to AFM / Adv. Sci. / Small / AMI
【Next】advmat-results-framing (if Adv. Mater.) or retarget venue

Scope and portfolio positioning are durable, but article categories and sibling-journal remits evolve — verify on the official Wiley Advanced Materials author page.

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Files

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

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Advmat Scope Fit

What does Advmat Scope Fit do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a materials result clears Advanced Materials' advance-and-broad-impact gate, or whether it belongs in Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Science…. Advmat Scope Fit is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a materials result clears Advanced Materials' advance-and-broad-impact gate, or whether it belongs in Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Science, Small, or Advanced Materials Interfaces.

When should I use Advmat Scope Fit?

Advmat Scope Fit fits situations like: deciding whether a materials result clears Advanced Materials advance-and-broad-impact gate; whether it belongs in Advanced Functional Materials; advanced Science; advanced Materials Interfaces.

How do I install Advmat Scope Fit in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Advmat Scope Fit in Codex?

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

Can I use Advmat Scope Fit 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-scope-fit -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-scope-fit, .gemini/skills/advmat-scope-fit, .github/skills/advmat-scope-fit and .opencode/skills/advmat-scope-fit in your project.

What does Advmat Scope Fit need to run?

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

Does Advmat Scope Fit 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 Scope Fit 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 Scope Fit use?

Advmat Scope Fit 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 Scope Fit 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.

What are the alternatives to Advmat Scope Fit?

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Who maintains Advmat Scope Fit?

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.