A skill your agent uses when you need to understand how Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) evaluates a manuscript — subject-editor desk screening against the frontier bar, expert review…

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Install Epsl Review Process

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill epsl-review-process -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills epsl-review-process --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/Earth-and-Planetary-Science-Letters-Skills/skills/epsl-review-process .claude/skills/epsl-review-process && 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
epsl-review-process
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
582 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when you need to understand how Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) evaluates a manuscript — subject-editor desk screening against the frontier bar, expert review…

  • Works in 5 steps: Subject-editor triage. The handling… → Referees drawn from the paper's… → Editor-led decisions. The handling… → …
  • Expert review typically drawn from the sub-fields the paper joins
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, How EPSL review works, Desk-decline grounds and where… and What each referee audits, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Epsl Review Process is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when you need to understand how Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) evaluates a manuscript — subject-editor desk screening against the frontier bar, expert review typically drawn from the sub-fields the paper joins, and editor-led decisions. It sets expectations and hardens the paper before submission; it does not contact editors.

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.

It sits in Data & Analytics. 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

  • Expert review typically drawn from the sub-fields the paper joins
  • Editor-led decisions

Example prompts

  • “/epsl-review-process”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Subject-editor triage. The handling editor — a researcher in the paper's area — judges frontier
  2. Referees drawn from the paper's intersection. A manuscript joining geochemistry and
  3. Editor-led decisions. The handling editor weighs the reviews and decides — reject, major or
  4. Comments and Replies. EPSL carries formal Comment/Reply exchanges on published papers; they are
  5. Integrity screening. Plagiarism checks, authorship and competing-interest declarations, and

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

Epsl Review Process loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 91 tokens; SKILL.md has 582 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~91
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). 582 words, ~1,397 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/epsl-review-process/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
epsl-review-process
description
Use when you need to understand how Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) evaluates a manuscript — subject-editor desk screening against the frontier bar, expert review typically drawn from the sub-fields the paper joins, and editor-led decisions. It sets expectations and hardens the paper before submission; it does not contact editors.

Review Process (epsl-review-process)

EPSL's review is run by working scientists: a team of editors, each handling manuscripts near their own specialty, screening first for whether the paper is a genuine Letter — concise, decisive, of broad Earth-and-planets interest — before sending it to expert referees. Knowing the two-gate structure (desk screen on significance and fit, then technical review on rigor) lets you harden the paper against each gate in advance. Volatile details (editor names, reviewer counts, timelines) drift; re-check them on the official site.

When to trigger

  • Pre-submission stress test against the desk-screen and reviewer axes
  • Interpreting a decision letter and planning the response strategy
  • Anticipating which sub-fields the referees will come from
  • Considering a Comment on a published EPSL paper, or facing one

How EPSL review works

  1. Subject-editor triage. The handling editor — a researcher in the paper's area — judges frontier significance, letters fit, and scope. Regional case studies without process-level insight, method reports, and incremental additions to settled questions are declined here, without external review.
  2. Referees drawn from the paper's intersection. A manuscript joining geochemistry and geodynamics is typically reviewed by at least one specialist from each side; each referee audits their own layer (traceability and statistics vs physical plausibility and resolution).
  3. Editor-led decisions. The handling editor weighs the reviews and decides — reject, major or minor revision, or acceptance; reviews advise, the editor adjudicates.
  4. Comments and Replies. EPSL carries formal Comment/Reply exchanges on published papers; they are held to the same evidence standard as Letters and are not a venue for tone.
  5. Integrity screening. Plagiarism checks, authorship and competing-interest declarations, and Elsevier's publishing-ethics framework apply at submission.

Desk-decline grounds and where they get fixed upstream

Desk-decline groundWhat the editor readFix it in
Regional study, no process takeawayplace-name title, local conclusionsepsl-topic-selection
Incremental / does not move the frontiergap framed as "more data needed"epsl-literature-positioning
Not letters-shapedsprawling scope, companion manuscriptepsl-workflow, epsl-writing-style
Better suited to a specialist journalmethod-community audience onlyepsl-topic-selection
Over length / format non-compliantcap exceeded, missing statementsepsl-submission
Show full SKILL.md (244 more words)Show less

What each referee audits

RefereeReads firstRejects on
The analyst (geochem/geochron)standards, blanks, σ-definitions, MSWDuntraceable numbers
The physicist (geophys/geodyn)resolution tests, force balance, scalinginterpreting artifacts
The recorder (strat/paleo)age control, correlation logicrates without anchors
The planetary scientistdata provenance (mission/archive), assumed parametersoverreach beyond sensitivity

Worked micro-example (illustrative — forecasting the decision on the slab-fluid paper)

Stress-testing the B-isotope + tomography Letter before submission (illustrative reasoning):

  • Desk axes: process-level (how slabs lose water) — passes; letters-shaped (one claim, 6,100 words) — passes; portability argued in the abstract — passes.
  • Geochemist referee: will probe the δ11B external reproducibility and crustal-assimilation screen — both pre-empted in the supplement.
  • Seismologist referee: will ask whether the conduit survives the resolution test — the inset in Figure 1c exists precisely for this.
  • Realistic outcome: major revision asking for an alternative-fluid-pathway discussion and one more sensitivity case. Budget for it; "major revision" at a high-bar venue is an invitation to convince, not a near-accept.

The discipline: walk the desk axes and both referees' audits yourself, in writing, before the editor does.

Anti-patterns

  • Submitting a locally-framed paper and hoping the editor generalizes it for you
  • Preparing for one referee's specialty when the paper straddles two
  • Reading "major revision" as acceptance-with-chores
  • Responding to a Comment with rhetoric instead of data
  • Assuming timelines, reviewer counts, or editor assignments that the official page does not state

Output format

【Desk screen】process-level? letters-shaped? portable? [Y/N each]
【Predicted referees】sub-fields + what each will audit
【Pre-empted objections】list, with manuscript location
【Weakest layer】named honestly + mitigation
【Realistic outcome】reject / major / minor
【Next】epsl-submission (or epsl-revision-and-rebuttal on a decision)

Supplementary resources

© brycewang-stanford, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in Earth-and-Planetary-Science-Letters-Skills/skills/epsl-review-process of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Epsl Review Process

What does Epsl Review Process do?

A skill your agent uses when you need to understand how Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) evaluates a manuscript — subject-editor desk screening against the frontier bar, expert review…. Epsl Review Process is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when you need to understand how Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) evaluates a manuscript — subject-editor desk screening against the frontier bar, expert review typically drawn from the sub-fields the paper joins, and editor-led decisions.

When should I use Epsl Review Process?

Epsl Review Process fits situations like: expert review typically drawn from the sub-fields the paper joins; editor-led decisions.

How do I install Epsl Review Process in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill epsl-review-process -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Earth-and-Planetary-Science-Letters-Skills/skills/epsl-review-process in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/epsl-review-process in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Epsl Review Process in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill epsl-review-process -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Earth-and-Planetary-Science-Letters-Skills/skills/epsl-review-process in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/epsl-review-process in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Epsl Review Process 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 epsl-review-process -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/epsl-review-process, .gemini/skills/epsl-review-process, .github/skills/epsl-review-process and .opencode/skills/epsl-review-process in your project.

What does Epsl Review Process need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Epsl Review Process is instructions for the agent only.

Does Epsl Review Process 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 Epsl Review Process 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 Epsl Review Process use?

Epsl Review Process 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 Epsl Review Process use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.6k 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 Epsl Review Process?

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.

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