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A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a result fits Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) and how to frame it.
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Install Epsl Topic Selection
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill epsl-topic-selection -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills epsl-topic-selection --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ 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-topic-selection .claude/skills/epsl-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "epsl-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Earth-and-Planetary-Science-Letters-Skills/skills/epsl-topic-selection into .claude/skills/epsl-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "epsl-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Earth-and-Planetary-Science-Letters-Skills/skills/epsl-topic-selectionType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill epsl-topic-selection -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills epsl-topic-selection --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/Earth-and-Planetary-Science-Letters-Skills/skills/epsl-topic-selection .agents/skills/epsl-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "epsl-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Earth-and-Planetary-Science-Letters-Skills/skills/epsl-topic-selection into .agents/skills/epsl-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "epsl-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill epsl-topic-selection -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills epsl-topic-selection --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/Earth-and-Planetary-Science-Letters-Skills/skills/epsl-topic-selection .cursor/skills/epsl-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "epsl-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Earth-and-Planetary-Science-Letters-Skills/skills/epsl-topic-selection into .cursor/skills/epsl-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "epsl-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git --path Earth-and-Planetary-Science-Letters-Skills/skills/epsl-topic-selection--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill epsl-topic-selection -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills epsl-topic-selection --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/Earth-and-Planetary-Science-Letters-Skills/skills/epsl-topic-selection .gemini/skills/epsl-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "epsl-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Earth-and-Planetary-Science-Letters-Skills/skills/epsl-topic-selection into .gemini/skills/epsl-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "epsl-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills epsl-topic-selectionInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill epsl-topic-selection -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/Earth-and-Planetary-Science-Letters-Skills/skills/epsl-topic-selection .github/skills/epsl-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "epsl-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Earth-and-Planetary-Science-Letters-Skills/skills/epsl-topic-selection into .github/skills/epsl-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "epsl-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill epsl-topic-selection -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills epsl-topic-selection --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/Earth-and-Planetary-Science-Letters-Skills/skills/epsl-topic-selection .opencode/skills/epsl-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "epsl-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Earth-and-Planetary-Science-Letters-Skills/skills/epsl-topic-selection into .opencode/skills/epsl-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "epsl-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
epsl-topic-selection- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1.2k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 546 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 result fits Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) and how to frame it.
- Works in 4 steps: Name the process, not the place. Does… → Portability. Would a scientist working… → Decisiveness. Does the dataset actually… → …
- Deciding whether a result fits Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) and how to frame it
- SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The process-level test, Fit-versus-redirect decision… and Worked micro-example…, plus 3 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Epsl Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a result fits Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) and how to frame it. EPSL takes concise, high-significance Letters on physical, chemical and mechanical processes of the Earth and planets, and desk-declines regional case studies without process-level insight, so this skill pressure-tests the frontier claim before you invest. It frames the contribution; it does not run analyses.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k 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 result fits Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) and how to frame it
Example prompts
- “/epsl-topic-selection”
Workflow steps
4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Name the process, not the place. Does the result constrain a physical, chemical, or mechanical
- Portability. Would a scientist working on a different continent (or a different planet) change
- Decisiveness. Does the dataset actually discriminate between competing hypotheses, or is it
- Letter economy. Can the advance be delivered in a main text near the ~6,500-word cap (re-check
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 Topic Selection loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 109 tokens; SKILL.md has 546 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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). 546 words, ~1,221 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/epsl-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- epsl-topic-selection
- description
- Use when deciding whether a result fits Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) and how to frame it. EPSL takes concise, high-significance Letters on physical, chemical and mechanical processes of the Earth and planets, and desk-declines regional case studies without process-level insight, so this skill pressure-tests the frontier claim before you invest. It frames the contribution; it does not run analyses.
Topic Selection & Fit (epsl-topic-selection)
EPSL's identity is in its name: Letters. The journal wants a short paper whose single result moves a frontier — how planets differentiate, how mantles convect, how faults load, how climate signals enter the rock record — not a competent study whose relevance stops at one basin, one orogen, or one sample suite. Deciding fit early saves months, because the frontier-vs-incremental judgment is made at the editor's desk.
When to trigger
- Choosing between EPSL and a specialist or regional venue
- Sharpening a dataset into a process-level question
- Worried the paper reads as "another case study from region X"
- Tempted to split one project into companion papers (EPSL discourages this)
The process-level test
- Name the process, not the place. Does the result constrain a physical, chemical, or mechanical process of the Earth or another planet — melting, degassing, core formation, slab dehydration, crustal growth, orbital forcing — rather than describing a locality?
- Portability. Would a scientist working on a different continent (or a different planet) change how they interpret their system because of your result?
- Decisiveness. Does the dataset actually discriminate between competing hypotheses, or is it consistent with all of them?
- Letter economy. Can the advance be delivered in a main text near the ~6,500-word cap (re-check on the official site) with a handful of figures? If not, the venue or the scope is wrong.
Fit-versus-redirect decision table
| Your work is... | EPSL fit | Better home |
|---|---|---|
| A locality's geochemistry with no generalizable mechanism | weak | Lithos, Chemical Geology, a regional journal |
| A new constraint that rewrites a global process budget | strong | EPSL Letter |
| Comprehensive method development for one instrument | weak | Chemical Geology, G-cubed, GGR |
| A planetary-interior result from mission or meteorite data | strong | EPSL Letter (planetary scope is explicit) |
| Descriptive stratigraphy or mapping | weak | Basin Research, GSA Bulletin |
| A dense monograph-length argument | wrong format | JGR Solid Earth, GCA |
| A field-wide synthesis you were invited to write | strong | EPSL Frontiers Paper (invitation only) |
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Worked micro-example (illustrative — three framings of one detrital-zircon dataset)
The same 600-grain U-Pb dataset from a foreland basin can land three ways (illustrative):
- Off-fit: "Detrital zircon ages from the X Basin constrain its provenance." A locality's sediment-routing story — the textbook EPSL desk decline.
- Borderline: "Age spectra shift at 30 Ma, coincident with the Y collision." A correlation, but a reviewer asks what process was tested.
- On-fit: "Foreland age spectra lag exhumation by ~5 Myr (illustrative), quantifying the transit time of orogenic detritus — so detrital archives worldwide record mountain building with a measurable, correctable delay." Now every basin worker recalibrates their reading of the archive.
The sorting question: finish the sentence "anyone studying [process] on any planet now has to account for…". If you can only finish "anyone studying [my region]…", reframe or redirect.
Anti-patterns
- A regional case study whose conclusions never leave the field area — the pattern EPSL editors decline without review
- "First measurement of X in Y" with no hypothesis the measurement discriminates
- Stretching a specialist method paper to look like a process paper
- Planning two companion manuscripts; EPSL states they are against the spirit of concise Letters
- Choosing EPSL because of prestige while the natural readership is a single sub-community
Output format
【Question】one-sentence process-level question
【Process, not place】the Earth/planetary process constrained
【Portability】who outside the region/sub-field must respond
【Decisiveness】hypotheses discriminated
【Letter economy】deliverable near the word cap? [Y/N]
【Verdict】EPSL Letter / reframe / redirect (venue)
【Next】epsl-literature-positioningSupplementary resources
../../resources/exemplars/library.md— landmark EPSL papers that cleared the frontier bar../../resources/official-source-map.md— EPSL aims, scope, and article types
© 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-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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| TopicsZimoLiao/scholaraio | 577 | — | ~294 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Topic Modelingbrycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills | 4.5k | — | ~3.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Bestblogs Topicginobefun/BestBlogs | 4k | — | ~670 | Automated safety check: Pass | None |
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Questions about Epsl Topic Selection
What does Epsl Topic Selection do?
A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a result fits Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) and how to frame it. Epsl Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a result fits Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) and how to frame it.
When should I use Epsl Topic Selection?
Epsl Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a result fits Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) and how to frame it.
How do I install Epsl Topic Selection in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill epsl-topic-selection -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Earth-and-Planetary-Science-Letters-Skills/skills/epsl-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/epsl-topic-selection in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Epsl Topic Selection in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill epsl-topic-selection -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Earth-and-Planetary-Science-Letters-Skills/skills/epsl-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/epsl-topic-selection in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Epsl Topic Selection 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-topic-selection -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-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/epsl-topic-selection, .github/skills/epsl-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/epsl-topic-selection in your project.
What does Epsl Topic Selection need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Epsl Topic Selection is instructions for the agent only.
Does Epsl Topic Selection 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 Topic Selection 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 Topic Selection use?
Epsl Topic Selection 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 Topic Selection use?
About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.9k 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 Epsl Topic Selection?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Epsl Topic Selection: Table Fit (asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks, 69k stars), Furniture Fit Check (pascalorg/editor, 25k stars), Topics (ZimoLiao/scholaraio, 577 stars) and Topic Modeling (brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, 4.5k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Epsl Topic Selection?
brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,228 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.