A skill your agent uses when starting or resuming any Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) manuscript and you need the entry point.

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Install Epsl Workflow

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills epsl-workflow --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-workflow .claude/skills/epsl-workflow && 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-workflow
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
565 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when starting or resuming any Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) manuscript and you need the entry point.

  • Works in 5 steps: Frontier check → epsl-topic-selection:… → Positioning →… → Design/analysis loop → epsl-study-design… → …
  • Resuming any Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) manuscript and you need the entry point
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, First question: is this a…, Routing map (stage → skill) and Default order, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Epsl Workflow is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when starting or resuming any Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) manuscript and you need the entry point. Routes to the right EPSL sub-skill based on lifecycle stage and on whether the work matches the letters format (a concise, high-significance Letter; an invited Frontiers Paper; or a Comment/Reply). It dispatches; it does not draft content.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k 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

  • Resuming any Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) manuscript and you need the entry point

Example prompts

  • “/epsl-workflow”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Frontier check → epsl-topic-selection: the claim generalizes (how water leaves slabs), so it
  2. Positioning → epsl-literature-positioning: the gap must engage geochemists and
  3. Design/analysis loop → epsl-study-design ↔ epsl-data-analysis: reference materials, blanks,
  4. Exhibits + deposit → epsl-figures-and-tables, epsl-reporting-and-reproducibility: one
  5. Write → pitch → submit → epsl-writing-style → epsl-cover-letter → epsl-submission.

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 Workflow loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 93 tokens; SKILL.md has 565 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~93
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k

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). 565 words, ~1,597 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/epsl-workflow/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
epsl-workflow
description
Use when starting or resuming any Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) manuscript and you need the entry point. Routes to the right EPSL sub-skill based on lifecycle stage and on whether the work matches the letters format (a concise, high-significance Letter; an invited Frontiers Paper; or a Comment/Reply). It dispatches; it does not draft content.

EPSL Workflow Router (epsl-workflow)

The dispatcher for an EPSL submission. EPSL is Elsevier's flagship letters journal for solid-Earth and planetary science (founded 1966, ISSN 0012-821X): it wants a concise Letter carrying one decisive, process-level advance about the physical, chemical or mechanical workings of the Earth or another planet. The router's first job is therefore double: locate the stage, and confirm the result is a Letter — not a data report, not a regional case study, not two papers stapled together.

When to trigger

  • Starting an EPSL manuscript and unsure where to begin
  • Mid-project and unsure which skill applies next
  • Unsure whether the work is letters-shaped or belongs at a specialist journal
  • Returning with a decision letter (route to epsl-revision-and-rebuttal)

First question: is this a Letter?

SituationVerdictRoute to
One decisive advance on a process of Earth/planetary interiors, surfaces, or atmospheresLetter — proceedpipeline below
Solid dataset, insight local to one region or one analytenot yet letters-shapedepsl-topic-selection to reframe or redirect
Two intertwined results needing two manuscriptscompanion papers are discouraged at EPSLmerge to one Letter or split venues
Field-wide synthesisFrontiers Paper — by editor invitation onlydo not self-select; query first
Dispute with a published EPSL paperComment / Replyepsl-review-process for etiquette

Length is policed: the main text (introduction through conclusions) is capped near 6,500 words — re-check the exact figure on the official Guide for Authors before trusting it.

Routing map (stage → skill)

text
Does the idea clear the frontier bar?      → epsl-topic-selection
Which literatures must the gap engage?     → epsl-literature-positioning
Will the sampling/analytical plan hold?    → epsl-study-design
Are uncertainties fully propagated?        → epsl-data-analysis
Do the exhibits work for four sub-fields?  → epsl-figures-and-tables
Data deposited FAIR, methods transparent?  → epsl-reporting-and-reproducibility
Does it read like a Letter?                → epsl-writing-style
Pitching the handling editor?              → epsl-cover-letter
How will it be judged?                     → epsl-review-process
Ready for Editorial Manager?               → epsl-submission
Decision letter arrived?                   → epsl-revision-and-rebuttal

Default order

topic-selection → literature-positioning → study-design → data-analysis → figures-and-tables → reporting-and-reproducibility → writing-style → cover-letter → review-process → submission → revision-and-rebuttal

Expect loops: geochronology and isotope work cycles design ↔ analysis until the uncertainty budget closes; modeling work cycles design ↔ figures until the resolution tests convince.

Symptom → skill quick-routing

User saysUnderlying EPSL riskRoute to
"Is this significant enough for EPSL?"frontier-vs-incremental desk screenepsl-topic-selection
"The editor called it a regional study"no process-level takeawayepsl-topic-selection, epsl-literature-positioning
"Reviewer wants the full error budget"analytical-transparency gapepsl-data-analysis
"Where do I put 400 zircon analyses?"data table belongs in repository/supplementepsl-reporting-and-reproducibility
"I'm 2,000 words over"letters-format capepsl-writing-style
"Which repository counts as FAIR?"data-availability mandateepsl-reporting-and-reproducibility
"Got a major revision"rebuttal strategyepsl-revision-and-rebuttal
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Worked micro-example (illustrative — routing a subduction-zone water paper)

A user arrives: "I have B isotopes and seismic velocities suggesting slab fluids reach the deep arc — where do I start?" The router's pass (illustrative):

  1. Frontier check → epsl-topic-selection: the claim generalizes (how water leaves slabs), so it clears the process bar; confirm Letter shape, one advance.
  2. Positioning → epsl-literature-positioning: the gap must engage geochemists and seismologists, or one of the two reviewers will call it naive.
  3. Design/analysis loop → epsl-study-design ↔ epsl-data-analysis: reference materials, blanks, 2σ external reproducibility, and the velocity-model resolution test.
  4. Exhibits + deposit → epsl-figures-and-tables, epsl-reporting-and-reproducibility: one cross-section figure carrying the argument; data to EarthChem, waveform products via IRIS/EarthScope.
  5. Write → pitch → submit → epsl-writing-style → epsl-cover-letter → epsl-submission.

The router's standing job: surface the two gates the editors weigh first — process-level significance and analytical transparency — before any prose is written.

Anti-patterns

  • Treating EPSL as a general geoscience outlet — a sound regional dataset with no process insight is the classic desk decline
  • Planning companion papers; EPSL explicitly discourages them
  • Self-selecting "Frontiers Paper" without an editor's invitation
  • Discovering the ~6,500-word main-text cap after the draft is 9,000 words
  • Leaving data deposition and the methods supplement until submission week

Output format

【Stage】idea / positioning / design / analysis / exhibits / reproducibility / writing / cover-letter / review / submit / revise
【Format check】Letter / invited Frontiers / Comment-Reply / not letters-shaped
【Route to】epsl-<skill>
【Why】one line
【Then】the next skill after that

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-workflow of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Epsl Workflow

What does Epsl Workflow do?

A skill your agent uses when starting or resuming any Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) manuscript and you need the entry point. Epsl Workflow is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when starting or resuming any Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) manuscript and you need the entry point.

When should I use Epsl Workflow?

Epsl Workflow fits situations like: resuming any Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) manuscript and you need the entry point.

How do I install Epsl Workflow in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Epsl Workflow in Codex?

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

Can I use Epsl Workflow 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-workflow -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-workflow, .gemini/skills/epsl-workflow, .github/skills/epsl-workflow and .opencode/skills/epsl-workflow in your project.

What does Epsl Workflow need to run?

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

Does Epsl Workflow 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 Workflow 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 Workflow use?

Epsl Workflow 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 Workflow use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.4k 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 Epsl Workflow?

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.

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