Agent skill

Geophysical Research Letters

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

A skill your agent uses when targeting Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) or deciding whether an Earth or space science manuscript fits this high-impact short-format venue.

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Geophysical Research Letters

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill geophysical-research-letters -a claude-code

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

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

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when targeting Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) or deciding whether an Earth or space science manuscript fits this high-impact short-format venue.

  • Targeting Geophysical Research Letters (GRL)
  • SKILL.md covers Journal positioning, When to trigger, Scope & topic fit and Method & evidence bar, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Deciding whether an Earth

What it does

Geophysical Research Letters is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when targeting Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) or deciding whether an Earth or space science manuscript fits this high-impact short-format venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

Its SKILL.md is about 2k 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 Research & Science, covering Physical and earth sciences. 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

  • Targeting Geophysical Research Letters (GRL)
  • Deciding whether an Earth
  • Space science manuscript fits this high-impact short-format venue

Example prompts

  • “/geophysical-research-letters”

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

Geophysical Research Letters loads about 2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 78 tokens; SKILL.md has 914 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~78
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2k

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). 914 words, ~2,009 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/geophysical-research-letters/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
geophysical-research-letters
description
Use when targeting Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) or deciding whether an Earth or space science manuscript fits this high-impact short-format venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

Geophysical Research Letters (geophysical-research-letters)

Journal positioning

Geophysical Research Letters is an American Geophysical Union (AGU) journal published by Wiley, and it is the union's flagship venue for short, high-impact reports spanning the full breadth of the Earth and space sciences — atmosphere, ocean, solid earth, hydrology, cryosphere, biogeosciences, and space physics. Its defining character is the combination of brevity and significance: GRL exists to communicate a single important, broadly interesting finding rapidly, not to provide the comprehensive treatment that a full-length journal allows. The journal rewards work that is novel, immediately consequential, and of interest beyond a narrow subdiscipline — a result that changes how a community interprets a process or that resolves a question of wide significance. Readership is the entire AGU community across geoscience and space science. This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the GRL/AGU/Wiley site.

When to trigger

  • The author names GRL as the target venue for a short, high-impact Earth or space science finding.
  • A manuscript reports a single significant, broadly interesting result, and the author is choosing between GRL and a full-length JGR section or Nature Geoscience.
  • A paper has a clear, consequential finding that does not need the length of a full-length article and would lose impact if padded.
  • The author needs GRL's strict length and significance bar, plus desk-reject criteria, before submission.

Scope & topic fit

  • Atmospheric science: dynamics, composition, convection, climate variability, extreme-event mechanisms — when a single result has broad significance.
  • Oceanography and cryosphere: circulation change, sea-level processes, ice-sheet and sea-ice dynamics, ocean heat content, where a finding reframes understanding.
  • Solid earth and geodesy: seismology, tectonics, volcanology, gravity and deformation, where a result is novel and consequential.
  • Hydrology and biogeosciences: terrestrial water cycle, land-atmosphere coupling, carbon and nutrient cycling — when the finding is general and timely.
  • Space physics and aeronomy: magnetosphere, ionosphere, solar-terrestrial coupling, planetary space environments.
  • Methodological or observational advances that immediately enable a significant new geophysical inference across a community.

Method & evidence bar

  • The significance must be identifiable in one or two sentences; a paper whose central finding is incremental or narrowly technical is misfit for GRL.
  • The result must be rigorously supported within the short format: appropriate uncertainty quantification, error bars and confidence intervals, and sensitivity to key assumptions.
  • Observational claims need clear data provenance, calibration, and treatment of instrument or sampling biases.
  • Modeling claims need adequate description of configuration, validation against observations where possible, and honest treatment of model limitations.
  • Data and code must be deposited in an AGU-compliant FAIR repository (Zenodo, PANGAEA, community archives) with persistent identifiers; availability statements are mandatory.
  • Statistical significance of geophysical trends or differences must be established against appropriate null models and autocorrelation.

Structure & house style

  • GRL enforces a strict length limit — a low word count, a hard cap on figures plus tables, and a limited reference count; re-check current limits on the live site.
  • The main text is a single continuous argument: a concise introduction stating the gap and significance, methods kept tight, results, and a focused discussion — no exhaustive literature review.
  • Supporting Information carries extended methods, additional figures, and supplementary analyses; the main text must stand alone scientifically.
  • Figures must be efficient and publication-quality; each must carry a key result, and the figure cap must be respected.
  • The abstract is unstructured, short, and must convey the finding and its significance to a broad geoscience reader.
  • A plain-language summary is required and must communicate the significance to non-specialists.
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Official-submission checklist

  • Before giving submission-ready advice, read ../../resources/source-basis.md and ../../resources/official-source-map.md; start from the official source anchors for this journal family, then cite the current journal-specific page you checked.
  • Search the live site for "Geophysical Research Letters submission guidelines" and follow the current AGU/Wiley version.
  • Re-check the strict word limit, the figure-plus-table cap, and the reference limit; confirm current Supporting Information conventions.
  • Re-check AGU's data and software availability policy; confirm accepted FAIR repositories and that an availability statement is included.
  • Re-check the plain-language summary requirement, competing-interests, funding, and AI-use disclosure; confirm preprint policy (ESSOAr/EarthArXiv posting is generally compatible).
  • If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official instructions win.

Pre-submission self-check

  • One sentence — the single significant finding and why it matters across the geoscience community.
  • The paper fits within the current word, figure, and reference limits without cutting substance; if not, a full-length journal is more appropriate.
  • Methods are tight in the main text and fully documented in Supporting Information; analyses are reproducible.
  • Uncertainty, error bars, and significance against appropriate nulls are reported for the central claim.
  • Data and code are deposited in an AGU-compliant FAIR repository; availability statement and persistent identifiers are ready.
  • A plain-language summary communicates the significance to non-specialists.

Common desk-reject triggers

  • An incremental result, a regional case study, or a technical refinement without broad geophysical significance.
  • A paper that exceeds the word, figure, or reference limit, or whose scope requires the length of a full-length article.
  • A modeling or observational study lacking uncertainty quantification, validation, or treatment of biases.
  • A descriptive dataset or instrument report without a significant scientific inference.
  • A missing or non-compliant data/software availability statement, or a missing plain-language summary.

Re-routing decision

  • A complete, comprehensive treatment needing full-length space: the relevant section of journal-of-geophysical-research (Atmospheres, Oceans, Solid Earth, Space Physics, etc.).
  • A higher-impact, broader-reach result with cross-disciplinary significance: nature-geoscience.
  • An authoritative invited review rather than primary research: reviews-of-geophysics.
  • A water-resources or hydrology finding better matched to a water-focused venue: nature-water or water-research.

Output format

text
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] Geophysical Research Letters
[Topic tags] <2–3 closest topics>
[Method/evidence] <is there a single significant, broadly interesting finding, and is it rigorously defended with uncertainty within the short format?>
[Top risk] <the single most likely reason for rejection>
[Official items to re-check] <word/figure/reference limit / SI conventions / data-software FAIR deposition / plain-language summary / disclosure / preprint policy>
[Re-route suggestion] <if not a fit, a better-matched venue>

© 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 English-NaturalScience-Journal-Skills/skills/geophysical-research-letters of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Geophysical Research Letters

What does Geophysical Research Letters do?

A skill your agent uses when targeting Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) or deciding whether an Earth or space science manuscript fits this high-impact short-format venue. Geophysical Research Letters is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when targeting Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) or deciding whether an Earth or space science manuscript fits this high-impact short-format venue.

When should I use Geophysical Research Letters?

Geophysical Research Letters fits situations like: targeting Geophysical Research Letters (GRL); deciding whether an Earth; space science manuscript fits this high-impact short-format venue.

How do I install Geophysical Research Letters in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill geophysical-research-letters -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (English-NaturalScience-Journal-Skills/skills/geophysical-research-letters in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/geophysical-research-letters in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Geophysical Research Letters in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill geophysical-research-letters -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (English-NaturalScience-Journal-Skills/skills/geophysical-research-letters in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/geophysical-research-letters in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Geophysical Research Letters 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 geophysical-research-letters -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/geophysical-research-letters, .gemini/skills/geophysical-research-letters, .github/skills/geophysical-research-letters and .opencode/skills/geophysical-research-letters in your project.

What does Geophysical Research Letters need to run?

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

Does Geophysical Research Letters 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 Geophysical Research Letters 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 Geophysical Research Letters use?

Geophysical Research Letters 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 Geophysical Research Letters use?

About 2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8k 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 Geophysical Research Letters?

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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