Agent skill

Light Science And Applications

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

A skill your agent uses when targeting Light: Science & Applications or deciding whether a photonics manuscript fits this venue.

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Install Light Science And Applications

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill light-science-and-applications -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills light-science-and-applications --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/Engineering-Technology-Journal-Skills/skills/light-science-and-applications .claude/skills/light-science-and-applications && 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
light-science-and-applications
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~2k tokens
SKILL.md length
802 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when targeting Light: Science & Applications or deciding whether a photonics manuscript fits this venue.

  • Targeting Light: Science & Applications
  • 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 a photonics manuscript fits this venue

What it does

Light Science And Applications is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when targeting Light: Science & Applications or deciding whether a photonics manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the Nature-Portfolio significance bar, optical-measurement rigor, open-access house style, the Light-vs-Optica-vs-review routing, 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.

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 Light: Science & Applications
  • Deciding whether a photonics manuscript fits this venue

Example prompts

  • “/light-science-and-applications”

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

Light Science And Applications loads about 2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 89 tokens; SKILL.md has 802 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~89
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). 802 words, ~1,951 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/light-science-and-applications/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
light-science-and-applications
description
Use when targeting Light: Science & Applications or deciding whether a photonics manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the Nature-Portfolio significance bar, optical-measurement rigor, open-access house style, the Light-vs-Optica-vs-review routing, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

Light: Science & Applications (light-science-and-applications)

Journal positioning

Light: Science & Applications is the open-access photonics journal published within Nature Portfolio in partnership with the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics (CIOMP). It selects for high-impact photonics with broad significance, framed in the Nature style: the paper must make a substantial conceptual or capability advance whose importance is legible to a wide optics-and-beyond readership, not only to a photonics sub-community. The defining demand is a clearly argued "why this matters" significance statement backed by rigorous optical evidence; solid but specialty-scoped results, however careful, are a weak fit. This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing tool. It does not replace the journal's current official author guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live Light: Science & Applications submission guidelines on the Nature Portfolio site.

When to trigger

  • The author names Light: Science & Applications for a photonics result and wants a fit/framing and significance check.
  • A strong photonics result must be re-framed from an OSA-community/specialty perspective into Nature-style significance and broad-readership framing.
  • The author is choosing between Light, optica, and laser-and-photonics-reviews, or between Light and nature-photonics / nature-communications.
  • The author needs Light's open-access requirements and its desk-reject heuristics.

Scope & topic fit

  • Nanophotonics, plasmonics, metasurfaces, and structured light when a new optical concept or capability — not just a fabricated device — is established.
  • Integrated photonics, on-chip and fiber light sources, frequency combs, and laser physics with a field-advancing, broadly significant result.
  • Optical imaging, super-resolution microscopy, computational imaging, holography, and optical sensing where the photonics method carries the advance and broad impact.
  • Quantum photonics and quantum optics with a measured advance whose significance extends beyond the immediate quantum community.
  • Light–matter interaction, nonlinear and ultrafast optics, and topological photonics with a clearly framed conceptual contribution.
  • Display, biophotonics, and optical-communication results when the underlying photonics insight is general and consequential, not application-incremental.

Method & evidence bar

  • The manuscript must carry an explicit significance argument in the Nature mold: what is conceptually or practically new, and why a broad readership should care.
  • Optical evidence must be quantitative and rigorous: wavelengths, efficiencies, resolution, bandwidth, loss, and signal-to-noise with uncertainty and the controls that exclude artifacts.
  • Performance and capability claims must be benchmarked against the current state of the art under stated, comparable conditions.
  • Fabricated structures and devices must have their claimed optical function demonstrated directly by measurement, not asserted from design or simulation.
  • Theory and modeling must connect to experiment or yield tested predictions; a simulation-only paper rarely meets the significance bar.
  • Reproducibility and reporting follow Nature-Portfolio expectations: methods detail, data availability, and statistics sufficient to reproduce key results.

Structure & house style

  • Nature-Portfolio article structure with a significance-forward abstract and introduction; re-check the current article types and length/format on the live guide.
  • The introduction must establish the broad-significance gap and the conceptual stakes before the technical development, in accessible language.
  • Main display items are load-bearing and curated: quantitative figures with controls, benchmarks, and clear schematics of the proposed mechanism.
  • Methods and extended/supplementary material carry full fabrication, setup, and additional characterization; the main narrative must stand on the headline figures.
  • As a fully open-access journal, plan for an article-processing charge and any waiver/funding considerations — re-check current OA terms on the live page.
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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 Nature-Portfolio anchors, then cite the current Light: Science & Applications guidelines page you checked.
  • Search the live site for "Light Science Applications submission guidelines" and follow the current Nature-Portfolio submission system.
  • Re-check article types, length/format expectations, and the abstract/significance requirements.
  • Confirm the data-availability statement, code-availability, and any reporting-summary requirements of Nature Portfolio.
  • Re-check the open-access article-processing charge, licensing, ORCID, competing-interests, funding, author-contribution, and AI-use disclosure requirements.
  • If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official instructions win.

Pre-submission self-check

  • The abstract/introduction states the broad significance in Nature style, not just the technical result.
  • The advance is conceptual or capability-level, not a specialty-scoped increment.
  • Optical metrics are quantitative, with uncertainty and artifact-excluding controls.
  • Claimed optical function is demonstrated by measurement, not inferred from design/simulation.
  • Performance is benchmarked against the state of the art under comparable conditions.
  • Data-availability, methods, and statistics meet Nature-Portfolio reporting expectations.

Common desk-reject triggers

  • Solid but specialty-scoped photonics result with no broad-significance argument.
  • Incremental device optimization framed as a major advance without a conceptual or capability leap.
  • Missing or weak significance statement; the "why it matters" is left implicit.
  • Claimed optical function inferred from design/simulation rather than directly measured.
  • Performance not benchmarked, or compared only to a weak/non-comparable reference.
  • Simulation-only study with no experimental anchor or tested prediction.

Re-routing decision

  • High-impact concise photonics framed for the OSA community → optica.
  • Authoritative review or review-leaning original photonics → laser-and-photonics-reviews.
  • Complete but narrower photonics result → Optics Express / Optics Letters / Photonics Research (Optica Publishing Group specialty titles).
  • Broadest cross-disciplinary significance → nature-photonics or nature-communications / science-advances.
  • Advance driven by a new photonic material → nature-materials / advanced-materials.

Output format

text
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] Light: Science & Applications
[Topic tags] <2–3 closest photonics subtopics>
[Significance statement] <the Nature-style "why it matters" in one line>
[Method/evidence] <do the optical measurements + benchmarking clear Light's significance + rigor bar?>
[Top risk] <the single most likely reason for rejection>
[Official items to re-check] <article type / OA charge / data availability / reporting summary / disclosures>
[Re-route suggestion] <if specialty-scoped or better framed elsewhere, a matched venue>

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Engineering-Technology-Journal-Skills/skills/light-science-and-applications of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Light Science And Applications

What does Light Science And Applications do?

A skill your agent uses when targeting Light: Science & Applications or deciding whether a photonics manuscript fits this venue. Light Science And Applications is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when targeting Light: Science & Applications or deciding whether a photonics manuscript fits this venue.

When should I use Light Science And Applications?

Light Science And Applications fits situations like: targeting Light: Science & Applications; deciding whether a photonics manuscript fits this venue.

How do I install Light Science And Applications in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill light-science-and-applications -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Engineering-Technology-Journal-Skills/skills/light-science-and-applications in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/light-science-and-applications in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Light Science And Applications in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill light-science-and-applications -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Engineering-Technology-Journal-Skills/skills/light-science-and-applications in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/light-science-and-applications in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Light Science And Applications 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 light-science-and-applications -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/light-science-and-applications, .gemini/skills/light-science-and-applications, .github/skills/light-science-and-applications and .opencode/skills/light-science-and-applications in your project.

What does Light Science And Applications need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Light Science And Applications is instructions for the agent only.

Does Light Science And Applications 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 Light Science And Applications 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 Light Science And Applications use?

Light Science And Applications 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 Light Science And Applications use?

About 2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.8k 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 Light Science And Applications?

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.