A skill your agent uses when targeting Physics Reports (Phys Rep) or deciding whether a long, comprehensive invited review across any area of physics fits this Elsevier review journal (Physics…

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Install Physics Reports

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills physics-reports --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/physics-reports .claude/skills/physics-reports && 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
physics-reports
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.9k tokens
SKILL.md length
849 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when targeting Physics Reports (Phys Rep) or deciding whether a long, comprehensive invited review across any area of physics fits this Elsevier review journal (Physics…

  • Targeting Physics Reports (Phys Rep)
  • 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 long

What it does

Physics Reports is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when targeting Physics Reports (Phys Rep) or deciding whether a long, comprehensive invited review across any area of physics fits this Elsevier review journal (Physics Letters C heritage). Encodes the journal's fit, framing, evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.9k 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 Physics Reports (Phys Rep)
  • Deciding whether a long
  • Comprehensive invited review across any area of physics fits this Elsevier review journal (Physics Letters C heritage)

Example prompts

  • “/physics-reports”

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

Physics Reports loads about 1.9k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 83 tokens; SKILL.md has 849 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~83
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.9k

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). 849 words, ~1,890 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/physics-reports/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
physics-reports
description
Use when targeting Physics Reports (Phys Rep) or deciding whether a long, comprehensive invited review across any area of physics fits this Elsevier review journal (Physics Letters C heritage). Encodes the journal's fit, framing, evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

Physics Reports (physics-reports)

Journal positioning

Physics Reports is Elsevier's review journal, originating as Physics Letters C, that publishes long, comprehensive review articles across the full breadth of physics. Its defining character is monograph-scale depth: a Physics Reports article is intended to become the standard reference on its topic, exhaustively surveying the theory, methods, results, and open problems of an active field. Reviews are typically invited but the journal also considers proposals, and the expected length is far beyond a normal journal article — often dozens to over a hundred pages. The currency is completeness, pedagogical clarity for working physicists, and lasting reference value, not brevity. Readership is the specialist and graduate-student community of the relevant subfield plus physicists entering it. This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before proposing or submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the Physics Reports Elsevier site.

When to trigger

  • The author is considering a comprehensive, monograph-length review of a physics field for Physics Reports.
  • A leading group wants to consolidate a mature or rapidly maturing subfield into a definitive reference work.
  • An author is choosing between Physics Reports, Reviews of Modern Physics, and Nature Reviews Physics for a long authoritative review.
  • The author needs Physics Reports' depth and length expectations, proposal/invitation process, and desk-reject criteria before drafting.

Scope & topic fit

  • Comprehensive topical reviews across any physics subfield — particle and nuclear physics, condensed matter, statistical and nonlinear physics, gravitation and cosmology, optics, plasma, and beyond.
  • Reviews that develop the full theoretical formalism of a framework, with derivations, so the article is self-contained and pedagogical.
  • Surveys consolidating a body of experimental and theoretical results into a unified, critically assessed picture of a field.
  • Methodological reviews that establish the complete toolkit of a technique and its applications across problems.
  • Reviews of a fast-moving area written to orient new entrants and to set the agenda of open problems.
  • Cross-cutting syntheses connecting formalism, computation, and experiment at reference depth.

Method & evidence bar

  • The review must be comprehensive and self-contained: the relevant formalism is developed in the article, not merely cited, so a reader can learn the field from it.
  • Coverage must be critical and balanced — competing approaches, their assumptions, and their limitations assessed, not a one-sided account.
  • Authors are expected to have deep, recognized command of the field; the scope justifies the monograph length and the article's reference ambition.
  • Claims and results must be accurately attributed with comprehensive, current citation; derivations should be correct and reproducible.
  • Figures and tables should organize and synthesize the field's results pedagogically; original schematics clarifying the formalism are valued.
  • An invitation or an accepted proposal (scope, outline, length, and significance) typically precedes a full manuscript.

Structure & house style

  • Physics Reports articles use a book-chapter-like structure: an extended introduction, sequential development of the formalism, applications, comparison with experiment, and open problems.
  • Length is governed by completeness; sections are numbered hierarchically and the article reads as a self-standing reference.
  • Use the Elsevier/REVTeX-compatible format; comprehensive equation development with consistent notation throughout is expected.
  • The introduction motivates the field and lays out the article's plan; a concluding section surveys open problems and future directions.
  • Figures, tables, and appendices carry detailed derivations, parameter compilations, and supporting material.
  • Citation is exhaustive and current, reflecting the article's role as the field's reference bibliography.
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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 "Physics Reports guide for authors" and follow the current Elsevier version.
  • Re-check the proposal/invitation process and whether unsolicited comprehensive reviews are accepted with a prior outline.
  • Re-check length and formatting expectations, section conventions, and figure/table requirements for a monograph-scale article.
  • Re-check competing-interests, funding, AI-use, and data/figure-permission disclosure requirements; confirm preprint policy.
  • If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official instructions win.

Pre-submission self-check

  • One sentence — the field this review will become the standard reference for, and why now.
  • The article is self-contained: the formalism is developed within it, not merely cited.
  • Coverage is comprehensive, critical, and balanced across competing approaches and their limitations.
  • The length and depth are justified by the field's maturity and the reference ambition.
  • Citation is exhaustive and current; figures and tables synthesize the field pedagogically.
  • A proposal/outline with scope, length, and significance is prepared, or an invitation is in hand.

Common desk-reject triggers

  • A normal-length review with neither the comprehensiveness nor the self-contained formalism Physics Reports expects.
  • A primary-research manuscript submitted as a review; Physics Reports publishes reviews, not original results.
  • A narrow, one-sided survey foregrounding the authors' own program without balanced critical coverage.
  • A literature compilation that cites results without developing the underlying formalism for the reader.
  • A full monograph-length manuscript submitted without a prior proposal or outline where one is expected.

Re-routing decision

  • Definitive, technical, specialist-depth review with strong conceptual framing: reviews-of-modern-physics.
  • Accessible, cross-disciplinary, editor-commissioned review for the broad physics readership: nature-reviews-physics.
  • Comprehensive progress review of moderate length for working physicists: reports-on-progress-in-physics.
  • Invited, continuously updated authoritative review specifically in relativity and gravitation: living-reviews-in-relativity.

Output format

text
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] Physics Reports
[Topic tags] <2–3 closest topics>
[Method/evidence] <is this a comprehensive, self-contained, critically balanced reference review with formalism developed in full?>
[Top risk] <the single most likely reason for rejection>
[Official items to re-check] <proposal/invitation / length conventions / section format / figures / disclosure / preprint policy>
[Re-route suggestion] <if not a fit, a better-matched venue>

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Files

Just SKILL.md in English-NaturalScience-Journal-Skills/skills/physics-reports of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Physics Reports

What does Physics Reports do?

A skill your agent uses when targeting Physics Reports (Phys Rep) or deciding whether a long, comprehensive invited review across any area of physics fits this Elsevier review journal (Physics…. Physics Reports is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when targeting Physics Reports (Phys Rep) or deciding whether a long, comprehensive invited review across any area of physics fits this Elsevier review journal (Physics Letters C heritage).

When should I use Physics Reports?

Physics Reports fits situations like: targeting Physics Reports (Phys Rep); deciding whether a long; comprehensive invited review across any area of physics fits this Elsevier review journal (Physics Letters C heritage).

How do I install Physics Reports in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Physics Reports in Codex?

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

Can I use Physics Reports 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 physics-reports -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/physics-reports, .gemini/skills/physics-reports, .github/skills/physics-reports and .opencode/skills/physics-reports in your project.

What does Physics Reports need to run?

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

Does Physics Reports 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 Physics Reports 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 Physics Reports use?

Physics Reports 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 Physics Reports use?

About 1.9k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.6k 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 Physics Reports?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,219 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.