Agent skill

Gcb Review Process

by franklee16 in franklee16/academic-research-skills

A skill your agent uses to understand how a Global Change Biology (GCB) manuscript is judged — high desk-rejection screening for scope and significance, expert single-anonymous peer review with 2–3…

No licenceAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Gcb Review Process

skills CLI
$ npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill gcb-review-process -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills gcb-review-process --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/franklee16/academic-research-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Global-Change-Biology-Skills/skills/gcb-review-process .claude/skills/gcb-review-process && 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
gcb-review-process
GitHub stars
223
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~812 tokens
SKILL.md length
300 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,617
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

A skill your agent uses to understand how a Global Change Biology (GCB) manuscript is judged — high desk-rejection screening for scope and significance, expert single-anonymous peer review with 2–3…

  • Works in 4 steps: Editorial / desk screening (high bar).… → Expert peer review. Typically 2–3… → Reviewer access to data. Reviewers may… → …
  • Understand how a Global Change Biology (GCB) manuscript is judged — high desk-rejection screening for scope and significance
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, How GCB judges a paper, Prepare for the way it is judged and Anti-patterns, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Gcb Review Process is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use to understand how a Global Change Biology (GCB) manuscript is judged — high desk-rejection screening for scope and significance, expert single-anonymous peer review with 2–3 reviewers, and the decision categories. Sets expectations and informs preparation; it does not contact editors or predict outcomes.

Its SKILL.md is about 810 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 Peer review. The repository describes itself as: Comprehensive collection of Claude Code skills for academic research in economics, finance, and social sciences.

When your agent uses it

  • Understand how a Global Change Biology (GCB) manuscript is judged — high desk-rejection screening for scope and significance
  • Expert single-anonymous peer review with 2–3 reviewers
  • The decision categories

Example prompts

  • “/gcb-review-process”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Editorial / desk screening (high bar). Editors screen first for scope fit (a mechanistic
  2. Expert peer review. Typically 2–3 reviewers with matched expertise assess mechanism,
  3. Reviewer access to data. Reviewers may request access to data during evaluation — have the
  4. Decision categories. Accept (rare on first pass), minor / major revision, or reject;

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9a4b2db. 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

Gcb Review Process loads about 812 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 82 tokens; SKILL.md has 300 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~82
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~812

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

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 300 words (~812 tokens).

“GCB is selective and desk-rejects a large share of submissions before review. Knowing how it is judged — what triggers desk rejection, who reviews, and what decisions look like — lets you prepare a manuscript that survives screening and convinces…”

— opening of SKILL.md by franklee16
name
gcb-review-process

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Global-Change-Biology-Skills/skills/gcb-review-process of franklee16/academic-research-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9a4b2db

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in franklee16/academic-research-skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Gcb Review Process

What does Gcb Review Process do?

A skill your agent uses to understand how a Global Change Biology (GCB) manuscript is judged — high desk-rejection screening for scope and significance, expert single-anonymous peer review with 2–3…. Gcb Review Process is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use to understand how a Global Change Biology (GCB) manuscript is judged — high desk-rejection screening for scope and significance, expert single-anonymous peer review with 2–3 reviewers, and the decision categories.

When should I use Gcb Review Process?

Gcb Review Process fits situations like: understand how a Global Change Biology (GCB) manuscript is judged — high desk-rejection screening for scope and significance; expert single-anonymous peer review with 2–3 reviewers; the decision categories.

How do I install Gcb Review Process in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill gcb-review-process -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Global-Change-Biology-Skills/skills/gcb-review-process in franklee16/academic-research-skills) into .claude/skills/gcb-review-process in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Gcb Review Process in Codex?

Run `npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill gcb-review-process -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Global-Change-Biology-Skills/skills/gcb-review-process in franklee16/academic-research-skills) into .agents/skills/gcb-review-process in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Gcb Review Process 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 franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill gcb-review-process -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/gcb-review-process, .gemini/skills/gcb-review-process, .github/skills/gcb-review-process and .opencode/skills/gcb-review-process in your project.

What does Gcb Review Process need to run?

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

Does Gcb Review Process 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 Gcb Review Process 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 Gcb Review Process use?

No licence was found for Gcb Review Process or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Gcb Review Process use?

About 812 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.2k 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 Gcb Review Process?

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Who maintains Gcb Review Process?

franklee16 (a GitHub user) maintains it in franklee16/academic-research-skills, which has 223 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,617 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 18, 2026.

Source: franklee16/academic-research-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.