Agent skill

Prl Length Management

by franklee16 in franklee16/academic-research-skills

A skill your agent uses when a Physical Review Letters manuscript exceeds the strict deductible length limit, where figures, equations, and references all count against the budget.

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Install Prl Length Management

skills CLI
$ npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill prl-length-management -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills prl-length-management --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/Physical-Review-Letters-Skills/skills/prl-length-management .claude/skills/prl-length-management && 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
prl-length-management
GitHub stars
223
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
560 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,617
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when a Physical Review Letters manuscript exceeds the strict deductible length limit, where figures, equations, and references all count against the budget.

  • Works in 6 steps: Move to SM first. Derivations, extended… → Compress figures. Drop non-essential… → Prune equations. Keep only… → …
  • A Physical Review Letters manuscript exceeds the strict deductible length limit
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, How the PRL length limit works…, Triage order (cut from… and Cost-awareness table, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Prl Length Management is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when a Physical Review Letters manuscript exceeds the strict deductible length limit, where figures, equations, and references all count against the budget. Triages what to cut, compress, or move to Supplemental Material; does not rewrite content from scratch.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k 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: Comprehensive collection of Claude Code skills for academic research in economics, finance, and social sciences.

When your agent uses it

  • A Physical Review Letters manuscript exceeds the strict deductible length limit
  • References all count against the budget

Example prompts

  • “/prl-length-management”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Move to SM first. Derivations, extended data, secondary controls, full error budgets → Supplemental Material (see prl-supplementary). This…
  2. Compress figures. Drop non-essential panels; convert a double-column figure to single-column; merge two figures showing related points…
  3. Prune equations. Keep only claim-defining equations inline; move derivation steps to SM; inline short results within a sentence rather…
  4. Trim references to those that establish importance or are needed for trust; consolidate where APS style permits.
  5. Tighten prose (apply prl-writing-style): remove padding, hedging, and figure-transcribing sentences.
  6. Cut scope as a last resort: demote a supporting claim entirely.

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

Prl Length Management loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 72 tokens; SKILL.md has 560 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~72
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

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 560 words (~1,284 tokens).

“A Letter is short — on the order of ~3750 words / roughly four journal pages including figures and references; verify the current limit on the APS author page. The key feature is that the limit is a deductible budget…”

— opening of SKILL.md by franklee16
name
prl-length-management

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Physical-Review-Letters-Skills/skills/prl-length-management 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 Prl Length Management

What does Prl Length Management do?

A skill your agent uses when a Physical Review Letters manuscript exceeds the strict deductible length limit, where figures, equations, and references all count against the budget. Prl Length Management is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when a Physical Review Letters manuscript exceeds the strict deductible length limit, where figures, equations, and references all count against the budget.

When should I use Prl Length Management?

Prl Length Management fits situations like: A Physical Review Letters manuscript exceeds the strict deductible length limit; references all count against the budget.

How do I install Prl Length Management in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill prl-length-management -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Physical-Review-Letters-Skills/skills/prl-length-management in franklee16/academic-research-skills) into .claude/skills/prl-length-management in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Prl Length Management in Codex?

Run `npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill prl-length-management -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Physical-Review-Letters-Skills/skills/prl-length-management in franklee16/academic-research-skills) into .agents/skills/prl-length-management in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Prl Length Management 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 prl-length-management -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/prl-length-management, .gemini/skills/prl-length-management, .github/skills/prl-length-management and .opencode/skills/prl-length-management in your project.

What does Prl Length Management need to run?

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

Does Prl Length Management 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 Prl Length Management 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 Prl Length Management use?

No licence was found for Prl Length Management or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Prl Length Management use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.1k 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 Prl Length Management?

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Who maintains Prl Length Management?

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.