Science Cover Letter
Draft, audit, or revise Science/AAAS-family presubmission inquiries, cover letters, editor-facing significance statements, scope-fit paragraphs, and reviewer suggestion notes. Use when the user asks for a Science cover letter, presubmission inquiry, editor letter, broad-significance pitch, or Chinese-to-English submission letter for Science, Science Advances, Science Robotics, Science Translation…
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Science Cover Letter
Use this skill to make the editor-facing pitch precise, broad, and evidence-grounded.
Default stance
- Do not oversell beyond the manuscript evidence.
- Do not claim priority, novelty, or field transformation unless supplied and defensible.
- Keep the letter short and editor-readable.
- Emphasize why the work matters to a broad Science-family audience.
- Verify current journal requirements for cover letters, suggested reviewers, competing interests,
related manuscripts, and presubmission inquiries.
Open extra files
| File | Open when | |---|---| | [references/letter-structure.md](references/letter-structure.md) | Need cover-letter or presubmission structure | | [references/scope-fit-check.md](references/scope-fit-check.md) | Need broad-interest, novelty, and journal-fit audit |
Intake
Ask for:
- target journal
- title and article type
- one-sentence advance
- strongest evidence
- why the result matters beyond the subfield
- competing interest / related manuscript / prior submission facts if relevant
- suggested or opposed reviewers if required
Workflow
- Build a scope-fit statement before drafting.
- Map the pitch:
problem -> gap -> advance -> evidence -> broad significance -> fit.
- Draft concise letter.
- Audit for unsupported novelty and inflated language.
- Add placeholders for required administrative declarations.
Output format
Scope-fit diagnosis
- [fit strengths]
- [risks]
Draft letter
[letter]
Required facts to verify
- [journal-specific declarations, reviewers, conflicts, related manuscripts]For Chinese source notes, draft submission-facing English first, then Chinese notes on tone and missing inputs.
Source & license
This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.
- Author: shikaijieskj
- Source: shikaijieskj/science-skills
- License: MIT
Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.
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Versions
- v0.1.0 Imported from the upstream source.