advmat-length-management
Use when an Advanced Materials manuscript must be fit to its article-type format — Communication versus Research Article — where word count and display items are budgeted together against a typeset page limit. Manages the length budget; does not restructure the science or polish prose line by line.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill advmat-length-management --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Advanced Materials Length Management (advmat-length-management) ## When to trigger - You are unsure whether the work is a Communication or a full Research Article - The manuscript overruns the typeset page limit for its article type - Figures/schemes are large and you must trade display items against text - A reviewer or editor asked you to condense to a Communication, or expand to an Article - You are in late polish, after the science and figures are stable ## Article type sets the budget Advanced Materials counts length in **typeset published pages**, not manuscript pages — a double-spaced 25-page manuscript may typeset to far fewer pages in the two-column layout. Word count and **display items (figures, schemes, tables) count together** against the page budget. Approximate targets (verify current limits on the author page): | Article type | Typeset budget (approx.) | Abstract | Display items (approx.) | |--------------------|------------------------------|-----------------------------------|-------------------------| | Communication | ~4 published pages (~3500 words) | none — opening paragraph acts as abstract | ~4 figures/tables | | Research Article | ~10 published pages (~30
- When to trigger
- Article type sets the budget
- Choosing Communication vs. Article
- Trimming order (cut in this sequence)
- Fit-check routine
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the advmat-length-management skill do?
Use when an Advanced Materials manuscript must be fit to its article-type format — Communication versus Research Article — where word count and display items are budgeted together against a typeset page limit. Manages the length budget; does not restructure the science or polish prose line by line.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill advmat-length-management --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.