cc-cover-letter
Use when drafting the cover letter (and optional presubmission inquiry) for a Cancer Cell (Cell Press) submission — framing significance, fit, novelty, and suggested/excluded reviewers. It writes the letter; it does not edit the manuscript itself.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cc-cover-letter --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.
# Cover Letter & Presubmission Inquiry (cc-cover-letter) ## When to trigger - Preparing the cover letter for full submission - Considering a Cell Press **presubmission inquiry** to gauge fit - Need to suggest or exclude reviewers - Need to state exclusivity / prior-communication / preprint status ## Presubmission inquiry (optional, fit-saving) Cell Press allows a short editorial inquiry before full submission. Use it to test fit when uncertain: - 1 short paragraph: the central finding and why it suits Cancer Cell. - Attach the abstract/Summary and a key figure or graphical abstract. - Ask directly whether the editors would welcome a full submission. ## Cover-letter structure (full submission) 1. **Opening** — addressed to the editor; manuscript title and that it is submitted to Cancer Cell. 2. **The advance in 2–3 sentences** — the mechanism and the translational relevance, in plain language a broad cancer audience grasps. 3. **Why Cancer Cell** — fit with the journal's mechanism + translational scope and interest to its readership. 4. **Evidence strength** — note the orthogonal validation (cells + in vivo + human/patient data) that supports the claim. 5. **Novelty vs. closest prio
- When to trigger
- Presubmission inquiry (optional, fit-saving)
- Cover-letter structure (full submission)
- Reviewers
- Calibrate the pitch
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Cover-letter pass for Cancer Cell
- Output format
What does the cc-cover-letter skill do?
Use when drafting the cover letter (and optional presubmission inquiry) for a Cancer Cell (Cell Press) submission — framing significance, fit, novelty, and suggested/excluded reviewers. It writes the letter; it does not edit the manuscript itself.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cc-cover-letter --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.