epsl-cover-letter
Use when writing the cover letter and editor-facing metadata for an Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) submission. EPSL is run by a team of subject editors who screen for frontier significance and letters fit, so the letter must land the process-level advance, steer to the right editor, and supply clean suggested reviewers. It drafts the letter; it does not contact editors.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill epsl-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 & Editor Pitch (epsl-cover-letter) EPSL manuscripts are handled by an editor whose own research sits near the paper's sub-field — geochemistry, geophysics, geodynamics, planetary science (the current editor roster changes; re-check it on the journal site). Your letter is read by a scientist who can evaluate the claim directly, so it must be a precise scientific argument for significance, not marketing. Its three jobs: state the frontier advance, demonstrate letters fit, and make the editor's reviewer search easy. ## When to trigger - Writing the cover letter for a new EPSL submission - Choosing the editor whose remit matches the paper (where the system allows a preference) - Assembling suggested and opposed reviewers with conflict statements - Re-pitching after a desk decline at another high-bar venue ## What the letter must do 1. **Open with the advance, quantified.** Two or three sentences: the process question, what your result establishes, and the number that carries it — written for a scientist-editor, without superlatives. 2. **Argue portability explicitly.** One sentence on why readers beyond the study region or method community need the result; this is the de
- When to trigger
- What the letter must do
- The subject editor's silent questions
- Worked micro-example (illustrative — pitching the detrital-lag paper)
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the epsl-cover-letter skill do?
Use when writing the cover letter and editor-facing metadata for an Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) submission. EPSL is run by a team of subject editors who screen for frontier significance and letters fit, so the letter must land the process-level advance, steer to the right editor, and supply clean suggested reviewers. It drafts the letter; it does not contact editors.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill epsl-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.