jacs-cover-letter
Use when drafting the cover letter to the editor for a Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) manuscript — stating the advance, broad interest, and fit. Drafts the editor-facing pitch — it does not assess the underlying chemistry.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jacs-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 to the Editor (jacs-cover-letter) ## When to trigger - The manuscript is ready and you need the cover letter for Paragon Plus - You must justify broad interest and JACS fit to the handling editor - You need to disclose related/prior submissions or overlapping work - You want to flag suggested or excluded reviewers in the letter ## What the editor decides from the letter The handling editor triages on **broad interest and fit** before sending to review. The cover letter is your one paragraph to make that case clearly — it complements, never repeats, the abstract. ## Structure (short, one page) 1. **Submission line** — manuscript type (Article/Communication), title, intended for JACS. 2. **The advance in one or two sentences** — what is new, stated for a general chemistry readership. 3. **Why JACS (broad interest)** — the breadth driver (generality / concept / enabling utility) and who beyond your subfield will care. 4. **Key evidence** — one line on the decisive support (e.g., scope + X-ray + kinetics), signaling rigor. 5. **Integrity statements** — original, not under consideration elsewhere; any prior preprint/related submission disclosed; conflicts and funding note
- When to trigger
- What the editor decides from the letter
- Structure (short, one page)
- Tone and content rules
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Operating pass for Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Output format
- Related resources
What does the jacs-cover-letter skill do?
Use when drafting the cover letter to the editor for a Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) manuscript — stating the advance, broad interest, and fit. Drafts the editor-facing pitch — it does not assess the underlying chemistry.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jacs-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.