ngeo-cover-letter
Use when writing the cover letter for a Nature Geoscience submission, which must convince an in-house editor that the work is a broad-interest Earth-system advance appropriate for a diverse readership. Drafts the editorial case; does not edit the manuscript itself.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ngeo-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.
# Nature Geoscience Cover Letter (ngeo-cover-letter) ## When to trigger - You are about to submit and need the cover letter - The in-house editor will triage on broad interest and Earth-system importance before sending it for review - A prior submission was declined without review on interest grounds and you are reframing - You need to note suggested / excluded referees (coordinate with `ngeo-referee-strategy`) ## Why the cover letter matters at Nature Geoscience Nature Geoscience is handled by **professional in-house editors** (no external editorial board), who **desk-reject the majority of submissions before review**. The cover letter is the editor-facing argument that the manuscript is a **broad-interest Earth-system advance** worth sending to referees. Two journal-specific facts shape it: - **There is no presubmission enquiry route.** Nature Geoscience does not accept presubs, so the cover letter carries the full "why this, why here, why now" case that other journals let you test informally first. - **The cover letter is not seen by peer reviewers.** It is written *for the editor*: candid about significance and fit, without the hedging you would use for a skeptical referee. It
- When to trigger
- Why the cover letter matters at Nature Geoscience
- Structure (concise, ~3–5 short paragraphs)
- The broad-interest paragraph (the load-bearing one)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the ngeo-cover-letter skill do?
Use when writing the cover letter for a Nature Geoscience submission, which must convince an in-house editor that the work is a broad-interest Earth-system advance appropriate for a diverse readership. Drafts the editorial case; does not edit the manuscript itself.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ngeo-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.