physical-review-letters
Use when targeting Physical Review Letters (PRL) or deciding whether a physics manuscript fits this Letter-format, broad-importance venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill physical-review-letters --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.
# Physical Review Letters (physical-review-letters) ## Journal positioning Physical Review Letters is the APS flagship Letters journal and the premier rapid-communication venue across all of physics. Every accepted paper must satisfy two simultaneous editorial criteria: it must be important enough to interest physicists working in fields other than the author's own subfield, and it must report a result of sufficient immediacy to justify the Letter format. The length limit is a permanent structural gate of the journal's identity — not a soft recommendation — and authors must re-check the current official limit before preparing a manuscript. PRL is genuinely cross-subfield: a condensed-matter paper that is relevant only to condensed-matter readers will be redirected regardless of its technical quality. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the APS site and the Physical Review Letters submission system. ## When to trigger - The author is targeting PRL for a concise result with claimed broad physics significance. - A manuscript has
- Journal positioning
- When to trigger
- Scope & topic fit
- Method & evidence bar
- Structure & house style
- Official-submission checklist
- Pre-submission self-check
- Common desk-reject triggers
- Re-routing decision
- Output format
What does the physical-review-letters skill do?
Use when targeting Physical Review Letters (PRL) or deciding whether a physics manuscript fits this Letter-format, broad-importance venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill physical-review-letters --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.