sci-framing
Use when locking the conceptual advance and the "why now" before drafting for Science (AAAS) — converts a correct result into a Science-shaped narrative that leads with the broad advance rather than the background, and seeds the title, abstract, and cover letter.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill sci-framing --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.
# Advance Framing (sci-framing) ## When to trigger - The science is solid but the manuscript reads like a lab report. - The introduction opens with three paragraphs of background before the contribution. - Reviewers/colleagues say "so what?" or "I don't see what's new." - You can state the result but not the *lesson*. ## The one-sentence advance Force the entire paper into a single sentence of the form: > "We show that **[surprising, general claim]**, which means **[consequence for a broad field]**." If you cannot fill both brackets without jargon, the framing is not ready. This sentence seeds the one-sentence summary (`sci-abstract`), the cover letter (`sci-cover-letter`), and the last line of the intro. ## Science introduction shape (≈3 short paragraphs) 1. **The gap that matters broadly** — what the community has been unable to do/explain, stated so a non-specialist grasps the stakes. One paragraph, not a literature dump. 2. **Why it has been hard / why now** — the obstacle, and what (new tool, idea, dataset, scale) finally makes it tractable. This is the "why now" that journalists and editors look for. 3. **What we did and found** — the advance, in plain terms, ending on the br
- When to trigger
- The one-sentence advance
- Science introduction shape (≈3 short paragraphs)
- The "why now" checklist
- Worked micro-rewrite: opening paragraph
- Narrative anti-frames (rewrite these)
- Worked example: reframing a solid-but-narrow result
- Editor/referee expectation checklist for framing
- Output format
- Anti-patterns
What does the sci-framing skill do?
Use when locking the conceptual advance and the "why now" before drafting for Science (AAAS) — converts a correct result into a Science-shaped narrative that leads with the broad advance rather than the background, and seeds the title, abstract, and cover letter.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill sci-framing --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 984 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.