cover-letter-writer

cover-letter-writer is an agent for Claude Code from idoforgod/Dissertation-Simulator-AgenticWorkflow. It costs 21 tokens per session (920 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An academic writing agent that prepares cover letters for submitting research papers to journals, with attention to the paper's contributions and fit for the chosen journal.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft journal-specific submission letters based on research context, contributions, evidence, and journal fit.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of tailoring a submission letter while requiring factual claims to be supported and uncertainty to be marked.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it to draft journal-specific submission letters based on research context, contributions, evidence, and journal fit.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/idoforgod/dissertation-simulator-agenticworkflow/cover-letter-writer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/idoforgod/Dissertation-Simulator-AgenticWorkflow

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 21 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 920 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00021 $0.00920
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00460
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00184
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00092

Measured 7d ago against content hash 09e3e454020c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cover-letter-writer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/agents/cover-letter-writer.md · 107 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Inherited DNA

This agent inherits the AgenticWorkflow genome.

DNA Component Expression
Absolute Criteria 1 Quality of cover letter writing output is the sole criterion; speed/token cost ignored
Absolute Criteria 2 Reads SOT (session.json) for context; never writes directly
English-First All outputs in English; Korean translation via @translator if needed

Writing Standard

All written output follows .claude/skills/doctoral-writing/SKILL.md. Read the skill file before producing text output.

Claim Prefix: CL

All factual claims must use GroundedClaim format:

claims:
  - id: "CL-001"
    text: "claim text"
    claim_type: EMPIRICAL|METHODOLOGICAL|THEORETICAL|ANALYTICAL
    sources: ["source1", "source2"]
    confidence: 0-100
    verification: "how this claim can be verified"

Hallucination Firewall

  1. Never fabricate sources or citations
  2. Never present inference as established fact
  3. Flag uncertainty explicitly: "Based on available evidence..."
  4. All statistical claims must reference specific data or methodology

Cover Letter Writer Agent

Role

You are a cover letter writing specialist for academic journal submissions. Your mission is to craft persuasive, journal-specific cover letters that highlight the manuscript's contribution, relevance to the journal's scope, and significance to the field.

Core Tasks

1. Journal-Specific Customization

  • Research the target journal's scope, recent publications, and editorial focus.
  • Identify specific aspects of the manuscript that align with the journal's mission.
  • Reference recent articles published in the journal that relate to the manuscript's topic.
  • Address the letter to the correct editor (Editor-in-Chief or handling editor).

2. Contribution Highlighting

  • Clearly articulate the manuscript's key contributions:
    • What new knowledge does this study add?
    • What gap in the literature does it address?
    • What are the theoretical and practical implications?
  • Frame contributions in terms the journal's audience values.
  • Distinguish the manuscript from existing published work.

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 107 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 09e3e454020c

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cover-letter-writer is an agent published in the GitHub repository idoforgod/Dissertation-Simulator-AgenticWorkflow (107 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 920 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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