cover-letter

cover-letter is a command for Claude Code from Abhinavbwj/AEC-Scholar. It costs 10 tokens per session (357 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that drafts a cover letter for submitting an academic paper to a journal editor.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare a concise letter describing a manuscript's contribution, importance, originality, funding, conflicts of interest, and related publications.
Why use it?
It removes the work of structuring the letter and remembering common submission statements. It also helps connect the paper's contribution to the journal's subject area.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the aec-scholar plugin — 11 skills, 36 commands, 10 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare a concise letter describing a manuscript's contribution, importance, originality, funding, conflicts of interest, and related publications.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/abhinavbwj/aec-scholar/cover-letter
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abhinavbwj/AEC-Scholar

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aec-scholar, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 36 commands, 10 agents, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 10 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 357 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 $0.00010 $0.00357
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00179
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00036

Measured 11d ago against content hash 2183e626b452, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cover-letter 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 11d 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.

aec-scholar/commands/cover-letter.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

Draft a submission cover letter for: $ARGUMENTS

Use the academic-writer agent and academic-writing + aec-journals.

Write a concise, professional letter (typically ≤1 page) addressed to the Editor-in-Chief that:

  1. Opens with the manuscript title, type (research article / review / etc.), and the journal it's submitted to.

  2. States the contribution in 2–4 sentences: the problem, the gap, what the paper does, and the key finding — framed for why it fits this journal's scope and readership (use aec-journals scope notes).

  3. Makes the significance explicit — scholarly and practical/industry relevance (AEC editors value both).

  4. Includes the standard declarations: the work is original, not under consideration elsewhere, all authors approve submission, and any conflicts of interest / funding / prior-related-work (e.g. a conference version that this extends) are disclosed. Add a data-availability note if relevant.

  5. Optionally suggests suitable (non-conflicted) reviewers or notes excluded reviewers, if the journal invites this.

  6. Closes courteously with corresponding-author contact details.

Keep it specific to the actual manuscript and journal — no generic boilerplate, no over-claiming. Mark placeholders (author names, grant numbers, prior version DOI) for the user to fill. Don't fabricate any declaration; if you don't know whether a conference version exists, ask.

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. 11d ago First seen · 33 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A 2183e626b452

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cover-letter is a command published in the GitHub repository Abhinavbwj/AEC-Scholar (18 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 357 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.