journal-intelligence

journal-intelligence is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from eniktab/scientific-paper-writer. It costs 111 tokens per session (1,426 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research step that retrieves a scientific journal’s current submission rules before manuscript writing begins. A journal is a publication that reviews and publishes research papers.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps collect author guidelines, formatting limits, citation rules, AI-use language, LaTeX templates, and desk-rejection criteria for a target journal.
Why use it?
It avoids relying on outdated requirements for word counts, abstracts, figures, citations, templates, or disclosure policies.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps collect author guidelines, formatting limits, citation rules, AI-use language, LaTeX templates, and desk-rejection criteria for a target journal.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/eniktab/scientific-paper-writer/journal-intelligence
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add eniktab/scientific-paper-writer --skill journal-intelligence
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/eniktab/scientific-paper-writer

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 111 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,426 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 $0.00111 $0.01426
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00713
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00285
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00143

Measured 9d ago against content hash 47e32e429814, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

journal-intelligence 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 9d 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.

skills/journal-intelligence/SKILL.md · 171 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 171 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Journal Intelligence

Fetches live, current submission requirements for any scientific journal before writing begins. Journal guidelines, word limits, AI authorship policies, and LaTeX templates change without notice — this skill always retrieves the authoritative current version rather than relying on cached or hardcoded information.

Run this before every manuscript session. The output (journal_profile.yaml) becomes the single source of truth for all formatting decisions in the scientific-writing skill and any other writing tools.


When to Use

  • Before starting any manuscript, letter, review, or methods paper
  • When you need to know a journal's current word limits, figure limits, or abstract format
  • To get the exact AI authorship disclosure language a journal requires
  • To download the current LaTeX template before writing
  • To check desk-rejection criteria before investing time in a submission

Requirements: This skill requires WebSearch and WebFetch to be enabled in the agent's tool set. It cannot fetch live guidelines without these tools. If they are unavailable, see the fallback behavior below.


What It Does

Step 1 — Locate Author Guidelines

Searches and fetches the journal's official submission/author guidelines page.

Example URL patterns to try (publisher structures vary — these are starting points, not authoritative):

  • Nature family: https://www.nature.com/[journal]/submission-guidelines
  • Elsevier: https://www.elsevier.com/journals/[journal]/[issn]/guide-for-authors
  • Cell Press: https://www.cell.com/[journal]/authors
  • PLOS: https://journals.plos.org/[journal]/s/submission-guidelines
  • Wiley, Springer, ACS, RSC, IEEE, ACM — searched via WebSearch

If the pattern-based URL fails, fall back to a direct WebSearch for "[journal name] author guidelines submission".

Step 2 — Extract and Store Requirements

Extracts all format requirements into journal_profile.yaml:

journal: ""
article_type: ""
guidelines_url: ""
guidelines_fetched: ""        # date fetched

# Length limits
main_text_limit: ""           # words; what is excluded?
abstract_limit: ""            # words; structured or unstructured?
abstract_sections: ""         # required section labels if any
methods_limit: ""
figure_limit: ""
figure_legend_limit: ""
reference_limit: ""
supplementary: ""

# Format
citation_style: ""            # Vancouver numbered / Author-date / etc.
reference_format_example: ""
section_order: ""
methods_placement: ""         # inline / online / after references
special_elements: ""          # Key Resources Table, Significance Statement, eTOC, etc.

# AI policy
ai_policy_summary: ""
ai_disclosure_required: ""
ai_tools_declaration_format: ""
ai_tools_declaration_location: ""

# Template
latex_template_url: ""
latex_template_notes: ""

# Editorial
acceptance_rate: ""
desk_rejection_criteria: ""
editorial_priorities: ""

Read the full file on GitHub · 171 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. 9d ago First seen · 171 lines · 111 tokens per session scan A 47e32e429814

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journal-intelligence is a skill published in the GitHub repository eniktab/scientific-paper-writer (29 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 111 tokens to every session and 1,426 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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