retarget-journal

retarget-journal is a skill for Claude Code from flonat/flonat-research. It costs 61 tokens per session (1,743 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for moving an academic paper from one chosen journal to another. It updates the manuscript package, references, citations, naming, formatting, and submission details, then verifies that the paper still compiles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after choosing a new journal, such as after rejection or a change in submission strategy, when the paper needs to match the new venue.
Why use it?
Changing journals can leave outdated styles, citation formats, filenames, or submission information behind. This workflow gathers those changes into one checked process.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Good fit Use it after choosing a new journal, such as after rejection or a change in submission strategy, when the paper needs to match the new venue.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/flonat/flonat-research/retarget-journal
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.

Any agent
npx skills add flonat/flonat-research --skill retarget-journal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/flonat/flonat-research

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,743 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

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How audits are shown
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 $0.00061 $0.01743
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00872
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00349
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00174

Measured 8d ago against content hash af256b0cb7f3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

retarget-journal 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 8d 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/retarget-journal/SKILL.md · 146 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Retarget Journal Skill

Switch a paper manuscript from one journal to another. Handles folder renaming, bibliography swaps, citation key updates, formatting changes, and compilation verification.

When to Use

  • Switching a paper's target venue (e.g., Journal A to Journal B, Journal C to Journal D)
  • After a rejection when resubmitting to a different journal
  • When strategic decisions change the target venue mid-drafting

Before Starting

Ask the user for:

  1. Current project path — where is the paper?
  2. Target journal — full name and abbreviation
  3. What changes? — some retargets are minor (formatting), others are major (restructuring)

Read the project's CLAUDE.md and README.md to understand current state.


Workflow

Phase 1: Assess Scope

Read the current manuscript and compare against the target journal's requirements:

Check What to compare
Word/page limit Does the draft fit? Need to cut or can expand?
Required sections Does the target need sections the current draft lacks? (e.g., "Relevance Statement", "AI Disclosure")
Citation style Author-year vs numbered? natbib vs biblatex?
Formatting Template class? Column layout? Font requirements?
Supplementary material Online appendix conventions?

Present the assessment to the user before proceeding.

Phase 2: Rename and Restructure

  1. Rename project folder if it references the old journal:

    mv "old-journal-name/" "new-journal-name/"
    
  2. Update Overleaf symlink if one exists:

    # Remove old symlink
    rm paper/
    # Create new symlink to the correct Overleaf directory
    ln -s "/path/to/Overleaf/new-project" paper
    
  3. Update folder references in CLAUDE.md, README.md, .gitignore

Phase 3: Bibliography

  1. Swap .bib file if the user provides a new export from Paperpile
  2. Update citation keys across all .tex files:
    • Read the new .bib to get the new key format
    • Find all \cite{...}, \citet{...}, \citep{...}, \citeauthor{...} commands in .tex files
    • Map old keys to new keys (match by author + year)
    • Replace all occurrences
  3. Validate — cross-reference every manuscript citation key against the .bib files and report missing or unused keys. Use an installed bibliography validator for deeper metadata checks when available.

Read the full file on GitHub · 146 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. 8d ago First seen · 146 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A af256b0cb7f3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

retarget-journal is a skill published in the GitHub repository flonat/flonat-research (133 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 1,743 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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