journal-cover-letter-skill-trainer

journal-cover-letter-skill-trainer is a skill for Codex from hujizhou35-cmd/journal-cover-letter-tutorial. It costs 110 tokens per session (3,082 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A training and evaluation tool for improving a journal cover-letter writing skill. A journal cover letter is the letter sent to a research journal with a manuscript to explain its importance and fit.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps compare AI-generated and expert letters, test Research, Review, and Bibliometrics routes, and make controlled, versioned improvements.
Why use it?
It helps improve editorial reasoning without copying expert letters or treating them as the factual source.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit It helps compare AI-generated and expert letters, test Research, Review, and Bibliometrics routes, and make controlled, versioned improvements.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hujizhou35-cmd/journal-cover-letter-tutorial/journal-cover-letter-skill-trainer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add hujizhou35-cmd/journal-cover-letter-tutorial --skill journal-cover-letter-skill-trainer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hujizhou35-cmd/journal-cover-letter-tutorial

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 110 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,082 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: 1 finding, up to medium

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  • medium Excessive Agency · line 39
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    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00110 $0.03082
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.01541
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00616
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00308

Measured 12d ago against content hash e7dabf9e59bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

journal-cover-letter-skill-trainer 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 5 executable files (scripts/evaluate_promotion.py, scripts/prepare_blind_packet.py, scripts/prepare_generator_packet.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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-cover-letter-skill-trainer/SKILL.md · 263 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 263 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Journal Cover Letter Skill Trainer v0.2.0

Improve the journal-cover-letter-skill through controlled experiments. Learn transferable editorial reasoning from expert letters without copying their wording, treating them as factual authorities, or overfitting one manuscript.

Non-negotiable principles

  • Treat the manuscript and author-confirmed case materials as the factual source of truth. An expert letter is a benchmark for editorial decisions, not a gold standard.
  • Generate the baseline before exposing its generator to the expert letter.
  • After the expert is revealed, never reuse that evaluator context for a claimed-blind candidate generation. Start a fresh generator context for every round.
  • Change the target route for a stated reason. Do not patch only the current letter.
  • A single case may create an experimental candidate, but cannot by itself prove a general improvement.
  • Protect every route that was not targeted. A Research improvement must not silently weaken Review or Bibliometrics, and vice versa.
  • Preserve the target Skill's name. Version the candidate and release; do not rename the Skill to encode a version.
  • Keep private manuscripts and real letters outside public source trees and release packages.
  • Never describe a comparison as objective proof. Report the rubric, judges, isolation level, evidence, uncertainty, and human decision.

1. Determine the run mode

Set:

training_intent: STRENGTHEN_EXISTING_ROUTE | PROPOSE_NEW_ROUTE
target_route: ORIGINAL_RESEARCH | REVIEW_SYNTHESIS | BIBLIOMETRICS | user-defined route
storage_mode: SESSION_ONLY | LOCAL_PRIVATE_CORPUS
isolation_level: STRICT_AGENT_ISOLATED | FRESH_CONTEXT_BLIND_GENERATION | HUMAN_GATED_REVEAL | REFERENCE_CONTAMINATED
promotion_policy: HUMAN_APPROVAL

Use STRICT_AGENT_ISOLATED when host-managed workers or API requests enforce separate contexts and controlled inputs. Use FRESH_CONTEXT_BLIND_GENERATION when a human starts a new temporary chat or conversation for every baseline and candidate generation, supplies only the candidate Skill plus manuscript-side materials, and verifies that memory, project files, custom instructions, and inherited conversation do not expose the expert. Use HUMAN_GATED_REVEAL when the expert is withheld until the first baseline is sealed but later candidate generation remains in the revealed conversation. If any claimed-blind generator has already seen or been quoted material from the expert letter, use REFERENCE_CONTAMINATED for that round.

Read the full file on GitHub · 263 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. 12d ago First seen · 263 lines · 110 tokens per session scan A e7dabf9e59bf

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journal-cover-letter-skill-trainer is a skill published in the GitHub repository hujizhou35-cmd/journal-cover-letter-tutorial (31 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 110 tokens to every session and 3,082 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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