submission-guide

submission-guide is a skill for Claude Code from James-Traina/compound-science. It costs 94 tokens per session (3,213 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to submitting academic papers to journals and managing revisions. It covers journal requirements, editor letters, referee reports, tracked changes, and response letters.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare a manuscript for submission, adapt it to a journal's format, write a cover or response letter, and manage revisions after referee feedback.
Why use it?
It helps organise the submission process and respond clearly when reviewers request changes, reducing missed requirements and revision tasks.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the compound-science plugin — 20 skills shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/james-traina/compound-science/submission-guide
Any agent
npx skills add James-Traina/compound-science --skill submission-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/James-Traina/compound-science

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install compound-science, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills.

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.

agentmods badge for submission-guide

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/james-traina/compound-science/submission-guide"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/james-traina/compound-science/submission-guide.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 94 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,213 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00094 $0.03213
Opus 5 $0.00047 $0.01606
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00643
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00321

Measured 6d ago against content hash c44f1de84acd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

submission-guide 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 6d 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/submission-guide/SKILL.md · 212 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 212 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Journal Submission

Reference for the full journal submission lifecycle: pre-submission preparation, journal-specific formatting, referee response strategy, and revision management. Covers conventions for top journals in economics, finance, political science, sociology, marketing, and statistics.

When to Use This Skill

Use when the user is:

  • Preparing a manuscript for first submission to an academic journal
  • Formatting a paper to meet a specific journal's requirements
  • Writing a response letter to referee reports after receiving an R&R
  • Managing tracked changes and revision logistics
  • Anticipating common referee objections for a particular empirical method
  • Writing a cover letter to the editor

Skip when:

  • The task is choosing an empirical method (use causal-inference or empirical-playbook skill)
  • The task is structural estimation implementation (use structural-modeling skill)
  • The task is setting up a replication package (use reproducible-pipelines skill)

Pre-Submission Checklist

Complete every item before submitting. Missing any one of these is a common reason for desk rejection or delayed processing.

Manuscript

  • Title: Concise, informative, no unnecessary jargon. Under 15 words is ideal.
  • Abstract: States the question, method, data, and main finding. Respects journal word limit (typically 100-150 words for econ journals).
  • JEL codes: 2-4 codes, primary code first. Check https://www.aeaweb.org/econlit/jelCodes.php for current classification.
  • Keywords: 3-6 terms not already in the title.
  • Introduction: Clearly states contribution in first two paragraphs. Includes a "roadmap" paragraph at the end.
  • Literature review: Positions paper relative to 3-5 closest papers. Explains what this paper does that they do not.
  • Identification section: Formal statement of assumptions, not just prose. Numbered assumptions preferred.
  • Results: Main results first, robustness second. Do not bury the lead.
  • Conclusion: No new results. Discuss limitations honestly. Suggest future work briefly.
  • References: Every citation in text appears in references and vice versa. Use a bibliography manager (BibTeX/BibLaTeX).
  • Anonymization: Remove all author-identifying information. Check PDF metadata, acknowledgments, file paths in code, dataset names that reveal institution.
  • Page/word count: Within journal limits. Many journals have strict limits (e.g., AER Papers & Proceedings: 5 pages).
  • Spell check and grammar: Run a final pass. Typos in the abstract signal carelessness.
  • Agent review: Run the journal-referee agent for an adversarial review and the econometric-reviewer agent to audit tables against code output.

Read the full file on GitHub · 212 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 6d ago First seen · 212 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A c44f1de84acd

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submission-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository James-Traina/compound-science (13 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 3,213 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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