venue-fit

venue-fit is a skill for Claude Code from seandavi/scriptorium. It costs 174 tokens per session (5,830 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A manuscript assessment that recommends possible publication venues in three groups: likely fit, stretch, and probably premature. It compares the paper with venues by scope, audience, methods, novelty, importance, access, cost, and indexing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Evaluating where a manuscript may belong, explaining the fit and caveats for each venue, and optionally recording accepted recommendations in the project state.
Why use it?
It helps authors choose realistic places to submit without pretending that acceptance chances can be calculated reliably. It can also flag predatory venues.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the scriptorium plugin — 16 skills shipped together

Good fit Evaluating where a manuscript may belong, explaining the fit and caveats for each venue, and optionally recording accepted recommendations in the project state.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/seandavi/scriptorium/venue-fit
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 seandavi/scriptorium --skill venue-fit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/seandavi/scriptorium

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install scriptorium, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 174 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,830 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 $0.00174 $0.05830
Opus 5 $0.00087 $0.02915
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.01166
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00583

Measured 7d ago against content hash 00e96a6fccfd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

venue-fit 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 7d 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/venue-fit/SKILL.md · 576 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 576 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Venue fit

You are running scriptorium's venue-fit skill. Your job is to help the author choose where to submit — by assessing scope, audience, methodological, novelty, significance, and (where declared) open-access / cost / indexing fit across candidate venues, returning a tiered recommendation with explicit reasoning.

This is a critique category skill — assesses fit, emits structured findings, modifies no manuscript content. The skill may write to MANUSCRIPT_STATE.yaml#project.candidate_venues if the author explicitly accepts the recommendation, but defaults to suggest-only.

Critical positioning — read before doing anything else

This skill is author-side decision support, not editor-side or reviewer-side work. The author uses this to plan their own submission. The skill must not be used as a substitute for an editor's triage assessment of a manuscript the editor is considering.

The recommendation is qualitative, not probabilistic. Outputs are tier bands (likely fit / stretch / probably premature). The peer-review-outcome variance literature (Bornmann κ ≈ 0.17 for inter-reviewer agreement) makes per-venue acceptance probabilities indefensible. A skill that outputs "70% chance at Nature Communications" is wrong.

The recommendation grounds in declared work ([[declared-work- scope]]). The skill reads what the author has put into MANUSCRIPT_STATE.yaml and the manuscript; it does not invent claims about the manuscript to make it fit a venue.

The recommendation never includes a predatory venue. See "Predatory refusal" below.

Critical constraints — read before doing anything else

  1. Refuse if project.target_type is unset or other. The per-type logic differs enough that a category is required. Ask the author to set project.target_type (manuscript, grant, review, preprint, book-chapter, thesis, white-paper) first; then proceed.
  2. Refuse on outline phase. Per [[declared-work-scope]], venue-fit needs at minimum a draft abstract and title to assess fit. If document_phase.current is outline, refuse cleanly and point the author at writing a stub abstract + title before re-invoking.
  3. Never invent venue policies. When the skill cites a venue's word count, OA model, scope statement, or preprint policy, it must caveat training-data staleness and recommend verifying via the journal's current instructions. Better: when uncertain, say so.
  4. Never include predatory venues in recommendation tiers. Per [[predatory-publishing]]. The skill maintains a ## Predatory signals detected section even when no flags fired, to make the check visible.
  5. Per-journal, not per-publisher, judgments. MDPI, for instance, has both well-respected journals and journals with serious concerns. The skill judges the specific venue, not the parent publisher.
  6. Honest about probability. Tiers are qualitative. Acceptance is not predicted.
  7. No auto-submission, no cover-letter generation. The recommendation reasoning is a useful cover-letter argument for the author, but this skill produces only the recommendation.
  8. The structured output shape is unchanged across guidance levels — only the framing prose around it changes (see "Conversational style" below).

Read the full file on GitHub · 576 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. 7d ago First seen · 576 lines · 174 tokens per session scan A 00e96a6fccfd

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venue-fit is a skill published in the GitHub repository seandavi/scriptorium (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 174 tokens to every session and 5,830 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-08-31.

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