ieee-cover

ieee-cover is a skill for Claude Code from TenWalk/ieee-skills. It costs 124 tokens per session (822 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing skill for letters sent to journal editors with a research-paper submission or resubmission. It focuses on explaining the paper's fit, contribution, evidence, and required compliance information.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for drafting IEEE journal cover letters, significance statements, special-issue fit explanations, and concise summaries of changes in revised papers.
Why use it?
It helps separate an editor-facing cover letter from the paper's abstract or a detailed reply to reviewers. It also reduces the risk of inventing names, claims, or submission details.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the ieee-skills plugin — 11 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for drafting IEEE journal cover letters, significance statements, special-issue fit explanations, and concise summaries of changes in revised papers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tenwalk/ieee-skills/ieee-cover
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 TenWalk/ieee-skills --skill ieee-cover
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TenWalk/ieee-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ieee-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 124 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 822 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 $0.00124 $0.00822
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.00411
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00164
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00082

Measured 12d ago against content hash f65463160958, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ieee-cover 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.

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.

ieee-skills-claude/skills/ieee-cover/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

IEEE Cover Letter and Significance Framing

Use this skill to write the editor-facing letter that accompanies an IEEE submission. The cover letter should help the editor see fit, novelty, evidence, and compliance quickly; it is not a second abstract and not a reviewer response.

Core stance

  • Editor first. State why the manuscript belongs in the target journal or special issue, what the technical contribution is, and why the evidence is sufficient.
  • Specific beats promotional. Use concrete contribution/evidence language; avoid "highly novel", "breakthrough", and unsupported impact claims.
  • Do not over-disclose reviewer-response detail. For a revision, summarize the main changes and point to the response letter; do not replay every comment.
  • Compliance matters. Include originality, non-duplication, conflicts, ethics/data/code statements, and suggested/opposed reviewers only when the journal asks or the user supplies them.
  • No fabricated names or claims. Never invent editor names, reviewer names, manuscript IDs, funding statements, conflicts, or data availability.

When to open extra files

File Open when
references/cover-letter-template.md Drafting a new-submission or revised-submission cover letter
references/significance-framing.md Writing the significance/fit paragraph for JSAC/TWC/TCOM/WCL/CL, special issues, or interdisciplinary framing

For target-journal routing, also use ieee-writing's journal-fit.md when needed. For reviewer responses use ieee-response.

Intake

  • target journal or special issue;
  • manuscript title and paper type;
  • one-sentence contribution;
  • 2-4 evidence points: theorem/proof, algorithm, simulation, testbed, dataset, or measured result;
  • status: new submission, revision, transfer, or resubmission after rejection;
  • manuscript ID, editor name, suggested reviewers/conflicts, and required declarations if available.

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 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. 12d ago First seen · 72 lines · 124 tokens per session scan A f65463160958

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ieee-cover is a skill published in the GitHub repository TenWalk/ieee-skills (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 124 tokens to every session and 822 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 2026-08-31.