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This skill helps researchers align their manuscripts with the writing conventions of specific academic publications. By synthesizing target-journal corpora, field-top papers, and lab exemplars, it generates a temporary writing skill tailored to a single manuscript's needs.
The process allows for section-by-section revision grounded in actual publication data, ensuring the prose reflects the linguistic patterns and structural expectations of a chosen journal or research field.
WHO IT'S FOR
Academic researchers
adapting manuscripts to target journal conventions
PhD candidates
learning rhetorical styles from published papers
Research lab leads
standardizing manuscript style using lab exemplars
LaTeX users in academia
revising academic papers while preserving technical notation
Compatible AgentsThe repository documents support for these agents. The skills may also work with other agents that can load SKILL.md files, but they may need some setup or small changes.
Installs: Uses the single journal-adapt skill directly from the checked-out repository without copying it into a custom-skills directory. · Codex
Before you start
Codex
A local checkout of the repository accessible to Codex
Run from: repository root
Keep the repository open in Codex and ask Codex in the agent session to follow skill/SKILL.md. This is an agent-session instruction, not a terminal command.
Installs: Uses the single journal-adapt skill by directing Codex to its SKILL.md file. · Codex
Before you start
Codex
A local checkout of the repository accessible to Codex
In the Codex agent session, provide the path skill/SKILL.md and ask Codex to run its workflow. If the repository is not the current workspace, replace that relative path in your message with the corresponding path in your local checkout. This is an agent-session instruction, not a terminal command.
Primary target-journal corpus folder containing readable Markdown or plain-text papers
Manuscript Markdown or plain-text file
Optional secondary corpus folder
Optional user or lab exemplar files
Optional static base writing skill
Use the journal-adapt skill to build a reviewable dynamic writing skill for my manuscript. The target journal or writing destination is <target journal>; the primary corpus folder is <path/to/target-journal-corpus>; and the manuscript is <path/to/manuscript.md>. The files are Markdown or plain text. Use <path/to/secondary-corpus>, <path/to/user-or-lab-exemplars>, and <path/to/base-writing-skill> only if I provide them. Generate the dynamic writing skill for human review, then stop before revising any manuscript section.
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