An AI agent skill for writing, reviewing, and polishing journal submission cover letters, distilled from Wiley editorial training (perovskite photovoltaics example, generalizable to any field).
- Drafts a complete cover letter from your manuscript info (title, target journal, breakthrough, quantified results, advance over prior work, suggested reviewers)
- Enforces the 8-block structure editors expect: submission statement → background → gap ("However…") → core work ("Herein, we propose…") → numbered significant findings → strongest data → journal-fit paragraph → reviewer suggestions & close
- Checks the 6 editorial questions: topic importance, result significance, key breakthrough, advance over previous work, why this journal, why its readers will read it
- Guards against common failure modes: wrong editor/journal name (every instance), waffle, over-length
Quality bar: "A letter isn't good when you can't add more; a letter is good when you can't take away anything more."
cover-letter-skill/
├── SKILL.md # workflow, structure, rules
└── references/
└── example-letter.md # full annotated perovskite → AEM example
Copy cover-letter-skill/ into your agent's skills directory (e.g. ~/.config/agents/skills/), then ask your agent to "write a cover letter for my submission to ". The skill triggers on cover-letter drafting, revision, or journal-fit checking tasks.
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