Teaching Claude Code the house style of 500+ journals

What it does

Awesome Journal Skills is a curated index of Claude Code and Codex skill packs organized like an awesome-list. Each pack distills the formatting rules, structural conventions, and rhetorical style of a specific journal—ranging from Nature and Cell to 经济研究—so that an agent can help with table standards, identification strategies, and peer-review responses. The repository catalogs roughly 2,900 skills across 195 packs covering 519 journals and 155 CS/AI conferences.

The interesting bit

Instead of treating academic writing as a generic prompt, the project treats it as a configuration problem: load the Quarterly Journal of Economics pack and the model speaks econometrics; load The Lancet and it shifts to clinical reporting. The breadth is the point—there are separate cover galleries for Chinese social-science journals and Western STEM flagships.

Key highlights

• Eleven discipline sections, from agronomy to computer science, with bilingual navigation.
• Deep packs (12 skills each) for flagship journals like Science, PNAS, and NEJM; broader collections for the long tail.
• Skills span the full submission pipeline: topic selection, manuscript formatting, and rebuttal-letter drafting.
• Maintained by CoPaper.AI and Stanford REAP under an MIT license.

Verdict

Graduate students and early-career researchers who spend hours reverse-engineering a journal’s house style will save time here. If you do not use Claude Code or Codex, or if you already have a copyeditor on retainer, this is not for you.