Use when targeting Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment or deciding whether an agroecosystem-environment manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the field-to-landscape environmental-outcome bar, data-reporting expectations, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
SkillScore96Maintained
Automatic
◆Research pack
Last verified 8/15/2026
What it changes
Passed 22 of 23 test cases with the skill, and 18 of 23 without it.
Without skill78%
With skill96%
Checks it passed that the model alone missed
Limits the topic tags section to 2 or 3 relevant agriculture-environment tags.
Re-routes the paper to global-change-biology as the primary venue for broad earth-system climate process modeling.
Re-routes the submission to agronomy-for-sustainable-development as a better fit for explicit sustainability framing and policy review.
and 4 more in the full report
5 fixed17 passed either way0 still failing1 broke
Pass-rate lift
+17 pp
Tokens
+43%
Agent turns
0%
Response time
-31%
Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/15/2026v122 of 23 cases passed with skill
Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.
See it in action
One of 5 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
1 of 5
Prompt
We ran a global Earth System Model simulating global terrestrial vegetation carbon sinks under future IPCC climate scenarios without agricultural management details. We are considering Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. Assess fit using bracketed headers for fit rating, target journal, topic tags, environmental outcome, method review, top risk, official checks, and alternative venue.
What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked
Without skill
With skill
Re-routes the paper to global-change-biology as the primary venue for broad earth-system climate process modeling.
Missed
Passed
case-12 · gemini-3.6-flash · 8/15/2026 · answers are capped and redacted
What's inside
The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.
Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (AGEE), published by Elsevier, sits at the interface
of agriculture and the environment at field-to-landscape scale: how agricultural systems
affect — and are affected by — nutrient and greenhouse-gas fluxes, biodiversity, soil and
water quality, and ecosystem services. Its defining expectation is a study whose central
contribution is an environmental outcome of agroecosystem management, quantified with
sound design and generalizable beyond one plot. A pure crop-yield/agronomy study with no
environmental outcome, or a soil-process mechanism study with no agroecosystem/management
framing, fits a sibling journal better. This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing
tool. It does not replace the journal's current author guidelines. Before submitting, re-check
the live AGEE author guidance.
When to trigger
The author names AGEE and wants a fit/framing check for an agriculture–environment paper.
A management or land-use study must be framed around its environmental outcome (fluxes,
biodiversity, water/soil quality) rather than around yield alone.
The author is choosing between AGEE, field-crops-research (crop/yield focus), and
soil-biology-and-biochemistry (soil-process mechanism).
The author needs AGEE's desk-reject heuristics and a credible alternative route.
Scope & topic fit
Greenhouse-gas and nutrient fluxes from agroecosystems (N2O, CH4, CO2; N and P losses) and
their management drivers.
Biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes: pollinators, natural enemies,
soil biota, and habitat effects.
Soil and water quality outcomes of agricultural management at field-to-catchment scale.
Land-use and management effects on agroecosystem function, including conservation
agriculture, agroforestry, and grazing systems.
Trade-offs and synergies between production and environmental outcomes across landscapes.
Modeling and upscaling of agroecosystem environmental outcomes when validated against
measurements.
Method & evidence bar
The central claim must be an environmental outcome at field-to-landscape scale,
Use when targeting Agronomy for Sustainable Development or deciding whether an agronomy / farming-systems manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the explicit-and-evidenced sustainability-contribution bar, evidence and data-reporting expectations, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
Close match
+27 pp pass-rate lift
Use when articulating why an Agricultural Systems (AgSy) result matters — its relevance for farm design, management, decision support, or policy. AgSy values systems analysis that informs a decision, so this is what separates an AgSy paper from a methods demo. It frames implications honestly within the model's scope; it does not over-claim or invent impact.