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.
SkillScore100Maintained
Automatic
◆Research pack
Last verified 8/15/2026
What it changes
Passed 22 of 22 test cases with the skill, and 16 of 22 without it.
Without skill73%
With skill100%
Checks it passed that the model alone missed
Rates fit as Low.
Includes the key [Fit] tag in the output.
Re-routes the paper to soil-biology-and-biochemistry.
and 2 more in the full report
6 fixed16 passed either way0 still failing0 broke
Pass-rate lift
+27 pp
Tokens
+49%
Agent turns
0%
Response time
-33%
Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/15/2026v122 of 22 cases passed with skill
Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.
See it in action
One of 6 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
1 of 6
Prompt
I conducted a 3-year trial in Iowa comparing three row spacings for corn under optimal fertilizer regimes, recording grain yield and kernel weight. No environmental losses or social/economic trade-offs were measured, though I mention in the introduction that higher yield contributes to global food security. Evaluate this submission for Agronomy for Sustainable Development and format your response using key brackets for Fit, Target, Article type, Topic tags, Sustainability contribution, Method/evidence, Top risk, Official items to re-check, and Re-route suggestion.
What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked
Without skill
With skill
Rates fit as Low.
Missed
Passed
Recommends field-crops-research as the re-route suggestion.
Passed
Passed
Includes [Fit] in the response structure.
Passed
Passed
case-04 · gemini-3.6-flash · 8/15/2026 · answers are capped and redacted
What's inside
The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.
SKILL.md120 linessingle file
Agronomy for Sustainable Development (agronomy-for-sustainable-development)
Journal positioning
Agronomy for Sustainable Development (ASD), published by Springer, is an agronomy journal
defined by an explicit sustainability framing: cropping and farming systems studied
because, and insofar as, they advance the sustainability of agriculture — environmental,
economic, and social. It publishes field research alongside reviews and meta-analyses, but in
every case the sustainability contribution must be explicit and evidenced, not asserted in
the abstract and dropped thereafter. A competent agronomy study whose only contribution is a
yield or management result, with sustainability mentioned as decoration, is a poor fit. 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 ASD author guidance.
When to trigger
The author names ASD and wants a fit/framing check for a sustainability-oriented agronomy or
farming-systems paper.
An agronomy result must be re-framed so its sustainability contribution is explicit,
measured, and load-bearing rather than rhetorical.
The author is planning a review or meta-analysis of sustainable cropping/farming systems and
needs the venue's synthesis bar.
The author is choosing between ASD, field-crops-research, and
agriculture-ecosystems-and-environment.
Scope & topic fit
Cropping and farming systems designed or evaluated for sustainability: diversification,
conservation agriculture, agroecology, organic and integrated systems.
Resource-use efficiency and input reduction (nutrients, water, pesticides, energy) tied to
sustainability outcomes and trade-offs.
Soil health, biodiversity, and ecosystem-service outcomes of agronomic management framed for
sustainability.
Climate-change adaptation and mitigation in agronomic systems, including carbon and GHG
considerations.
Reviews and meta-analyses that synthesize evidence on sustainable practices across studies
and regions.
Socio-economic and multi-criteria assessments of farming systems where they evidence the
sustainability contribution.
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.