Use as the entry point for any American Historical Review (AHR) manuscript. Routes to the right AHR sub-skill based on where you are in the lifecycle of a history article — from significance and historiography through archives, interpretation, Chicago-style prose, review, and revision. It dispatches; it does not draft content.
SkillScore82Maintained
Automatic
◆Research pack
Last verified 8/15/2026
What it changes
Passed 18 of 22 test cases with the skill, and 3 of 22 without it.
Without skill14%
With skill82%
Checks it passed that the model alone missed
The targeted module is ahr-submission
The targeted module is ahr-writing-style
The targeted module is ahr-review-process
and 23 more in the full report
17 fixed1 passed either way2 still failing2 broke
Pass-rate lift
+68 pp
Tokens
+14%
Agent turns
0%
Response time
-41%
Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/15/2026v118 of 22 cases passed with skill
Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.
See it in action
One of 17 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
1 of 17
Prompt
My historiographical positioning and main thesis are established, but I now need to assess the quality, depth, and extent of my archival primary sources. State my current phase, target tool name, a one-line reason, and the next tool in sequence.
What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked
Without skill
With skill
The stage identified corresponds to sources
Passed
Passed
The targeted module is ahr-sources-and-archives
Missed
Passed
The next step identified is ahr-interpretation-and-method
Missed
Passed
case-06 · 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.md67 linessingle file
AHR Workflow Router (ahr-workflow)
The orchestrator for an AHR submission. Figure out the stage of the project, then send the user to the
matching skill. The AHR is the flagship journal of the historical profession — its articles are
historiographical interventions built on primary sources, judged by historians across all
fields. The router's first job is to make sure the project has both a significant question and a real
archival basis before polishing prose.
When to trigger
Starting a new AHR article and unsure where to begin
Mid-project and unsure which skill applies next
Sitting on rich archival material but no argument yet (route to ahr-argument-development)
Returning with a decision letter (route to ahr-revision-and-response)
What the AHR is (and is not)
It is a generalist history journal: all periods, all places, all subfields, English-language.
It is not a social-science venue: there is no data-availability/replication policy, no
statistical-significance bar, no results tables. The currency is argument, evidence, and
interpretation anchored in primary sources and a historiographical conversation.
Routing map (stage → skill)
Is the question significant? → ahr-topic-selection
Where does it sit in the field? → ahr-historiography-positioning
What is the argument / stakes? → ahr-argument-development
What are the sources, and how good? → ahr-sources-and-archives
How am I reading the evidence? → ahr-interpretation-and-method
Does the article hold together? → ahr-structure-and-exposition
Does the prose work? → ahr-writing-style
Are the notes correct (Chicago)? → ahr-citation-and-style
How will it be judged? → ahr-review-process
Ready to submit? → ahr-submission
Got a decision / R&R? → ahr-revision-and-response