Use when targeting the Annual Review of Environment and Resources or deciding whether an environment-and-resources synthesis fits this invited-review venue. Encodes the journal's invited-review fit, the authoritative-synthesis bar, structure expectations, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
SkillScore95Maintained
Automatic
◆Writing & Editing pack
Last verified 8/15/2026
What it changes
Passed 21 of 22 test cases with the skill, and 11 of 22 without it.
Without skill50%
With skill95%
Checks it passed that the model alone missed
Rates fit as Low
Uses bracketed key-value output format
Provides 2 or 3 topic tags under [Topic tags]
and 7 more in the full report
11 fixed10 passed either way0 still failing1 broke
Pass-rate lift
+45 pp
Tokens
+50%
Agent turns
0%
Response time
-38%
Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/15/2026v121 of 22 cases passed with skill
Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.
See it in action
One of 11 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
1 of 11
Prompt
We authored a review on carbon market accounting that exclusively promotes our own patented soil carbon measurement framework while dismissing competing methodologies. Evaluate fit for Annual Review of Environment and Resources in bracketed key-value format.
What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked
Without skill
With skill
Flags one-sided advocacy of authors own work as a desk-reject trigger
Passed
Passed
Rates fit as Low
Missed
Passed
case-14 · 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.md115 linessingle file
Annual Review of Environment and Resources (annual-review-of-environment-and-resources)
Journal positioning
The Annual Review of Environment and Resources (AREAR) is the Annual Reviews venue for
authoritative, largely invited review articles that synthesize fields across environment
and natural resources — climate, energy, water, land, biodiversity, ecosystems, pollution,
and the human and institutional dimensions of resource use. Its defining expectation is a
definitive, field-defining synthesis by recognized experts: a critical, balanced account
that consolidates a body of literature, frames the state of knowledge, and sets the agenda —
not primary research and not a routine literature review. Because most articles are
commissioned, an uninvited primary-research submission is the single largest misfit. This
skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing tool. It does not replace the journal's
current author guidelines or its editorial/commissioning process. Before submitting or
proposing, re-check the live AREAR guidance.
When to trigger
The author names the Annual Review of Environment and Resources and wants a fit check for a
synthesis in the environment-and-resources space.
An author has been invited (or wants to propose) a field-defining review and needs the
authoritative-synthesis bar and structure expectations.
The author must understand that this is an invited-review venue, not an outlet for primary
research or routine reviews.
The author needs a credible alternative route if the work is primary research or too narrow.
Scope & topic fit
Cross-cutting syntheses of climate change, energy systems and transitions, and their human
and policy dimensions.
Water, land, food, and biodiversity resources: state of knowledge, drivers, and governance.
Pollution, environmental health, and Earth-system change synthesized for a broad
environment-and-resources readership.
Human–environment systems: institutions, economics, governance, justice, and behavior in
resource use and environmental management.
Methodological and conceptual syntheses that integrate natural- and social-science evidence
on an environmental problem.
Emerging, interdisciplinary topics ripe for a consolidating, agenda-setting review.