Use when targeting the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) or deciding whether a broad-interest atmospheric/oceanic/hydrologic-sciences contribution fits this venue. Encodes the journal's review-and-community positioning, the broad-audience-significance bar, synthesis and field-campaign expectations, AMS house style, official-submission re-check, and misfit heuristics.
SkillScore100Maintained
Automatic
◆Writing & Editing pack
Last verified 8/15/2026
What it changes
Passed 22 of 22 test cases with the skill, and 10 of 22 without it.
Without skill45%
With skill100%
Checks it passed that the model alone missed
The response rates BAMS fit as Low.
The response rates BAMS fit as High.
The response designates the article type as campaign-overview.
and 4 more in the full report
12 fixed10 passed either way0 still failing0 broke
Pass-rate lift
+55 pp
Tokens
+45%
Agent turns
0%
Response time
-41%
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 12 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
1 of 12
Prompt
We collected helium isotope measurements at 12 deep ocean stations during a two-week cruise in the Southern Ocean to test local turbulent mixing rates. Evaluate target venue selection for BAMS using the structured metadata fields starting with [Fit].
What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked
Without skill
With skill
The response rates BAMS fit as Low.
Missed
Passed
The response suggests re-routing to Limnology and Oceanography or a specialized ocean research journal.
Passed
Passed
case-07 · 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.md128 linessingle file
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (bulletin-of-the-american-meteorological-society)
Journal positioning
The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) is the AMS flagship for
broad-interest content addressed to the entire atmospheric, oceanic, and hydrologic-sciences
community: major review and synthesis articles, overviews of field campaigns and large
research programs, and community pieces such as essays, meeting and workshop summaries, and
policy- or education-relevant commentary. It is best understood as a review and community
venue, not a home for narrow primary research — much of its substantive content is
commissioned or developed in dialogue with editors, and every article must speak across
sub-disciplines rather than to one specialist group. A focused original-research result, no
matter how solid, generally belongs in a topical AMS research journal instead. This skill is
a fit / venue-selection / re-framing tool. It does not replace the journal's current
author guidance. Before submitting, re-check the live BAMS author instructions and article-type
definitions.
When to trigger
The author names BAMS and wants a fit/framing check for a review, synthesis, field-campaign,
program-overview, or community/essay contribution.
A piece of primary research must be assessed for whether it should instead be re-cast as a
broad synthesis or routed to a topical research journal.
The author is choosing between BAMS and a specialized AMS journal such as
journal-of-climate for a climate-science manuscript.
The author needs BAMS's broad-audience-significance expectations and its
commissioned/community character.
Scope & topic fit
Major review and synthesis articles that consolidate the state of knowledge on a topic of
community-wide interest across the weather, climate, ocean, and water sciences.
Field-campaign and observing-program overviews: motivation, design, instrumentation,
early results, and the data/resources made available to the community.
Large research-program and infrastructure articles describing goals, organization, and
community benefit rather than a single hypothesis test.
Community content: essays, perspectives, history-of-science pieces, education and workforce
topics, and policy- or society-relevant commentary.
Meeting, workshop, and assessment summaries that inform the broader community.
Cross-disciplinary contributions that connect atmospheric, oceanic, and hydrologic