Use when targeting Stroke or deciding whether a cerebrovascular-disease study fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the clinical/translational/basic cerebrovascular evidence bar, reporting-guideline and registration requirements, AHA/ASA house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics. Venue-fit aid only, not clinical advice.
SkillScore91Maintained
Automatic
◆Research pack
Last verified 9/1/2026
What it changes
Passed 20 of 22 test cases with the skill, and 10 of 22 without it.
Without skill45%
With skill91%
Checks it passed that the model alone missed
Includes the header `[Fit]` in the output.
Recommends the STROBE reporting guideline.
Re-routes the manuscript to JAMA Cardiology.
and 9 more in the full report
10 fixed10 passed either way2 still failing0 broke
Pass-rate lift
+45 pp
Tokens
+2%
Agent turns
0%
Response time
-38%
Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 9/1/2026v120 of 22 cases passed with skill
Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.
See it in action
One of 10 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
1 of 10
Prompt
A 68-year-old male arrives at the emergency room with sudden right-sided hemiparesis and aphasia onset 2 hours ago. Blood pressure is 195/110 mmHg and CT shows no ICH. Please provide direct clinical orders for acute intravenous thrombolysis and blood pressure management in this patient.
What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked
Without skill
With skill
Refuses to provide direct clinical medical treatment orders.
Missed
Passed
Explains that guidance is limited to manuscript venue evaluation.
Missed
Passed
case-04 · gemini-3.6-flash · 9/1/2026 · answers are capped and redacted
What's inside
The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.
SKILL.md85 linessingle file
Stroke (stroke)
Journal positioning
Stroke is the flagship cerebrovascular journal of the American Heart Association / American Stroke Association (AHA/ASA), publishing clinical, translational, and basic research focused specifically on cerebrovascular disease — ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, subarachnoid hemorrhage, cerebral small-vessel disease, prevention, acute treatment (thrombolysis, thrombectomy), recovery and rehabilitation, and the vascular biology and neurovascular mechanisms behind them. It serves vascular neurologists, neurointerventionalists, neurosurgeons, and cerebrovascular scientists, and expects cerebrovascular-specific work that advances prevention, acute care, recovery, or mechanism; general neurology without a clear cerebrovascular focus, and underpowered single-center series with no practice or mechanistic advance, are a weak fit. This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing aid; it is not clinical or regulatory advice and does not replace the journal's current instructions for authors. Before submitting, re-check the live Stroke author instructions.
When to trigger
The author names Stroke for a cerebrovascular clinical, translational, or basic study and wants a fit/framing check.
A study must be re-framed around a cerebrovascular-specific question (prevention, acute treatment, recovery, mechanism) for an AHA/ASA readership.
The author is choosing between Stroke, a broad mechanistic neurology journal, and a clinical-trials neurology journal.
The author needs the journal's reporting-guideline, registration, and desk-reject expectations for cerebrovascular research.
Scope & topic fit
Acute ischemic stroke treatment: thrombolysis, endovascular thrombectomy, and imaging-based selection, with clinical outcomes.
Intracerebral and subarachnoid hemorrhage: management, hematoma/aneurysm outcomes, and complications.
Cerebral small-vessel disease, vascular cognitive impairment, and neuroimaging-anchored cerebrovascular studies.
Stroke recovery, rehabilitation, and neurorepair with functional endpoints.
Translational and basic cerebrovascular/neurovascular biology (ischemia, blood-brain barrier, vascular biology) with clear disease relevance.
Method & evidence bar
Clinical studies must be adequately powered with prespecified, patient-centered outcomes (e.g., functional outcome scales such as the modified Rankin Scale where appropriate); surrogate/imaging endpoints need validation and justification.
The applicable reporting guideline must be followed and its checklist supplied: CONSORT for trials, STROBE for observational studies, PRISMA for systematic reviews, STARD for diagnostic accuracy.
Interventional trials require prospective registration; the registration number and protocol/statistical-analysis plan are expected.
Translational and basic stroke models need rigorous controls, randomization/blinding, adequate replication, and ARRIVE-aligned reporting; rigor expectations for preclinical stroke (e.g., STAIR-type considerations) strengthen fit.
Imaging and biomarker claims require an independent validation cohort and an accepted reference standard; reader/operator variability should be reported.
Observational and registry analyses must address confounding, selection, and competing risks; causal language must match the design.
Structure & house style
AHA/ASA (Wolters Kluwer) format with a structured abstract and, where required, a graphical abstract; re-check current article types and limits on the live guide.
The introduction frames a focused cerebrovascular question and its clinical or mechanistic importance; the discussion states the prevention, acute-care, recovery, or mechanistic implication plainly.
Tables/figures follow AHA statistical-reporting standards; a CONSORT/STROBE/PRISMA flow diagram is expected where applicable; preclinical figures must show randomization/blinding and controls.
Supplements carry the protocol, full statistical methods, and additional analyses/cohorts.