Use when targeting Water Resources Research (WRR) or deciding whether a hydrology / water-science manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the quantitative water-science contribution bar, data-and-code deposition expectations, AGU house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
SkillScore86Maintained
Automatic
◆Research pack
Last verified 8/15/2026
What it changes
Passed 19 of 22 test cases with the skill, and 15 of 22 without it.
Without skill68%
With skill86%
Checks it passed that the model alone missed
Assesses overall journal fit as Low.
Identifies hydroclimatology as a primary topic tag.
Identifies vadose-zone processes as a key topic tag.
and 6 more in the full report
7 fixed12 passed either way0 still failing3 broke
Pass-rate lift
+18 pp
Tokens
-2%
Agent turns
0%
Response time
-53%
Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/15/2026v119 of 22 cases passed with skill
Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.
See it in action
One of 7 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
1 of 7
Prompt
We applied a standard SWAT model to calibrate streamflow and sediment yield in a single agricultural watershed in Spain to evaluate local soil conservation practices. No new modeling techniques, theoretical advances, or transferable insights beyond this specific watershed were developed. Evaluate fit for WRR and return the structured output block.
What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked
Without skill
With skill
Assesses fit as Low for single-basin model application lacking methodological advances.
Passed
Passed
Recommends journal-of-hydrology as the re-route venue.
Missed
Passed
case-11 · 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.md111 linessingle file
Water Resources Research (water-resources-research)
Journal positioning
Water Resources Research (WRR) is the American Geophysical Union's flagship journal for
the science of water — the physical, chemical, biological, and socio-hydrological
processes governing water resources, and the methods used to observe, model, and manage
them. The defining expectation is a quantitative, generalizable advance in water
science: a new process understanding, method, theory, or analysis that transfers beyond
one basin. An applied case study that reports model results for a single catchment with no
methodological or conceptual contribution is a weak fit. 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 WRR/AGU author instructions and data policy.
When to trigger
The author names WRR and wants a fit/framing check for a hydrology or water-science paper.
A basin-specific modeling or monitoring study must be re-framed into a transferable
methodological or process contribution.
The author is choosing between WRR, journal-of-hydrology, and a broader earth-science
venue.
The author needs WRR's quantitative-contribution bar and AGU data-deposition expectations.
Scope & topic fit
Surface-water and groundwater hydrology: catchment processes, streamflow, recharge,
vadose-zone and subsurface flow and transport.
Hydrologic modeling, data assimilation, uncertainty quantification, and predictability.
Hydroclimatology, snow/ice hydrology, and land–atmosphere water exchange.
Water quality, contaminant transport, and ecohydrology when mechanistically framed.
Socio-hydrology, water-resources systems, and human–water interactions with rigorous
quantitative analysis.
Hydrologic measurement, sensing, and experimental methods that advance observation.
Method & evidence bar
The contribution must be quantitative and transferable: a method, theory, or process
insight whose value is not confined to one site.
Models must be evaluated against data with appropriate skill metrics, benchmarks, and
uncertainty quantification; parameter identifiability and equifinality should be addressed.