PRL Results Framing (prl-results-framing)

When to trigger

• You have the data/derivation but the "so what" is fuzzy
• The draft reads like a chronological lab report, not a single argument
• You have several findings and have not chosen the headline one
• The opening paragraph buries the result under background
• prl-scope-fit returned PRL but flagged the breadth framing as weak

The one-claim discipline

A Letter makes one central claim. Everything else is support. Decide the headline result first; demote the rest to corroboration or to Supplemental Material.

• Primary claim — the single sentence the title and abstract both encode.
• Supporting claims — at most two, and only if they reinforce the primary one.
• Everything else — context, controls, extended sweeps → Supplemental Material (see prl-supplementary).

If you have two equally important claims, you likely have two papers, or one belongs in a specialized PR journal.