Physical Review Letters Workflow (prl-workflow)

Overview

This is the router. It does not replace any specialized skill; it tells you which prl- skill to use at your current stage*.

Default assumption: unless the user says otherwise, the target is Physical Review Letters (PRL) — a short, high-impact Letter that must clear the importance + broad interest gate and fit the strict deductible length limit, with detail pushed to Supplemental Material. If the work is a solid but incremental or specialist advance, the right home is Physical Review A–E or Physical Review Research, and prl-scope-fit will say so.

When to trigger

• User asks "what should I do next?" on a physics Letter
• User drops a draft and needs the current bottleneck diagnosed
• User is unsure whether the result is "PRL-worthy" or belongs in a specialized PR journal
• The Letter is over the length limit and detail must be re-partitioned
• User received an APS referee report and needs to switch into response mode

Routing table