Agricultural Systems Workflow Router (agsy-workflow)
The orchestrator for an Agricultural Systems submission. Figure out the stage and the article type, then send the user to the matching skill. AgSy is defined by interactions across components and hierarchical levels (field → farm → landscape → region → food system) — the router's first job is to make sure the paper poses a genuine systems question, analyzed with modelling and trade-offs, not a single-factor agronomic trial.
When to trigger
- Starting a new AgSy paper and unsure where to begin
- Mid-project and unsure which skill applies next
- Deciding which article type fits the work
- Returning with a decision letter (route to
agsy-revision-and-rebuttal)
First question: is this a systems paper, and which type?
| Situation | Article type | Route to |
|---|---|---|
| Full systems study (interactions, modelling, trade-offs) | Research paper (~8,000 words) | normal pipeline below |
| One focused systems result | Short communication (~4,000 words) | normal pipeline, tighter scope |
| Forward-looking opinion on agricultural-systems science | Perspective (~2,000 words, rapid review) | agsy-writing-style + agsy-impact-and-implications |
| Short response to a published AgSy paper | Comment (~1,000 words) | agsy-literature-positioning + agsy-writing-style |
| Integrative synthesis of a systems literature | Review (verify scope) | agsy-literature-positioning + agsy-systems-framing-and-modeling |
If the work is really a single-treatment field trial with no interactions, trade-offs, or model, it is off-fit — reframe it as a systems question or send it to a field-crops/agronomy journal.
Routing map (stage → skill)
textIs it a real systems question? → agsy-topic-selection Where does it sit in the field? → agsy-literature-positioning System boundaries + the model? → agsy-systems-framing-and-modeling Is the model evaluated soundly? → agsy-data-and-model-evaluation Do exhibits show interactions? → agsy-figures-and-tables Does it read clearly? → agsy-writing-style Why does the result matter? → agsy-impact-and-implications Data + code + models shareable? → agsy-reproducibility-and-data-policy How will it be judged? → agsy-review-process Ready to submit? → agsy-submission Got reviews / a decision? → agsy-revision-and-rebuttal
Default order
topic-selection → literature-positioning → systems-framing-and-modeling → data-and-model-evaluation → figures-and-tables → writing-style → impact-and-implications → reproducibility-and-data-policy → review-process → submission → revision-and-rebuttal
Iterate: most systems papers loop framing ↔ modelling ↔ evaluation several times before writing-style.
Anti-patterns
- Treating AgSy like a field-trial agronomy journal — the contribution must be a systems analysis
- A model run with no description, calibration, or evaluation (a black box)
- Skipping the decision/impact step — AgSy wants relevance, not a methods demo
- Leaving data, code, and the model undocumented until acceptance
Output format
【Stage】idea / positioning / framing / evaluation / exhibits / writing / impact / repro / review / submit / revise 【Article type】Research paper / Short communication / Perspective / Comment / Review 【Systems question?】real interactions/trade-offs? [Y/N] 【Route to】agsy-<skill> 【Why】one line 【Then】the next skill after that
Supplementary resources
../../resources/external_tools.md— systems models + calibration/uncertainty software by scale../../resources/official-source-map.md— official AgSy URLs behind every fact in this pack
