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Aeja Literature Positioning

by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

A skill your agent uses when the marginal contribution of an American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) manuscript is fuzzy or undersold and must be staked precisely against prior…

MITAuto-check passedMarketing & SEO

Install Aeja Literature Positioning

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aeja-literature-positioning -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills aeja-literature-positioning --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/AEJ-Applied-Economics-Skills/skills/aeja-literature-positioning .claude/skills/aeja-literature-positioning && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
aeja-literature-positioning
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
660 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when the marginal contribution of an American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) manuscript is fuzzy or undersold and must be staked precisely against prior…

  • Works in 4 steps: The three-paper test. Name the three… → The honest delta. State the marginal… → Position by design, not by topic. "First… → …
  • The marginal contribution of an American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) manuscript is fuzzy
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The AEJ: Applied contribution…, Positioning craft and Checklist, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Aeja Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when the marginal contribution of an American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) manuscript is fuzzy or undersold and must be staked precisely against prior applied-micro work. Positions the contribution; it does not fix the identification (aeja-identification) or the prose (aeja-writing-style).

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Marketing & SEO, covering Positioning and messaging, Econometrics and empirical research and Brand voice and tone. The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. ｜ 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • The marginal contribution of an American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) manuscript is fuzzy
  • Undersold and must be staked precisely against prior applied-micro work

Example prompts

  • “/aeja-literature-positioning”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. The three-paper test. Name the three papers closest to yours and write one sentence each on what they establish and what they leave open…
  2. The honest delta. State the marginal addition in one sentence the closest author would agree with. If they would say "we already did…
  3. Position by design, not by topic. "First paper on X in country Y" is weak; "first credibly identified estimate of X because design D…
  4. Cite siblings correctly. Distinguish what AER, AEJ: Policy, and field journals have established so you are not re-claiming settled ground.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Aeja Literature Positioning loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 86 tokens; SKILL.md has 660 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~86
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 660 words, ~1,342 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/aeja-literature-positioning/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
aeja-literature-positioning
description
Use when the marginal contribution of an American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) manuscript is fuzzy or undersold and must be staked precisely against prior applied-micro work. Positions the contribution; it does not fix the identification (aeja-identification) or the prose (aeja-writing-style).

Literature Positioning (aeja-literature-positioning)

When to trigger

  • A referee or co-author asks "what is new here relative to [closely related paper]?"
  • The introduction cites a wall of references but never states the marginal addition
  • You are unsure whether your contribution is an answer, a design, a setting, or a measurement
  • The paper risks reading as a replication or a marginal extension of an existing AEJ: Applied / AER paper

The AEJ: Applied contribution bar

At AEJ: Applied the contribution is judged as: a credibly identified answer to a question the applied-micro community has not yet settled, positioned against the closest prior work — not the whole field. Editors and referees reward a contribution that is specific, honest, and load-bearing. Name your contribution type, then position only against the papers that threaten it.

Contribution typeWhat "new" must meanPositioning move
New answera magnitude prior work did not credibly estimateshow why prior designs failed to identify it
New design / source of variationa cleaner identification of a known questioncontrast your design's assumptions vs. the standard one
New setting / populationexternal validity that changes the lessonargue why this setting is informative, not just available
New mechanismdecomposing a known effect into channelsshow the prior literature left the channel ambiguous
New measurementa quantity nobody could measure beforeestablish the measure's validity, not just its novelty

Positioning craft

  1. The three-paper test. Name the three papers closest to yours and write one sentence each on what they establish and what they leave open. Your contribution lives in the "leave open" gaps.
  2. The honest delta. State the marginal addition in one sentence the closest author would agree with. If they would say "we already did that," the delta is too thin.
  3. Position by design, not by topic. "First paper on X in country Y" is weak; "first credibly identified estimate of X because design D removes confound C" is strong.
  4. Cite siblings correctly. Distinguish what AER, AEJ: Policy, and field journals have established so you are not re-claiming settled ground.

Checklist

  • Contribution type named (answer / design / setting / mechanism / measurement)
  • Three closest papers identified, each with "establishes / leaves open" sentences
  • One-sentence honest delta the closest author would accept
  • Positioned by identification, not merely by topic or geography
  • No overclaim of "first" without the design reason prior work left it open
  • Related sibling-journal results acknowledged (AER / AEJ: Policy / field) so nothing settled is re-claimed
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Anti-patterns

  • A literature-review "tour" with no stated marginal addition (a top AEJ: Applied referee reflex)
  • Claiming "first to study X" when the novelty is only setting or data, not identification
  • Positioning against distant papers to dodge the closest competitor
  • Inflating the gap by ignoring a recent paper that already partly closed it
  • Burying the contribution sentence on page 6 instead of paragraph 1–2 of the intro

Worked vignette (illustrative)

A draft claims to be "the first study of cash transfers and schooling in [country]." A referee replies that three RCTs already estimate this effect elsewhere, so geography is not a contribution. The AEJ: Applied fix is to reposition by identification and mechanism: the closest papers estimate the effect where transfers are conditional, leaving open the unconditional case; this paper exploits an unconditional rollout and shows the schooling response is half as large (illustrative), isolating the conditionality channel. The contribution becomes a mechanism the closest authors would agree they did not pin down — not a new map pin.

Referee pushback mapped to the positioning fix

  • "This is incremental relative to [closest paper]." → State the honest delta in one sentence the closest author would accept; show the specific gap their design left open.
  • "You claim 'first' but it is just a new setting." → Reframe as a cleaner identification or a new mechanism, with the design reason prior work left it open.
  • "You ignore [recent paper] that already does this." → Cite it, state precisely what it settled, and position in the residual gap rather than the whole field.

Output format

【Contribution type】answer / design / setting / mechanism / measurement
【Three closest papers】1) ___ (open: ___) 2) ___ (open: ___) 3) ___ (open: ___)
【Honest delta】one sentence the closest author would accept
【Positioned by】identification reason prior work left it open: ___
【Sibling check】settled by AER/AEJ:Policy/field that we do NOT re-claim: ___
【Next step】aeja-identification (or aeja-writing-style if design is settled)

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Files

Just SKILL.md in AEJ-Applied-Economics-Skills/skills/aeja-literature-positioning of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Aeja Literature Positioning

What does Aeja Literature Positioning do?

A skill your agent uses when the marginal contribution of an American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) manuscript is fuzzy or undersold and must be staked precisely against prior…. Aeja Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when the marginal contribution of an American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) manuscript is fuzzy or undersold and must be staked precisely against prior applied-micro work.

When should I use Aeja Literature Positioning?

Aeja Literature Positioning fits situations like: the marginal contribution of an American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) manuscript is fuzzy; undersold and must be staked precisely against prior applied-micro work.

How do I install Aeja Literature Positioning in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aeja-literature-positioning -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (AEJ-Applied-Economics-Skills/skills/aeja-literature-positioning in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/aeja-literature-positioning in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Aeja Literature Positioning in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aeja-literature-positioning -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (AEJ-Applied-Economics-Skills/skills/aeja-literature-positioning in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/aeja-literature-positioning in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Aeja Literature Positioning in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aeja-literature-positioning -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/aeja-literature-positioning, .gemini/skills/aeja-literature-positioning, .github/skills/aeja-literature-positioning and .opencode/skills/aeja-literature-positioning in your project.

What does Aeja Literature Positioning need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Aeja Literature Positioning is instructions for the agent only.

Does Aeja Literature Positioning access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Aeja Literature Positioning safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Aeja Literature Positioning use?

Aeja Literature Positioning is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Aeja Literature Positioning use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Aeja Literature Positioning?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,231 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.