Agent skill

Aejmac Literature Positioning

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

A skill your agent uses when the contribution of an American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) manuscript relative to the macro frontier is fuzzy, contested, or undersold.

MITAuto-check passedMarketing & SEO

Install Aejmac Literature Positioning

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills aejmac-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-Macroeconomics-Skills/skills/aejmac-literature-positioning .claude/skills/aejmac-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
aejmac-literature-positioning
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1k tokens
SKILL.md length
489 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when the contribution of an American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) manuscript relative to the macro frontier is fuzzy, contested, or undersold.

  • The contribution of an American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) manuscript relative to the macro frontier is fuzzy
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The AEJ: Macro positioning bar, Positioning moves and Checklist, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Tasks that involve Positioning and messaging

What it does

Aejmac Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when the contribution of an American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) manuscript relative to the macro frontier is fuzzy, contested, or undersold. Frames the marginal contribution against quantitative-theory and identified-empirical literatures; it does not fix the identification or the model itself.

Its SKILL.md is about 1k 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. 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 contribution of an American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) manuscript relative to the macro frontier is fuzzy
  • Tasks that involve Positioning and messaging

Example prompts

  • “/aejmac-literature-positioning”

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

Aejmac Literature Positioning loads about 1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 87 tokens; SKILL.md has 489 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~87
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1k

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). 489 words, ~1,032 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/aejmac-literature-positioning/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
aejmac-literature-positioning
description
Use when the contribution of an American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) manuscript relative to the macro frontier is fuzzy, contested, or undersold. Frames the marginal contribution against quantitative-theory and identified-empirical literatures; it does not fix the identification or the model itself.

Literature Positioning (aejmac-literature-positioning)

When to trigger

  • The introduction cites many papers but never says what is new
  • A referee could ask "how is this different from [the obvious prior paper]?" and you lack a one-line answer
  • The paper sits between a theory literature and an empirical literature and the bridge is unclear
  • The contribution is real but framed as incremental ("we extend X by adding Y")

The AEJ: Macro positioning bar

AEJ: Macro is a broad-interest macro journal, so positioning must locate the paper for a general macro reader, not only for the three people working on the exact model or shock series. Two literatures usually bound a macro paper, and you must place the contribution against both:

  • the quantitative-theory frontier (DSGE / HANK / heterogeneous-agent / structural) — what does your model deliver that the canonical model cannot?
  • the identified-empirical frontier (SVAR / local projections / narrative / proxy-VAR / micro-data macro) — what does your evidence pin down that prior designs left open?

A hybrid paper (model matched to identified evidence) must say why the combination answers a question neither side resolved alone — this is often the strongest AEJ: Macro contribution.

Positioning moves

Move 1 — Name the closest 2–3 papers, then the wedge

Do not list 30 citations. Name the 2–3 papers a referee would call "basically the same," and state in one sentence what your paper does that each cannot. The wedge should be a quantity, mechanism, or identification gain, not "a different dataset."

Move 2 — Place against both frontiers
  • vs. theory frontier: "The canonical [RBC/NK/HANK] model predicts/assumes Z; we relax/measure Z and the macro implication changes by ___."
  • vs. empirical frontier: "Prior [SVAR/LP] designs cannot separate channel A from channel B; our [narrative/high-frequency/sign-restriction] identification does."
Show full SKILL.md (210 more words)Show less
Move 3 — State the contribution as a sentence with a quantity

"We show that [mechanism] accounts for [X%] of [aggregate], overturning/refining the prior view that ___." A magnitude makes the contribution legible to a general reader and to the AEA process.

Move 4 — Calibrate the claim

Say what the paper does not establish: the regime, sample, or country where the result holds, and what remains open. Over-claiming is the fastest path to a referee's "the contribution is oversold."

Checklist

  • The 2–3 nearest papers named, each with a one-line wedge
  • Positioned against the quantitative-theory frontier (what the model adds)
  • Positioned against the identified-empirical frontier (what the design pins down)
  • Hybrid papers: why model + evidence beats either alone
  • Contribution stated as one sentence with a quantity/mechanism
  • Scope limits stated; no over-claiming beyond regime/sample
  • Broad-interest framing: a general macroeconomist sees why it matters

Anti-patterns

  • A "literature wall" — long paragraphs of citations with no stated wedge
  • Positioning only against the subfield, invisible to general macro readers (reads as a field paper, wrong for AEJ: Macro)
  • "We are the first to…" claims that a single prior paper falsifies
  • Framing the contribution as a method tweak rather than a macro answer
  • Burying the contribution sentence on page 4 instead of paragraph 1–2 of the intro

Output format

【Nearest papers + wedge】1) ... 2) ... 3) ...
【Vs. theory frontier】what the model/structure adds
【Vs. empirical frontier】what the identification pins down
【Contribution sentence (with quantity)】...
【Scope / what it does NOT claim】...
【Next step】aejmac-identification (empirical) and/or aejmac-theory-model (quantitative)

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Files

Just SKILL.md in AEJ-Macroeconomics-Skills/skills/aejmac-literature-positioning of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Aejmac Literature Positioning

What does Aejmac Literature Positioning do?

A skill your agent uses when the contribution of an American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) manuscript relative to the macro frontier is fuzzy, contested, or undersold. Aejmac Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when the contribution of an American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) manuscript relative to the macro frontier is fuzzy, contested, or undersold.

When should I use Aejmac Literature Positioning?

Aejmac Literature Positioning fits situations like: the contribution of an American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) manuscript relative to the macro frontier is fuzzy; tasks that involve Positioning and messaging.

How do I install Aejmac Literature Positioning in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Aejmac Literature Positioning in Codex?

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

Can I use Aejmac 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 aejmac-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/aejmac-literature-positioning, .gemini/skills/aejmac-literature-positioning, .github/skills/aejmac-literature-positioning and .opencode/skills/aejmac-literature-positioning in your project.

What does Aejmac Literature Positioning need to run?

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

Does Aejmac 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 Aejmac 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 Aejmac Literature Positioning use?

Aejmac 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 Aejmac Literature Positioning use?

About 1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.1k 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 Aejmac 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.