Avoid AI Writing
conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing
Audit and rewrite content to remove AI writing patterns ("AI-isms").
A skill your agent uses when revising prose, the abstract, or the introduction of an American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) manuscript for AEA house style and the broad-interest…
Install Aejmac Writing Style
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aejmac-writing-style -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills aejmac-writing-style --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ 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-writing-style .claude/skills/aejmac-writing-style && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "aejmac-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/AEJ-Macroeconomics-Skills/skills/aejmac-writing-style into .claude/skills/aejmac-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "aejmac-writing-style", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/AEJ-Macroeconomics-Skills/skills/aejmac-writing-styleType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aejmac-writing-style -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills aejmac-writing-style --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/AEJ-Macroeconomics-Skills/skills/aejmac-writing-style .agents/skills/aejmac-writing-style && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "aejmac-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/AEJ-Macroeconomics-Skills/skills/aejmac-writing-style into .agents/skills/aejmac-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "aejmac-writing-style", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aejmac-writing-style -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills aejmac-writing-style --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/AEJ-Macroeconomics-Skills/skills/aejmac-writing-style .cursor/skills/aejmac-writing-style && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "aejmac-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/AEJ-Macroeconomics-Skills/skills/aejmac-writing-style into .cursor/skills/aejmac-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "aejmac-writing-style", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git --path AEJ-Macroeconomics-Skills/skills/aejmac-writing-style--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aejmac-writing-style -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills aejmac-writing-style --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/AEJ-Macroeconomics-Skills/skills/aejmac-writing-style .gemini/skills/aejmac-writing-style && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "aejmac-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/AEJ-Macroeconomics-Skills/skills/aejmac-writing-style into .gemini/skills/aejmac-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "aejmac-writing-style", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills aejmac-writing-styleInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aejmac-writing-style -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/AEJ-Macroeconomics-Skills/skills/aejmac-writing-style .github/skills/aejmac-writing-style && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "aejmac-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/AEJ-Macroeconomics-Skills/skills/aejmac-writing-style into .github/skills/aejmac-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "aejmac-writing-style", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aejmac-writing-style -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills aejmac-writing-style --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/AEJ-Macroeconomics-Skills/skills/aejmac-writing-style .opencode/skills/aejmac-writing-style && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "aejmac-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/AEJ-Macroeconomics-Skills/skills/aejmac-writing-style into .opencode/skills/aejmac-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "aejmac-writing-style", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
aejmac-writing-style- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1.2k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 591 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 2,387
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
A skill your agent uses when revising prose, the abstract, or the introduction of an American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) manuscript for AEA house style and the broad-interest…
- Works in 6 steps: The macro question + headline quantity,… → Why it is hard. The identification or… → The approach. Data + design… → …
- Tasks that involve Brand voice and tone
- SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The AEJ: Macro writing bar, The AEJ: Macro introduction arc and The ≤100-word abstract, plus 5 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Aejmac Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when revising prose, the abstract, or the introduction of an American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) manuscript for AEA house style and the broad-interest macro arc. Late-stage polish on framing and clarity; it does not fix identification, the model, or exhibits.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k 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 Writing & Content, covering 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
- Tasks that involve Brand voice and tone
Example prompts
- “/aejmac-writing-style”
Workflow steps
6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- The macro question + headline quantity, in the first breath. "How much does a monetary tightening lower output?" — then the number with…
- Why it is hard. The identification or quantification obstacle (anticipation, simultaneity, short samples; or what disciplines the model).
- The approach. Data + design (SVAR/LP/narrative) and/or model (DSGE/HANK) — in one paragraph, after the question, not before it.
- The result restated with mechanism and uncertainty. What drives the number; carry the band into any counterfactual.
- Contribution + lesson with scope. What general macroeconomists learn; where it holds and where it does not.
- Brief roadmap. One or two sentences, not a section-by-section recital.
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 Writing Style loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 76 tokens; SKILL.md has 591 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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). 591 words, ~1,218 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/aejmac-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- aejmac-writing-style
- description
- Use when revising prose, the abstract, or the introduction of an American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) manuscript for AEA house style and the broad-interest macro arc. Late-stage polish on framing and clarity; it does not fix identification, the model, or exhibits.
Writing Style (aejmac-writing-style)
When to trigger
- The introduction leads with the model block or the estimator, not the macro question
- The abstract is over 100 words or buries the headline quantity
- A general macroeconomist cannot tell from page 1 what is measured and why it matters
- The prose is technically correct but the idea does not land
The AEJ: Macro writing bar
AEJ: Macro is broad-interest, so the writing must make the macro question and the headline quantity legible to a general macroeconomist early — before the DSGE notation or the SVAR machinery. Follow AEA house style (active voice, plain prose, quantities with units, standard errors / bands reported). The hard constraint to design around: the abstract is ≤100 words (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准) — far tighter than most economics journals — so every word in it must earn its place.
The AEJ: Macro introduction arc
- The macro question + headline quantity, in the first breath. "How much does a monetary tightening lower output?" — then the number with units and uncertainty, e.g., "we find a 100 bp shock lowers output by 0.6% (90% band [0.2, 1.0]) at its peak."
- Why it is hard. The identification or quantification obstacle (anticipation, simultaneity, short samples; or what disciplines the model).
- The approach. Data + design (SVAR/LP/narrative) and/or model (DSGE/HANK) — in one paragraph, after the question, not before it.
- The result restated with mechanism and uncertainty. What drives the number; carry the band into any counterfactual.
- Contribution + lesson with scope. What general macroeconomists learn; where it holds and where it does not.
- Brief roadmap. One or two sentences, not a section-by-section recital.
The ≤100-word abstract
- Sentence 1: the macro question.
- Sentence 2–3: the approach (one clause) and the headline quantity with uncertainty.
- Sentence 4: the mechanism or policy lesson.
- Cut: literature, method jargon, signposting. At ≤100 words there is no room for throat-clearing.
Prose discipline
- Quantities, not adjectives. "Large" → "0.6% at peak." Report SEs/bands in the sentence where the number appears.
- Active voice, short sentences. AEA house style favors plain prose.
- Define before you deploy notation; minimize symbols in the intro.
- One idea per paragraph; topic sentence first.
- Policy relevance stated, not implied — AEJ: Macro readers want the decision-relevant takeaway.
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Checklist
- Abstract ≤100 words, with the headline quantity and its uncertainty
- First paragraph states the macro question and the number (units + band/SE)
- Approach appears after the question, not before it
- Mechanism and scope/limits stated; no over-claiming
- Active voice, AEA plain style; quantities not adjectives
- Roadmap is one or two sentences
- A general macroeconomist could state your contribution after reading page 1
Anti-patterns
- Leading the intro with the model's equations or the estimator (reads as a field/methods paper)
- An abstract over 100 words, or one with no number in it
- "Significant effects" with no point estimate or band in the abstract/intro
- Over-signposted roadmap doing the argument's job
- Subfield jargon on page 1 that a general macro reader cannot parse
- Burying the policy lesson in the conclusion
Worked vignette: before → after first sentence (illustrative)
- Before: "We build a medium-scale New Keynesian DSGE model with financial frictions and estimate it by Bayesian methods to study monetary transmission." (machinery first; no question, no number)
- After: "How much of a recession does a surprise monetary tightening cause, and through which channel? Using high-frequency policy surprises in a proxy-VAR, we find a 100 bp shock lowers output by 0.6% (90% band [0.2, 1.0]) at its peak, two-thirds of it through investment." (question + quantity + uncertainty + mechanism, in the first breath)
For a full before→after introduction in AEJ: Macro house style, see
../../resources/worked-examples/01-introduction.md.
Output format
【Abstract word count】 ≤100? [Y/N] (current: __)
【First-paragraph test】question + quantity + uncertainty present? [Y/N]
【Arc】question → why hard → approach → result+mechanism → contribution+scope → roadmap? [Y/N]
【Style】active voice, quantities-not-adjectives, SEs/bands in sentences? [Y/N]
【Next step】aejmac-replication-package© brycewang-stanford, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
Files
Just SKILL.md in AEJ-Macroeconomics-Skills/skills/aejmac-writing-style of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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Questions about Aejmac Writing Style
What does Aejmac Writing Style do?
A skill your agent uses when revising prose, the abstract, or the introduction of an American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) manuscript for AEA house style and the broad-interest…. Aejmac Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when revising prose, the abstract, or the introduction of an American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro) manuscript for AEA house style and the broad-interest macro arc.
When should I use Aejmac Writing Style?
Aejmac Writing Style fits situations like: tasks that involve Brand voice and tone.
How do I install Aejmac Writing Style in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aejmac-writing-style -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (AEJ-Macroeconomics-Skills/skills/aejmac-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/aejmac-writing-style in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Aejmac Writing Style in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aejmac-writing-style -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (AEJ-Macroeconomics-Skills/skills/aejmac-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/aejmac-writing-style in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Aejmac Writing Style 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-writing-style -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-writing-style, .gemini/skills/aejmac-writing-style, .github/skills/aejmac-writing-style and .opencode/skills/aejmac-writing-style in your project.
What does Aejmac Writing Style need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Aejmac Writing Style is instructions for the agent only.
Does Aejmac Writing Style 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 Writing Style 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 Writing Style use?
Aejmac Writing Style 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 Writing Style use?
About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Aejmac Writing Style?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Aejmac Writing Style: Avoid AI Writing (conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing, 4.9k stars), Brand (Ohh-889/skyroc, 795 stars), Khazix WeChat Article Writer (KKKKhazix/khazix-skills, 21k stars) and Writing Guidelines (vercel-labs/agent-skills, 32k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Aejmac Writing Style?
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.