Agent skill

Aejmic Literature Positioning

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

A skill your agent uses when the contribution of an American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (AEJ: Micro) manuscript is fuzzy or oversold relative to the closest existing results.

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Install Aejmic Literature Positioning

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills aejmic-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-Microeconomics-Skills/skills/aejmic-literature-positioning .claude/skills/aejmic-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
aejmic-literature-positioning
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
632 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: Microeconomics (AEJ: Micro) manuscript is fuzzy or oversold relative to the closest existing results.

  • Works in 4 steps: Name the closest result, not a vague… → Classify the delta: a weaker assumption… → Right-size the claim: state what you do… → …
  • The contribution of an American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (AEJ: Micro) manuscript is fuzzy
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Positioning a theory result, Checklist and Anti-patterns, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Aejmic Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when the contribution of an American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (AEJ: Micro) manuscript is fuzzy or oversold relative to the closest existing results. Stakes the theorem-relative delta against the nearest theory; it does not build the model (see aejmic-theory-model) or frame the prose (see aejmic-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 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 contribution of an American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (AEJ: Micro) manuscript is fuzzy
  • Oversold relative to the closest existing results

Example prompts

  • “/aejmic-literature-positioning”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Name the closest result, not a vague body of work: "Closest is [Author, Year], who shows P under assumptions A. We…"
  2. Classify the delta: a weaker assumption (more general), a new environment (broader scope), a full characterization where prior work had a…
  3. Right-size the claim: state what you do not improve on, so the genuine advance is credible.
  4. Map the neighborhood: 3–6 anchor results, each with one clause saying how you relate. Avoid citation padding.

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

Aejmic Literature Positioning loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 88 tokens; SKILL.md has 632 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~88
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). 632 words, ~1,336 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/aejmic-literature-positioning/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
aejmic-literature-positioning
description
Use when the contribution of an American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (AEJ: Micro) manuscript is fuzzy or oversold relative to the closest existing results. Stakes the theorem-relative delta against the nearest theory; it does not build the model (see aejmic-theory-model) or frame the prose (see aejmic-writing-style).

Literature Positioning (aejmic-literature-positioning)

When to trigger

  • The literature review lists papers but never says what is new here
  • The contribution is stated relative to "the literature" in the abstract rather than to a specific closest result
  • A referee may ask "how is this different from [Author, Year]?" and you do not have a crisp answer
  • The claim of novelty is broader than the result actually supports

Positioning a theory result

For a theory-first journal, positioning is theorem-relative: identify the closest existing result and state precisely the delta — what your model relaxes, generalizes, characterizes, or overturns. Vague "we contribute to the literature on X" framing is the most common avoidable weakness. AEJ: Micro referees are subject-matter experts; they know the nearest theorem and will measure your delta against it.

How to find and state the delta
  1. Name the closest result, not a vague body of work: "Closest is [Author, Year], who shows P under assumptions A. We…"
  2. Classify the delta: a weaker assumption (more general), a new environment (broader scope), a full characterization where prior work had a special case, an impossibility where prior work conjectured possibility, or a mechanism prior work missed.
  3. Right-size the claim: state what you do not improve on, so the genuine advance is credible.
  4. Map the neighborhood: 3–6 anchor results, each with one clause saying how you relate. Avoid citation padding.
Sibling-literature discipline

Position against the theory frontier (mechanism design, IO theory, information economics, decision theory…), not against empirical applied-micro papers — that signals an AEJ: Applied framing. If your result has an empirical or experimental companion literature, cite it as motivation, not as the bar your contribution clears.

The delta taxonomy (which kind do you have?)
Delta typeWhat it looks likeWhat the reader must see
Weaker assumptionSame conclusion, fewer/looser hypothesesThe dropped assumption named; that the old proof breaks without your argument
New environmentOld mechanism, richer setting (search, networks, dynamics)What the new setting adds that the old result could not capture
Full characterizationPrior work had a special case or sufficiency onlyBoth directions; the boundary of the characterization
Impossibility / no-goPrior work conjectured or assumed possibilityThe exact obstruction and which primitive causes it
New mechanismSame phenomenon, different economic forceWhy the new force is the right explanation

State which row you are in in the contribution paragraph — a referee who cannot classify your delta will undervalue it.

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Independent and contemporaneous work

If a close result appeared independently and around the same time, acknowledge it explicitly and state the relationship (different method, complementary result, prior circulation date). Silence here reads as either ignorance or concealment to an expert referee.

Checklist

  • The single closest result is named, with its assumptions and conclusion
  • The delta is classified (weaker assumption / new environment / characterization / impossibility / new mechanism)
  • The contribution paragraph says what is not improved, bounding the claim
  • 3–6 anchor papers, each with a one-clause relation; no padding
  • Positioning is against the theory frontier, not an empirical literature
  • Independent/contemporaneous work acknowledged where it exists

Anti-patterns

  • "We contribute to the literature on X" with no named closest result
  • A wall of citations establishing breadth but never the delta
  • Overclaiming generality the proof does not deliver
  • Ignoring a known closer result a referee will immediately recall
  • Positioning against empirical papers, signaling the wrong journal

Worked vignette (illustrative)

A persuasion paper says it "extends the Bayesian-persuasion literature." A referee asks how it differs from the canonical single-sender result. The fix: "Closest is the single-sender concavification result; we relax commitment to partial commitment and characterize the sender-optimal signal, which coincides with full commitment only when the state space is binary." That one sentence is the delta — environment relaxed (partial commitment), full characterization, and an explicit scope limit (coincides only in the binary case).

Output format

【Closest result】[Author, Year]: shows [P] under [assumptions A]
【Our delta】[weaker assumption / new environment / characterization / impossibility / new mechanism]
【Not improved】[explicit scope limit]
【Anchor map】3–6 papers, one clause each
【Frontier check】positioned against theory, not empirics? [Y/N]
【Next step】aejmic-theory-model (build/sharpen the result) or aejmic-writing-style (intro)

© 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-Microeconomics-Skills/skills/aejmic-literature-positioning of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Aejmic Literature Positioning

What does Aejmic Literature Positioning do?

A skill your agent uses when the contribution of an American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (AEJ: Micro) manuscript is fuzzy or oversold relative to the closest existing results. Aejmic Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when the contribution of an American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (AEJ: Micro) manuscript is fuzzy or oversold relative to the closest existing results.

When should I use Aejmic Literature Positioning?

Aejmic Literature Positioning fits situations like: the contribution of an American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (AEJ: Micro) manuscript is fuzzy; oversold relative to the closest existing results.

How do I install Aejmic Literature Positioning in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Aejmic Literature Positioning in Codex?

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

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

What does Aejmic Literature Positioning need to run?

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

Does Aejmic 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 Aejmic 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 Aejmic Literature Positioning use?

Aejmic 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 Aejmic Literature Positioning use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.3k 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 Aejmic 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.

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