Agent skill

Aos Literature Positioning

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

A skill your agent uses when situating an Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript in the literature — entering one of the journal's own long-running conversations, engaging the…

MITAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Aos Literature Positioning

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills aos-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/Accounting-Organizations-and-Society-Skills/skills/aos-literature-positioning .claude/skills/aos-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
aos-literature-positioning
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
567 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when situating an Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript in the literature — entering one of the journal's own long-running conversations, engaging the…

  • Works in 5 steps: The phenomenon and its stake (one or two… → The AOS conversation and its current… → The crack in that view — anomaly,… → …
  • Situating an Accounting
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Position inside AOS's own…, Engage the interdisciplinary… and Mark the delta, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Aos Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when situating an Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript in the literature — entering one of the journal's own long-running conversations, engaging the interdisciplinary sources (organization theory, sociology, psychology) those conversations draw on, and marking precisely what the paper adds. Positions the argument; it does not build the theory itself (aos-theory-development).

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 Business, Finance & HR, covering Accounting and bookkeeping and 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

  • Situating an Accounting
  • Organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript in the literature — entering one of the journals own long-running conversations
  • Engaging the interdisciplinary sources (organization theory
  • Psychology) those conversations draw on

Example prompts

  • “/aos-literature-positioning”

Workflow steps

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

  1. The phenomenon and its stake (one or two paragraphs, concrete).
  2. The AOS conversation and its current settled view.
  3. The crack in that view — anomaly, silence, or contradiction.
  4. Your question, lens, and setting as the way through the crack.
  5. Preview of the conceptual answer and its consequence for the conversation.

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

Aos Literature Positioning loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 107 tokens; SKILL.md has 567 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~107
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). 567 words, ~1,338 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/aos-literature-positioning/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
aos-literature-positioning
description
Use when situating an Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript in the literature — entering one of the journal's own long-running conversations, engaging the interdisciplinary sources (organization theory, sociology, psychology) those conversations draw on, and marking precisely what the paper adds. Positions the argument; it does not build the theory itself (aos-theory-development).

Literature Positioning (aos-literature-positioning)

When to trigger

  • The front end reviews literatures without joining any specific conversation
  • Reviewers could ask "why does this belong in AOS rather than a management or sociology journal?"
  • Citations cluster in a sibling journal's canon (JAR/TAR earnings-quality chains, AMJ theory-building chains)
  • You cannot name the two or three prior papers your findings push against

Position inside AOS's own 50-year canon

AOS is unusual: half a century of its own archive defines the conversations it cares about, and its editors read submissions against that archive. Locate the specific AOS thread your paper extends:

Thread (examples from the canon)You must engage it if your paper is about…
Roles of accounting beyond the textbook — Burchell et al. (1980); Hopwood (1983)any claim that accounting does unexpected work
Accounting, power and the calculable person — Miller & O'Leary (1987)costing, performance measurement, discipline
Accountability in everyday organizational life — Roberts & Scapens (1985)how systems shape conduct and self-accounts
Budgets as political instruments — Covaleski & Dirsmith (1986)budgeting, resource struggles, institutional pressure
Numbers as inscriptions and constructed reality — Hines (1988); Robson (1992); Chua (1995)measurement, representation, expertise
Culture change through accounting — Dent (1991)field studies of transformation
Control systems and strategy — Simons (1990)management control design in use
Behavioral/JDM synthesis — Libby, Bloomfield & Nelson (2002)experimental financial-accounting work
Risk and audit society — Power (2009)risk management, auditability, regulation

(Full verified references: resources/exemplars/library.md.)

Engage the interdisciplinary sources honestly

AOS conversations run on imported theory. Cite the primary social-science sources your tradition uses (e.g., the sociology behind institutional theory; Foucault for governmentality; Latour for inscriptions; the cognitive/social psychology behind a JDM design) as they are used in accounting — showing you know both the origin and the accounting appropriation. A paper that cites only accounting journals signals thin theorizing; one that cites only sociology signals the wrong venue.

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Mark the delta

  • Name the two or three nearest prior papers and state, in one sentence each, what they established and what your paper changes.
  • Write the delta as a conceptual advance ("shows the mechanism is X, where prior work assumed Y"), never as inventory ("extends the literature on…").
  • Anticipate the misclassification risk: say explicitly why the paper is an accounting paper and not general organization theory — the accounting practice must be analytically central, not incidental scenery.
  • Disclose and differentiate your own related work in anonymized form ("prior research (Author, 20xx)").

Structure of a positioned front end

  1. The phenomenon and its stake (one or two paragraphs, concrete).
  2. The AOS conversation and its current settled view.
  3. The crack in that view — anomaly, silence, or contradiction.
  4. Your question, lens, and setting as the way through the crack.
  5. Preview of the conceptual answer and its consequence for the conversation.

Checklist

  • One specific AOS thread identified; its key papers engaged substantively
  • Primary interdisciplinary sources cited alongside their accounting uses
  • Nearest two or three papers named, with a one-sentence delta against each
  • The accounting practice is analytically central in the framing
  • Own related work disclosed neutrally, without breaking anonymity
  • No citation blocks that a reviewer could delete without loss

Anti-patterns

  • Gap-spotting: "little is known about…" with no live disagreement at stake.
  • Canon tourism: citing Burchell et al. and Miller & O'Leary ritually while arguing with neither.
  • Wrong-canon drift: building the front end on JAR/TAR measurement debates AOS readers do not share.
  • Sociology without accounting: the imported theory is centered while the accounting practice is a backdrop.

Output format

【Thread】the AOS conversation entered; key papers ...
【Settled view】what that conversation currently believes ...
【Crack】the anomaly / silence / contradiction ...
【Delta】vs nearest papers 1 / 2 / 3 — one sentence each ...
【Interdisciplinary base】primary sources + their accounting appropriation ...
【Next step】aos-methods

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Accounting-Organizations-and-Society-Skills/skills/aos-literature-positioning of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Aos Literature Positioning

What does Aos Literature Positioning do?

A skill your agent uses when situating an Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript in the literature — entering one of the journal's own long-running conversations, engaging the…. Aos Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when situating an Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript in the literature — entering one of the journal's own long-running conversations, engaging the interdisciplinary sources (organization theory, sociology, psychology) those conversations draw on, and marking precisely what the paper adds.

When should I use Aos Literature Positioning?

Aos Literature Positioning fits situations like: situating an Accounting; organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript in the literature — entering one of the journals own long-running conversations; engaging the interdisciplinary sources (organization theory; psychology) those conversations draw on.

How do I install Aos Literature Positioning in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Aos Literature Positioning in Codex?

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

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

What does Aos Literature Positioning need to run?

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

Does Aos 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 Aos 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 Aos Literature Positioning use?

Aos 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 Aos 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 Aos 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.