Agent skill

Arsoc Comprehensiveness And Balance

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

A skill your agent uses when calibrating completeness vs. An agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

MITAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Arsoc Comprehensiveness And Balance

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill arsoc-comprehensiveness-and-balance -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills arsoc-comprehensiveness-and-balance --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/Annual-Review-of-Sociology-Skills/skills/arsoc-comprehensiveness-and-balance .claude/skills/arsoc-comprehensiveness-and-balance && 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
arsoc-comprehensiveness-and-balance
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
627 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when calibrating completeness vs. An agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

  • Calibrating completeness vs
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Completeness vs. selectivity:…, Fairness across schools,… and The self-citation trap, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Tasks that involve Brand voice and tone

What it does

Arsoc Comprehensiveness And Balance is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when calibrating completeness vs. selectivity and ensuring fairness across theoretical schools, methods, authors, and debates in an Annual Review of Sociology (ARSoc) review — including not over-promoting the author's own work. Audits coverage and even-handedness; it does not design the framework (arsoc-organizing-framework) or write prose (arsoc-writing-style).

Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k 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

  • Calibrating completeness vs
  • Tasks that involve Brand voice and tone

Example prompts

  • “/arsoc-comprehensiveness-and-balance”

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

Arsoc Comprehensiveness And Balance loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 101 tokens; SKILL.md has 627 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~101
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.4k

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). 627 words, ~1,438 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/arsoc-comprehensiveness-and-balance/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
arsoc-comprehensiveness-and-balance
description
Use when calibrating completeness vs. selectivity and ensuring fairness across theoretical schools, methods, authors, and debates in an Annual Review of Sociology (ARSoc) review — including not over-promoting the author's own work. Audits coverage and even-handedness; it does not design the framework (arsoc-organizing-framework) or write prose (arsoc-writing-style).

Comprehensiveness & Balance (arsoc-comprehensiveness-and-balance)

When to trigger

  • The framework is set and you are filling cells with the literature
  • You are unsure whether to cite everything or curate
  • The subfield has rival theoretical schools, a live debate, or conflicting empirical findings
  • You are a contributor to this literature and worry the review tilts toward your own work or method

Completeness vs. selectivity: the ARSoc contract

An ARSoc review must be comprehensive in coverage yet selective in emphasis. The reader should trust that nothing important is missing, while the prose foregrounds what matters. Resolve the tension by tiering the corpus:

TierTreatment
Foundational / field-definingdiscussed in the text, with what they established and their limits
Important contributionsgrouped and weighed within the framework's cells; cited with their finding
Confirmatory / incrementalcited in clusters ("see also …") to demonstrate coverage without bloating prose
Tangentialcited only where they bear on a specific claim; not every adjacent study belongs

Comprehensiveness is proven by the citation set (the saturation log from arsoc-literature-synthesis); selectivity is exercised in the prose. A review that discusses every study at equal length has abdicated the editorial judgment that is its value.

Fairness across schools, methods, authors, and findings

ARSoc is the survey of record for a subfield: its account of a debate becomes the discipline's shared reference. That obliges genuine even-handedness:

  • Steelman every camp. State each theoretical school's strongest case in terms its proponents would accept before noting its weaknesses. Refute positions at their best, never at their worst.
  • Respect methodological pluralism. Sociology runs on quantitative, qualitative, computational, and theoretical traditions; weigh ethnographic and interpretive evidence on its own terms rather than measuring it against a regression yardstick (or vice versa). Dismissing a whole mode is a classic ARSoc balance failure.
  • Weigh, don't tally. Conflicting results are reconciled by credibility (design, data, transparency) and by what each studies, not by vote-counting "7 studies find positive, 4 negative."
  • Attribute ideas correctly. Credit originators, not just popularizers; this is a recurring referee complaint, sharpened in a discipline attentive to whose contributions get erased.
  • Handle live debates without resolving by fiat. Lay out the disagreement, what evidence would settle it, and where the author's own read sits — labelled as the author's read, not as consensus.
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The self-citation trap

If you have published in the subfield, the review must not read as a retrospective of your program. Guardrails:

  • Your own work is cited at the tier its importance to the field warrants — no more.
  • Rival schools and rival methods to your own are given their strongest statement.
  • A reader who does not know who wrote the review cannot tell from the emphasis or the method mix.
  • When the field disagrees with you, say so plainly and represent the other side fairly.

Checklist

  • Corpus tiered (foundational / important / confirmatory / tangential); prose emphasis matches tier
  • Comprehensiveness provable from the citation set + saturation log
  • Every rival school stated at its strongest before critique (steelman)
  • Quantitative, qualitative, computational, and theoretical traditions each weighed on their own terms
  • Conflicting findings reconciled by credibility and what-is-studied, not vote-counting
  • Idea attribution traces to originators
  • Live debates presented with what evidence would settle them; author's read labelled as such
  • Self-citation audited: own work at field-warranted tier; rivals/other methods steelmanned; emphasis identity-blind
  • No important author/school/method an informed referee could say was slighted or omitted

Anti-patterns

  • Comprehensiveness theatre: equal-length summaries of every study (no editorial judgment)
  • Vote-counting conflicting results instead of weighing credibility and what-is-studied
  • Privileging quantitative findings and treating qualitative/interpretive work as decorative (or the reverse)
  • Strawmanning the school the author disagrees with
  • A review that doubles as the author's CV (the most-punished ARSoc balance failure)
  • Declaring a live debate "resolved" by assertion rather than by laying out the evidentiary state
  • Crediting the popularizer of an idea over its originator

Output format

text
【Tiering】corpus split foundational/important/confirmatory/tangential? Y/N
【Comprehensiveness evidence】saturation log + citation set support "nothing important missing"? Y/N
【Steelman】each rival school stated at its strongest? Y/N
【Method balance】quant/qual/computational/theoretical each weighed fairly? Y/N
【Conflict handling】reconciled by credibility + what-is-studied (not vote-count)? Y/N
【Debate】evidence-to-settle stated; author's read labelled? Y/N
【Self-citation audit】own work at warranted tier; emphasis identity-blind? Y/N
【Next step】→ arsoc-tables-figures (who-found-what tables + conceptual figure)

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Annual-Review-of-Sociology-Skills/skills/arsoc-comprehensiveness-and-balance of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Arsoc Comprehensiveness And Balance

What does Arsoc Comprehensiveness And Balance do?

A skill your agent uses when calibrating completeness vs. An agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Arsoc Comprehensiveness And Balance is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when calibrating completeness vs.

When should I use Arsoc Comprehensiveness And Balance?

Arsoc Comprehensiveness And Balance fits situations like: calibrating completeness vs; tasks that involve Brand voice and tone.

How do I install Arsoc Comprehensiveness And Balance in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill arsoc-comprehensiveness-and-balance -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Annual-Review-of-Sociology-Skills/skills/arsoc-comprehensiveness-and-balance in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/arsoc-comprehensiveness-and-balance in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Arsoc Comprehensiveness And Balance in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill arsoc-comprehensiveness-and-balance -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Annual-Review-of-Sociology-Skills/skills/arsoc-comprehensiveness-and-balance in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/arsoc-comprehensiveness-and-balance in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Arsoc Comprehensiveness And Balance 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 arsoc-comprehensiveness-and-balance -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/arsoc-comprehensiveness-and-balance, .gemini/skills/arsoc-comprehensiveness-and-balance, .github/skills/arsoc-comprehensiveness-and-balance and .opencode/skills/arsoc-comprehensiveness-and-balance in your project.

What does Arsoc Comprehensiveness And Balance need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Arsoc Comprehensiveness And Balance is instructions for the agent only.

Does Arsoc Comprehensiveness And Balance 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 Arsoc Comprehensiveness And Balance 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 Arsoc Comprehensiveness And Balance use?

Arsoc Comprehensiveness And Balance 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 Arsoc Comprehensiveness And Balance use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.8k 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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