Research Paper Writer
ailabs-393/ai-labs-claude-skills
Creates formal academic research papers following IEEE/ACM formatting standards with proper structure, citations, and scholarly writing style.
Agent skill
by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills
A skill your agent uses when systematically gathering, reading, and synthesizing a large body of sociological research for an Annual Review of Sociology (ARSoc) review — coverage discipline and…
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill arsoc-literature-synthesis -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills arsoc-literature-synthesis --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/Annual-Review-of-Sociology-Skills/skills/arsoc-literature-synthesis .claude/skills/arsoc-literature-synthesis && 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 "arsoc-literature-synthesis" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Annual-Review-of-Sociology-Skills/skills/arsoc-literature-synthesis into .claude/skills/arsoc-literature-synthesis/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "arsoc-literature-synthesis", 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/Annual-Review-of-Sociology-Skills/skills/arsoc-literature-synthesisType 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 arsoc-literature-synthesis -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills arsoc-literature-synthesis --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/Annual-Review-of-Sociology-Skills/skills/arsoc-literature-synthesis .agents/skills/arsoc-literature-synthesis && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "arsoc-literature-synthesis" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Annual-Review-of-Sociology-Skills/skills/arsoc-literature-synthesis into .agents/skills/arsoc-literature-synthesis/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "arsoc-literature-synthesis", 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 arsoc-literature-synthesis -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills arsoc-literature-synthesis --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/Annual-Review-of-Sociology-Skills/skills/arsoc-literature-synthesis .cursor/skills/arsoc-literature-synthesis && 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 "arsoc-literature-synthesis" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Annual-Review-of-Sociology-Skills/skills/arsoc-literature-synthesis into .cursor/skills/arsoc-literature-synthesis/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "arsoc-literature-synthesis", 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 Annual-Review-of-Sociology-Skills/skills/arsoc-literature-synthesis--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 arsoc-literature-synthesis -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills arsoc-literature-synthesis --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/Annual-Review-of-Sociology-Skills/skills/arsoc-literature-synthesis .gemini/skills/arsoc-literature-synthesis && 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 "arsoc-literature-synthesis" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Annual-Review-of-Sociology-Skills/skills/arsoc-literature-synthesis into .gemini/skills/arsoc-literature-synthesis/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "arsoc-literature-synthesis", 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 arsoc-literature-synthesisInstalls 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 arsoc-literature-synthesis -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/Annual-Review-of-Sociology-Skills/skills/arsoc-literature-synthesis .github/skills/arsoc-literature-synthesis && 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 "arsoc-literature-synthesis" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Annual-Review-of-Sociology-Skills/skills/arsoc-literature-synthesis into .github/skills/arsoc-literature-synthesis/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "arsoc-literature-synthesis", 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 arsoc-literature-synthesis -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 arsoc-literature-synthesis --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/Annual-Review-of-Sociology-Skills/skills/arsoc-literature-synthesis .opencode/skills/arsoc-literature-synthesis && 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 "arsoc-literature-synthesis" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Annual-Review-of-Sociology-Skills/skills/arsoc-literature-synthesis into .opencode/skills/arsoc-literature-synthesis/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "arsoc-literature-synthesis", 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.
arsoc-literature-synthesisA skill your agent uses when systematically gathering, reading, and synthesizing a large body of sociological research for an Annual Review of Sociology (ARSoc) review — coverage discipline and…
Arsoc Literature Synthesis is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when systematically gathering, reading, and synthesizing a large body of sociological research for an Annual Review of Sociology (ARSoc) review — coverage discipline and avoiding citation gaps across theoretical traditions. Builds the evidence corpus and synthesis notes; it does not impose the analytical spine (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 Research & Science, covering Brand voice and tone and Citation management. 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.
6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
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.
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.
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Arsoc Literature Synthesis loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 102 tokens; SKILL.md has 589 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.
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.
The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 589 words, ~1,443 tokens.
.claude/skills/arsoc-literature-synthesis/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).An ARSoc review's credibility rests on the reader's belief that you read everything that matters across methods and schools. Sociology spans quantitative, qualitative, computational, and theoretical work, and reviewers notice when one mode is slighted. Build coverage systematically rather than from memory:
arsoc-comprehensiveness-and-balance and arsoc-transparency-and-reproducibility.Summarizing is restating each study; synthesizing is making the studies talk to each other. Maintain an evidence matrix as you read:
| Column | What to capture |
|---|---|
| Study | author–year, the result you will cite it for |
| Question/claim | exactly what it argues or measures (so non-comparable studies are not pooled) |
| Method/data | design, sample, mode (quant / qual / computational / theoretical) — so you can weight credibility |
| Finding | direction + magnitude, or the central claim (for who-found-what tables) |
| Tradition | which theoretical school / school it speaks for |
| Credibility | identification strength, sample, analytic transparency — your appraisal, since ARSoc runs no new analysis |
| Tension | which other studies it agrees/conflicts with, and why |
This matrix is the raw material for the organizing framework, the summary tables, and the even-handed treatment of debates. Crucially, you appraise primary studies (you are the subfield's referee-of-record for the wider discipline); you do not re-analyze them.
【Seed set】<canonical + commissioned-topic references>
【Snowball status】backward/forward iterated to saturation? Y/N
【Databases swept】Sociological Abstracts / WoS / Scopus / JSTOR / Scholar — by keyword + tradition? Y/N
【Mode coverage】quant + qual + computational + demographic + theoretical all swept? Y/N
【Frontier + adjacency】recent/forthcoming work and bordering literatures included? Y/N
【Saturation evidence】<where searches stopped yielding new must-cites>
【Evidence matrix】rows ready with claim / method / finding / tradition / appraisal / tension? Y/N
【Coverage risks】<any author/school/method an omission referee could name>
【Next step】→ arsoc-organizing-framework (impose the analytical spine on the matrix)© 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
Just SKILL.md in Annual-Review-of-Sociology-Skills/skills/arsoc-literature-synthesis of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
Arsoc Literature Synthesis next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arsoc Literature Synthesis this skillbrycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills | 1.2k | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Research Paper Writerailabs-393/ai-labs-claude-skills | 455 | 2 repos | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Inno Paper WritingLigphiDonk/Oh-my--paper | 739 | — | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Cg Paper Writingjaccen/Awesome-Gaussian-Skills | 161 | — | ~4.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Artbull Writing Style And Citationfranklee16/academic-research-skills | 223 | 1 repos | ~848 | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Io Writing Stylefranklee16/academic-research-skills | 223 | 1 repos | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | None |
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A skill your agent uses when systematically gathering, reading, and synthesizing a large body of sociological research for an Annual Review of Sociology (ARSoc) review — coverage discipline and…. Arsoc Literature Synthesis is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when systematically gathering, reading, and synthesizing a large body of sociological research for an Annual Review of Sociology (ARSoc) review — coverage discipline and avoiding citation gaps across theoretical traditions.
Arsoc Literature Synthesis fits situations like: systematically gathering; tasks that involve Brand voice and tone; tasks that involve Citation management.
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill arsoc-literature-synthesis -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Annual-Review-of-Sociology-Skills/skills/arsoc-literature-synthesis in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/arsoc-literature-synthesis in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill arsoc-literature-synthesis -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Annual-Review-of-Sociology-Skills/skills/arsoc-literature-synthesis in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/arsoc-literature-synthesis in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
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-literature-synthesis -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-literature-synthesis, .gemini/skills/arsoc-literature-synthesis, .github/skills/arsoc-literature-synthesis and .opencode/skills/arsoc-literature-synthesis in your project.
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Arsoc Literature Synthesis is instructions for the agent only.
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.
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.
Arsoc Literature Synthesis is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
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.
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Arsoc Literature Synthesis: Research Paper Writer (ailabs-393/ai-labs-claude-skills, 455 stars), Inno Paper Writing (LigphiDonk/Oh-my--paper, 739 stars), Cg Paper Writing (jaccen/Awesome-Gaussian-Skills, 161 stars) and Artbull Writing Style And Citation (franklee16/academic-research-skills, 223 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
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.