Agent skill

Bjps Literature Positioning

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

A skill your agent uses when positioning a British Journal of Political Science (BJPS) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a contribution of wide, cross-subfield, international interest.

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Install Bjps Literature Positioning

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills bjps-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/British-Journal-of-Political-Science-Skills/skills/bjps-literature-positioning .claude/skills/bjps-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
bjps-literature-positioning
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
626 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when positioning a British Journal of Political Science (BJPS) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a contribution of wide, cross-subfield, international interest.

  • Works in 5 steps: Engage the debate, not a pile of… → Two audiences at once. Satisfy… → Name the gap precisely. Not "little is… → …
  • Positioning a British Journal of Political Science (BJPS) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a contribution of wide
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, How BJPS wants the literature…, Cross-subfield /… and Anti-patterns, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Bjps Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when positioning a British Journal of Political Science (BJPS) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a contribution of wide, cross-subfield, international interest. BJPS readers span subfields and countries, so the paper must engage the literatures they expect and avoid the desk-screen trap of looking parochial. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the lit review.

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 Marketing & SEO, covering 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

  • Positioning a British Journal of Political Science (BJPS) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a contribution of wide
  • International interest

Example prompts

  • “/bjps-literature-positioning”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Engage the debate, not a pile of citations. Identify the live disagreement or open question the
  2. Two audiences at once. Satisfy specialists (you know the frontier) and generalists (why it
  3. Name the gap precisely. Not "little is known" — say what is contested, mismeasured,
  4. Position the contribution as a move in the debate. "Prior work argues X via mechanism M; we show
  5. Pre-empt the obvious objection. BJPS reviewers are expert; acknowledge the strongest rival and

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

Bjps Literature Positioning loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 104 tokens; SKILL.md has 626 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~104
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). 626 words, ~1,390 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/bjps-literature-positioning/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
bjps-literature-positioning
description
Use when positioning a British Journal of Political Science (BJPS) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a contribution of wide, cross-subfield, international interest. BJPS readers span subfields and countries, so the paper must engage the literatures they expect and avoid the desk-screen trap of looking parochial. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the lit review.

Literature Positioning (bjps-literature-positioning)

BJPS is read across comparative politics, IR, theory, behaviour, political economy, and methods, and draws contributions from related disciplines (sociology, social psychology, economics, philosophy). Positioning is therefore not throat-clearing — it is how a non-specialist editor and reviewer see that the paper speaks to a live, general debate rather than a parochial one.

When to trigger

  • Drafting or revising the introduction and the "contribution" paragraph
  • A reviewer said you "missed obvious work" or "don't engage the broader debate"
  • Your country/subfield literature is solid but the paper doesn't connect to general theory
  • You need to distinguish your contribution from the closest prior papers
  • Writing a Comment that must engage the target article precisely

How BJPS wants the literature engaged

  1. Engage the debate, not a pile of citations. Identify the live disagreement or open question the paper speaks to, and cite the works that define it — including across subfields and countries.
  2. Two audiences at once. Satisfy specialists (you know the frontier) and generalists (why it matters). A single-country study should connect to the comparative theory it tests.
  3. Name the gap precisely. Not "little is known" — say what is contested, mismeasured, under-theorized, or untested, and why resolving it advances the field generally.
  4. Position the contribution as a move in the debate. "Prior work argues X via mechanism M; we show M fails / is conditional on C / is better explained by M′."
  5. Pre-empt the obvious objection. BJPS reviewers are expert; acknowledge the strongest rival and say how your design adjudicates it (hand off to bjps-research-design).

Cross-subfield / cross-national engagement (a distinctive BJPS demand)

If your paper is…also engage…
a single-country empirical testthe general comparative theory the case speaks to
an IR / formal argumentthe substantive empirical work the model bears on
a measurement contributionthe substantive literatures that will use the measure
a behaviour/opinion findingthe institutional or representational stake it informs
normative / theoreticalthe empirical work the argument bears on, where applicable

Anti-patterns

  • A "literature dump" with no organizing debate
  • Engaging only your own subfield, or only the literature on one country (a top BJPS rejection reason)
  • Strawmanning prior work, or hiding the closest competitor paper
  • Self-citation that breaks anonymity (BJPS is double-blind — see bjps-submission)
  • Claiming "first to study" when the contribution is incremental
  • For a Comment: misreading or caricaturing the target article rather than engaging its actual claim
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Output format

【Debate】the live disagreement / open question
【Key works】the 3-6 that define it (incl. cross-subfield / cross-national)
【Gap】what is contested / mismeasured / untested
【Move】how this paper changes the debate
【Strongest rival】and how the design will adjudicate it
【Next】bjps-theory-building

Engagement depth BJPS editors expect, by paper type

Because BJPS is a broad, international generalist journal, "the relevant literature" is rarely just your home subfield's or your home country's. The desk screen asks whether a non-specialist editor sees a general debate; this table sets the depth that usually clears it.

Paper typeLiterature it must engageThe parochialism trap to avoid
Single-country empiricalthe cross-national theory the case testsa country literature with no general claim
Comparative / political economythe general institutional theory it speaks toa region study read only by area specialists
IR / formalthe substantive empirical work the model bears ona model debate detached from political outcomes
Behaviour / opinionthe representation/accountability stake it informsa single-survey finding with no broader payoff
Measurement / methodsthe substantive literatures that will use the measuremethod-for-its-own-sake with no consumer

Calibration anchors (hedged)

  • BJPS's premium is wide interest, so positioning that satisfies only one subfield's or one country's frontier is structurally weak even when the within-niche contribution is real.
  • Methodological pluralism extends to literatures: a normative argument may legitimately engage empirical work, and a single case may legitimately speak to general comparative theory.
  • The exact desk-screen wording can change — confirm against the journal's current author and peer-review pages before relying on it.

Supplementary resources

© 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 British-Journal-of-Political-Science-Skills/skills/bjps-literature-positioning of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Bjps Literature Positioning

What does Bjps Literature Positioning do?

A skill your agent uses when positioning a British Journal of Political Science (BJPS) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a contribution of wide, cross-subfield, international interest. Bjps Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when positioning a British Journal of Political Science (BJPS) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a contribution of wide, cross-subfield, international interest.

When should I use Bjps Literature Positioning?

Bjps Literature Positioning fits situations like: positioning a British Journal of Political Science (BJPS) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a contribution of wide; international interest.

How do I install Bjps Literature Positioning in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Bjps Literature Positioning in Codex?

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

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

What does Bjps Literature Positioning need to run?

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

Does Bjps 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 Bjps 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 Bjps Literature Positioning use?

Bjps 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 Bjps Literature Positioning use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.6k 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 Bjps 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.