Agent skill

Cogpsych Literature Positioning

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

A skill your agent uses when positioning a Cognitive Psychology (Elsevier) manuscript against the field, especially against rival models and prior empirical programs.

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Install Cogpsych Literature Positioning

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills cogpsych-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/Cognitive-Psychology-Skills/skills/cogpsych-literature-positioning .claude/skills/cogpsych-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
cogpsych-literature-positioning
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
542 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 Cognitive Psychology (Elsevier) manuscript against the field, especially against rival models and prior empirical programs.

  • Works in 5 steps: Open with the theoretical question,… → Name the rival accounts precisely and… → Show why existing evidence cannot settle… → …
  • Positioning a Cognitive Psychology (Elsevier) manuscript against the field
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, How to position in a…, Reviews, replications, and… and Positioning triage (organize…, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Cogpsych Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when positioning a Cognitive Psychology (Elsevier) manuscript against the field, especially against rival models and prior empirical programs. In a long-form, model-driven venue, positioning means showing what theoretical question your model adjudicates and why prior accounts fall short. Stakes the contribution against the right contrast class; it does not write the full literature 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 and Literature review. 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 Cognitive Psychology (Elsevier) manuscript against the field
  • Especially against rival models and prior empirical programs

Example prompts

  • “/cogpsych-literature-positioning”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Open with the theoretical question, framed as a live debate between accounts — not a textbook
  2. Name the rival accounts precisely and state what each predicts. The reader should see the fork
  3. Show why existing evidence cannot settle it. Prior studies confound the accounts, lack a model
  4. State the contribution early. By the end of the Introduction the reader knows the question, the
  5. Cite to anchor the debate, not to pad. The works that define the rival accounts and the

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

Cogpsych Literature Positioning loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 107 tokens; SKILL.md has 542 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
~1.4k

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). 542 words, ~1,415 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/cogpsych-literature-positioning/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
cogpsych-literature-positioning
description
Use when positioning a Cognitive Psychology (Elsevier) manuscript against the field, especially against rival models and prior empirical programs. In a long-form, model-driven venue, positioning means showing what theoretical question your model adjudicates and why prior accounts fall short. Stakes the contribution against the right contrast class; it does not write the full literature review.

Literature Positioning (cogpsych-literature-positioning)

Cognitive Psychology gives you room for a substantial introduction — but length is a trap if it becomes a catalogue. Positioning here is about the theoretical contrast class: which models or accounts you adjudicate, what they predict, and why the existing evidence cannot settle the question your program settles. Position against rival models and prior programs, not against a long chronology.

When to trigger

  • Drafting the Introduction / theoretical framing
  • A reviewer said the contribution is "incremental," "already shown," or "not clearly novel relative to model X"
  • You have a large literature and must organize it around the theoretical question
  • Connecting a specific model comparison to a broad question about cognition

How to position in a model-driven venue

  1. Open with the theoretical question, framed as a live debate between accounts — not a textbook history of the phenomenon.
  2. Name the rival accounts precisely and state what each predicts. The reader should see the fork the field is stuck on.
  3. Show why existing evidence cannot settle it. Prior studies confound the accounts, lack a model fit, or test only one design point — make the gap a theoretical gap, not "little is known."
  4. State the contribution early. By the end of the Introduction the reader knows the question, the model(s), the discriminating design, and what is new (adjudication, formalization, boundary, or a new model).
  5. Cite to anchor the debate, not to pad. The works that define the rival accounts and the closest prior programs earn slots; exhaustive background does not.

Reviews, replications, and extensions

  • An integrative review must reorganize the field around a theoretical claim, not list studies.
  • Frame a replication/extension around the theoretical stakes (which model it tests, why the prior result's design was inconclusive), not as a bare repetition.
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Positioning triage (organize around the debate)

Candidate citation roleKeep?Why it earns a slot in Cognitive Psychology
Defines a rival account you adjudicatealwaysthe contrast class; without it the fork is invisible
Closest prior program you beat/extendalwaysthis is the contribution's benchmark
Establishes the discriminating signatureusuallyreviewers check the prediction is real
Model/method provenanceusuallyconstruct and modeling validity are scrutinized
Background-completeness citationcut firstlength is not an excuse for a catalogue

Worked micro-example (illustrative)

A recognition-memory program positions against the dual-process tradition. Weak framing: "Recognition memory has been studied for decades (refs 1-40)." Venue-fit framing:

Question: Does recognition rest on one continuous strength signal or on a
          distinct threshold recollection process?
Rivals:   UVSD (single continuous signal) vs. DPSD (familiarity + threshold
          recollection); they predict different z-ROC shapes.
Why unsettled: most prior tests fit one model only, or use designs where the
          z-ROC shape is not diagnostic, so the fork persists.
Contribution (stated in the Introduction):
          Three experiments engineered to make the z-ROC shape diagnostic,
          with both models fit and compared, adjudicate the debate.
Breadth:  the answer constrains models of memory used across cognitive aging,
          eyewitness, and decision research.

Positioning-stage reviewer pushback and the venue fix

Reviewer pushbackCognitive Psychology fix
"Contribution is incremental"name the theoretical fork you close, not a longer literature tour
"Already shown by model X"state what X cannot account for and how your design discriminates it
"Reads as a catalogue"reorganize the Introduction around the rival accounts and the discriminating prediction
"First to show" overclaimdowngrade to "first to adjudicate X vs. Y under a diagnostic design"; cite priors honestly

Anti-patterns

  • A long chronological review that never names the rival accounts or the fork
  • Burying the model comparison and the contribution after pages of phenomenon history
  • Positioning against effects rather than against the theories/models that explain them
  • "First to show" claims that ignore the closest prior model or program
  • Citing exhaustively to seem thorough instead of anchoring the debate

Output format

【Theoretical question】the live debate between accounts
【Rival accounts】what each predicts
【Why unsettled】how prior evidence fails to discriminate them
【Contribution】adjudication / formalization / boundary / new model — stated early?
【Anchor citations】the works that define the rivals + closest priors
【Breadth】who across cognition inherits the answer
【Next】cogpsych-study-design

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 Cognitive-Psychology-Skills/skills/cogpsych-literature-positioning of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Cogpsych Literature Positioning

What does Cogpsych Literature Positioning do?

A skill your agent uses when positioning a Cognitive Psychology (Elsevier) manuscript against the field, especially against rival models and prior empirical programs. Cogpsych Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when positioning a Cognitive Psychology (Elsevier) manuscript against the field, especially against rival models and prior empirical programs.

When should I use Cogpsych Literature Positioning?

Cogpsych Literature Positioning fits situations like: positioning a Cognitive Psychology (Elsevier) manuscript against the field; especially against rival models and prior empirical programs.

How do I install Cogpsych Literature Positioning in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Cogpsych Literature Positioning in Codex?

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

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

What does Cogpsych Literature Positioning need to run?

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

Does Cogpsych 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 Cogpsych 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 Cogpsych Literature Positioning use?

Cogpsych 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 Cogpsych Literature Positioning use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.7k 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 Cogpsych 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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