A skill your agent uses when starting or navigating any Cognitive Psychology (Elsevier) manuscript and you are unsure which sub-skill applies.

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Install Cogpsych Workflow

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills cogpsych-workflow --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-workflow .claude/skills/cogpsych-workflow && 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-workflow
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.8k tokens
SKILL.md length
503 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when starting or navigating any Cognitive Psychology (Elsevier) manuscript and you are unsure which sub-skill applies.

  • Navigating any Cognitive Psychology (Elsevier) manuscript and you are unsure which sub-skill applies
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, First question: contribution…, Routing map (stage → skill) and Default order, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Choosing among manuscript types

What it does

Cogpsych Workflow is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when starting or navigating any Cognitive Psychology (Elsevier) manuscript and you are unsure which sub-skill applies. Use when choosing among manuscript types or returning with a decision letter. Routes by lifecycle stage and contribution type (multi-experiment empirical, experiment-plus-model, modeling-led, theoretical/review), and flags the journal's long-form, model-driven house style and code-transparency expectations. It dispatches; it does not draft content.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.8k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

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

  • Navigating any Cognitive Psychology (Elsevier) manuscript and you are unsure which sub-skill applies
  • Choosing among manuscript types
  • Returning with a decision letter

Example prompts

  • “/cogpsych-workflow”

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 Workflow loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 123 tokens; SKILL.md has 503 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~123
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.8k

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

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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). 503 words, ~1,769 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/cogpsych-workflow/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
cogpsych-workflow
description
Use when starting or navigating any Cognitive Psychology (Elsevier) manuscript and you are unsure which sub-skill applies. Use when choosing among manuscript types or returning with a decision letter. Routes by lifecycle stage and contribution type (multi-experiment empirical, experiment-plus-model, modeling-led, theoretical/review), and flags the journal's long-form, model-driven house style and code-transparency expectations. It dispatches; it does not draft content.

Cognitive Psychology Workflow Router (cogpsych-workflow)

The orchestrator for a Cognitive Psychology (Elsevier) submission. The journal's two defining features are that it rewards longer, integrative, model-driven papers — typically a multi-experiment program tied to a formal/computational model — and that it expects data, model code, and analysis scripts to be shareable. The router makes sure the contribution is theory-and-model-shaped from the start, then sends the user to the matching skill.

When to trigger

  • Starting a new Cognitive Psychology paper and unsure where to begin
  • Mid-project and unsure which skill applies next
  • Choosing the contribution type (empirical-only vs. experiment-plus-model vs. modeling-led)
  • Returning with a decision letter (route to cogpsych-rebuttal)

First question: contribution type

SituationTypeRoute note
Several controlled experiments that jointly constrain a theoryMulti-experiment empiricalmain pipeline; make each experiment add inference, not repeat
Experiments plus a fitted formal model (the common shape here)Experiment + modelpull cogpsych-theory-and-hypotheses (formalize) + cogpsych-data-analysis (fit/compare) forward
A new model / analysis tested against existing or new dataModeling-ledcogpsych-theory-and-hypotheses → cogpsych-data-analysis (model recovery + comparison)
Integrative theoretical synthesis or review with a substantive advanceTheoretical / reviewcogpsych-literature-positioning + cogpsych-theory-and-hypotheses

A single short experiment reporting one effect is usually the wrong shape for this venue — that is a Psychological Science / short-report contribution. Cognitive Psychology wants the longer arc.

Routing map (stage → skill)

text
Idea / fit?                          → cogpsych-topic-selection
Theory + model + predictions?        → cogpsych-theory-and-hypotheses
Where does it sit in the field?      → cogpsych-literature-positioning
Experiments / stimuli / power?       → cogpsych-study-design
Analysis + model fit/comparison?     → cogpsych-data-analysis
Exhibits (data + model fit)?         → cogpsych-tables-figures
Long-form prose clear?               → cogpsych-writing-style
Data + model code + materials open?  → cogpsych-open-science-and-transparency
How will it be judged?               → cogpsych-review-process
Ready to submit (Editorial Manager)? → cogpsych-submission
Got an R&R / decision?               → cogpsych-rebuttal

Default order

topic-selection → theory-and-hypotheses → literature-positioning → study-design → data-analysis → tables-figures → writing-style → open-science-and-transparency → review-process → submission → rebuttal

Theory comes before positioning here on purpose: the formal model is the contribution, so formalize the account first, then position it against rival models. For experiment-plus-model papers, the model is co-designed with the experiments — iterate theory-and-hypotheses ↔ study-design.

Worked micro-example — routing a live project (illustrative)

A team has three preregistered recognition-memory experiments and a competing pair of models (unequal-variance signal detection vs. a dual-process account) they want to fit and compare.

Type:    Experiment + model (multi-experiment program, model comparison).
Entry:   not idea-stage → skip topic-selection; they are at theory/design/analysis.
Route:   theory-and-hypotheses (formalize both models + the predictions that
            separate them)
         → study-design (stimuli, list construction, power for the critical
            contrast across all three experiments)
         → data-analysis (fit both models; compare with AIC/BIC + Bayes
            factors; report parameter recovery)
         → tables-figures (overlay model fit on data, not bars of means)
         → writing-style (integrate three experiments into one argument)
         → open-science-and-transparency (deposit data + model code + scripts)
         → submission (Editorial Manager) ; on R&R → rebuttal.
Flag:    the model comparison must be pre-committed where possible and the
         fits reproducible from the deposited code.
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Stage-triage table (symptom → skill)

What the author saysStageRoute to
"Is one experiment enough for this journal?"fitcogpsych-topic-selection
"I have data but no formal model"theorycogpsych-theory-and-hypotheses
"Which model is better, AIC or BIC?"analysiscogpsych-data-analysis
"Reviewer says my experiments don't constrain the theory"designcogpsych-study-design
"How do I show model fit, not just means?"exhibitscogpsych-tables-figures
"Reviewer can't run my model code"transparencycogpsych-open-science-and-transparency
"I have an R&R"revisioncogpsych-rebuttal

Routing pitfalls specific to this venue

  • Sending an experiment-only project straight to cogpsych-submission without a formal model or an integrative theoretical payoff — the journal's identity is model-driven theory development.
  • Treating the model as an afterthought bolted on at the end, instead of co-designing experiments to discriminate models from the start (iterate theory-and-hypotheses ↔ study-design).
  • Deferring cogpsych-open-science-and-transparency: model code and fits should be reproducible from deposit, not promised at acceptance.

Anti-patterns

  • Pitching a single-experiment, single-effect paper (wrong length/ambition for this venue)
  • Reporting experiments with no formal model and no integrative theoretical advance
  • A model that is described in prose but never fit to data or compared to a rival
  • Leaving data/model code/scripts unshareable until acceptance

Output format

【Stage】idea / theory / positioning / design / analysis / exhibits / writing / transparency / review / submit / rebut
【Type】Multi-experiment empirical / Experiment + model / Modeling-led / Theoretical-review
【Route to】cogpsych-<skill>
【Why】one line
【Then】the next skill after that

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-workflow of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Cogpsych Workflow

What does Cogpsych Workflow do?

A skill your agent uses when starting or navigating any Cognitive Psychology (Elsevier) manuscript and you are unsure which sub-skill applies. Cogpsych Workflow is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when starting or navigating any Cognitive Psychology (Elsevier) manuscript and you are unsure which sub-skill applies.

When should I use Cogpsych Workflow?

Cogpsych Workflow fits situations like: navigating any Cognitive Psychology (Elsevier) manuscript and you are unsure which sub-skill applies; choosing among manuscript types; returning with a decision letter.

How do I install Cogpsych Workflow in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Cogpsych Workflow in Codex?

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

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

What does Cogpsych Workflow need to run?

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

Does Cogpsych Workflow 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 Workflow 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 Workflow use?

Cogpsych Workflow 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 Workflow use?

About 1.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.1k 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 Workflow?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,228 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

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