Agent skill

Commres Literature Positioning

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

A skill your agent uses when positioning a Communication Research (CR) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a cumulative, theory-testing contribution to communication science.

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Install Commres Literature Positioning

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills commres-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/Communication-Research-Skills/skills/commres-literature-positioning .claude/skills/commres-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
commres-literature-positioning
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
541 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 Communication Research (CR) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a cumulative, theory-testing contribution to communication science.

  • Works in 5 steps: Engage the empirical debate, not a pile… → Build to hypotheses. CR introductions… → Name the gap precisely. Not "little is… → …
  • Positioning a Communication Research (CR) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a cumulative
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, How CR wants the literature…, Cross-area engagement (CR is… and Anti-patterns, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Commres Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when positioning a Communication Research (CR) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a cumulative, theory-testing contribution to communication science. CR reviewers expect engagement with the empirical communication literature and the rival accounts your hypotheses adjudicate. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the lit review.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k 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 Communication Research (CR) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a cumulative
  • Theory-testing contribution to communication science

Example prompts

  • “/commres-literature-positioning”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Engage the empirical debate, not a pile of citations. Identify the live disagreement or open
  2. Build to hypotheses. CR introductions march from theory and prior findings to **explicit,
  3. Name the gap precisely. Not "little is known" — say what is contested, mismeasured,
  4. Position against rivals. "Prior work argues X via mechanism M; we test whether M holds, is
  5. Theory over platform. Frame around the communication process or construct, not the medium or

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

Commres Literature Positioning loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 96 tokens; SKILL.md has 541 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~96
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.2k

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). 541 words, ~1,248 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/commres-literature-positioning/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
commres-literature-positioning
description
Use when positioning a Communication Research (CR) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a cumulative, theory-testing contribution to communication science. CR reviewers expect engagement with the empirical communication literature and the rival accounts your hypotheses adjudicate. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the lit review.

Literature Positioning (commres-literature-positioning)

CR is a cumulative, social-scientific journal: reviewers ask how your hypotheses extend, qualify, or adjudicate the prior empirical communication literature. Positioning is not throat-clearing — it places the paper where a quantitative communication scientist can see the open question, the rival accounts, and the move your tests make.

When to trigger

  • Drafting or revising the introduction and the "present study / hypotheses" paragraph
  • A reviewer said you "missed obvious work" or "don't engage the debate"
  • You need to distinguish your hypotheses from the closest prior empirical papers
  • Your effect is solid but the contribution to communication theory is unclear

How CR wants the literature engaged

  1. Engage the empirical debate, not a pile of citations. Identify the live disagreement or open question your hypotheses speak to, and cite the studies that define it — including the strongest prior tests.
  2. Build to hypotheses. CR introductions march from theory and prior findings to explicit, numbered hypotheses (and research questions); positioning sets up exactly those predictions.
  3. Name the gap precisely. Not "little is known" — say what is contested, mismeasured, under-tested, or confounded in prior work, and why resolving it advances communication science.
  4. Position against rivals. "Prior work argues X via mechanism M; we test whether M holds, is conditional on C, or is better explained by M′." The rival becomes a tested alternative, not a foil.
  5. Theory over platform. Frame around the communication process or construct, not the medium or dataset — platforms change; tested mechanisms accumulate.

Cross-area engagement (CR is read across communication science)

If your paper is…also engage…
a media-effects experimentthe general processing/persuasion theory it tests, not one stimulus literature
a survey of new-media usethe use→effect process literature, not just platform descriptions
a content analysisthe substantive effects/processing literature the coded features speak to
a health/political communication studythe message/audience mechanism literature beyond one topic
Show full SKILL.md (231 more words)Show less

Anti-patterns

  • A "literature dump" with no organizing empirical debate
  • Engaging only one platform or topic niche (a common CR rejection reason)
  • Hypotheses that do not follow from the cited theory and prior findings (HARKing risk)
  • Strawmanning prior work, or hiding the closest competing study
  • Self-citation that breaks anonymity — write self-citations in the third person (see commres-submission)

Positioning pass for Communication Research

Treat this skill as an executable review pass, not a prose hint. First lock the communication process, the measured constructs, the study design, and the inferential claim; then judge whether the manuscript answers CR's real reader: a quantitatively trained communication scientist who weighs theory, measurement validity, identification, and effect interpretation.

  • Do the pass: Build a three-column map — incumbent finding/account, unresolved tension, this paper's tested delta; include one rival account the design must rule out and one sibling-venue omission a referee would flag.
  • Return a ledger: give claim / evidence / risk / manuscript location rows so the next agent edits rather than rediscovers the issue.
  • Sibling guard: Journal of Communication (all-paradigm), Human Communication Research (interpersonal), New Media & Society (digital). If a sibling owns the contribution, recommend re-routing before polishing format.
  • Stop condition: do not give submission-ready advice until resources/official-source-map.md has been checked and the manuscript has one concrete fix for the largest venue-specific risk.

Output format

【Debate】the live empirical disagreement / open question
【Key works】the 3-6 prior tests that define it
【Gap】what is contested / mismeasured / confounded / untested
【Hypotheses】how H1…Hk follow from the positioned theory
【Strongest rival】the account the design will adjudicate
【Next】commres-theory-building

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 Communication-Research-Skills/skills/commres-literature-positioning of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Commres Literature Positioning

What does Commres Literature Positioning do?

A skill your agent uses when positioning a Communication Research (CR) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a cumulative, theory-testing contribution to communication science. Commres Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when positioning a Communication Research (CR) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a cumulative, theory-testing contribution to communication science.

When should I use Commres Literature Positioning?

Commres Literature Positioning fits situations like: positioning a Communication Research (CR) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a cumulative; theory-testing contribution to communication science.

How do I install Commres Literature Positioning in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Commres Literature Positioning in Codex?

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

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

What does Commres Literature Positioning need to run?

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

Does Commres 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 Commres 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 Commres Literature Positioning use?

Commres 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 Commres Literature Positioning use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Commres Literature Positioning?

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Who maintains Commres 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.