Criticism Self Criticism
HughYau/qiushi-skill
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A skill your agent uses when targeting Critical Inquiry or deciding whether a theoretical or interdisciplinary critical-humanities manuscript fits this venue.
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Install Critical Inquiry
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill critical-inquiry -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills critical-inquiry --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/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/critical-inquiry .claude/skills/critical-inquiry && 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 "critical-inquiry" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/critical-inquiry into .claude/skills/critical-inquiry/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "critical-inquiry", 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/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/critical-inquiryType 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 critical-inquiry -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills critical-inquiry --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/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/critical-inquiry .agents/skills/critical-inquiry && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "critical-inquiry" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/critical-inquiry into .agents/skills/critical-inquiry/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "critical-inquiry", 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 critical-inquiry -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills critical-inquiry --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/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/critical-inquiry .cursor/skills/critical-inquiry && 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 "critical-inquiry" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/critical-inquiry into .cursor/skills/critical-inquiry/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "critical-inquiry", 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 English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/critical-inquiry--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 critical-inquiry -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills critical-inquiry --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/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/critical-inquiry .gemini/skills/critical-inquiry && 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 "critical-inquiry" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/critical-inquiry into .gemini/skills/critical-inquiry/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "critical-inquiry", 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 critical-inquiryInstalls 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 critical-inquiry -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/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/critical-inquiry .github/skills/critical-inquiry && 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 "critical-inquiry" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/critical-inquiry into .github/skills/critical-inquiry/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "critical-inquiry", 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 critical-inquiry -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 critical-inquiry --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/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/critical-inquiry .opencode/skills/critical-inquiry && 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 "critical-inquiry" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/critical-inquiry into .opencode/skills/critical-inquiry/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "critical-inquiry", 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.
Facts
- Skill name
critical-inquiry- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1.7k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 754 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 2,387
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
A skill your agent uses when targeting Critical Inquiry or deciding whether a theoretical or interdisciplinary critical-humanities manuscript fits this venue.
- Targeting Critical Inquiry
- SKILL.md covers Journal positioning, When to trigger, Scope & topic fit and Method & evidence bar, plus 6 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
- Deciding whether a theoretical
What it does
Critical Inquiry is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when targeting Critical Inquiry or deciding whether a theoretical or interdisciplinary critical-humanities manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's high-theory fit, the agenda-setting argument bar, conceptual-stakes and cross-disciplinary expectations, house style and double-blind norms, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.7k 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
- Targeting Critical Inquiry
- Deciding whether a theoretical
- Interdisciplinary critical-humanities manuscript fits this venue
Example prompts
- “/critical-inquiry”
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
Critical Inquiry loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 94 tokens; SKILL.md has 754 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.
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). 754 words, ~1,718 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/critical-inquiry/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- critical-inquiry
- description
- Use when targeting Critical Inquiry or deciding whether a theoretical or interdisciplinary critical-humanities manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's high-theory fit, the agenda-setting argument bar, conceptual-stakes and cross-disciplinary expectations, house style and double-blind norms, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
Critical Inquiry (critical-inquiry)
Journal positioning
Critical Inquiry is the University of Chicago's flagship venue for theory and interdisciplinary critical thought across literature, the visual arts, music, film, philosophy, history, and politics. Its defining expectation is an essay that changes how a problem is conceived for readers across the humanities: an ambitious, original intervention that reframes a debate, introduces a concept, or contests a dominant paradigm, written for an intellectually omnivorous audience rather than a single field. A solid disciplinary case study, a careful application of an existing theory, or a reading with no conceptual reach is a poor fit, however well executed. This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing aid. It does not replace the journal's current submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live Critical Inquiry author instructions.
When to trigger
- The author names Critical Inquiry for a theoretical or interdisciplinary essay and wants a fit/framing check.
- A field-bound argument must be elevated into a conceptual intervention with stakes across the humanities.
- The author is choosing between Critical Inquiry and a theory-of-literature or discipline-specific venue.
- The author needs Critical Inquiry's agenda-setting bar and desk-reject heuristics.
Scope & topic fit
- Theory and critique across the arts and humanities: aesthetics, politics, media, the image, the archive, ecology, technology, and their intersections.
- Essays that introduce or rework a concept and trace its consequences across more than one field or medium.
- Interventions that contest a reigning critical paradigm or reopen a closed debate.
- Interdisciplinary readings where the object (a text, image, work, or event) is the occasion for a larger argument.
- Reflections on method, critique, and the stakes of interpretation in the contemporary humanities.
- Work at the seam of philosophy and the arts when the argument is genuinely interdisciplinary rather than disciplinary in disguise.
Method & evidence bar
- The contribution is an original conceptual argument that reframes how something is understood; analysis of an object is in service of that intervention.
- Theoretical sophistication is required and earned: the framing is argued, not merely invoked or name-dropped.
- Close engagement with the primary object (text, image, work) is rigorous and does real interpretive work, not decorative.
- The essay reckons with the strongest existing positions and shows precisely what it changes.
- Stakes are interdisciplinary and explicit: why readers beyond one field should care.
- Argument controls the apparatus; theoretical vocabulary clarifies rather than ornaments.
Structure & house style
- Long-form essay sustaining an ambitious argument; re-check current length expectations and essay types on the live guide.
- The conceptual intervention and its stakes are established early; the essay builds, not merely accumulates examples.
- Citation follows the journal's current style (Chicago-based humanities form); notes carry substantive dialectic and qualification.
- Double-blind review: anonymize the manuscript (self-citations and acknowledgements) per current policy.
- Quotations from other languages appear with translations per policy; reproduced images require permissions and meet specifications.
- Prose is demanding but lucid; the difficulty is in the ideas, not in avoidable obscurity.
Show full SKILL.md (277 more words)Show less
Official-submission checklist
- Before giving submission-ready advice, read
../../resources/source-basis.mdand../../resources/official-source-map.md; start from the press anchors, then cite the current Critical Inquiry page you checked. - Search the live site for "Critical Inquiry submission guidelines" and follow the current version.
- Re-check essay types, length expectations, and the abstract requirement.
- Confirm the citation/style format and anonymization for double-blind review.
- Re-check image-reproduction permissions/specifications and the translation policy for non-English quotation.
- Re-check prior-presentation/preprint, simultaneous-submission, and AI-use disclosure policies.
- If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official instructions win.
Pre-submission self-check
- There is an ambitious conceptual intervention, not a field-bound case study or theory application.
- The theoretical framing is argued and earned, not merely invoked.
- Engagement with the primary object does genuine interpretive work in service of the concept.
- The interdisciplinary stakes are explicit — why readers across the humanities should care.
- The essay reckons with the strongest existing positions and names what it changes.
- The manuscript is anonymized, follows the current style, and has translations/image permissions in hand.
Common desk-reject triggers
- A disciplinary case study or competent theory-application with no conceptual reach beyond its field.
- Name-dropped theory used as ornament rather than argued and load-bearing.
- A reading with no larger intervention, or a "concept" asserted without consequences traced.
- No reckoning with the strongest rival positions on the problem.
- Avoidable obscurity mistaken for sophistication.
- Wrong venue: a single-field essay better served by a period or area specialist journal.
Re-routing decision
- Broad-readership literary essay, less theory-forward →
pmla. - Argument about the theory and method of literary study specifically →
new-literary-history. - New-historicist, archive-anchored cultural analysis →
representations. - Cross-linguistic or world-literature comparison →
comparative-literature. - Aesthetics or philosophy of a single art form →
the-journal-of-aesthetics-and-art-criticism; art/visual-culture theory →october.
Output format
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] Critical Inquiry
[Domain] <fields/media the intervention crosses>
[Concept/argument] <the conceptual intervention in one line — what it reframes>
[Theoretical idiom] <does the theoretical framing + interdisciplinary stake clear the agenda-setting bar?>
[Top risk] <the single most likely reason for rejection>
[Official items to re-check] <length / citation style / anonymization / image permissions / translations>
[Re-route suggestion] <if not a fit, a better-matched venue>© 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 English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/critical-inquiry of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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| Critical Inquiry this skillbrycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills | 1.2k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
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| Crossframe Criticalsickn33/agentic-awesome-skills | 47k | 1 repos | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Critical Imagesthedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist | 74k | — | ~392 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| CSS Criticalthedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist | 74k | — | ~441 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Critical Request Chainsthedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist | 74k | — | ~418 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Critical Inquiry
What does Critical Inquiry do?
A skill your agent uses when targeting Critical Inquiry or deciding whether a theoretical or interdisciplinary critical-humanities manuscript fits this venue. Critical Inquiry is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when targeting Critical Inquiry or deciding whether a theoretical or interdisciplinary critical-humanities manuscript fits this venue.
When should I use Critical Inquiry?
Critical Inquiry fits situations like: targeting Critical Inquiry; deciding whether a theoretical; interdisciplinary critical-humanities manuscript fits this venue.
How do I install Critical Inquiry in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill critical-inquiry -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/critical-inquiry in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/critical-inquiry in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Critical Inquiry in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill critical-inquiry -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/critical-inquiry in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/critical-inquiry in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Critical Inquiry 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 critical-inquiry -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/critical-inquiry, .gemini/skills/critical-inquiry, .github/skills/critical-inquiry and .opencode/skills/critical-inquiry in your project.
What does Critical Inquiry need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Critical Inquiry is instructions for the agent only.
Does Critical Inquiry 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 Critical Inquiry 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 Critical Inquiry use?
Critical Inquiry 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 Critical Inquiry use?
About 1.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.9k 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 Critical Inquiry?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Critical Inquiry: Criticism Self Criticism (HughYau/qiushi-skill, 3.8k stars), Crossframe Critical (sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, 47k stars), Critical Images (thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist, 74k stars) and CSS Critical (thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist, 74k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Critical Inquiry?
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.