Agent skill

Curranthro Review Process

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

A skill your agent uses when you need to understand how Current Anthropology (CA) evaluates a manuscript — editorial screening, peer review, and the distinctive CA✩ Treatment in which an accepted…

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Curranthro Review Process

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill curranthro-review-process -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills curranthro-review-process --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/Current-Anthropology-Skills/skills/curranthro-review-process .claude/skills/curranthro-review-process && 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
curranthro-review-process
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
596 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when you need to understand how Current Anthropology (CA) evaluates a manuscript — editorial screening, peer review, and the distinctive CA✩ Treatment in which an accepted…

  • Works in 5 steps: Editorial screening first. The editor(s)… → Peer review. Expert, often… → The CA✩ Treatment (Major Articles). Once… → …
  • You need to understand how Current Anthropology (CA) evaluates a manuscript — editorial screening
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, How CA review works, The two audiences you must… and Shape the paper to pass — and…, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Curranthro Review Process is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when you need to understand how Current Anthropology (CA) evaluates a manuscript — editorial screening, peer review, and the distinctive CA✩ Treatment in which an accepted Major Article is sent to invited commentators whose signed Comments are published alongside it, followed by the author's Reply. Sets expectations and shapes the paper to survive both review and public commentary; it does not contact editors.

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 Research & Science, covering Peer 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

  • You need to understand how Current Anthropology (CA) evaluates a manuscript — editorial screening
  • Followed by the authors Reply

Example prompts

  • “/curranthro-review-process”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Editorial screening first. The editor(s) assess fit, all-fields significance, and obvious ethics
  2. Peer review. Expert, often cross-subfield, referees evaluate the manuscript. Confirm the current
  3. The CA✩ Treatment (Major Articles). Once a Major Article is accepted, the editors solicit
  4. Decision categories. Reject; revise-and-resubmit (major/minor); accept. R&R is the common positive
  5. Article-type-specific paths. Reports go through review without the full CA✩ commentary; Forums

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

Curranthro Review Process loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 111 tokens; SKILL.md has 596 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~111
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). 596 words, ~1,422 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/curranthro-review-process/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
curranthro-review-process
description
Use when you need to understand how Current Anthropology (CA) evaluates a manuscript — editorial screening, peer review, and the distinctive CA✩ Treatment in which an accepted Major Article is sent to invited commentators whose signed Comments are published alongside it, followed by the author's Reply. Sets expectations and shapes the paper to survive both review and public commentary; it does not contact editors.

Review Process & the CA✩ Treatment (curranthro-review-process)

Knowing how CA screens, decides, and publicly commentates lets you pre-empt the failure modes before submitting. CA is the transnational, all-fields journal published by the University of Chicago Press for the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and its defining mechanism is the CA✩ Treatment — a layer of signed, published peer commentary plus the author's Reply that no sibling journal applies. The bar is field-shaping significance plus sound, ethical evidence, and an argument that can withstand being debated in print.

When to trigger

  • Before submitting, to stress-test against editorial screening and the CA✩ commentary
  • Choosing the right article type (only Major Articles get the full CA✩ Treatment)
  • Interpreting a decision letter and setting expectations
  • Understanding what reviewers — and later, commentators — are asked to weigh

How CA review works

  1. Editorial screening first. The editor(s) assess fit, all-fields significance, and obvious ethics issues before sending out for review. A technically fine but subfield-bound paper can be returned or redirected here. (CA receives roughly 230 manuscripts a year and accepts on the order of ~10% — treat these as approximate, verify on the live site.)
  2. Peer review. Expert, often cross-subfield, referees evaluate the manuscript. Confirm the current anonymity model on the live Instructions for Authors before assuming single/double anonymized.
  3. The CA✩ Treatment (Major Articles). Once a Major Article is accepted, the editors solicit Comments from an international range of relevant anthropologists. These signed Comments are published with the article, and the author writes a Reply that is printed alongside. This is the journal's signature: your paper appears with its critics and your response, all at once.
  4. Decision categories. Reject; revise-and-resubmit (major/minor); accept. R&R is the common positive outcome; exact portal labels are not fixed in this pack.
  5. Article-type-specific paths. Reports go through review without the full CA✩ commentary; Forums are curated multi-author debates; Discussion items/Comments (≤ 800 words) respond to recent CA pieces.

The two audiences you must satisfy

AudienceWhenWhat they wantHow to pre-empt
Refereesbefore acceptancerigor, fit, all-fields significance, ethicsground every claim; state the cross-field stake; resolve ethics up front
Commentatorsafter acceptance, in printa bold, debatable, well-defended argumentanticipate the camps; pre-engage the strongest objections (see curranthro-literature-positioning)
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Shape the paper to pass — and to reward commentary

  • Make all-fields significance explicit early (avoids the "subfield-only" redirect).
  • Engage the relevant conversations across subfields and beyond the metropolitan canon — these are the scholars who may be invited to comment.
  • Make the intervention bold and defensible: a Major Article that is too safe is not CA✩ material; one that is bold but unsupported will be dismantled in the published Comments.
  • Clear ethics up front (consent, anonymization, heritage/repatriation) — an unresolved ethics concern is a serious problem (see curranthro-transparency-and-data).

Anti-patterns

  • Submitting a single-subfield paper to an all-fields journal with no broad framing
  • Forgetting the CA✩ Treatment: writing an argument that cannot survive published, signed Comments
  • Targeting a Major Article when the work is really a Report (or vice versa)
  • Ignoring an obvious related literature or a non-metropolitan scholarship (your commentators won't)
  • Leaving consent/heritage/anonymization unresolved and hoping review will overlook it

Output format

【Screening check】fit / all-fields significance / ethics — any red flags?
【Article type】Major Article (CA✩) / Report / Forum / Discussion (right path?)
【Significance】broad enough to clear "subfield-only"? [Y/N]
【Commentary-readiness】bold + defensible enough for published Comments? [Y/N]
【Likely commentators】camps anticipated and pre-engaged? [Y/N]
【Ethics cleared】consent / anonymization / heritage resolved? [Y/N]
【Realistic outcome】reject / R&R / (rare) accept → then CA✩ Comments for Major Articles
【Next】curranthro-submission (or curranthro-rebuttal if decided / Comments received)

Calibration anchors (hedged)

  • The CA✩ Treatment applies to Major Articles: expect to write a Reply to published Comments — a different task from a normal R&R (see curranthro-rebuttal).
  • Manuscript volume (~230/yr) and acceptance (~10%) figures circulate publicly but vary by year — verify on the live Wenner-Gren / UChicago Press pages.
  • Decision-category names, reviewer counts, and the exact anonymity model are not fixed here; use the live Editorial Manager / editorial-letter wording.

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 Current-Anthropology-Skills/skills/curranthro-review-process of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Curranthro Review Process

What does Curranthro Review Process do?

A skill your agent uses when you need to understand how Current Anthropology (CA) evaluates a manuscript — editorial screening, peer review, and the distinctive CA✩ Treatment in which an accepted…. Curranthro Review Process is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when you need to understand how Current Anthropology (CA) evaluates a manuscript — editorial screening, peer review, and the distinctive CA✩ Treatment in which an accepted Major Article is sent to invited commentators whose signed Comments are published alongside it, followed by the author's Reply.

When should I use Curranthro Review Process?

Curranthro Review Process fits situations like: you need to understand how Current Anthropology (CA) evaluates a manuscript — editorial screening; followed by the authors Reply.

How do I install Curranthro Review Process in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Curranthro Review Process in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill curranthro-review-process -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Current-Anthropology-Skills/skills/curranthro-review-process in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/curranthro-review-process in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Curranthro Review Process 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 curranthro-review-process -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/curranthro-review-process, .gemini/skills/curranthro-review-process, .github/skills/curranthro-review-process and .opencode/skills/curranthro-review-process in your project.

What does Curranthro Review Process need to run?

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

Does Curranthro Review Process 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 Curranthro Review Process 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 Curranthro Review Process use?

Curranthro Review Process 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 Curranthro Review Process 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 Curranthro Review Process?

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.