Agent skill

Devpsych Literature Positioning

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

A skill your agent uses when positioning a Developmental Psychology (APA) manuscript against the developmental literature.

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Install Devpsych Literature Positioning

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills devpsych-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/Developmental-Psychology-Skills/skills/devpsych-literature-positioning .claude/skills/devpsych-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
devpsych-literature-positioning
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
481 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 Developmental Psychology (APA) manuscript against the developmental literature.

  • Works in 5 steps: Open with the developmental question and… → Name the developmental gap precisely. Is… → State the contribution early. By the end… → …
  • Positioning a Developmental Psychology (APA) manuscript against the developmental literature
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, How to position a…, Developmental-gap typology… and Worked micro-example…, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Devpsych Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when positioning a Developmental Psychology (APA) manuscript against the developmental literature. Positioning here must establish a developmental gap (what is unknown about change, age, or mechanism) and the contribution, while distinguishing the venue from siblings such as Child Development and Developmental Science. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the 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 Developmental Psychology (APA) manuscript against the developmental literature
  • Tasks that involve Positioning and messaging
  • Tasks that involve Literature review

Example prompts

  • “/devpsych-literature-positioning”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Open with the developmental question and its stakes, not a topic history. Why does the change
  2. Name the developmental gap precisely. Is the unknown about whether an effect changes with age,
  3. State the contribution early. By the end of a tight Introduction the reader knows the
  4. Cite the developmental conversation, not everything. Anchor on the works that define the
  5. Distinguish the venue. Position relative to work in Developmental Psychology and its siblings;

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

Devpsych Literature Positioning loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 106 tokens; SKILL.md has 481 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~106
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). 481 words, ~1,380 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/devpsych-literature-positioning/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
devpsych-literature-positioning
description
Use when positioning a Developmental Psychology (APA) manuscript against the developmental literature. Positioning here must establish a developmental gap (what is unknown about change, age, or mechanism) and the contribution, while distinguishing the venue from siblings such as Child Development and Developmental Science. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the literature review.

Literature Positioning (devpsych-literature-positioning)

Developmental Psychology expects an Introduction that names a developmental gap — what is unresolved about change, age, or mechanism — and states the contribution to theory about development, not just to a topic. Positioning is where many submissions are judged "interesting but not developmental"; this skill makes the developmental stakes legible.

When to trigger

  • Drafting or tightening the Introduction
  • A reviewer said the contribution is "incremental," "not clearly developmental," or "already known"
  • Connecting a specific age/trajectory finding to a broad developmental question
  • Deciding which developmental literatures (and which sibling-journal work) to cite

How to position a developmental contribution

  1. Open with the developmental question and its stakes, not a topic history. Why does the change (or its mechanism) matter for theories of development?
  2. Name the developmental gap precisely. Is the unknown about whether an effect changes with age, how it changes (shape, timing, sensitive period), for whom (moderators), or why (mechanism)? Avoid "little is known about development of X."
  3. State the contribution early. By the end of a tight Introduction the reader knows the developmental claim, the design that supports it, and what is new (first within-person test, a trajectory shape, a boundary age, a mechanism).
  4. Cite the developmental conversation, not everything. Anchor on the works that define the developmental question and the closest prior longitudinal/age-comparative studies.
  5. Distinguish the venue. Position relative to work in Developmental Psychology and its siblings; show why this is a broad lifespan-development advance.

Developmental-gap typology (pick the kind of gap you fill)

Gap kindWhat is unknownWhat your contribution adds
Existencedoes the effect change with age at all?an age contrast or within-person test
Formwhat shape/timing does change take?a trajectory (slope/curvature, sensitive period)
Populationfor whom does the trajectory differ?a moderated-change finding
Mechanismwhat process drives the change?a mediated / transactional test
Generalitydoes a known effect hold across ages/cohorts?replication across ages with invariance
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Worked micro-example (illustrative)

A longitudinal self-regulation package wants to position against a large but mostly cross-sectional effortful-control literature. Weak framing: "Prior work has studied effortful control (refs 1–25)." Venue-fit framing:

Stakes:   Effortful control is a load-bearing construct in developmental
          theories of adjustment, but its within-person growth is under-tested.
Gap (Form + Mechanism): Most evidence is cross-sectional; how effortful
          control grows across early childhood, and whether parenting
          steepens that growth, is unresolved.
Contribution (by paragraph two): A three-wave latent-growth test (ages 4-8)
          estimates the trajectory and tests scaffolding as a driver of slope.
Distinction: Broad developmental-theory advance (life-span change + mechanism),
          appropriate to this venue rather than a single-construct topical note.

Positioning-stage reviewer pushback and the venue fix

Reviewer pushbackDevelopmental Psychology fix
"Not clearly developmental"recast the gap as change/age/mechanism, not a topic survey
"Incremental"name the specific developmental unknown (form, timing, mechanism) you settle
"'First to show' overclaim"downgrade to "first within-person test of"; cite the cross-sectional priors honestly
"Reads like a sibling-journal paper"state the broad lifespan-development theory advance this venue wants

Anti-patterns

  • A topic-by-topic literature tour with no developmental gap
  • Positioning a cross-sectional age difference as if it settled a change question
  • Burying the contribution after pages of background
  • "First to show" claims for an incremental, single-age effect
  • Citing exhaustively to seem thorough instead of anchoring the developmental conversation

Output format

【Developmental question + stakes】why the change/mechanism matters for theory
【Gap kind】existence / form / population / mechanism / generality
【Contribution】stated early? what is new about the developmental claim
【Anchor citations】defining works + closest longitudinal/age-comparative priors
【Venue distinction】why Developmental Psychology, not a sibling
【Next】devpsych-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 Developmental-Psychology-Skills/skills/devpsych-literature-positioning of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Devpsych Literature Positioning

What does Devpsych Literature Positioning do?

A skill your agent uses when positioning a Developmental Psychology (APA) manuscript against the developmental literature. Devpsych Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when positioning a Developmental Psychology (APA) manuscript against the developmental literature.

When should I use Devpsych Literature Positioning?

Devpsych Literature Positioning fits situations like: positioning a Developmental Psychology (APA) manuscript against the developmental literature; tasks that involve Positioning and messaging; tasks that involve Literature review.

How do I install Devpsych Literature Positioning in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Devpsych Literature Positioning in Codex?

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

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

What does Devpsych Literature Positioning need to run?

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

Does Devpsych 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 Devpsych 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 Devpsych Literature Positioning use?

Devpsych 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 Devpsych Literature Positioning use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.5k 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 Devpsych 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.