Agent skill

Devpsych Review Process

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

A skill your agent uses when you need to understand how Developmental Psychology (APA) evaluates a manuscript — masked peer review, editorial weighting of developmental significance, design rigor…

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Devpsych Review Process

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills devpsych-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/Developmental-Psychology-Skills/skills/devpsych-review-process .claude/skills/devpsych-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
devpsych-review-process
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
517 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 Developmental Psychology (APA) evaluates a manuscript — masked peer review, editorial weighting of developmental significance, design rigor…

  • Works in 5 steps: Masked (anonymized) review available.… → Editorial triage. The handling editor… → External review assesses the theoretical… → …
  • You need to understand how Developmental Psychology (APA) evaluates a manuscript — masked peer review
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, How review works, What developmental reviewers… and Desk-reject and…, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Devpsych Review Process is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when you need to understand how Developmental Psychology (APA) evaluates a manuscript — masked peer review, editorial weighting of developmental significance, design rigor (age/cohort, invariance, attrition), JARS reporting, and TOP transparency. Use when stress-testing a paper before submission or interpreting a decision letter. Sets expectations and shapes the paper to survive review; it does not contact editors.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k 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 Load testing and 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 Developmental Psychology (APA) evaluates a manuscript — masked peer review
  • Editorial weighting of developmental significance
  • Design rigor (age/cohort
  • TOP transparency

Example prompts

  • “/devpsych-review-process”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Masked (anonymized) review available. Authors may request masked review; if so, keep author
  2. Editorial triage. The handling editor assesses developmental significance, theory advance, design
  3. External review assesses the theoretical contribution, the credibility of the change claim
  4. Transparency and reporting are weighed. Under TOP and JARS, missing data-availability statements,
  5. Decisions. Reject, revise and resubmit, or accept; expect substantive revision and frequent

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 Review Process loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 112 tokens; SKILL.md has 517 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~112
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.5k

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). 517 words, ~1,464 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/devpsych-review-process/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
devpsych-review-process
description
Use when you need to understand how Developmental Psychology (APA) evaluates a manuscript — masked peer review, editorial weighting of developmental significance, design rigor (age/cohort, invariance, attrition), JARS reporting, and TOP transparency. Use when stress-testing a paper before submission or interpreting a decision letter. Sets expectations and shapes the paper to survive review; it does not contact editors.

Review Process (devpsych-review-process)

Developmental Psychology combines theory-advancing selectivity with rigorous developmental-method scrutiny. The journal offers masked peer review, and editors and reviewers weigh not only whether the finding is interesting, but whether the developmental claim is credible (age vs. cohort, measurement invariance, attrition), whether reporting meets JARS, and whether transparency meets TOP. Knowing this lets you pre-empt the common rejection reasons.

When to trigger

  • Before submitting, to stress-test the manuscript
  • Deciding whether to request masked review and how to anonymize
  • Interpreting a decision letter and setting expectations

How review works

  1. Masked (anonymized) review available. Authors may request masked review; if so, keep author identity out of the manuscript and out of shared links (see devpsych-submission). Masked review is intended to reduce bias against (e.g.) early-career or under-represented authors.
  2. Editorial triage. The handling editor assesses developmental significance, theory advance, design rigor, and fit; weak-fit or "not-developmental" papers may be declined without full review.
  3. External review assesses the theoretical contribution, the credibility of the change claim (age/cohort, invariance, attrition, power), analysis and JARS disclosure, and transparency.
  4. Transparency and reporting are weighed. Under TOP and JARS, missing data-availability statements, unjustified opacity, or non-JARS reporting weaken a paper.
  5. Decisions. Reject, revise and resubmit, or accept; expect substantive revision and frequent requests for invariance tests, attrition analyses, added robustness, or fuller disclosure.

What developmental reviewers reliably probe

  • Is it change, or a snapshot? A cross-sectional age difference framed as development draws fire.
  • Age vs. cohort. Could the "age effect" be a cohort/era effect? Reviewers ask routinely.
  • Measurement invariance. Is the construct the same across the ages you compare?
  • Attrition. Is the trajectory biased by who dropped out, and is missingness modeled?
  • Power for the change parameter and JARS-complete reporting.
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Desk-reject and decline-without-review patterns

Confirm current categories against the official guidelines, but recognize these shapes:

Pattern an editor seesLikely outcomePre-empt it by
Single-age finding framed as developmentaldesk reject (fit)add an age contrast/wave or reframe
Cross-sectional age effect, no cohort discussionreview with heavy R&Raddress age vs. cohort up front
Trajectory interpreted with no invariance testR&R or rejectreport configural→metric→scalar first
Listwise deletion with non-trivial attritionR&Rrefit with FIML/MI; add attrition analysis
"Data available on request," no statementreturned for complianceadd a data-availability statement + DOIs

Worked micro-example (illustrative triage)

Manuscript: preregistered three-wave growth study (N = 300; ages 4-8),
            invariance established, FIML for attrition, open de-identified
            data + scripts, identifiable video via Databrary.
Editor read: developmental significance (within-person growth + mechanism),
            rigor (invariance + attrition handled), transparency (TOP-strong).
Likely route: external review, probable R&R for added robustness/disclosure.
Counter-case: same finding, one age group, cross-sectional, no invariance,
            data on request → likely declined or not-developmental.

How reviewers weigh the evidence (calibration anchors)

  • A credible within-person change claim — invariant measure, modeled attrition, powered slope — is the strongest signal; it converts "interesting correlation" into "developmental finding."
  • Transparency under TOP is judged in context: a candid, justified restriction on minors' data with an access path reads better than silent opacity or unethical open posting.
  • Masked review is a tool against bias, not a guarantee — anonymize the manuscript and the repository links, or it is undone.

Anti-patterns

  • A single-age or purely cross-sectional finding sold as developmental
  • Ignoring age-vs-cohort, measurement invariance, or attrition
  • Exploratory trajectory shapes dressed as confirmatory (JARS violation)
  • Weak or absent transparency / data-availability statement
  • Expecting acceptance without an invariance/attrition/disclosure-heavy R&R

Output format

【Developmental significance】clear + theory-advancing? [Y/N]
【Change claim credible】age/cohort + invariance + attrition + power? [Y/N]
【JARS reporting】complete (ES+CI, exclusions, missing data)? [Y/N]
【Transparency (TOP)】data-availability + preregistration handled? [Y/N]
【Masked review】manuscript + links anonymized? [Y/N]
【Realistic outcome】reject / R&R / accept
【Next】devpsych-submission (or devpsych-rebuttal if decided)

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-review-process of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Devpsych Review Process

What does Devpsych Review Process do?

A skill your agent uses when you need to understand how Developmental Psychology (APA) evaluates a manuscript — masked peer review, editorial weighting of developmental significance, design rigor…. Devpsych Review Process is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when you need to understand how Developmental Psychology (APA) evaluates a manuscript — masked peer review, editorial weighting of developmental significance, design rigor (age/cohort, invariance, attrition), JARS reporting, and TOP transparency.

When should I use Devpsych Review Process?

Devpsych Review Process fits situations like: you need to understand how Developmental Psychology (APA) evaluates a manuscript — masked peer review; editorial weighting of developmental significance; design rigor (age/cohort; TOP transparency.

How do I install Devpsych Review Process in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Devpsych Review Process in Codex?

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

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

What does Devpsych Review Process need to run?

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

Does Devpsych 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 Devpsych 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 Devpsych Review Process use?

Devpsych 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 Devpsych Review Process use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.9k 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 Devpsych Review Process?

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Who maintains Devpsych Review Process?

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.

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.