Agent skill

Ecj Literature Positioning

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

A skill your agent uses when writing or repairing the introduction and related-work framing for a The Economic Journal (EJ) manuscript — situating the contribution for a broad economics readership…

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Install Ecj Literature Positioning

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ecj-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/The-Economic-Journal-Skills/skills/ecj-literature-positioning .claude/skills/ecj-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
ecj-literature-positioning
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
577 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when writing or repairing the introduction and related-work framing for a The Economic Journal (EJ) manuscript — situating the contribution for a broad economics readership…

  • Works in 5 steps: Hook / question — the economic question… → What we know — the established… → The gap / tension — the specific thing… → …
  • Tasks that involve Positioning and messaging
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, What EJ wants from positioning, The EJ introduction arc (five… and Positioning checklist, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Ecj Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when writing or repairing the introduction and related-work framing for a The Economic Journal (EJ) manuscript — situating the contribution for a broad economics readership with author-date citations. Frames positioning and the intro arc; it does not run the empirics or build the model.

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, Literature review and Citation management. 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

  • Tasks that involve Positioning and messaging
  • Tasks that involve Literature review
  • Tasks that involve Citation management

Example prompts

  • “/ecj-literature-positioning”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Hook / question — the economic question and why it matters, in plain terms a generalist grasps in one paragraph.
  2. What we know — the established understanding and the framing theory (author-date: the canonical references plus the live frontier), with…
  3. The gap / tension — the specific thing prior work got wrong, conflated, or left untested. Be precise: a conflated channel, an untested…
  4. This paper — what you do (model and/or identification), in two or three sentences, mechanism first.
  5. Findings + contribution — the result, its economic interpretation, and the broad, portable lesson. Preview the mechanism evidence, not…

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

Ecj Literature Positioning loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 80 tokens; SKILL.md has 577 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~80
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). 577 words, ~1,166 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/ecj-literature-positioning/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
ecj-literature-positioning
description
Use when writing or repairing the introduction and related-work framing for a The Economic Journal (EJ) manuscript — situating the contribution for a broad economics readership with author-date citations. Frames positioning and the intro arc; it does not run the empirics or build the model.

Literature Positioning & Introduction (ecj-literature-positioning)

When to trigger

  • The related-work section reads as an annotated list ("X did A. Y did B.")
  • The introduction never states crisply what economics learns from this paper
  • A reader outside your subfield cannot tell which literature the paper contributes to or why they should care
  • You are unsure whether you have engaged the work the result speaks to across fields, not just your niche

What EJ wants from positioning

EJ introductions are economic arguments aimed at a broad international readership, not literature catalogs for a subfield. Because EJ's defining bar is broad interest plus a substantial contribution, the intro must make a generalist economist — not only your closest five competitors — finish the first pages knowing: the economic question, why it matters widely, what was already known, the precise gap, and what you do about it. Positioning is judged on whether you placed the paper against the right literature and explained the stakes in terms a non-specialist grasps.

A frequent EJ failure is an intro written for the subfield: dense with niche citations and acronyms, with the broad relevance assumed rather than argued. Connect to the wider economic conversation (the theory or policy question the result bears on), then locate the precise contribution. EJ has a long history across all fields, so the canonical antecedent may be foundational and decades old — engage it, do not only cite the recent applied frontier.

The EJ introduction arc (five moves)

  1. Hook / question — the economic question and why it matters, in plain terms a generalist grasps in one paragraph.
  2. What we know — the established understanding and the framing theory (author-date: the canonical references plus the live frontier), with enough context for an outsider.
  3. The gap / tension — the specific thing prior work got wrong, conflated, or left untested. Be precise: a conflated channel, an untested prediction, a missing force.
  4. This paper — what you do (model and/or identification), in two or three sentences, mechanism first.
  5. Findings + contribution — the result, its economic interpretation, and the broad, portable lesson. Preview the mechanism evidence, not just the headline number.

A short "related literature" paragraph can follow, but the contribution must already be clear from moves 1–5. For a short paper (AER:Insights-style), compress this arc to roughly one page — the moves stay, the scaffolding shrinks.

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Positioning checklist

  • The paper names the one or two literatures it contributes to, not five it merely touches
  • The broad relevance is argued, not assumed — an outsider knows why to care by page two
  • The framing theory / canonical antecedent the result speaks to is cited and engaged
  • The gap is stated as an economic shortcoming, not "no one has used this data"
  • Author-date citations throughout, consistent and complete (verify EJ's current reference style on the official page)
  • Every claim about prior work is fair and would survive that author refereeing the paper
  • The contribution is differentiated from the closest 2–3 papers explicitly
  • The mechanism appears in the intro, not buried in section 5

Anti-patterns

  • A "related work" list with no synthesis and no stated tension
  • An intro written for the subfield that assumes broad relevance instead of arguing it
  • Citing only the recent applied frontier while ignoring the foundational theory the result confirms or overturns
  • Overclaiming "first to show" when prior theory predicted it — credit the prediction, claim the test
  • Strawmanning the closest competitor to manufacture a gap
  • An intro that explains what you did before establishing why economics needed it

Output format

【Target literatures】1... 2...
【Broad-relevance hook】why an outsider cares (one sentence)
【Framing theory engaged】refs (author-date; canonical antecedent if any)
【Gap / tension】the precise economic shortcoming in prior work
【Closest 3 papers】and how this differs from each
【Intro arc check】moves 1–5 present? [y/n each]
【Length mode】full-length / short-paper (one-page) intro
【Next】ecj-identification (or ecj-theory-model if model leads)

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Files

Just SKILL.md in The-Economic-Journal-Skills/skills/ecj-literature-positioning of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Ecj Literature Positioning

What does Ecj Literature Positioning do?

A skill your agent uses when writing or repairing the introduction and related-work framing for a The Economic Journal (EJ) manuscript — situating the contribution for a broad economics readership…. Ecj Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when writing or repairing the introduction and related-work framing for a The Economic Journal (EJ) manuscript — situating the contribution for a broad economics readership with author-date citations.

When should I use Ecj Literature Positioning?

Ecj Literature Positioning fits situations like: tasks that involve Positioning and messaging; tasks that involve Literature review; tasks that involve Citation management.

How do I install Ecj Literature Positioning in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Ecj Literature Positioning in Codex?

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

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

What does Ecj Literature Positioning need to run?

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

Does Ecj 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 Ecj 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 Ecj Literature Positioning use?

Ecj 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 Ecj Literature Positioning use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.7k 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 Ecj 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.