Agent skill

Ecopol Literature Positioning

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

A skill your agent uses when staking an Economic Policy (EP) manuscript's contribution against the live policy debate and the adjacent academic literature.

MITAuto-check passedMarketing & SEO

Install Ecopol Literature Positioning

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

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

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

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when staking an Economic Policy (EP) manuscript's contribution against the live policy debate and the adjacent academic literature.

  • Works in 2 steps: The academic frontier — the… → The policy-debate frontier — what…
  • Staking an Economic Policy (EP) manuscripts contribution against the live policy debate and the adjacent academic literature
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, EP positions on two frontiers…, Positioning moves by situation and Sibling boundaries (write…, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Ecopol Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when staking an Economic Policy (EP) manuscript's contribution against the live policy debate and the adjacent academic literature. Sharpens the policy-and-academic positioning; it does not invent evidence or citations.

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 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

  • Staking an Economic Policy (EP) manuscripts contribution against the live policy debate and the adjacent academic literature
  • Tasks that involve Positioning and messaging
  • Tasks that involve Citation management

Example prompts

  • “/ecopol-literature-positioning”

Workflow steps

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

  1. The academic frontier — the peer-reviewed work on the mechanism/method. Standard, but keep it lean: EP prose is accessible, so the lit…
  2. The policy-debate frontier — what policymakers, central banks, the European Commission, the IMF, the OECD, CEPR/CESifo policy outlets…

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

Ecopol Literature Positioning loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 63 tokens; SKILL.md has 557 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~63
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). 557 words, ~1,202 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/ecopol-literature-positioning/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
ecopol-literature-positioning
description
Use when staking an Economic Policy (EP) manuscript's contribution against the live policy debate and the adjacent academic literature. Sharpens the policy-and-academic positioning; it does not invent evidence or citations.

Literature Positioning (ecopol-literature-positioning)

When to trigger

  • The contribution is clear to specialists but the policy novelty is fuzzy
  • A reviewer/discussant could say "we already knew this" or "this is just AEJ:EP / J.Pub.E. material"
  • The draft cites the academic frontier but ignores the policy-debate frontier (think tanks, central banks, the Commission)
  • You cannot say in one sentence what the paper changes for the policy conversation
  • The framing leans on one country/episode and a discussant will ask "why does Europe/the world care?"

EP positions on two frontiers at once

Most economics journals ask you to position against one literature — the academic frontier. EP asks for two simultaneous positions, because the paper is published with two discussants (one academic, one policy) and read by both audiences:

  1. The academic frontier — the peer-reviewed work on the mechanism/method. Standard, but keep it lean: EP prose is accessible, so the lit review is a paragraph that names the gap, not a survey.
  2. The policy-debate frontier — what policymakers, central banks, the European Commission, the IMF, the OECD, CEPR/CESifo policy outlets currently believe and argue. EP rewards a paper that moves this conversation. Cite the live debate (a Commission proposal, an ECB position, a current reform) so the policy discussant sees you in their world.

The contribution sentence must land both: "The academic literature establishes A; the policy debate currently assumes B; this paper shows C, which implies the policy stance should shift from B."

Positioning moves by situation

SituationPositioning move
Result confirms what economists suspectedLead with the policy-debate novelty — quantifying or settling a contested policy claim is itself the contribution
Result is academically novel but nicheLead with the policy stakes — show why the niche mechanism drives a first-order policy magnitude
Crowded empirical areaPosition on the policy lever you can move, not on a marginally better estimate
Cross-country / EU paperPosition against the comparative/institutional literature; show the European/global generality
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Sibling boundaries (write these into the intro)

  • AEJ: Economic Policy — AEA, anonymous refereeing, more technical; rewards identification rigor for a broad economics audience. EP wants the same rigor but in an appendix, with the policy decision foregrounded for a policy reader.
  • Brookings Papers on Economic Activity — the closest cousin: also panel-presented with discussants, but US-centric and macro-leaning. EP is the European/global, CEPR-CESifo-Sciences Po analogue.
  • Journal of Public Economics — field journal, standard refereeing, no panel; theory/empirics of public finance. EP differs by timeliness, policy audience, and the panel/discussant lifecycle.
  • IMF Economic Review / World Bank Economic Review — institution-anchored, development/IMF-program focus. EP is independent, non-partisan, European-led.

Checklist

  • One contribution sentence that moves both the academic and the policy-debate frontier
  • The live policy debate is cited (Commission/ECB/IMF/OECD/CEPR-CESifo), not just journals
  • Academic lit review is lean and accessible — a gap statement, not a survey
  • At least one explicit sibling boundary (vs AEJ:EP, Brookings, or J.Pub.E.) is in the intro
  • Cross-country/EU framing earns its "European/global" claim
  • Every cited source is real and verified — no invented references

Anti-patterns

  • A lit review that satisfies the academic discussant but leaves the policy discussant unsure why it matters now
  • Positioning only against journal articles when the relevant debate is in policy reports
  • A bloated survey-style review — incompatible with EP's accessible house style
  • "First paper to…" claims that a discussant can puncture with one citation
  • Letting the paper read as an AEJ:EP submission with a policy abstract pasted on top

Output format

text
【Journal】Economic Policy (EP)
【Skill】ecopol-literature-positioning
【Contribution sentence】academic frontier A + policy-debate frontier B → C
【Policy debate cited】Commission/ECB/IMF/OECD/CEPR/CESifo source
【Academic gap】one-paragraph gap statement
【Sibling boundary】why EP not AEJ:EP / Brookings / J.Pub.E.
【Verdict】positioned / sharpen / reroute
【Source status】verified / 待核实
【Next skill】ecopol-identification

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Files

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

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Ecopol Literature Positioning

What does Ecopol Literature Positioning do?

A skill your agent uses when staking an Economic Policy (EP) manuscript's contribution against the live policy debate and the adjacent academic literature. Ecopol Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when staking an Economic Policy (EP) manuscript's contribution against the live policy debate and the adjacent academic literature.

When should I use Ecopol Literature Positioning?

Ecopol Literature Positioning fits situations like: staking an Economic Policy (EP) manuscripts contribution against the live policy debate and the adjacent academic literature; tasks that involve Positioning and messaging; tasks that involve Citation management.

How do I install Ecopol Literature Positioning in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Ecopol Literature Positioning in Codex?

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

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

What does Ecopol Literature Positioning need to run?

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

Does Ecopol 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 Ecopol 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 Ecopol Literature Positioning use?

Ecopol 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 Ecopol Literature Positioning use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.8k 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 Ecopol 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.