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Ectj Literature Positioning

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

A skill your agent uses when positioning a The Econometrics Journal (EctJ) paper against econometric theory, applied econometrics, statistics, and machine-learning literatures while keeping the…

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Ectj Literature Positioning

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ectj-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-Econometrics-Journal-Skills/skills/ectj-literature-positioning .claude/skills/ectj-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
ectj-literature-positioning
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
586 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 The Econometrics Journal (EctJ) paper against econometric theory, applied econometrics, statistics, and machine-learning literatures while keeping the…

  • Positioning a The Econometrics Journal (EctJ) paper against econometric theory
  • SKILL.md covers Positioning checks, Positioning compression, Citation placement rule and Reading the EctJ frontier…, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Applied econometrics

What it does

Ectj Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when positioning a The Econometrics Journal (EctJ) paper against econometric theory, applied econometrics, statistics, and machine-learning literatures while keeping the leading-case contribution compact under the roughly 20-page RES format, including the frontier-versus-use citation split.

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 Research & Science, covering Econometrics and empirical research, 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

  • Positioning a The Econometrics Journal (EctJ) paper against econometric theory
  • Applied econometrics
  • Machine-learning literatures while keeping the leading-case contribution compact under the roughly 20-page RES format
  • Including the frontier-versus-use citation split

Example prompts

  • “/ectj-literature-positioning”

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

Ectj Literature Positioning loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 81 tokens; SKILL.md has 586 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~81
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). 586 words, ~1,177 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/ectj-literature-positioning/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
ectj-literature-positioning
description
Use when positioning a The Econometrics Journal (EctJ) paper against econometric theory, applied econometrics, statistics, and machine-learning literatures while keeping the leading-case contribution compact under the roughly 20-page RES format, including the frontier-versus-use citation split.

EctJ Literature Positioning

Use this to make the novelty legible to econometricians and applied users. At EctJ, positioning is differentiation, not a survey: the journal rewards a leading-case, path-breaking contribution under a hard limit of about 20 pages including the printed appendix, so a sprawling related-work section is both off-fit and a budget leak. Place the paper at a precise seam in the methodological frontier and show that seam matters in applications.

Positioning checks

  • Identify the closest econometric object: estimator, test, identifying restriction, asymptotic regime, design, inference problem, or computational procedure.
  • Separate the paper from exhaustive-method papers: EctJ can reward a sharp leading case, but the leading case must be economically useful.
  • Cite adjacent statistics or ML work when the method overlaps, but explain what the econometric setting adds.
  • Tie theory references to assumptions that the paper weakens, changes, or makes empirically usable.
  • Explain the empirical-application literature only enough to show applied value.

Positioning compression

Use a two-layer related-work structure:

  • Frontier layer: the two or three econometric papers closest in object and proof strategy. State the exact delta: weaker assumption, different asymptotic regime, new computational route, sharper finite-sample diagnostic, or applied implementation.
  • Use layer: the applied or adjacent-statistics literature that would use the method. Keep this short: it exists to prove applied value, not to become a field survey.

Avoid a broad "methods survey" paragraph. EctJ's page discipline means every citation should either define the incumbent method or prove why the leading case matters.

Citation placement rule

Place each citation where it changes the reader's belief:

  • In the introduction, cite only the incumbent method, the nearest unresolved limitation, and the applied use case that makes the method worth publishing.
  • In the theory section, cite papers that justify assumptions, asymptotic regimes, or proof strategies.
  • In the simulation section, cite designs that explain the benchmark data-generating processes or competitor procedures.
  • In the application section, cite field papers only to explain why the empirical setting is a useful diagnostic for the econometric contribution.

If a citation cannot be assigned to one of those jobs, move it to a short related-work paragraph or cut it. This keeps EctJ positioning sharp enough to survive the page constraint while still showing command of the econometric frontier.

Show full SKILL.md (216 more words)Show less

Reading the EctJ frontier before claiming a seam

The journal sits in the close intellectual orbit of the UK econometrics community, including cemmap and its working-paper series, so the relevant frontier often lives in recent working papers rather than published volumes. Before fixing the delta:

  • Sweep recent EctJ issues and the cemmap working-paper series for the same econometric object; a published-only sweep at this venue routinely misses the actual nearest neighbor.
  • Check whether the nearest neighbor is an identification result, an estimator, or an inference procedure; the delta sentence must compare like with like.
  • If the closest work is in statistics or ML, add the econometric translation: which economic parameter, sampling frame, or policy question changes the problem.

Worked delta statement

Vignette with illustrative content: a paper proposing inference for synthetic-control estimates with several treated units might write the frontier layer as: "Paper A gives conformal inference for one treated unit; Paper B gives asymptotics as both panel dimensions grow; we give a permutation-based test valid with three to ten treated units and short panels, the range covering most published applications." One sentence, three named deltas, an applied range — that is the positioning density the compact EctJ format rewards. If the delta needs a paragraph of caveats, the seam is wrong, not the writing.

Output format

text
[Nearest literatures] <econometrics/statistics/ML/application>
[Closest 3 papers] <paper -> difference>
[Leading-case contrast] <why this is not a routine extension>
[Applied-value bridge] <where users benefit>
[Missing citations] <must add before submission>

© 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 The-Econometrics-Journal-Skills/skills/ectj-literature-positioning of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Ectj Literature Positioning

What does Ectj Literature Positioning do?

A skill your agent uses when positioning a The Econometrics Journal (EctJ) paper against econometric theory, applied econometrics, statistics, and machine-learning literatures while keeping the…. Ectj Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when positioning a The Econometrics Journal (EctJ) paper against econometric theory, applied econometrics, statistics, and machine-learning literatures while keeping the leading-case contribution compact under the roughly 20-page RES format, including the frontier-versus-use citation split.

When should I use Ectj Literature Positioning?

Ectj Literature Positioning fits situations like: positioning a The Econometrics Journal (EctJ) paper against econometric theory; applied econometrics; machine-learning literatures while keeping the leading-case contribution compact under the roughly 20-page RES format; including the frontier-versus-use citation split.

How do I install Ectj Literature Positioning in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Ectj Literature Positioning in Codex?

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

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

What does Ectj Literature Positioning need to run?

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

Does Ectj 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 Ectj 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 Ectj Literature Positioning use?

Ectj 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 Ectj 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.

What are the alternatives to Ectj Literature Positioning?

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Who maintains Ectj 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.