Agent skill

Epsl Literature Positioning

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

A skill your agent uses when positioning an Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) manuscript against prior work.

MITAuto-check passedMarketing & SEO

Install Epsl Literature Positioning

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills epsl-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/Earth-and-Planetary-Science-Letters-Skills/skills/epsl-literature-positioning .claude/skills/epsl-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
epsl-literature-positioning
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
633 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when positioning an Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) manuscript against prior work.

  • Works in 5 steps: State the gap as a competing-hypothesis… → Triangulate across observables. Show… → Cite the frontier, including EPSL's own… → …
  • Positioning an Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) manuscript against prior work
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, How to position for EPSL, Which literatures the paired… and Worked micro-example…, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Epsl Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when positioning an Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) manuscript against prior work. EPSL's readership spans geochemistry, geophysics, geodynamics, geochronology and planetary science, so the knowledge gap must be framed across sub-fields and against the frontier, not inside one method community. It frames the gap and citations; it does not fabricate references.

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 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

  • Positioning an Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) manuscript against prior work
  • Tasks that involve Positioning and messaging
  • Tasks that involve Citation management

Example prompts

  • “/epsl-literature-positioning”

Workflow steps

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

  1. State the gap as a competing-hypothesis problem. "Models A and B predict opposite signs for
  2. Triangulate across observables. Show what isotopes, seismology, experiments, and dynamical
  3. Cite the frontier, including EPSL's own record. The journal has carried many of the defining
  4. Date-stamp the constraints. Decay constants, reference frames, and velocity models get revised;
  5. Differentiate quantitatively. "Our 2σ precision of ±0.15‰ (illustrative) resolves the ~0.3‰

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

Epsl Literature Positioning loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 101 tokens; SKILL.md has 633 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~101
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). 633 words, ~1,467 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/epsl-literature-positioning/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
epsl-literature-positioning
description
Use when positioning an Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) manuscript against prior work. EPSL's readership spans geochemistry, geophysics, geodynamics, geochronology and planetary science, so the knowledge gap must be framed across sub-fields and against the frontier, not inside one method community. It frames the gap and citations; it does not fabricate references.

Literature Positioning (epsl-literature-positioning)

An EPSL paper is typically refereed by specialists from different sub-fields — a geochemist and a geodynamicist, or a seismologist and a mineral physicist. Positioning that only cites your own method community reads as parochial to the other reviewer, and positioning that ignores what the adjacent community already established reads as naive. This skill builds the cross-disciplinary gap statement that survives both.

When to trigger

  • Writing the introduction's "what is known / what is missing" arc
  • A reviewer wrote "the authors seem unaware of the geophysical (or geochemical) constraints"
  • Checking whether the claimed gap is already closed in an adjacent literature
  • Preparing an invited Frontiers Paper that must map an entire frontier

How to position for EPSL

  1. State the gap as a competing-hypothesis problem. "Models A and B predict opposite signs for [observable]; existing data cannot distinguish them" beats "few studies have examined region X."
  2. Triangulate across observables. Show what isotopes, seismology, experiments, and dynamical models each say about the process — and precisely where they disagree. EPSL papers often live at these intersections.
  3. Cite the frontier, including EPSL's own record. The journal has carried many of the defining papers in mantle geochemistry, geochronology, and geodynamics since 1966; reviewers notice when the canonical constraint (often an EPSL paper) is missing.
  4. Date-stamp the constraints. Decay constants, reference frames, and velocity models get revised; position against the current values, and say which calibration you adopt.
  5. Differentiate quantitatively. "Our 2σ precision of ±0.15‰ (illustrative) resolves the ~0.3‰ difference the debate turns on" is a positioning sentence, not a methods sentence.

Which literatures the paired reviewers expect you to engage

If your contribution is...You must also engage...Reviewer who flags the omission
An isotopic tracer of a mantle/crust processthe dynamical models the tracer teststhe geodynamicist
A tomographic or seismic-structure resultthe mineral-physics and petrology constraints on interpretationthe experimentalist
A geochronology-based ratethe stratigraphic/astrochronologic framework it must fitthe stratigrapher
A planetary-interior claimmission data (gravity, seismic, magnetic) and cosmochemistrythe planetary scientist
A paleomagnetic or rock-record resultthe geochronology anchoring the recordthe geochronologist
Show full SKILL.md (284 more words)Show less

Worked micro-example (illustrative — positioning a water-in-the-mantle paper)

Suppose the paper reports electrical-conductivity anomalies interpreted as hydrated transition-zone mantle. Weak positioning cites only the magnetotelluric literature and claims "the transition zone's water content is debated." The EPSL-grade version (illustrative):

  • Known: mineral-physics experiments allow wadsleyite to store weight-percent-level water; some seismic discontinuity studies and inclusion finds support local hydration.
  • Disagreement: conductivity-based and seismic-based water estimates for the same region differ by an order of magnitude, and lab calibrations disagree on the conductivity–water law.
  • This paper closes it by: jointly inverting conductivity and discontinuity topography under both calibrations, showing only a hydrated layer under one plate is consistent with all datasets.

The lift comes from placing the paper at the intersection of three literatures and naming the calibration choice on which the debate has actually turned.

Referee-pushback patterns and the venue-specific fix

  • "The gap is regional, not conceptual." → Restate what unresolved process question the region merely samples; cite the global debate the result feeds.
  • "Ignores the adjacent constraint." → Add the geophysics/geochemistry/experimental leg you skipped; EPSL's paired-reviewer model makes this omission expensive.
  • "Positioning rests on superseded values." → Update to current decay constants / reference models and state the choice explicitly.

Anti-patterns

  • An introduction that tours one region's history instead of a process debate
  • Citing only your method community when the claim crosses into another's territory
  • "Poorly understood" or "controversial" with no named hypotheses in tension
  • Missing the canonical EPSL constraint every referee in the sub-field knows by author and year
  • A "first ever" claim that a five-minute scan of GCA, JGR, or Nature Geoscience would defeat

Output format

【Known】2–3 lines, spanning the relevant observables
【In tension】the hypotheses/datasets that disagree, with names
【Gap】the discriminating measurement or model nobody has made
【This paper closes it by】the quantitative advance
【Literatures engaged】geochem / geophys / geochron / experiments / planetary (which apply)
【Next】epsl-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 Earth-and-Planetary-Science-Letters-Skills/skills/epsl-literature-positioning of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Epsl Literature Positioning

What does Epsl Literature Positioning do?

A skill your agent uses when positioning an Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) manuscript against prior work. Epsl Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when positioning an Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) manuscript against prior work.

When should I use Epsl Literature Positioning?

Epsl Literature Positioning fits situations like: positioning an Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL) manuscript against prior work; tasks that involve Positioning and messaging; tasks that involve Citation management.

How do I install Epsl Literature Positioning in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Epsl Literature Positioning in Codex?

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

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

What does Epsl Literature Positioning need to run?

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

Does Epsl 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 Epsl 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 Epsl Literature Positioning use?

Epsl 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 Epsl Literature Positioning 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.

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Who maintains Epsl 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.