Agent skill

Finman Literature Positioning

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

A skill your agent uses when the contribution of a Financial Management (FM) manuscript relative to the published finance frontier is fuzzy, oversold, or indistinguishable from a specialist sibling.

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Install Finman Literature Positioning

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills finman-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/Financial-Management-Skills/skills/finman-literature-positioning .claude/skills/finman-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
finman-literature-positioning
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.8k tokens
SKILL.md length
969 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when the contribution of a Financial Management (FM) manuscript relative to the published finance frontier is fuzzy, oversold, or indistinguishable from a specialist sibling.

  • Works in 5 steps: Name the two or three closest papers and… → State the delta in one sentence: the new… → Right-size it. Match the verb to the… → …
  • The contribution of a Financial Management (FM) manuscript relative to the published finance frontier is fuzzy
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The FM positioning bar, Positioning by where the paper… and Staking the contribution, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Finman Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when the contribution of a Financial Management (FM) manuscript relative to the published finance frontier is fuzzy, oversold, or indistinguishable from a specialist sibling. Stakes the marginal contribution and the sibling boundary; it does not run analysis or draft the intro prose.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.8k 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. 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

  • The contribution of a Financial Management (FM) manuscript relative to the published finance frontier is fuzzy
  • Indistinguishable from a specialist sibling

Example prompts

  • “/finman-literature-positioning”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Name the two or three closest papers and state, in one sentence each, what they established. Vague "the literature shows" framing hides…
  2. State the delta in one sentence: the new fact, the new mechanism, the new identification of a known mechanism, or the resolution of an…
  3. Right-size it. Match the verb to the evidence — "we document," "we identify," "we show," "we reconcile" — not "we overturn" unless you…
  4. Make it general-interest. Translate the delta into why a reader outside the immediate subfield (and a practitioner) should care; this is…
  5. Pre-empt the substitution question. Answer the editor's silent "why not the specialist journal?" inside the intro, not in the cover letter.

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

Finman Literature Positioning loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 80 tokens; SKILL.md has 969 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
~1.8k

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). 969 words, ~1,838 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/finman-literature-positioning/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
finman-literature-positioning
description
Use when the contribution of a Financial Management (FM) manuscript relative to the published finance frontier is fuzzy, oversold, or indistinguishable from a specialist sibling. Stakes the marginal contribution and the sibling boundary; it does not run analysis or draft the intro prose.

Literature Positioning (finman-literature-positioning)

When to trigger

  • A referee or coauthor says the contribution "isn't clear" or "feels incremental"
  • The paper could plausibly have been sent to JCF, JFQA, or a top-3 journal and you cannot articulate why FM
  • The intro cites everything but never says precisely what is new relative to the closest two or three papers
  • You are tempted to claim a top-3-sized contribution that the evidence does not support

The FM positioning bar

FM rewards a clearly stated, honestly sized contribution that a general finance reader can grasp. Because the journal is broad and explicitly values papers that "provoke and further debate," positioning at FM is less about claiming you beat the frontier on rigor and more about showing your finding adds a debate-worthy fact, mechanism, or managerial implication the literature is missing. The two failure modes FM editors see most are (a) over-claiming — dressing a solid incremental result as a paradigm shift, which the <10% acceptance bar and experienced AEs catch immediately; and (b) mis-targeting — a paper whose contribution is so specialist it belongs in JCF or JFQA, or so frontier-defining it belongs in JF/JFE/RFS. Your job is to land the contribution in FM's lane: broad relevance, real novelty, sized to the evidence.

Positioning by where the paper sits relative to siblings

Closest neighborRiskHow to position for FM
Journal of Corporate Financereads as a CF-specialist replicationforeground the general-interest implication and the managerial "so-what" a non-CF reader cares about
JFQAreads as a methods/quant-finance contributionlead with the economic question and finding, demote the technique to a tool
Journal of Banking & Financereads as a banking-only resultframe the mechanism so it generalizes beyond banks (information, frictions, incentives)
Review of Financial Studies / JF / JFEyou are claiming a top-3-sized contributionsize the claim honestly; FM is the right home for a strong, broad, non-frontier-defining result

Staking the contribution

  1. Name the two or three closest papers and state, in one sentence each, what they established. Vague "the literature shows" framing hides the marginal contribution.
  2. State the delta in one sentence: the new fact, the new mechanism, the new identification of a known mechanism, or the resolution of an open disagreement.
  3. Right-size it. Match the verb to the evidence — "we document," "we identify," "we show," "we reconcile" — not "we overturn" unless you genuinely do.
  4. Make it general-interest. Translate the delta into why a reader outside the immediate subfield (and a practitioner) should care; this is what separates FM positioning from specialist positioning.
  5. Pre-empt the substitution question. Answer the editor's silent "why not the specialist journal?" inside the intro, not in the cover letter.

Sizing the claim: match the verb to the evidence

FM's experienced AEs read the contribution verb as a promise and check it against the design. Pick the verb honestly:

VerbJustified whenOver-claim risk
"we document / we provide the first evidence"a genuinely new fact, cleanly measuredlow — but say why the fact matters
"we identify / we show a channel"a credible design isolates a mechanismmedium — needs intermediate-variable evidence
"we reconcile / we resolve"you settle a real disagreement in the literaturemedium — both sides must be fairly stated
"we overturn / we refute"strong design contradicts an established resulthigh — FM AEs scrutinize this hardest
"we extend / we add controls to"—this verb usually fails the originality gate at FM

The last row is the trap: "extend" framing reads as incremental and invites the "belongs in a specialist outlet" rejection.

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Checklist

  • The two or three closest papers are named, with what each established stated plainly
  • The marginal contribution is one crisp sentence, not a paragraph of hedges
  • The claim verb matches the evidence (no "overturn" on an incremental result)
  • No "we extend / we add controls" framing standing in for a real contribution
  • The general-interest implication is explicit (why a non-specialist / practitioner cares)
  • The intro answers "why FM and not the specialist sibling / a top-3" without the cover letter
  • No citation padding: every cited paper is load-bearing for the contribution claim

Anti-patterns

  • Over-claiming a frontier-defining contribution the design cannot support (caught fast at FM)
  • A "gap-spotting" intro that lists what others did without stating your specific delta
  • Positioning that only a subfield insider can parse — fails FM's general-interest test
  • Citing 40 papers to look thorough while the closest three are never directly contrasted
  • Leaving "why FM?" implicit and hoping the editor infers it

The "why FM" paragraph (write it before you submit)

FM's general-interest identity means every paper should contain, somewhere in the intro, an implicit answer to "why this journal?" Draft it explicitly even if you fold it into prose:

  • The upward boundary: state honestly why the contribution is strong-but-not-frontier-defining, so it does not read as a rejected top-3 paper looking for a home. FM is a destination, not a consolation.
  • The downward boundary: state why a general finance reader (not just the subfield) gains from the result, so it does not read as a specialist paper mis-filed.
  • The relevance bridge: name the practitioner or policy decision the finding informs. A paper that can articulate all three sits squarely in FM's lane; one that cannot will draw a "wrong venue" report regardless of quality.

Worked vignette (illustrative)

A draft on creditor control after covenant violations cites a long list and concludes "we contribute to the covenant literature." A referee calls it indistinguishable from a JBF paper. The FM repositioning: name the two closest covenant papers, state the delta in one sentence ("prior work shows control shifts; we show it shifts investment in a way boards can anticipate"), size it as "we identify a channel" not "we overturn," and translate it into the managerial payoff — what a CFO negotiating covenants should expect. The contribution is now broad, novel, honestly sized, and visibly FM rather than JBF.

Output format

【Journal】Financial Management
【Closest papers】[2–3 named, with what each established]
【Marginal contribution】one sentence (new fact / mechanism / identification / reconciliation)
【Claim sizing】verb matched to evidence? [Y/N]
【General-interest payoff】why a non-specialist / practitioner cares
【Why FM not the sibling】[JCF / JFQA / JBF / top-3 distinction]
【Next skill】finman-identification

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Financial-Management-Skills/skills/finman-literature-positioning of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Finman Literature Positioning

What does Finman Literature Positioning do?

A skill your agent uses when the contribution of a Financial Management (FM) manuscript relative to the published finance frontier is fuzzy, oversold, or indistinguishable from a specialist sibling. Finman Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when the contribution of a Financial Management (FM) manuscript relative to the published finance frontier is fuzzy, oversold, or indistinguishable from a specialist sibling.

When should I use Finman Literature Positioning?

Finman Literature Positioning fits situations like: the contribution of a Financial Management (FM) manuscript relative to the published finance frontier is fuzzy; indistinguishable from a specialist sibling.

How do I install Finman Literature Positioning in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Finman Literature Positioning in Codex?

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

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

What does Finman Literature Positioning need to run?

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

Does Finman 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 Finman 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 Finman Literature Positioning use?

Finman 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 Finman Literature Positioning use?

About 1.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.4k 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 Finman 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.

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