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A skill your agent uses when targeting History and Theory or deciding whether a philosophy-of-history, historiography, or historical-method manuscript fits this venue.
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Install History And Theory
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill history-and-theory -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills history-and-theory --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/history-and-theory .claude/skills/history-and-theory && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "history-and-theory" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/history-and-theory into .claude/skills/history-and-theory/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "history-and-theory", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/history-and-theoryType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill history-and-theory -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills history-and-theory --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/history-and-theory .agents/skills/history-and-theory && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "history-and-theory" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/history-and-theory into .agents/skills/history-and-theory/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "history-and-theory", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill history-and-theory -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills history-and-theory --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/history-and-theory .cursor/skills/history-and-theory && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "history-and-theory" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/history-and-theory into .cursor/skills/history-and-theory/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "history-and-theory", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git --path English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/history-and-theory--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill history-and-theory -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills history-and-theory --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/history-and-theory .gemini/skills/history-and-theory && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "history-and-theory" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/history-and-theory into .gemini/skills/history-and-theory/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "history-and-theory", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills history-and-theoryInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill history-and-theory -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/history-and-theory .github/skills/history-and-theory && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "history-and-theory" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/history-and-theory into .github/skills/history-and-theory/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "history-and-theory", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill history-and-theory -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills history-and-theory --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/history-and-theory .opencode/skills/history-and-theory && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "history-and-theory" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/history-and-theory into .opencode/skills/history-and-theory/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "history-and-theory", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
history-and-theory- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1.9k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 810 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 2,387
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
A skill your agent uses when targeting History and Theory or deciding whether a philosophy-of-history, historiography, or historical-method manuscript fits this venue.
- Targeting History and Theory
- SKILL.md covers Journal positioning, When to trigger, Scope & topic fit and Method & evidence bar, plus 6 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
- Deciding whether a philosophy-of-history
What it does
History And Theory is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when targeting History and Theory or deciding whether a philosophy-of-history, historiography, or historical-method manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's meta-level theoretical bar, its historiographical and conceptual expectations, house style and double-blind norms, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.9k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
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
- Targeting History and Theory
- Deciding whether a philosophy-of-history
- Historical-method manuscript fits this venue
Example prompts
- “/history-and-theory”
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
History And Theory loads about 1.9k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 90 tokens; SKILL.md has 810 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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). 810 words, ~1,860 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/history-and-theory/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- history-and-theory
- description
- Use when targeting History and Theory or deciding whether a philosophy-of-history, historiography, or historical-method manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's meta-level theoretical bar, its historiographical and conceptual expectations, house style and double-blind norms, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
History and Theory (history-and-theory)
Journal positioning
History and Theory, published for Wesleyan University (Wiley), is the leading venue for the philosophy of history, historical theory, historiography, and the epistemology and method of history. It is a meta-level journal: its object is not the past itself but historical thinking — how historians explain, narrate, periodize, represent, and justify claims about the past, and what concepts and methods underwrite that practice. Its defining expectation is an original theoretical or methodological argument that advances debate about historical knowledge, engaging the relevant theoretical literature with philosophical care. A straightforward archival case study with no theoretical or methodological stake is a misfit here, however accomplished as empirical history. This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing aid. It does not replace the journal's current submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live History and Theory author instructions and style guide.
When to trigger
- The author names History and Theory for a work on philosophy of history, historiography, or historical method and wants a fit/framing check.
- An empirical project contains a genuine theoretical or methodological argument that could be extracted and developed for a meta-level venue.
- The author is choosing between History and Theory and an empirical history journal or a philosophy journal.
- The author needs the journal's theory-level bar and desk-reject heuristics.
Scope & topic fit
- Philosophy of history: historical explanation, causation, contingency, counterfactuals, and the logic of historical inference.
- Theory of historiography: narrative, representation, the rhetoric of historical writing, and the status of historical truth and objectivity.
- Epistemology and method: evidence, testimony, the archive, periodization, scale, and comparison as conceptual problems.
- Critical and reflexive historiography: memory, temporality, the politics of the past, and debates over the discipline's foundations and futures.
- Conceptual histories of the field's key terms and the theoretical commitments embedded in historical practice.
- Engagement with theory from philosophy, social theory, and adjacent fields when it illuminates how history is done and justified.
Method & evidence bar
- The contribution is an original theoretical or methodological argument about historical knowledge; state the thesis and its stake for historical practice clearly.
- The argument is conceptually rigorous: distinctions are drawn precisely, key terms defined, the reasoning followed through, and the meta-level thesis earned by argument rather than merely asserted.
- Historiographical positioning is explicit: which theoretical debate the piece enters and how it advances or revises it.
- Where historical examples appear, they do genuine argumentative work — illustrating or testing the theoretical claim, not standing in for it.
- Engagement with the relevant theoretical literature (in philosophy of history and adjacent theory) is current, fair, and non-padding.
Structure & house style
- Long-form scholarly article sustaining a theoretical argument; defer exact word limits and article types (articles, review essays where offered) to the live guide.
- Chicago notes-and-bibliography style with full footnotes; footnotes carry qualification and secondary dialectic.
- Double-blind review: anonymize the manuscript — self-identifying citations and acknowledgements — per current policy.
- Prose is precise and economical; technical or philosophical apparatus is used only where it earns its keep, and non-English theory is quoted and translated per policy.
- Any historical illustrations or figures, where used, follow the journal's permissions and specification requirements.
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Official-submission checklist
- Before giving submission-ready advice, read
../../resources/source-basis.mdand../../resources/official-source-map.md; start from the Wesleyan / Wiley anchors, then cite the current History and Theory page you checked. - Search the live site for "History and Theory submission guidelines" and follow the current version.
- Re-check article types (articles, review essays), word limits, the Chicago footnote form, and the abstract requirement.
- Confirm anonymization requirements for double-blind review.
- Re-check the translation policy for non-English theoretical sources and any image permissions.
- Re-check competing-interest, funding (if applicable), prior-presentation/preprint, and AI-use disclosure, and any open-access terms.
- If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official instructions win.
Pre-submission self-check
- There is a clearly stated, original theoretical or methodological thesis about historical knowledge.
- The argument is conceptually rigorous — distinctions drawn, key terms defined, reasoning followed through.
- The theoretical debate the piece enters and how it advances it are named explicitly.
- Any historical examples do argumentative work and do not substitute for the argument.
- Engagement with the theoretical literature is current, fair, and non-padding.
- The manuscript is anonymized and follows Chicago footnotes and any abstract requirement.
Common desk-reject triggers
- A straightforward archival case study with no theoretical or methodological argument.
- A theoretical claim asserted but not argued, terms left undefined and distinctions blurred, or no explicit positioning in the philosophy-of-history / historiography debate addressed.
- Historical illustration that carries the piece in place of a conceptual argument.
- Engagement with theory that is dated, unfair, or padded rather than load-bearing.
- Wrong venue: empirical history better suited to a substantive history journal, or pure philosophy better suited to a philosophy journal.
Re-routing decision
- Empirical study with discipline-wide significance →
the-american-historical-review. - Problem-driven social/economic/cultural history →
past-and-present. - Modern European archival study with broad significance →
the-journal-of-modern-history. - British or wide-ranging empirical study →
the-english-historical-review. - Representation, memory, or cultural-theory emphasis with a literary axis →
representations.
Output format
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] History and Theory
[Field/period/region] <theoretical area — e.g. explanation, narrative, method>
[Argument] <the theoretical/methodological thesis in one line>
[Sources/historiography] <does the conceptual rigor + positioning clear the meta-level bar?>
[Top risk] <the single most likely reason for rejection>
[Official items to re-check] <word limit / Chicago style / anonymization / translation / preprint policy>
[Re-route suggestion] <if not a fit, a better-matched venue>© 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 English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/history-and-theory of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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| Design Philosophysickn33/agentic-awesome-skills | 47k | 1 repos | ~699 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Historyalsk1992/CloddsBot | 3k | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Touch Targetsthedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist | 74k | — | ~938 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Integration Theoryparcadei/Continuous-Claude-v3 | 3.9k | 1 repos | ~929 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | |
| Extracting Browser History Artifactsmukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills | 34k | — | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Warn | Apache-2.0 |
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Questions about History And Theory
What does History And Theory do?
A skill your agent uses when targeting History and Theory or deciding whether a philosophy-of-history, historiography, or historical-method manuscript fits this venue. History And Theory is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when targeting History and Theory or deciding whether a philosophy-of-history, historiography, or historical-method manuscript fits this venue.
When should I use History And Theory?
History And Theory fits situations like: targeting History and Theory; deciding whether a philosophy-of-history; historical-method manuscript fits this venue.
How do I install History And Theory in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill history-and-theory -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/history-and-theory in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/history-and-theory in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install History And Theory in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill history-and-theory -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/history-and-theory in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/history-and-theory in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use History And Theory 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 history-and-theory -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/history-and-theory, .gemini/skills/history-and-theory, .github/skills/history-and-theory and .opencode/skills/history-and-theory in your project.
What does History And Theory need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: History And Theory is instructions for the agent only.
Does History And Theory 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 History And Theory 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 History And Theory use?
History And Theory 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 History And Theory use?
About 1.9k 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 History And Theory?
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.