Agent skill

Hlr Footnotes And Cite Check

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

A skill your agent uses when building and stress-testing the heavy footnote apparatus of a Harvard Law Review (HLR) piece so it survives the student-editor cite-check / source-pull.

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Hlr Footnotes And Cite Check

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill hlr-footnotes-and-cite-check -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills hlr-footnotes-and-cite-check --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/Harvard-Law-Review-Skills/skills/hlr-footnotes-and-cite-check .claude/skills/hlr-footnotes-and-cite-check && 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
hlr-footnotes-and-cite-check
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
541 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when building and stress-testing the heavy footnote apparatus of a Harvard Law Review (HLR) piece so it survives the student-editor cite-check / source-pull.

  • Works in 3 steps: Support every proposition. Each… → Carry the qualifications. Caveats,… → Be verifiable by a stranger. A student…
  • Tasks that involve Load testing
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, What the apparatus must do, Pull-readiness: the author's… and Self-running cite-check (do…, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Hlr Footnotes And Cite Check is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when building and stress-testing the heavy footnote apparatus of a Harvard Law Review (HLR) piece so it survives the student-editor cite-check / source-pull. Builds and audits the apparatus for pull-readiness; it does not set Bluebook form per citation (hlr-sources-and-bluebook) or manage the editor relationship (hlr-student-editor-review).

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 Load testing 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

  • Tasks that involve Load testing
  • Tasks that involve Citation management

Example prompts

  • “/hlr-footnotes-and-cite-check”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Support every proposition. Each assertion of law or fact in the text has a footnote whose source
  2. Carry the qualifications. Caveats, contrary authority, and side disputes live in footnotes so the
  3. Be verifiable by a stranger. A student editor with no prior knowledge must be able to pull each

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

Hlr Footnotes And Cite Check loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 94 tokens; SKILL.md has 541 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~94
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). 541 words, ~1,222 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/hlr-footnotes-and-cite-check/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
hlr-footnotes-and-cite-check
description
Use when building and stress-testing the heavy footnote apparatus of a Harvard Law Review (HLR) piece so it survives the student-editor cite-check / source-pull. Builds and audits the apparatus for pull-readiness; it does not set Bluebook form per citation (hlr-sources-and-bluebook) or manage the editor relationship (hlr-student-editor-review).

Footnotes and Cite-Check (hlr-footnotes-and-cite-check)

Legal scholarship runs on a dense footnote apparatus, and HLR editors run a full cite-check / source-pull: they obtain every cited source and confirm that each footnote actually supports its proposition, that quotations are exact, and that pincites are right. The author who is pull-ready before submission sails through; the one who is not faces painful rounds. This skill builds the apparatus and audits it for that scrutiny.

When to trigger

  • Building footnotes as you draft, or auditing them before submission
  • Preparing for the source-pull after an offer
  • A footnote carries a proposition you are not sure the source supports
  • Quotations, pincites, or short forms feel shaky after editing moved footnotes

What the apparatus must do

  1. Support every proposition. Each assertion of law or fact in the text has a footnote whose source actually states (or, with the right signal, supports) it — at the exact page cited.
  2. Carry the qualifications. Caveats, contrary authority, and side disputes live in footnotes so the text reads as a clean argument (see the text/footnote division in hlr-writing-style).
  3. Be verifiable by a stranger. A student editor with no prior knowledge must be able to pull each source and confirm the footnote — that is the whole test.

Pull-readiness: the author's source file

Before submission, assemble a source file: a copy (or precise locator) of every cited source with the cited page marked and the supported proposition noted. This is the single best predictor of an easy cite-check.

Source typeWhat to keepPull-check
CasesReporter cite + the pincited pageDoes that page state/support the proposition?
Statutes / regsExact section, current versionIs the language current and on point?
Articles / booksCopy with cited page flaggedQuote exact? Pincite to the right page?
Web sourcesArchived/dated copy (link rot is real)Captured with an access date?
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Self-running cite-check (do this before editors do)

  • Proposition ↔ source match. Read each footnote against the page it cites. If the page does not support the claim, fix the cite or soften the claim — never leave the gap.
  • Quotation accuracy. Check every quotation character-for-character against the source; verify the pincite.
  • Signal accuracy. Confirm the signal matches the relationship (see hlr-sources-and-bluebook).
  • Short-form integrity. After any footnote reordering, re-verify every Id. and supra — these break silently when notes move.
  • No orphan or dead cites. Every footnote resolves; no broken cross-references or rotted URLs.

Checklist

  • Every text proposition has a supporting footnote, pincited to the exact page
  • Source file assembled: every source kept with the cited page marked
  • Each footnote re-read against its source page (proposition actually supported)
  • Every quotation verified character-for-character and pinned
  • Signals match relationships; short forms (Id./supra) re-verified after moves
  • Web sources archived with access dates (link rot)
  • No orphan footnotes, dead cross-references, or unsupportable claims

Anti-patterns

  • Footnotes that gesture at a source which does not actually support the proposition
  • Quotations not checked against the original (a cite-check failure that erodes trust fast)
  • Dangling Id./supra after footnotes were reordered in drafting or editing
  • Citing web sources without an archived, dated capture (link rot at proof time)
  • Leaving the source-gathering until editors ask — assemble the source file before submission

Output format

【Apparatus】every proposition footnoted + pincited? [Y/N]
【Source file】all sources kept with cited pages marked? [Y/N]
【Self cite-check】propositions match sources; quotations exact? [Y/N]
【Short forms】Id./supra re-verified after moves? [Y/N]
【Pull-ready】a stranger could verify every footnote? [Y/N]
【Next】hlr-writing-style (text/footnote balance) → hlr-submission

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 Harvard-Law-Review-Skills/skills/hlr-footnotes-and-cite-check of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Hlr Footnotes And Cite Check

What does Hlr Footnotes And Cite Check do?

A skill your agent uses when building and stress-testing the heavy footnote apparatus of a Harvard Law Review (HLR) piece so it survives the student-editor cite-check / source-pull. Hlr Footnotes And Cite Check is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when building and stress-testing the heavy footnote apparatus of a Harvard Law Review (HLR) piece so it survives the student-editor cite-check / source-pull.

When should I use Hlr Footnotes And Cite Check?

Hlr Footnotes And Cite Check fits situations like: tasks that involve Load testing; tasks that involve Citation management.

How do I install Hlr Footnotes And Cite Check in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill hlr-footnotes-and-cite-check -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Harvard-Law-Review-Skills/skills/hlr-footnotes-and-cite-check in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/hlr-footnotes-and-cite-check in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Hlr Footnotes And Cite Check in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill hlr-footnotes-and-cite-check -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Harvard-Law-Review-Skills/skills/hlr-footnotes-and-cite-check in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/hlr-footnotes-and-cite-check in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Hlr Footnotes And Cite Check 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 hlr-footnotes-and-cite-check -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/hlr-footnotes-and-cite-check, .gemini/skills/hlr-footnotes-and-cite-check, .github/skills/hlr-footnotes-and-cite-check and .opencode/skills/hlr-footnotes-and-cite-check in your project.

What does Hlr Footnotes And Cite Check need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Hlr Footnotes And Cite Check is instructions for the agent only.

Does Hlr Footnotes And Cite Check 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 Hlr Footnotes And Cite Check 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 Hlr Footnotes And Cite Check use?

Hlr Footnotes And Cite Check 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 Hlr Footnotes And Cite Check use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.9k 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 Hlr Footnotes And Cite Check?

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.