Agent skill

Hlr Sources And Bluebook

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

A skill your agent uses when citing authority in a Harvard Law Review (HLR) piece — pinpoint citations, the authority hierarchy, and The Bluebook (which HLR co-publishes).

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Hlr Sources And Bluebook

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill hlr-sources-and-bluebook -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills hlr-sources-and-bluebook --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-sources-and-bluebook .claude/skills/hlr-sources-and-bluebook && 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-sources-and-bluebook
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
574 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when citing authority in a Harvard Law Review (HLR) piece — pinpoint citations, the authority hierarchy, and The Bluebook (which HLR co-publishes).

  • Works in 5 steps: Pin every proposition. Cite the exact… → Quote accurately and pin the quote.… → Match the signal to the relationship. No… → …
  • Citing authority in a Harvard Law Review (HLR) piece — pinpoint citations
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Authority hierarchy (cite the…, Pinpoint citation (pincites… and Bluebook specifics that trip…, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Hlr Sources And Bluebook is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when citing authority in a Harvard Law Review (HLR) piece — pinpoint citations, the authority hierarchy, and The Bluebook (which HLR co-publishes). Governs how sources are cited and weighted; it does not build the footnote apparatus end-to-end (hlr-footnotes-and-cite-check) or write the prose.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k 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 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

  • Citing authority in a Harvard Law Review (HLR) piece — pinpoint citations
  • The authority hierarchy
  • The Bluebook (which HLR co-publishes)

Example prompts

  • “/hlr-sources-and-bluebook”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Pin every proposition. Cite the exact page (and where relevant the paragraph or footnote) the
  2. Quote accurately and pin the quote. Every quotation needs a pincite to its source page.
  3. Match the signal to the relationship. No signal = directly states; See = supports;
  4. Use short forms correctly. Id. for the immediately preceding authority; supra / hereinafter
  5. Order authorities within a footnote by the Bluebook ordering rules (constitutions, statutes, cases

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 Sources And Bluebook loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 81 tokens; SKILL.md has 574 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
~1.3k

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). 574 words, ~1,289 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/hlr-sources-and-bluebook/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
hlr-sources-and-bluebook
description
Use when citing authority in a Harvard Law Review (HLR) piece — pinpoint citations, the authority hierarchy, and The Bluebook (which HLR co-publishes). Governs how sources are cited and weighted; it does not build the footnote apparatus end-to-end (hlr-footnotes-and-cite-check) or write the prose.

Sources and Bluebook (hlr-sources-and-bluebook)

HLR is one of the four student journals that publish The Bluebook (with the Columbia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal). Citations are not an afterthought here — they are the connective tissue of the argument, and they will be checked line by line. This skill governs which authority you cite, how much it counts, and how it is formatted to Bluebook standard. HLR instructs authors that footnotes conform to The Bluebook, 22nd edition (the current edition; confirm on the submissions page before filing, since editions are periodically revised).

When to trigger

  • Drafting or revising footnotes that carry doctrinal weight
  • Unsure which of several authorities to cite, or in what order
  • Cite formatting is inconsistent (signals, short forms, pincites)
  • Preparing the manuscript so it can survive the student-editor cite-check

Authority hierarchy (cite the strongest available)

TierAuthorityWeight
Primary, bindingConstitution, statutes, controlling precedent (the relevant court)Strongest — cite first
Primary, persuasiveOut-of-jurisdiction cases, lower courts, legislative historyUse to fill gaps; flag as persuasive
Secondary, authoritativeTreatises, Restatements, leading law-review articlesSupport and framing, not a substitute for primary
Secondary, generalStudent notes, blogs, newsLast resort; sparingly and transparently

Rule of thumb: never let a secondary source stand in for available primary authority. If a proposition of law rests only on a treatise, find and cite the case or statute behind it.

Pinpoint citation (pincites are non-negotiable)

  1. Pin every proposition. Cite the exact page (and where relevant the paragraph or footnote) the proposition comes from — not just the first page of the case or article.
  2. Quote accurately and pin the quote. Every quotation needs a pincite to its source page.
  3. Match the signal to the relationship. No signal = directly states; See = supports; See also = additional support; Cf. = analogous; But see = contradicts; Contra = directly contradicts. Misused signals are a classic cite-check correction.
  4. Use short forms correctly. Id. for the immediately preceding authority; supra / hereinafter per Bluebook for later short cites. Keep them unambiguous after edits move footnotes around.
  5. Order authorities within a footnote by the Bluebook ordering rules (constitutions, statutes, cases by court and date, then secondary), not by the order you found them.
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Bluebook specifics that trip authors

  • Typeface conventions differ between law-review footnotes (large-and-small caps, italics) and practitioner documents — HLR uses the academic conventions.
  • Case names: italicized in text; follow abbreviation tables for reporters and courts.
  • Parentheticals that explain why a cited case matters strengthen a footnote (and editors expect them for non-obvious support).
  • String cites: order and signal-group them correctly; do not pad with redundant authority.

Checklist

  • Every legal proposition rests on the strongest available authority (primary over secondary)
  • Every cite has a pincite; every quotation is pinned to its page
  • Signals (See, Cf., But see, Contra) match the actual relationship
  • Short forms (Id., supra) are correct and survive footnote reordering
  • Authorities within each footnote are Bluebook-ordered (22nd edition rules)
  • Explanatory parentheticals added where support is non-obvious
  • Academic (law-review) typeface conventions applied

Anti-patterns

  • Citing a treatise or article where binding primary authority exists
  • "Page 1" cites with no pincite to the actual proposition
  • Wrong signals (using See for a proposition the source states directly, or no signal where you needed See)
  • Dangling Id. / supra after footnotes were rearranged in editing
  • String cites padded with redundant or off-point authority

Output format

【Authority audit】each key proposition → strongest cite (primary? Y/N)
【Pincites】every cite + quote pinned? [Y/N]
【Signals】reviewed against relationship? [Y/N]
【Short forms】Id./supra consistent after reordering? [Y/N]
【Bluebook ordering】within-footnote order correct? [Y/N]
【Next】hlr-footnotes-and-cite-check (apparatus + source-pull readiness)

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-sources-and-bluebook of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Hlr Sources And Bluebook

What does Hlr Sources And Bluebook do?

A skill your agent uses when citing authority in a Harvard Law Review (HLR) piece — pinpoint citations, the authority hierarchy, and The Bluebook (which HLR co-publishes). Hlr Sources And Bluebook is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when citing authority in a Harvard Law Review (HLR) piece — pinpoint citations, the authority hierarchy, and The Bluebook (which HLR co-publishes).

When should I use Hlr Sources And Bluebook?

Hlr Sources And Bluebook fits situations like: citing authority in a Harvard Law Review (HLR) piece — pinpoint citations; the authority hierarchy; the Bluebook (which HLR co-publishes).

How do I install Hlr Sources And Bluebook in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Hlr Sources And Bluebook in Codex?

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

Can I use Hlr Sources And Bluebook 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-sources-and-bluebook -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-sources-and-bluebook, .gemini/skills/hlr-sources-and-bluebook, .github/skills/hlr-sources-and-bluebook and .opencode/skills/hlr-sources-and-bluebook in your project.

What does Hlr Sources And Bluebook need to run?

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

Does Hlr Sources And Bluebook 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 Sources And Bluebook 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 Sources And Bluebook use?

Hlr Sources And Bluebook 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 Sources And Bluebook use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.2k 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 Sources And Bluebook?

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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.