A skill your agent uses when starting or navigating any Harvard Law Review (HLR) article, essay, or book review and you need the right next sub-skill.

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Install Hlr Workflow

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

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

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

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when starting or navigating any Harvard Law Review (HLR) article, essay, or book review and you need the right next sub-skill.

  • Navigating any Harvard Law Review (HLR) article
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, First question: which piece…, Routing map (stage → skill) and Default order, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Book review and you need the right next sub-skill

What it does

Hlr Workflow is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when starting or navigating any Harvard Law Review (HLR) article, essay, or book review and you need the right next sub-skill. Routes by lifecycle stage and the distinctive student-edited, multi-submit/expedite law-review process. It dispatches; it does not draft content.

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.

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

  • Navigating any Harvard Law Review (HLR) article
  • Book review and you need the right next sub-skill

Example prompts

  • “/hlr-workflow”

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 Workflow loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 72 tokens; SKILL.md has 432 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~72
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). 432 words, ~1,270 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/hlr-workflow/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
hlr-workflow
description
Use when starting or navigating any Harvard Law Review (HLR) article, essay, or book review and you need the right next sub-skill. Routes by lifecycle stage and the distinctive student-edited, multi-submit/expedite law-review process. It dispatches; it does not draft content.

HLR Workflow Router (hlr-workflow)

The orchestrator for a Harvard Law Review submission. HLR is student-edited, not peer-reviewed, and generalist across all of law. The router's first job is to set the right mental model: you write a near-final article, run a preemption check before drafting, submit broadly across peer journals via Scholastica (but to HLR through its own submission system, not Scholastica), leverage offers with expedite requests, and then survive an intensive student-editor edit plus a full cite-check / source-pull. Figure out the stage, then dispatch.

When to trigger

  • Starting a new HLR piece and unsure where to begin
  • Mid-project and unsure which skill applies next
  • Deciding the piece type (Article, Essay, Book Review, or a Supreme Court Foreword/Comment by invitation)
  • Holding an offer and deciding whether/how to expedite (route to hlr-placement-strategy)
  • An editor sent edits or a source-pull request (route to hlr-student-editor-review)

First question: which piece type?

SituationTypeRoute to
Full original legal argument, novel normative claimArticle (long, heavily footnoted)normal pipeline below
Shorter, focused intervention or provocationEssaynormal pipeline, tighter scope
Engaging a recent book to make an independent claimBook Reviewhlr-thesis-and-contribution + hlr-argument-structure
Invited Supreme Court Foreword / Comment / Term pieceSupreme Court issuehlr-argument-structure + hlr-sources-and-bluebook (invitation-driven)

Notes are student-written and unsigned by HLR editors — not an outside-author track. If you are not an HLR editor, you are writing an Article, Essay, or Book Review.

Routing map (stage → skill)

text
Is the topic timely and placeable?   → hlr-topic-selection
What is the legal claim / payoff?     → hlr-thesis-and-contribution
Has this argument been made already?  → hlr-preemption-check
How is the argument built?            → hlr-argument-structure
Are authorities cited correctly?      → hlr-sources-and-bluebook
Is the footnote apparatus sound?      → hlr-footnotes-and-cite-check
Does the prose read like a law review?→ hlr-writing-style
Where and when do I submit/expedite?  → hlr-placement-strategy
Ready to upload (HLR's own system)?   → hlr-submission
Editor sent edits / source-pull?      → hlr-student-editor-review
Working through the edit cycle?        → hlr-revision-and-editing

Default order

topic-selection → thesis-and-contribution → preemption-check → argument-structure → sources-and-bluebook → footnotes-and-cite-check → writing-style → placement-strategy → submission → student-editor-review → revision-and-editing

Run the preemption check early — discovering your claim was already made after drafting is the classic wasted-summer failure. Iterate thesis ↔ argument ↔ sources before polishing prose.

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Law-review reality check (force this before routing)

CheckPass conditionRoute if weak
Student-edited modelYou expect a generalist student audience, not a subfield peer panelhlr-writing-style
PreemptionYou have searched SSRN / Westlaw / HeinOnline and your claim is genuinely newhlr-preemption-check
Normative payoffThe piece does more than describe doctrine — it argues for somethinghlr-thesis-and-contribution
Source-pull readinessEvery proposition is pin-cited and pullable to a real sourcehlr-footnotes-and-cite-check
Placement planYou know the seasons and the expedite mechanics before you submithlr-placement-strategy

Anti-patterns

  • Treating HLR like a peer-reviewed journal — it is student-edited; pitch and process differ
  • Skipping the preemption check and discovering the claim was published last year
  • Submitting outside the seasons, or single-submitting when the norm is multi-submit + expedite
  • A descriptive doctrinal survey with no normative thesis (generalist editors reject "no payoff")
  • Loose, un-pinpointed citations that cannot survive the source-pull

Output format

【Stage】topic / thesis / preemption / argument / sources / footnotes / writing / placement / submit / edit / revise
【Type】Article / Essay / Book Review / Supreme Court (invited)
【Route to】hlr-<skill>
【Why】one line
【Then】the next skill after that

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-workflow of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Hlr Workflow

What does Hlr Workflow do?

A skill your agent uses when starting or navigating any Harvard Law Review (HLR) article, essay, or book review and you need the right next sub-skill. Hlr Workflow is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when starting or navigating any Harvard Law Review (HLR) article, essay, or book review and you need the right next sub-skill.

When should I use Hlr Workflow?

Hlr Workflow fits situations like: navigating any Harvard Law Review (HLR) article; book review and you need the right next sub-skill.

How do I install Hlr Workflow in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Hlr Workflow in Codex?

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

Can I use Hlr Workflow 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-workflow -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-workflow, .gemini/skills/hlr-workflow, .github/skills/hlr-workflow and .opencode/skills/hlr-workflow in your project.

What does Hlr Workflow need to run?

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

Does Hlr Workflow 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 Workflow 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 Workflow use?

Hlr Workflow 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 Workflow use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.1k 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 Workflow?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,228 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.