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A skill your agent uses when shaping the prose and structure of a Harvard Law Review (HLR) piece for a generalist, student-edited audience — clear introductions, disciplined Parts, and the…
Install Hlr Writing Style
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill hlr-writing-style -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills hlr-writing-style --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/Harvard-Law-Review-Skills/skills/hlr-writing-style .claude/skills/hlr-writing-style && 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 "hlr-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Harvard-Law-Review-Skills/skills/hlr-writing-style into .claude/skills/hlr-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "hlr-writing-style", 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/Harvard-Law-Review-Skills/skills/hlr-writing-styleType 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 hlr-writing-style -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills hlr-writing-style --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/Harvard-Law-Review-Skills/skills/hlr-writing-style .agents/skills/hlr-writing-style && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "hlr-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Harvard-Law-Review-Skills/skills/hlr-writing-style into .agents/skills/hlr-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "hlr-writing-style", 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 hlr-writing-style -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills hlr-writing-style --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/Harvard-Law-Review-Skills/skills/hlr-writing-style .cursor/skills/hlr-writing-style && 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 "hlr-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Harvard-Law-Review-Skills/skills/hlr-writing-style into .cursor/skills/hlr-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "hlr-writing-style", 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 Harvard-Law-Review-Skills/skills/hlr-writing-style--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 hlr-writing-style -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills hlr-writing-style --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/Harvard-Law-Review-Skills/skills/hlr-writing-style .gemini/skills/hlr-writing-style && 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 "hlr-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Harvard-Law-Review-Skills/skills/hlr-writing-style into .gemini/skills/hlr-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "hlr-writing-style", 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 hlr-writing-styleInstalls 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 hlr-writing-style -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/Harvard-Law-Review-Skills/skills/hlr-writing-style .github/skills/hlr-writing-style && 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 "hlr-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Harvard-Law-Review-Skills/skills/hlr-writing-style into .github/skills/hlr-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "hlr-writing-style", 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 hlr-writing-style -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 hlr-writing-style --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/Harvard-Law-Review-Skills/skills/hlr-writing-style .opencode/skills/hlr-writing-style && 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 "hlr-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Harvard-Law-Review-Skills/skills/hlr-writing-style into .opencode/skills/hlr-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "hlr-writing-style", 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
hlr-writing-style- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1.1k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 513 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 2,387
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
A skill your agent uses when shaping the prose and structure of a Harvard Law Review (HLR) piece for a generalist, student-edited audience — clear introductions, disciplined Parts, and the…
- Works in 5 steps: Hook with the live problem — the case,… → State the claim — your thesis, in a… → Stake the contribution — what prior… → …
- Shaping the prose and structure of a Harvard Law Review (HLR) piece for a generalist
- SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The HLR introduction bar, Register: text vs. footnotes… and Prose discipline, plus 4 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Hlr Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when shaping the prose and structure of a Harvard Law Review (HLR) piece for a generalist, student-edited audience — clear introductions, disciplined Parts, and the heavy-footnote register of legal scholarship. Polishes how it reads; it does not forge the claim (hlr-thesis-and-contribution) or format citations (hlr-sources-and-bluebook).
Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k 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 Writing & Content, covering Brand voice and tone, Essays and academic help 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
- Shaping the prose and structure of a Harvard Law Review (HLR) piece for a generalist
- Student-edited audience — clear introductions
- Disciplined Parts
- The heavy-footnote register of legal scholarship
Example prompts
- “/hlr-writing-style”
Workflow steps
5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Hook with the live problem — the case, split, or development, stated concretely.
- State the claim — your thesis, in a declarative sentence, on page one or two.
- Stake the contribution — what prior law/scholarship gets wrong and what you add.
- Preview the payoff — who acts differently if you are right.
- Roadmap — a short Part-by-Part map (not a padded paragraph of signposting).
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 Writing Style loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 90 tokens; SKILL.md has 513 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). 513 words, ~1,135 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/hlr-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- hlr-writing-style
- description
- Use when shaping the prose and structure of a Harvard Law Review (HLR) piece for a generalist, student-edited audience — clear introductions, disciplined Parts, and the heavy-footnote register of legal scholarship. Polishes how it reads; it does not forge the claim (hlr-thesis-and-contribution) or format citations (hlr-sources-and-bluebook).
Writing Style (hlr-writing-style)
HLR prose must persuade a generalist, student-edited audience: the editors who screen and the readers across every legal field. The register is distinctive — long, formal, heavily footnoted Articles in which the text carries the argument and the footnotes carry the support and qualifications. This skill makes the piece readable, front-loaded, and legible past any one specialty.
When to trigger
- Drafting or revising the introduction, Part headings, or transitions
- A reader says the piece is "hard to follow" or "buries the point"
- The text-vs-footnote division of labor feels wrong (argument in footnotes, throat-clearing in text)
- Polishing before placement (after the argument and citations are sound)
The HLR introduction bar
By the end of the introduction the reader should know the problem, the claim, the stakes, and the roadmap — in that order, and early. Build the funnel:
- Hook with the live problem — the case, split, or development, stated concretely.
- State the claim — your thesis, in a declarative sentence, on page one or two.
- Stake the contribution — what prior law/scholarship gets wrong and what you add.
- Preview the payoff — who acts differently if you are right.
- Roadmap — a short Part-by-Part map (not a padded paragraph of signposting).
Register: text vs. footnotes (the distinctive law-review division)
| Belongs in the text | Belongs in the footnotes |
|---|---|
| The argument and its logic | Authority for each proposition (pincited) |
| The claim and the prescription | Qualifications, caveats, and side disputes |
| The hard case and its resolution | String cites, parentheticals, contrary authority |
| What a generalist must follow | What a specialist may want to verify |
The text should read as a clean argument even if a reader ignored the footnotes; the footnotes should let a skeptic verify every step. Argument that hides in footnotes is a structural error.
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Prose discipline
- Plain, formal, active. Legal scholarship is formal but not turgid; prefer the verb to the nominalization ("the court held," not "a holding was issued").
- Define terms of art once, then use them consistently — generalist editors are not in your subfield.
- Headings that carry meaning. Part and section headings should state the move, not label a topic.
- No throat-clearing. "It is important to note that" and "this Article will argue" can usually be cut.
- Manage length. Articles are long, but every Part must earn its space; cut the redundant doctrinal recap that the footnotes already support.
Checklist
- Introduction states problem → claim → contribution → payoff → roadmap, early
- The thesis is a declarative sentence on page one or two
- Argument lives in the text; authority and caveats live in footnotes
- Terms of art defined once and used consistently
- Headings state moves, not topics
- Throat-clearing and redundant recap cut
- Reads legibly to a generalist outside the subfield
Anti-patterns
- Burying the thesis after pages of doctrinal warm-up
- Hiding the real argument in footnotes while the text drones descriptively
- Subfield jargon undefined for a generalist editor
- "This Article will show…" signposting that replaces actually showing
- Length without discipline — Parts that repeat what the footnotes already establish
Output format
【Intro】problem → claim → contribution → payoff → roadmap? [Y/N each]
【Thesis placement】page 1-2? [Y/N]
【Text/footnote division】argument in text, support in notes? [Y/N]
【Terms of art】defined once, consistent? [Y/N]
【Cuts】throat-clearing / redundant recap removed? [Y/N]
【Next】hlr-placement-strategy → hlr-submissionSupplementary resources
../../resources/worked-examples/01-introduction.md— before→after HLR-style introduction../../resources/exemplars/library.md— real HLR pieces to study for register and structure
© 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-writing-style of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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Questions about Hlr Writing Style
What does Hlr Writing Style do?
A skill your agent uses when shaping the prose and structure of a Harvard Law Review (HLR) piece for a generalist, student-edited audience — clear introductions, disciplined Parts, and the…. Hlr Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when shaping the prose and structure of a Harvard Law Review (HLR) piece for a generalist, student-edited audience — clear introductions, disciplined Parts, and the heavy-footnote register of legal scholarship.
When should I use Hlr Writing Style?
Hlr Writing Style fits situations like: shaping the prose and structure of a Harvard Law Review (HLR) piece for a generalist; student-edited audience — clear introductions; disciplined Parts; the heavy-footnote register of legal scholarship.
How do I install Hlr Writing Style in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill hlr-writing-style -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Harvard-Law-Review-Skills/skills/hlr-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/hlr-writing-style in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Hlr Writing Style in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill hlr-writing-style -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Harvard-Law-Review-Skills/skills/hlr-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/hlr-writing-style in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Hlr Writing Style 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-writing-style -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-writing-style, .gemini/skills/hlr-writing-style, .github/skills/hlr-writing-style and .opencode/skills/hlr-writing-style in your project.
What does Hlr Writing Style need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Hlr Writing Style is instructions for the agent only.
Does Hlr Writing Style 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 Writing Style 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 Writing Style use?
Hlr Writing Style 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 Writing Style use?
About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Hlr Writing Style?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Hlr Writing Style: Humanize English (AnastasiyaW/codex-claude-code-config, 154 stars), Est Writing Style (franklee16/academic-research-skills, 223 stars), Jaar Writing Style (franklee16/academic-research-skills, 223 stars) and Jcf Writing Style (franklee16/academic-research-skills, 223 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Hlr Writing Style?
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.