Avoid AI Writing
conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing
Audit and rewrite content to remove AI writing patterns ("AI-isms").
A skill your agent uses when revising a Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) survey for the JEL voice — authoritative, accessible to non-specialist economists, long-form, signposted, with a strong…
Install Jel Writing Style
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jel-writing-style -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jel-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/Journal-of-Economic-Literature-Skills/skills/jel-writing-style .claude/skills/jel-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 "jel-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Journal-of-Economic-Literature-Skills/skills/jel-writing-style into .claude/skills/jel-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "jel-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/Journal-of-Economic-Literature-Skills/skills/jel-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 jel-writing-style -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jel-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/Journal-of-Economic-Literature-Skills/skills/jel-writing-style .agents/skills/jel-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 "jel-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Journal-of-Economic-Literature-Skills/skills/jel-writing-style into .agents/skills/jel-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "jel-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 jel-writing-style -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jel-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/Journal-of-Economic-Literature-Skills/skills/jel-writing-style .cursor/skills/jel-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 "jel-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Journal-of-Economic-Literature-Skills/skills/jel-writing-style into .cursor/skills/jel-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "jel-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 Journal-of-Economic-Literature-Skills/skills/jel-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 jel-writing-style -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jel-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/Journal-of-Economic-Literature-Skills/skills/jel-writing-style .gemini/skills/jel-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 "jel-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Journal-of-Economic-Literature-Skills/skills/jel-writing-style into .gemini/skills/jel-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "jel-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 jel-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 jel-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/Journal-of-Economic-Literature-Skills/skills/jel-writing-style .github/skills/jel-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 "jel-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Journal-of-Economic-Literature-Skills/skills/jel-writing-style into .github/skills/jel-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "jel-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 jel-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 jel-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/Journal-of-Economic-Literature-Skills/skills/jel-writing-style .opencode/skills/jel-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 "jel-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Journal-of-Economic-Literature-Skills/skills/jel-writing-style into .opencode/skills/jel-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "jel-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
jel-writing-style- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1.3k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 611 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 2,387
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
A skill your agent uses when revising a Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) survey for the JEL voice — authoritative, accessible to non-specialist economists, long-form, signposted, with a strong…
- Works in 4 steps: Authoritative. Confident judgments about… → Accessible. Technical machinery is… → Long-form and signposted. Surveys are… → …
- Revising a Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) survey for the JEL voice — authoritative
- SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The JEL voice: authoritative +…, The survey opening arc and The abstract, plus 4 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Jel Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when revising a Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) survey for the JEL voice — authoritative, accessible to non-specialist economists, long-form, signposted, with a strong opening and abstract. Polishes prose and structure; it does not design the framework (jel-organizing-framework) or assign codes (jel-classification-system).
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 Writing & Content, covering Brand voice and tone. 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
- Revising a Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) survey for the JEL voice — authoritative
- Accessible to non-specialist economists
- With a strong opening and abstract
Example prompts
- “/jel-writing-style”
Workflow steps
4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Authoritative. Confident judgments about what is known, what is contested, and how good the evidence is. The reader wants the author's…
- Accessible. Technical machinery is explained with intuition first, notation second. A method is motivated by the question it answers…
- Long-form and signposted. Surveys are long; the reader needs a map. Strong section/subsection architecture that mirrors the organizing…
- Synthesis prose, not summary prose. Sentences make papers talk to each other ("Whereas X finds…, the design in Y suggests…"), rather than…
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
Jel Writing Style loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 88 tokens; SKILL.md has 611 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). 611 words, ~1,300 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/jel-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- jel-writing-style
- description
- Use when revising a Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) survey for the JEL voice — authoritative, accessible to non-specialist economists, long-form, signposted, with a strong opening and abstract. Polishes prose and structure; it does not design the framework (jel-organizing-framework) or assign codes (jel-classification-system).
JEL Writing Style — the Survey Voice (jel-writing-style)
When to trigger
- The framework and coverage are settled and it is time to make the survey read well
- A non-specialist economist would get lost or bored in the current draft
- The opening buries the field's importance under machinery or throat-clearing
- The abstract reads like a paper abstract ("we find…") rather than a survey abstract
The JEL voice: authoritative + accessible + long-form
A JEL survey is read by non-specialist economists — smart, but not in this subfield. The voice is that of a trusted, fair expert teaching the field to a colleague from another area. Four qualities define it:
- Authoritative. Confident judgments about what is known, what is contested, and how good the evidence is. The reader wants the author's appraisal, not neutrality-as-evasion. But authority is earned by comprehensiveness and balance, never asserted.
- Accessible. Technical machinery is explained with intuition first, notation second. A method is motivated by the question it answers before any formalism. Jargon is defined or avoided; an outsider should follow the argument.
- Long-form and signposted. Surveys are long; the reader needs a map. Strong section/subsection architecture that mirrors the organizing spine, plus periodic "where we are / where we go next" cues, so the reader never loses the thread.
- Synthesis prose, not summary prose. Sentences make papers talk to each other ("Whereas X finds…, the design in Y suggests…"), rather than marching paper-by-paper.
The survey opening arc
A JEL introduction differs from a research-paper intro. The arc:
frame the field (what it studies, why it matters to economists broadly) → why a synthesis is needed now (new evidence / method shift / policy salience) → the organizing question and the spine (the map the reader will be given) → what the survey concludes and the open questions (the payoff, stated up front) → roadmap (brief).
State the bottom line early. A survey that withholds its conclusions to a final section wastes the non-specialist's time and reads as indecisive.
The abstract
A survey abstract describes what the survey does for the reader, not a single empirical finding: the field, why a synthesis now, the organizing idea, and the headline state-of-knowledge takeaway. Avoid "we estimate / we find a coefficient of…"; that is a primary-paper abstract. (Confirm any length/format limits in the AEA JEL style guide via jel-submission.)
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Length and the reader's stamina
JEL surveys are long, and length is a privilege, not a license. Every section must earn its pages by advancing the argument about the field; coverage for its own sake (the confirmatory tier of jel-comprehensiveness-and-balance) belongs in compact citation clusters, not in paragraph-length summaries. Use subsection summaries and a recurring return to the spine so a reader who puts the survey down can re-enter it without rereading.
Checklist
- Opening follows the arc: frame field → why now → organizing question + spine → conclusions + open questions → roadmap
- Bottom-line state of knowledge stated early, not withheld to the end
- Technical material introduced intuition-first, notation-second; jargon defined or avoided
- Section architecture mirrors the organizing spine; periodic signposting present
- Prose synthesizes (papers in dialogue), not summarizes (paper-by-paper)
- Author's appraisals are explicit and labelled as the author's read where contested
- Abstract describes the survey's contribution to the reader, not a single estimate
- A non-specialist economist could follow start to finish
Anti-patterns
- The annotated-bibliography drone: "Smith (2010) finds… Jones (2012) finds…" with no connective argument
- Opening with method/notation before the field's question and stakes
- Withholding the survey's conclusions until the final section
- Notation-first exposition that locks out the non-specialist (JEL's core reader)
- A primary-paper abstract ("we find a coefficient of 0.3") on a survey
- Neutrality-as-evasion: refusing to appraise because appraising feels risky
- Under-signposting a long manuscript so the reader loses the thread
Output format
【Opening arc】frame → why-now → question+spine → conclusions+open-questions → roadmap? Y/N
【Bottom line early】state of knowledge stated up front? Y/N
【Accessibility】intuition-first; jargon controlled; non-specialist can follow? Y/N
【Signposting】architecture mirrors spine; periodic cues? Y/N
【Synthesis prose】papers in dialogue, not listed? Y/N
【Abstract】survey-style (contribution to reader), not a single estimate? Y/N
【Next step】→ jel-classification-system (assign JEL codes) → jel-submission© 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 Journal-of-Economic-Literature-Skills/skills/jel-writing-style of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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Questions about Jel Writing Style
What does Jel Writing Style do?
A skill your agent uses when revising a Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) survey for the JEL voice — authoritative, accessible to non-specialist economists, long-form, signposted, with a strong…. Jel Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when revising a Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) survey for the JEL voice — authoritative, accessible to non-specialist economists, long-form, signposted, with a strong opening and abstract.
When should I use Jel Writing Style?
Jel Writing Style fits situations like: revising a Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) survey for the JEL voice — authoritative; accessible to non-specialist economists; with a strong opening and abstract.
How do I install Jel Writing Style in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jel-writing-style -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Journal-of-Economic-Literature-Skills/skills/jel-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/jel-writing-style in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Jel Writing Style in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jel-writing-style -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Journal-of-Economic-Literature-Skills/skills/jel-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/jel-writing-style in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Jel 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 jel-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/jel-writing-style, .gemini/skills/jel-writing-style, .github/skills/jel-writing-style and .opencode/skills/jel-writing-style in your project.
What does Jel Writing Style need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Jel Writing Style is instructions for the agent only.
Does Jel 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 Jel 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 Jel Writing Style use?
Jel 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 Jel Writing Style 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.
What are the alternatives to Jel Writing Style?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Jel Writing Style: Avoid AI Writing (conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing, 4.9k stars), Brand (Ohh-889/skyroc, 795 stars), Khazix WeChat Article Writer (KKKKhazix/khazix-skills, 21k stars) and Writing Guidelines (vercel-labs/agent-skills, 32k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Jel 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.