Avoid AI Writing
conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing
Audit and rewrite content to remove AI writing patterns ("AI-isms").
A skill your agent uses when polishing the prose of a The Journal of Finance (JF) manuscript for accessible, general-interest exposition that reaches the broad AFA flagship readership.
Install Jf Writing Style
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jf-writing-style -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jf-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-Finance-Skills/skills/jf-writing-style .claude/skills/jf-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 "jf-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Journal-of-Finance-Skills/skills/jf-writing-style into .claude/skills/jf-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "jf-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-Finance-Skills/skills/jf-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 jf-writing-style -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jf-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-Finance-Skills/skills/jf-writing-style .agents/skills/jf-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 "jf-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Journal-of-Finance-Skills/skills/jf-writing-style into .agents/skills/jf-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "jf-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 jf-writing-style -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jf-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-Finance-Skills/skills/jf-writing-style .cursor/skills/jf-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 "jf-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Journal-of-Finance-Skills/skills/jf-writing-style into .cursor/skills/jf-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "jf-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-Finance-Skills/skills/jf-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 jf-writing-style -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jf-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-Finance-Skills/skills/jf-writing-style .gemini/skills/jf-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 "jf-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Journal-of-Finance-Skills/skills/jf-writing-style into .gemini/skills/jf-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "jf-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 jf-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 jf-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-Finance-Skills/skills/jf-writing-style .github/skills/jf-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 "jf-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Journal-of-Finance-Skills/skills/jf-writing-style into .github/skills/jf-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "jf-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 jf-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 jf-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-Finance-Skills/skills/jf-writing-style .opencode/skills/jf-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 "jf-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Journal-of-Finance-Skills/skills/jf-writing-style into .opencode/skills/jf-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "jf-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
jf-writing-style- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1.5k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 681 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 2,387
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
A skill your agent uses when polishing the prose of a The Journal of Finance (JF) manuscript for accessible, general-interest exposition that reaches the broad AFA flagship readership.
- Polishing the prose of a The Journal of Finance (JF) manuscript for accessible
- SKILL.md covers When to trigger, JF house voice: accessible,…, The JF introduction (first ~3… and Sentence-level discipline, plus 6 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
- General-interest exposition that reaches the broad AFA flagship readership
What it does
Jf Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when polishing the prose of a The Journal of Finance (JF) manuscript for accessible, general-interest exposition that reaches the broad AFA flagship readership. Tightens the introduction so question, finding, and economic magnitude land on page one, trims hedging, and offloads notation to the Internet Appendix; it does not change results or run analyses.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k 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
- Polishing the prose of a The Journal of Finance (JF) manuscript for accessible
- General-interest exposition that reaches the broad AFA flagship readership
Example prompts
- “/jf-writing-style”
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
Jf Writing Style loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 94 tokens; SKILL.md has 681 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). 681 words, ~1,480 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/jf-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- jf-writing-style
- description
- Use when polishing the prose of a The Journal of Finance (JF) manuscript for accessible, general-interest exposition that reaches the broad AFA flagship readership. Tightens the introduction so question, finding, and economic magnitude land on page one, trims hedging, and offloads notation to the Internet Appendix; it does not change results or run analyses.
Writing Style & Exposition (jf-writing-style)
When to trigger
- The introduction does not deliver the question, finding, and magnitude in the first page
- Prose is dense, jargon-heavy, or written for a subfield rather than the broad AFA reader
- The main finding is buried; the reader has to work to extract the takeaway
- Sentences hedge so much the claim disappears
JF house voice: accessible, precise, general-interest
JF is the AFA flagship, read across asset pricing, corporate finance, banking, microstructure, and household finance by 8,000+ readers. Writing must be accessible to a finance reader outside your subfield while staying precise. The manuscript also faces a 60-page limit (≥1.5 spacing, 12-pt font), so lead with economics and offload technical depth to the Internet Appendix (bundled at the end of the same PDF; see jf-internet-appendix) rather than padding the body.
The JF introduction (first ~3 pages do the work)
In order: (1) the question and why it matters — general-interest, concrete; (2) what you do — design/data/test in plain terms; (3) what you find — headline result with its economic magnitude in interpretable units; (4) why it is credible — the source of variation or the test; (5) contribution — the closest papers and your delta (see jf-literature-positioning); (6) brief roadmap. A reader who stops at page 3 should know the question, the answer, its size, and why to believe it.
Sentence-level discipline
- Active voice and short declaratives for main claims.
- State magnitudes in interpretable units (bps, % of market cap, Sharpe gain), not only t-stats.
- Define notation once; do not re-derive in prose what a table shows.
- Cut hedging stacks to one calibrated claim.
- Use "significant" for economic importance, not as a synonym for the p-value.
Page-one diagnostic grid
Test a JF introduction by reading only page one and asking whether each element is present — the pass an out-of-subfield editor makes:
| By the bottom of page one, the reader knows… | If absent, the fix |
|---|---|
| The question and why it is first-order | Open with the stake, not the literature |
| What you do, in plain terms | One sentence on design/data/test, no notation |
| The headline finding | State the result before its caveats |
| Its economic magnitude in interpretable units | Add the bps / Sharpe gain / % of value |
| Why it is credible | Name the shock, instrument, or asset-pricing test |
A subfield draft typically fails on magnitude or credibility, assuming the reader cares.
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Worked vignette — rewriting a buried opening
Illustrative. A draft opens: "A large literature examines the cross-section of expected returns. We contribute to it." The result arrives three paragraphs later. The JF rewrite leads on page one:
"Firms exposed to supply-chain concentration earn 45 bps per month higher returns (Sharpe gain ≈ 0.4, illustrative). The premium survives standard factor adjustment and concentrates where arbitrage is costly, pointing to mispricing over risk."
The page-one reader now has the question, answer, size, and reason to believe; the survey citation moves into the contribution paragraph (jf-literature-positioning).
Referee-pushback patterns and the JF-specific fix
| Pushback on the prose | JF-specific fix |
|---|---|
| "I read three pages before the finding" | Move question + result + magnitude to page one |
| "Significant at 1%' is reported as the result" | Replace with the magnitude; keep the t-stat in a note |
| "The body is padded toward 60 pages" | Offload derivations/notation to the Internet Appendix |
Calibration anchors
- JF's voice is accessible but precise — not a popular-science register; the goal is a finance economist outside your niche following the argument. The "first three pages do the work" norm is durable, but exact length conventions vary; confirm against the journal's current author guidelines.
Checklist
- Question, finding, and economic magnitude in the first ~3 pages
- Headline number in interpretable economic units
- A non-specialist finance reader could follow the introduction
- Heavy notation/derivation moved to the Internet Appendix, keeping the body ≤60 pages
- Active voice; calibrated (not reflexive) hedging
- Abstract matches the introduction's claims
Anti-patterns
- Opening with three paragraphs of literature before the question
- Reporting "significant at the 1% level" as if it were the finding
- Subfield jargon with no plain-language gloss for the broad AFA reader
- Padding the body toward the 60-page cap instead of using the Internet Appendix
- Over-hedged claims that blur the contribution
Output format
【Question+finding+magnitude in first 3 pp?】yes / no
【Magnitude in economic units?】yes / no
【Accessible to non-specialist?】yes / no
【Notation moved to Internet Appendix?】yes / no
【Body ≤60 pp / hedging trimmed?】yes / no
【Next step】jf-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-Finance-Skills/skills/jf-writing-style of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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Questions about Jf Writing Style
What does Jf Writing Style do?
A skill your agent uses when polishing the prose of a The Journal of Finance (JF) manuscript for accessible, general-interest exposition that reaches the broad AFA flagship readership. Jf Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when polishing the prose of a The Journal of Finance (JF) manuscript for accessible, general-interest exposition that reaches the broad AFA flagship readership.
When should I use Jf Writing Style?
Jf Writing Style fits situations like: polishing the prose of a The Journal of Finance (JF) manuscript for accessible; general-interest exposition that reaches the broad AFA flagship readership.
How do I install Jf Writing Style in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jf-writing-style -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Journal-of-Finance-Skills/skills/jf-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/jf-writing-style in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Jf Writing Style in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jf-writing-style -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Journal-of-Finance-Skills/skills/jf-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/jf-writing-style in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Jf 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 jf-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/jf-writing-style, .gemini/skills/jf-writing-style, .github/skills/jf-writing-style and .opencode/skills/jf-writing-style in your project.
What does Jf Writing Style need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Jf Writing Style is instructions for the agent only.
Does Jf 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 Jf 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 Jf Writing Style use?
Jf 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 Jf Writing Style use?
About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.9k 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 Jf Writing Style?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Jf 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 Jf 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.