Agent skill

Jhe Literature Positioning

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

A skill your agent uses when the contribution of a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) manuscript relative to the health-economics frontier is fuzzy or undersold.

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Install Jhe Literature Positioning

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jhe-literature-positioning -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jhe-literature-positioning --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/Journal-of-Health-Economics-Skills/skills/jhe-literature-positioning .claude/skills/jhe-literature-positioning && 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
jhe-literature-positioning
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~2k tokens
SKILL.md length
962 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when the contribution of a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) manuscript relative to the health-economics frontier is fuzzy or undersold.

  • Works in 5 steps: Name the two or three literatures you… → State the closest prior paper and the… → Engage the canonical health-econ… → …
  • The contribution of a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) manuscript relative to the health-economics frontier is fuzzy
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Positioning at JHE, How to build the positioning… and Contribution-type map, plus 7 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Jhe Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when the contribution of a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) manuscript relative to the health-economics frontier is fuzzy or undersold. Stakes the marginal contribution against the right health-econ literatures; it does not run the analysis or invent citations.

Its SKILL.md is about 2k 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 Marketing & SEO, covering Positioning and messaging 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

  • The contribution of a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) manuscript relative to the health-economics frontier is fuzzy
  • Tasks that involve Positioning and messaging
  • Tasks that involve Citation management

Example prompts

  • “/jhe-literature-positioning”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Name the two or three literatures you sit between. A coverage-and-utilization paper sits between the insurance-moral-hazard literature and…
  2. State the closest prior paper and the one-sentence delta. Not "we extend the literature" but "Prior work estimated take-up; we identify…
  3. Engage the canonical health-econ findings, not just recent arXiv. A demand paper must engage the moral-hazard/selection canon; a provider…
  4. Separate the empirical delta from the policy delta. JHE values both: a better-identified number and a health-policy lesson a regulator…
  5. Pre-empt the "this is AJHE/JPubE" reroute by showing the contribution is to health economics, not to public finance with a health label.

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

Jhe Literature Positioning loads about 2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 73 tokens; SKILL.md has 962 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~73
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2k

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). 962 words, ~1,955 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/jhe-literature-positioning/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
jhe-literature-positioning
description
Use when the contribution of a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) manuscript relative to the health-economics frontier is fuzzy or undersold. Stakes the marginal contribution against the right health-econ literatures; it does not run the analysis or invent citations.

Literature Positioning (jhe-literature-positioning)

When to trigger

  • A referee or coauthor cannot state in one sentence what this paper adds beyond known health-econ results
  • The literature review reads like a list, not an argument about the frontier
  • The paper cites general applied-micro work but misses the canonical health-econ findings it must engage
  • The contribution is framed against a generic economics literature instead of the health-economics one

Positioning at JHE

JHE referees are health economists; they hold the field's landmark results in their head and will reject a paper that re-derives a known coverage or moral-hazard effect with a new dataset. The contribution must be staked against the health-economics frontier specifically — the insurance-design, provider-incentive, behavior, or human-capital literature your result speaks to — and the marginal contribution must survive the question "a health economist already knows X; what is new?" Position on one of: a new mechanism, a new margin (e.g., intensive vs. extensive care use), a credibly-identified magnitude where prior estimates were confounded, a new setting that changes external validity, or a policy counterfactual prior work could not run.

How to build the positioning argument

  1. Name the two or three literatures you sit between. A coverage-and-utilization paper sits between the insurance-moral-hazard literature and the access/health-outcomes literature; say which gap you close.
  2. State the closest prior paper and the one-sentence delta. Not "we extend the literature" but "Prior work estimated take-up; we identify the downstream health-production effect that take-up alone cannot reveal."
  3. Engage the canonical health-econ findings, not just recent arXiv. A demand paper must engage the moral-hazard/selection canon; a provider paper the payment-response canon; a behavior paper the sin-tax/internality literature. Referees will name the paper you skipped.
  4. Separate the empirical delta from the policy delta. JHE values both: a better-identified number and a health-policy lesson a regulator could act on.
  5. Pre-empt the "this is AJHE/JPubE" reroute by showing the contribution is to health economics, not to public finance with a health label.

Contribution-type map

Contribution typeWhat the positioning must showFailure mode
New mechanismthe channel is novel and the data can isolate itrelabeling a known channel
New marginthe margin (intensive/extensive, ex ante/ex post) was unmeasured beforea margin already studied, uncited
Credible magnitudeprior estimates were confounded; yours is identifieda cleaner estimate of a settled number
New setting / external validitythe setting changes the policy lesson, not just the sample"same result, new country" with no stakes
Policy counterfactualyou can answer a question prior work structurally cannotcounterfactual not tied to a real policy

Which canon you must engage, by core

The fastest way to a desk reject is skipping the landmark a referee in your subfield holds. Engage the canon of the specific core, not just generic applied micro:

  • Insurance & moral hazard — the demand-and-selection / welfare-of-insurance tradition (the cost-curve framing of selection and the value-vs-distortion split of utilization). Show you know the difference between behavioral hazard and selection.
  • Provider incentives — the payment-response literature: how prospective vs. fee-for-service vs. capitation reshape intensity, coding, and patient mix. Engage the supplier-induced-demand debate where relevant.
  • Health behaviors — the sin-tax / internality / addiction literature; engage the rational-vs-behavioral-addiction framing and the externality-vs-internality basis for policy.
  • Health & human capital — the fetal-origins / early-life-shocks and health-to-earnings literature; show your shock maps to a known production channel.
  • Markets & competition — the hospital/insurer competition and consolidation literature, including the regulated-market caveats that change standard IO predictions.
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Worked vignette (illustrative)

A draft on a soda tax positions itself against "the public-finance literature on commodity taxation" and reports a consumption drop. A health economist asks: what is new for health economics, and did you engage the internality literature? The JHE rewrite repositions between the sin-tax/internality canon and the obesity-outcomes literature, states the delta ("prior work estimated the consumption response; we identify the downstream caloric-intake and weight margin the consumption response cannot reveal"), and frames the policy lesson as internality-correction, not revenue. The contribution is now to health economics, and the JPubE reroute risk is gone.

Checklist

  • The marginal contribution is one sentence a health economist would accept
  • The two or three relevant health-econ literatures are named and the gap between them stated
  • The closest prior paper is cited and the delta is explicit
  • The canonical findings of the relevant health-econ subfield are engaged, not skipped
  • Empirical delta and policy delta are both stated
  • The boundary vs. AJHE / JPubE / Health Economics is reinforced by the positioning
  • The contribution survives the one-paragraph test without jargon-driven novelty
  • Citations are real; none invented or marked when unverifiable

The one-paragraph contribution test

Before the literature section is "done," write the contribution as a single paragraph a busy health economist could read and accept: the question, the two literatures it bridges, the closest prior result, the one-sentence delta, and the policy lesson. If that paragraph needs jargon to sound novel, the contribution is not yet distinct. This paragraph later seeds the introduction (jhe-writing-style), so getting it right here pays twice. If you cannot write it without overclaiming, the honest move is to sharpen the empirical or policy delta, or reconsider the venue (jhe-topic-selection).

Anti-patterns

  • A literature "review" that lists papers without an argument about the frontier
  • "First to study X in country Y" as the whole contribution
  • Citing general applied-micro work while skipping the canonical health-econ result a referee will name
  • Overclaiming novelty for a known moral-hazard / coverage / take-up effect
  • Positioning against public finance when the audience is health economists

Output format

text
【Journal】Journal of Health Economics
【Skill】jhe-literature-positioning
【Verdict】contribution clear / undersold / not yet distinct
【Literatures bridged】[lit A] × [lit B] — gap closed
【Closest prior + delta】one sentence
【Contribution type】mechanism / margin / magnitude / setting / counterfactual
【Empirical delta + policy delta】[...]
【Source status】citations verified / 待核实
【Next skill】jhe-identification

Handoff boundary

Positioning sets the bar the design must clear; it does not run the design. Once the contribution paragraph is accepted, hand to jhe-identification so the empirical claim is credible enough to support the stated delta. If positioning keeps failing because the question is not really health economics, route back to jhe-topic-selection rather than forcing a frame the audience will reject.

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Journal-of-Health-Economics-Skills/skills/jhe-literature-positioning of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Jhe Literature Positioning

What does Jhe Literature Positioning do?

A skill your agent uses when the contribution of a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) manuscript relative to the health-economics frontier is fuzzy or undersold. Jhe Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when the contribution of a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) manuscript relative to the health-economics frontier is fuzzy or undersold.

When should I use Jhe Literature Positioning?

Jhe Literature Positioning fits situations like: the contribution of a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) manuscript relative to the health-economics frontier is fuzzy; tasks that involve Positioning and messaging; tasks that involve Citation management.

How do I install Jhe Literature Positioning in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jhe-literature-positioning -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Journal-of-Health-Economics-Skills/skills/jhe-literature-positioning in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/jhe-literature-positioning in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Jhe Literature Positioning in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jhe-literature-positioning -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Journal-of-Health-Economics-Skills/skills/jhe-literature-positioning in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/jhe-literature-positioning in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Jhe Literature Positioning 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 jhe-literature-positioning -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/jhe-literature-positioning, .gemini/skills/jhe-literature-positioning, .github/skills/jhe-literature-positioning and .opencode/skills/jhe-literature-positioning in your project.

What does Jhe Literature Positioning need to run?

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

Does Jhe Literature Positioning 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 Jhe Literature Positioning 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 Jhe Literature Positioning use?

Jhe Literature Positioning 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 Jhe Literature Positioning use?

About 2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.8k 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 Jhe Literature Positioning?

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