Agent skill

Lang Literature Positioning

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

A skill your agent uses when positioning a Language (LSA) manuscript within the literature so it reads as in dialogue with current linguistics across frameworks.

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Install Lang Literature Positioning

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills lang-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/Language-Linguistic-Society-Skills/skills/lang-literature-positioning .claude/skills/lang-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
lang-literature-positioning
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
737 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when positioning a Language (LSA) manuscript within the literature so it reads as in dialogue with current linguistics across frameworks.

  • Works in 4 steps: Name the question, not the construction.… → Locate the gap as a tension, not a hole.… → Engage the strongest rival account,… → …
  • Positioning a Language (LSA) manuscript within the literature so it reads as in dialogue with current linguistics across frameworks
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, How to position for Language, Cross-framework positioning… and Discussion Note / Commentary…, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Lang Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when positioning a Language (LSA) manuscript within the literature so it reads as in dialogue with current linguistics across frameworks. Language reviewers are drawn from across subfields; the positioning must engage the strongest rival accounts fairly, not build a subfield-only wall. Maps the conversation; it does not write the literature review.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k 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 Literature review. 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

  • Positioning a Language (LSA) manuscript within the literature so it reads as in dialogue with current linguistics across frameworks
  • Tasks that involve Positioning and messaging
  • Tasks that involve Literature review

Example prompts

  • “/lang-literature-positioning”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Name the question, not the construction. State the live theoretical debate the paper joins
  2. Locate the gap as a tension, not a hole. Language rewards papers that adjudicate or reframe a
  3. Engage the strongest rival account, fairly. Cite the best version of the analysis you challenge;
  4. Set up the payoff. Positioning should hand off cleanly to lang-theory-building: the tension

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

Lang Literature Positioning loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 96 tokens; SKILL.md has 737 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~96
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k

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). 737 words, ~1,604 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/lang-literature-positioning/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
lang-literature-positioning
description
Use when positioning a Language (LSA) manuscript within the literature so it reads as in dialogue with current linguistics across frameworks. Language reviewers are drawn from across subfields; the positioning must engage the strongest rival accounts fairly, not build a subfield-only wall. Maps the conversation; it does not write the literature review.

Literature Positioning (lang-literature-positioning)

At Language the literature section proves the paper is in dialogue with current linguistics — across frameworks, not only inside your own. Because the journal is generalist and its editors recruit double-anonymous reviewers from across subfields, your positioning is the signal they read to place the paper and to match referees. A section that engages only your framework's in-group tells the editor this belongs at a subfield venue. This skill maps the conversation and locates your contribution in it.

When to trigger

  • Drafting or restructuring the literature/positioning section
  • A reader said the paper "ignores the obvious competing analysis" or "reinvents a known result"
  • Writing a Discussion Note or Perspectives Commentary that must engage a specific published claim precisely and fairly
  • Deciding which debates to foreground for a general linguistics readership

How to position for Language

  1. Name the question, not the construction. State the live theoretical debate the paper joins (e.g., "is this alternation phonological or morphological?") in terms a linguist outside your area recognizes — not just your subfield's internal dispute.
  2. Locate the gap as a tension, not a hole. Language rewards papers that adjudicate or reframe a real disagreement, not ones that fill an empty descriptive cell ("no one has looked at X").
  3. Engage the strongest rival account, fairly. Cite the best version of the analysis you challenge; cross-framework reviewers will know it and will punish a straw man.
  4. Set up the payoff. Positioning should hand off cleanly to lang-theory-building: the tension you name is the prediction you will adjudicate.

Cross-framework positioning (Language-distinctive)

Language prizes engagement across traditions. If your account is generative, still engage the functionalist or usage-based reading of the same data (and vice versa) where it bears on the claim. The goal is not to referee a framework war but to show your analysis wins on the data and predictions, whatever lens the reader brings.

Discussion Note / Commentary positioning

If you are writing a Discussion Note on a published Language article or a Perspectives Commentary:

  • Represent the target claim faithfully — quote or paraphrase it exactly before critiquing.
  • Make the critique substantive and general: it should teach the field something, not score a point on notation.
  • Anticipate the author's response/Rejoinder — Language publishes both in the Perspectives format; a fair critique survives the reply.
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Positioning move table (gap-as-tension, Language-style)

Referee signalThe Language-specific fix
"Reinvents a known result."locate the live debate and the strongest prior analysis
"Straw-mans the rival framework."engage the best version of the account you challenge
"Subfield-only literature."reframe the tension for the whole discipline
"Missing the foundational reference."situate against and extend the standard account

Because editors infer area and method from the blinded manuscript to recruit cross-subfield referees, a narrow literature map invites a poor reviewer match. Illustrative: a paper framed as "OT has not modeled this tone sandhi" reads as gap-filling; reframed as a tension between representational and computational accounts of the sandhi that the author's data adjudicate, it engages a debate the whole phonology community — and interested syntacticians — recognize.

Anti-patterns

  • A subfield-only literature wall a cross-framework reviewer cannot follow
  • Straw-manning the rival account (double-anonymous reviewers from that tradition will notice)
  • "No one has studied X" instead of a genuine theoretical tension
  • Citing only your own framework's in-group for coverage
  • A Discussion Note that misreads or over-reads the target paper's actual claim

Positioning pass for Language

Treat this skill as an executable review pass, not a prose hint. First lock the empirical generalization, the evidence base, the analysis's predictions, and the theoretical payoff; then judge whether the manuscript answers the venue's real reader: linguists across subfields who value grounded analysis, transparent evidence, and fair engagement across frameworks.

  • Do the pass: build a three-column map — incumbent debate, unresolved tension, this manuscript's delta; include one rival framework whose omission would make a referee doubt the fit.
  • Return a ledger: give claim / evidence / risk / manuscript location rows so the next agent can edit rather than rediscover the issue.
  • Sibling guard: compare against NLLT and Syntax (syntax), Phonology (phonology), Journal of Semantics / Natural Language Semantics (semantics), Diachronica (historical), Language Variation and Change (variation); if a sibling owns the contribution, recommend re-routing before polishing.
  • Stop condition: do not give submission-ready advice until resources/official-source-map.md has been checked for volatile rules and the manuscript has one concrete fix for the largest venue risk.

Output format

【Question】the live linguistic debate the paper joins
【Key prior work】the strongest analyses engaged (across frameworks, fairly stated)
【Tension】the unresolved problem (not an empty descriptive cell)
【Our move】how the contribution adjudicates/reframes it → theory-building
【If Note/Commentary】the target claim + the general lesson the critique teaches
【Next】lang-research-design

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 Language-Linguistic-Society-Skills/skills/lang-literature-positioning of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Lang Literature Positioning

What does Lang Literature Positioning do?

A skill your agent uses when positioning a Language (LSA) manuscript within the literature so it reads as in dialogue with current linguistics across frameworks. Lang Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when positioning a Language (LSA) manuscript within the literature so it reads as in dialogue with current linguistics across frameworks.

When should I use Lang Literature Positioning?

Lang Literature Positioning fits situations like: positioning a Language (LSA) manuscript within the literature so it reads as in dialogue with current linguistics across frameworks; tasks that involve Positioning and messaging; tasks that involve Literature review.

How do I install Lang Literature Positioning in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Lang Literature Positioning in Codex?

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

Can I use Lang 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 lang-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/lang-literature-positioning, .gemini/skills/lang-literature-positioning, .github/skills/lang-literature-positioning and .opencode/skills/lang-literature-positioning in your project.

What does Lang Literature Positioning need to run?

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

Does Lang 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 Lang 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 Lang Literature Positioning use?

Lang 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 Lang Literature Positioning use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.4k 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 Lang Literature Positioning?

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.