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Nous

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

A skill your agent uses when targeting Noûs or deciding whether an analytic philosophy manuscript fits this venue.

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Install Nous

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills nous --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/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/nous .claude/skills/nous && 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
nous
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
749 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when targeting Noûs or deciding whether an analytic philosophy manuscript fits this venue.

  • Deciding whether an analytic philosophy manuscript fits this venue
  • SKILL.md covers Journal positioning, When to trigger, Scope & topic fit and Method & evidence bar, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Nous is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when targeting Noûs or deciding whether an analytic philosophy manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit as one of the big-three generalist venues, the argument-rigor and originality bar, dialectical-engagement expectations, house style and double-blind norms, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.7k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

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

  • Deciding whether an analytic philosophy manuscript fits this venue

Example prompts

  • “/nous”

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

Nous loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 85 tokens; SKILL.md has 749 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~85
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.7k

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). 749 words, ~1,672 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/nous/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
nous
description
Use when targeting Noûs or deciding whether an analytic philosophy manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit as one of the big-three generalist venues, the argument-rigor and originality bar, dialectical-engagement expectations, house style and double-blind norms, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

Noûs (nous)

Journal positioning

Noûs is one of the big-three generalist journals in analytic philosophy, sitting alongside The Philosophical Review and The Journal of Philosophy and publishing full-length articles of the highest quality across every core area — metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, logic, and value theory. Its defining expectation is a rigorous, original argument that moves a live debate forward: a sharply stated thesis, a valid and carefully defended line of reasoning, and head-on engagement with the strongest rival views. Because Noûs, The Philosophical Review, and The Journal of Philosophy overlap heavily, venue choice is usually a matter of fit, area conventions, and house feel rather than topic. A competent survey, an incremental tweak to a familiar move, or a paper that sidesteps its best objections is a poor fit. This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing aid. It does not replace the journal's current submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live Noûs author instructions.

When to trigger

  • The author names Noûs for an analytic-philosophy article and wants a fit/framing check.
  • An argument must be tightened — thesis, structure, and engagement with the strongest objections — to clear a top generalist bar.
  • The author is deciding among the big-three generalist venues (Noûs, The Philosophical Review, The Journal of Philosophy) and needs fit/area-convention guidance.
  • The author needs Noûs's originality/rigor bar and desk-reject heuristics.

Scope & topic fit

  • Core analytic philosophy: metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and logic, including work that crosses these areas.
  • Value theory — ethics, metaethics, and political philosophy — argued with analytic rigor and broad significance.
  • Foundational philosophy of science, mathematics, probability, or action when the stake is of general philosophical interest.
  • Formal and technically informed work where the formalism earns its keep in the argument.
  • History of philosophy when it makes a live philosophical contribution, not mere exegesis.
  • Articles that establish, refine, or decisively challenge a distinction, argument, or position.

Method & evidence bar

  • The contribution is an original thesis defended by a valid, carefully structured argument; the central claim and its dialectical stakes are stated early.
  • The strongest objections and rival views are engaged directly and answered, not deflected or relegated to a footnote.
  • Distinctions are drawn precisely, key terms are defined, and the argument's logical form is transparent with independently motivated premises.
  • Scholarly engagement is current and fair, locating the contribution in the live literature without padding.
  • Examples, counterexamples, and thought experiments do genuine argumentative work.
  • Technical apparatus, where used, is deployed to sharpen rather than decorate the argument.
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Structure & house style

  • Full-length analytic article with a sustained argument; re-check current length expectations and article types on the live guide.
  • Thesis and roadmap appear early; sections build the argument step by step; objections-and-replies are integral, not appended.
  • Citation follows the journal's current style (typically author-date with a reference list); footnotes carry qualifications and secondary dialectic.
  • Double-blind review: anonymize the manuscript (self-citations and acknowledgements) per current policy.
  • Prose is precise and economical; the central claim should remain legible to generalist analytic readers outside the immediate sub-area.

Official-submission checklist

  • Before giving submission-ready advice, read ../../resources/source-basis.md and ../../resources/official-source-map.md; start from the press/society anchors, then cite the current Noûs page you checked.
  • Search the live site for "Noûs submission guidelines" and follow the current Wiley version.
  • Re-check article types, length expectations, and the abstract requirement.
  • Confirm the citation/style format and anonymization for double-blind review.
  • Re-check the journal's policy on prior presentation/preprints, simultaneous submission, and AI-use disclosure.
  • If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official instructions win.

Pre-submission self-check

  • There is a single, clearly stated, original thesis with explicit dialectical stakes.
  • The argument is valid and each premise is independently motivated and defined.
  • The strongest objections and rival positions are engaged and answered, not deflected.
  • Engagement with the current literature is fair, current, and non-padding.
  • The manuscript is anonymized and follows the current citation style.
  • Examples/thought experiments and any formalism do genuine argumentative work.

Common desk-reject triggers

  • A survey or a small variation on a familiar move with no original advance.
  • An argument that ignores or only gestures at the strongest objections.
  • Imprecise theses, undefined key terms, or an opaque logical structure.
  • Formalism that adds apparatus without adding argumentative force.
  • Narrow sub-area interest with no general philosophical stake (better at a specialist venue).
  • Exegesis with no live philosophical contribution.

Re-routing decision

  • Equally strong generalist analytic article → the-philosophical-review / the-journal-of-philosophy.
  • Moral, political, or normative-ethics focus → ethics / philosophy-and-public-affairs.
  • Broad philosophy, especially in the UK tradition → mind.
  • Short, focused argument or counterexample → analysis.
  • Aesthetics / philosophy of art → the-journal-of-aesthetics-and-art-criticism.

Output format

text
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] Noûs
[Area] <closest philosophical sub-area>
[Thesis] <the original claim in one line>
[Argument/engagement] <does the rigor + objection-handling clear a big-three generalist bar?>
[Top risk] <the single most likely reason for rejection>
[Official items to re-check] <length / citation style / anonymization / preprint policy>
[Re-route suggestion] <if not a fit, a better-matched venue>

© 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 English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/nous of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Nous

What does Nous do?

A skill your agent uses when targeting Noûs or deciding whether an analytic philosophy manuscript fits this venue. Nous is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when targeting Noûs or deciding whether an analytic philosophy manuscript fits this venue.

When should I use Nous?

Nous fits situations like: deciding whether an analytic philosophy manuscript fits this venue.

How do I install Nous in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Nous in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill nous -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/nous in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/nous in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

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

What does Nous need to run?

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

Does Nous 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 Nous 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 Nous use?

Nous 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 Nous use?

About 1.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.7k 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 Nous?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,228 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.