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A skill your agent uses when targeting October or deciding whether a modern/contemporary art, criticism, or theory manuscript fits this venue.
Install October
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill october -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills october --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/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/october .claude/skills/october && 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 "october" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/october into .claude/skills/october/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "october", 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/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/octoberType 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 october -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills october --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/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/october .agents/skills/october && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "october" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/october into .agents/skills/october/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "october", 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 october -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills october --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/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/october .cursor/skills/october && 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 "october" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/october into .cursor/skills/october/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "october", 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 English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/october--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 october -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills october --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/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/october .gemini/skills/october && 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 "october" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/october into .gemini/skills/october/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "october", 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 octoberInstalls 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 october -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/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/october .github/skills/october && 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 "october" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/october into .github/skills/october/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "october", 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 october -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 october --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/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/october .opencode/skills/october && 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 "october" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/october into .opencode/skills/october/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "october", 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
october- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1.9k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 795 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 2,387
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
A skill your agent uses when targeting October or deciding whether a modern/contemporary art, criticism, or theory manuscript fits this venue.
- Targeting October
- 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
- Deciding whether a modern/contemporary art
What it does
October is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when targeting October or deciding whether a modern/contemporary art, criticism, or theory manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit as the MIT Press venue for contemporary art, high theory, and the legacy of the avant-garde, the argument and critical bar, primary-source command, citation/house style, image-rights expectations, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.9k 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 Research & Science, covering 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
- Targeting October
- Deciding whether a modern/contemporary art
- Theory manuscript fits this venue
Example prompts
- “/october”
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
October loads about 1.9k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 103 tokens; SKILL.md has 795 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). 795 words, ~1,887 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/october/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- october
- description
- Use when targeting October or deciding whether a modern/contemporary art, criticism, or theory manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit as the MIT Press venue for contemporary art, high theory, and the legacy of the avant-garde, the argument and critical bar, primary-source command, citation/house style, image-rights expectations, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
October (october)
Journal positioning
October (MIT Press) is the leading venue for advanced criticism and theory of modern and contemporary art, film, photography, and media, and for sustained reflection on the legacy of the historical avant-garde. It is defined by its theoretical seriousness: psychoanalytic, Marxist, structuralist and poststructuralist, and materialist criticism brought to bear on twentieth- and twenty-first-century practice. Its defining expectation is an original, theoretically rigorous intervention that reshapes how a body of work, a problem, or a critical concept is understood. A generalist all-periods art-history article, a descriptive monographic study, or a review-style survey with no theoretical edge is a poor fit here. 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 October / MIT Press author instructions.
When to trigger
- The author names October for a modern/contemporary art, film, media, or theory manuscript and wants a fit/framing check.
- A study of recent or avant-garde practice must be re-framed around a sharp critical or theoretical intervention.
- The author is choosing between October and a generalist or period-specialist art-history journal.
- The author needs the journal's high-theory bar and desk-reject heuristics.
Scope & topic fit
- Criticism and theory of contemporary and modern art, including post-1960 and current practice, with a genuine conceptual stake.
- The historical avant-garde and neo-avant-garde, their afterlives, and the critical concepts they generate.
- Film, photography, video, and new-media art treated through rigorous critical theory.
- Theoretical essays that develop or contest a concept (the index, the readymade, the spectacle, mediation, the archive) with art and media as their ground.
- Translations and critical recoveries of significant theoretical texts, where they advance current debate.
- Artists' projects and interventions framed by, and contributing to, critical discourse.
Method & evidence bar
- The contribution is an original, theoretically rigorous argument that reshapes a problem or concept — name the intervention, not just the subject.
- Close analysis of works, films, or images does real critical work and is inseparable from the theoretical claim.
- Command of primary sources and documents — works, writings, exhibition and archival materials — is critical and precise.
- The theoretical apparatus is engaged at depth and put to use, not deployed as a label; concepts are defined and tested against the material.
- Engagement with the relevant critical and theoretical literature is current and earned, situating the intervention in live debate.
- Claims are proportionate to the analysis and reflexive about the critic's own theoretical commitments.
Structure & house style
- Critical/theoretical essay with a sustained argument; re-check current length expectations and article/section types on the live guide.
- Citation follows the journal's current style; notes carry qualification and secondary dialectic per the journal's form.
- Double-blind review where applicable: anonymize per current policy (self-citations and acknowledgements).
- Image rights are central: secure reproduction permissions for every illustration — often of in-copyright contemporary works and film stills — and budget for fees and estate restrictions before acceptance.
- Figures must meet the journal's specifications (resolution, format, captions, credit lines), with permissions documentation for in-copyright material.
- Foreign-language sources are quoted and translated per policy; theoretical prose is precise rather than merely allusive.
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Official-submission checklist
- Before giving submission-ready advice, read
../../resources/source-basis.mdand../../resources/official-source-map.md; start from the MIT Press anchors, then cite the current October page you checked. - Search the live site for "October journal MIT Press submission guidelines" and follow the current version.
- Re-check article/essay types, length expectations, and the abstract requirement.
- Confirm the citation/style format and anonymization for review.
- Re-check image-reproduction permissions (especially in-copyright contemporary art and film stills), figure specifications, and any illustration-cost policy.
- Re-check competing-interest, funding (if applicable), and AI-use disclosure, plus any translation policy for non-English sources.
- If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official instructions win.
Pre-submission self-check
- There is an original, theoretically rigorous intervention that reshapes a problem or concept.
- Close analysis of works/films/images is inseparable from the theoretical claim, not illustration.
- Primary sources are read critically and the claims respect their limits.
- The manuscript is anonymized per current policy and follows the journal's citation style.
- Reproduction permissions are secured for in-copyright works and figures meet specifications.
- Foreign-language sources are quoted and translated per policy.
Common desk-reject triggers
- A generalist all-periods or descriptive monographic study with no theoretical edge.
- Theory name-dropped or used as a label rather than developed and tested against the material.
- A review-style survey or appreciation with no conceptual intervention.
- Thin engagement with the relevant critical literature, or claims out of proportion to the analysis.
- Missing or unsecured permissions for in-copyright contemporary art or film stills.
- Wrong venue: a pre-modern or connoisseurial subject with no contemporary-critical stake.
Re-routing decision
- Broad, all-periods generalist art-history article →
the-art-bulletin. - Theoretically engaged art history outside October's contemporary/avant-garde focus →
art-history. - Connoisseurship, attribution, provenance, or museum/exhibition scholarship →
the-burlington-magazine. - Interdisciplinary critical theory across the humanities →
critical-inquiry. - Aesthetics / philosophy of art is the core contribution →
the-journal-of-aesthetics-and-art-criticism.
Output format
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] October
[Field/medium] <contemporary/modern art, film, photography, media, theory>
[Argument] <the critical/theoretical intervention in one line — what it reshapes>
[Objects/images] <what works/films are analyzed and how the analysis carries the theory>
[Theory/scholarship] <does the theoretical rigor + positioning clear October's bar?>
[Image permissions] <are rights for in-copyright works/film stills and figure specs in hand?>
[Top risk] <the single most likely reason for rejection>
[Official items to re-check] <length / citation style / anonymization / image permissions / translation>
[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/october of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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| NetworkxzLanqing/codex-claude-academic-skills | 4.7k | 15 repos | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | BSD-3-Clause | |
| Literature Reviewneflibata-feng/MyArxiv-Agent | 126 | 20 repos | ~5.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | |
| Openalex Databaseneflibata-feng/MyArxiv-Agent | 126 | 12 repos | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence |
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Questions about October
What does October do?
A skill your agent uses when targeting October or deciding whether a modern/contemporary art, criticism, or theory manuscript fits this venue. October is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when targeting October or deciding whether a modern/contemporary art, criticism, or theory manuscript fits this venue.
When should I use October?
October fits situations like: targeting October; deciding whether a modern/contemporary art; theory manuscript fits this venue.
How do I install October in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill october -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/october in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/october in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install October in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill october -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (English-Humanities-Journal-Skills/skills/october in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/october in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use October 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 october -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/october, .gemini/skills/october, .github/skills/october and .opencode/skills/october in your project.
What does October need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: October is instructions for the agent only.
Does October 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 October 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 October use?
October 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 October use?
About 1.9k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.5k 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 October?
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.