Agent skill

Phg Literature Positioning

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

A skill your agent uses when mapping and entering a large, contested literature for a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) review essay — defining the corpus, its camps and debates, and where your…

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Install Phg Literature Positioning

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills phg-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/Progress-in-Human-Geography-Skills/skills/phg-literature-positioning .claude/skills/phg-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
phg-literature-positioning
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
551 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when mapping and entering a large, contested literature for a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) review essay — defining the corpus, its camps and debates, and where your…

  • Mapping and entering a large
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Define the corpus (make…, Map the debate, don't list the… and Position your entry (fair…, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Contested literature for a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) review essay — defining the corpus

What it does

Phg Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when mapping and entering a large, contested literature for a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) review essay — defining the corpus, its camps and debates, and where your intervention sits. Positions the essay in the field; it does not build the synthetic argument (see phg-argument-synthesis).

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k 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. 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

  • Mapping and entering a large
  • Contested literature for a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) review essay — defining the corpus
  • Its camps and debates
  • Where your intervention sits

Example prompts

  • “/phg-literature-positioning”

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

Phg Literature Positioning loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 81 tokens; SKILL.md has 551 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~81
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.2k

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). 551 words, ~1,182 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/phg-literature-positioning/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
phg-literature-positioning
description
Use when mapping and entering a large, contested literature for a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) review essay — defining the corpus, its camps and debates, and where your intervention sits. Positions the essay in the field; it does not build the synthetic argument (see phg-argument-synthesis).

Literature Positioning (phg-literature-positioning)

A PiHG review is judged partly on command of a literature — reviewers are usually leading figures in the field, and they will notice what you missed, misread, or misattributed. This skill defines the corpus (what you are reviewing and why), maps its camps and debates, and locates your entry point so the essay reads as an authoritative, fair, and current intervention rather than a partial or dated survey.

When to trigger

  • Assembling and bounding the literature the essay will review
  • Mapping who argues what, and where the real disagreements lie
  • A reviewer said coverage is "partial," "dated," "US/UK-centric," or "misreads camp X"
  • Deciding whose work anchors the debate and whose is peripheral

Define the corpus (make coverage defensible)

State what is in, what is out, and how you decided — even for a narrative review. Reviewers trust an essay that is explicit about its net.

  • Boundaries: sub-field(s), time window, languages, and any inclusion logic (key journals, citation thresholds, or a structured search — see external_tools.md).
  • Currency: include the most recent work; a review that stops three years back reads as stale.
  • Reach: watch Anglophone/Global-North parochialism — PiHG is an international journal; engage work from beyond the usual centers where it exists, and name the limit honestly where it does not.

Map the debate, don't list the papers

Positioning is relational: show how the works stand to each other, not one-by-one.

DoInstead of
Name the camps and what divides themListing authors chronologically
Identify the crux the field is stuck onSummarizing each paper's findings
Show who talks past whom (and why)Treating the field as one smooth consensus
Locate the silences — what no camp addressesOnly covering what is well-trodden

The silences and the talking-past are where your intervention (phg-critical-intervention) will land.

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Position your entry (fair before critical)

  • Steelman before you critique. Represent each camp at its strongest; a review that knocks down weak versions loses the referees who built the strong ones.
  • Attribute precisely. Credit ideas to whoever originated them; misattribution is the fastest way to lose a reviewer who is in the literature (see the guardrail in exemplars/library.md).
  • Locate yourself. Say where your organizing concept (phg-theory-building) sits relative to the camps — extending one, cutting across several, or naming what all miss.

The referee-in-the-field test

Assume your reviewer wrote three of the works you cite. Would they say "yes, that is my field, fairly drawn, and I hadn't seen it that way"? If instead they would say "you missed X, misread Y, and ignored the Global South," the positioning is not yet PiHG-ready.

Checklist

  • Corpus boundaries and inclusion logic stated and defensible
  • Most recent work included; not dated
  • Reach beyond Anglophone/Global-North centers considered and limits named
  • Camps and the crux mapped relationally, not as a paper list
  • Each camp steelmanned before any critique; attributions precise
  • Silences/talking-past identified as the opening for the intervention

Anti-patterns

  • An author-by-author or year-by-year list with no map of the debate
  • Parochial coverage (only the US/UK canon) presented as the whole field
  • Dated corpus that misses the recent turn the review claims to address
  • Knocking down straw-man versions of a camp
  • Misattributing a concept to the wrong scholar or the wrong journal

Output format

【Corpus】what is in/out + how bounded
【Camps】the 2–4 positions and what divides them
【Crux】the disagreement the field is stuck on
【Silences】what no camp addresses (the opening)
【Your entry】where your concept sits relative to the camps
【Reach】Global-South / non-Anglophone work engaged? limit named? [Y/N]
【Next】phg-argument-synthesis

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 Progress-in-Human-Geography-Skills/skills/phg-literature-positioning of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Phg Literature Positioning

What does Phg Literature Positioning do?

A skill your agent uses when mapping and entering a large, contested literature for a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) review essay — defining the corpus, its camps and debates, and where your…. Phg Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when mapping and entering a large, contested literature for a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) review essay — defining the corpus, its camps and debates, and where your intervention sits.

When should I use Phg Literature Positioning?

Phg Literature Positioning fits situations like: mapping and entering a large; contested literature for a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) review essay — defining the corpus; its camps and debates; where your intervention sits.

How do I install Phg Literature Positioning in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Phg Literature Positioning in Codex?

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

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

What does Phg Literature Positioning need to run?

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

Does Phg 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 Phg 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 Phg Literature Positioning use?

Phg 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 Phg Literature Positioning use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.7k 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 Phg 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.

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