A skill your agent uses when starting or navigating any Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) manuscript and you need the entry point.

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Install Phg Workflow

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

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

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

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when starting or navigating any Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) manuscript and you need the entry point.

  • Navigating any Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) manuscript and you need the entry point
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, First question: is this even a…, Second question: which genre? and Routing map (stage → skill), plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Phg Workflow is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when starting or navigating any Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) manuscript and you need the entry point. Routes to the right sub-skill based on lifecycle stage and whether the piece is a free-standing review article or a commissioned Progress Report. It dispatches; it does not draft content.

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.

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

  • Navigating any Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) manuscript and you need the entry point

Example prompts

  • “/phg-workflow”

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 Workflow loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 78 tokens; SKILL.md has 439 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~78
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). 439 words, ~1,198 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/phg-workflow/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
phg-workflow
description
Use when starting or navigating any Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) manuscript and you need the entry point. Routes to the right sub-skill based on lifecycle stage and whether the piece is a free-standing review article or a commissioned Progress Report. It dispatches; it does not draft content.

PiHG Workflow Router (phg-workflow)

The orchestrator for a Progress in Human Geography submission. Figure out the stage and the genre, then send the user to the matching skill. PiHG is the discipline's review and theory flagship — the router's first job is to make sure the piece is a synthetic, agenda-setting review, not an empirical study wearing a review's clothes. PiHG does not publish empirical results or detailed cases.

When to trigger

  • Starting a new PiHG piece and unsure where to begin
  • Mid-project and unsure which skill applies next
  • Deciding whether you are writing a review article (open submission) or a Progress Report (commissioned)
  • Unsure whether the topic is review-worthy at all (route to phg-topic-selection)
  • Returning with a decision letter (route to phg-rebuttal)

First question: is this even a PiHG piece?

Run the fit gate before routing anywhere else.

CheckPass conditionRoute if it fails
Not empiricalThe core is an argument about a literature, not new data or a single casethis is the wrong journal — stop
Review-worthyThe literature is large, live, and contested, with real stakesphg-topic-selection
Has an interventionYou can name what the field is getting wrong and how you re-order itphg-critical-intervention
SyntheticThe sources add up to one argument, not a listphg-argument-synthesis

If "not empirical" fails — the piece would be unchanged if you deleted the argument and kept the data — PiHG is the wrong venue; consider an empirical geography journal instead.

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Second question: which genre?

GenreWhat it isRoute
Review articleFree-standing, unsolicited critical review (~4,000–8,000 words)full default order below
Progress ReportCommissioned critical survey of a sub-field's recent worksame craft, but scope to the report's remit; confirm with the editor
PiHG Lecture / commentaryInvited; formats varyconfirm current practice on the SAGE page (phg-submission)

Progress Reports are invited by the editors — you cannot submit one cold. If you have a report commission, the same skills apply, scoped to the agreed remit.

Routing map (stage → skill)

text
Is the topic review-worthy?        → phg-topic-selection
What concept organizes it?         → phg-theory-building
Where does it sit in the field?    → phg-literature-positioning
Do the sources add to one arg?     → phg-argument-synthesis
What is the critical move?         → phg-critical-intervention
What is the forward agenda?        → phg-contribution-framing
Do the exhibits do synthesis?      → phg-tables-figures
Does it read as PiHG?              → phg-writing-style
Ready to submit?                   → phg-submission
How will it be judged?             → phg-review-process
Got an R&R / decision?             → phg-rebuttal

Default order

topic-selection → theory-building → literature-positioning → argument-synthesis → critical-intervention → contribution-framing → tables-figures → writing-style → submission → review-process → rebuttal

Iterate: most essays loop theory ↔ synthesis ↔ intervention several times before writing-style.

Anti-patterns

  • Treating PiHG as a place to publish an empirical study "framed as a review" — it is not
  • Writing an annotated bibliography and calling it a review (no cumulative argument)
  • Submitting something billed as a Progress Report without a commission
  • Reviewing a settled, niche literature with no live debate or stakes
  • Overrunning the short (~8,000-word inclusive) cap because a review "needs to be comprehensive"

Output format

【Genre】review article / Progress Report (commissioned) / lecture-commentary
【Stage】topic / theory / positioning / synthesis / intervention / framing / exhibits / writing / submit / review / rebut
【Fit gate】not-empirical? review-worthy? has-intervention? synthetic? [Y/N each]
【Route to】phg-<skill>
【Why】one line
【Then】the next skill after that

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-workflow of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Phg Workflow

What does Phg Workflow do?

A skill your agent uses when starting or navigating any Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) manuscript and you need the entry point. Phg Workflow is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when starting or navigating any Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) manuscript and you need the entry point.

When should I use Phg Workflow?

Phg Workflow fits situations like: navigating any Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) manuscript and you need the entry point.

How do I install Phg Workflow in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Phg Workflow in Codex?

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

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

What does Phg Workflow need to run?

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

Does Phg Workflow 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 Workflow 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 Workflow use?

Phg Workflow 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 Workflow use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.8k 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 Phg Workflow?

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.