Avoid AI Writing
conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing
Audit and rewrite content to remove AI writing patterns ("AI-isms").
A skill your agent uses when polishing a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) review essay to house style — the argument-forward review voice, SAGE Harvard referencing, the ~8,000-word inclusive cap…
Install Phg Writing Style
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill phg-writing-style -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills phg-writing-style --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/Progress-in-Human-Geography-Skills/skills/phg-writing-style .claude/skills/phg-writing-style && 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 "phg-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Progress-in-Human-Geography-Skills/skills/phg-writing-style into .claude/skills/phg-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "phg-writing-style", 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/Progress-in-Human-Geography-Skills/skills/phg-writing-styleType 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 phg-writing-style -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills phg-writing-style --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/Progress-in-Human-Geography-Skills/skills/phg-writing-style .agents/skills/phg-writing-style && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "phg-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Progress-in-Human-Geography-Skills/skills/phg-writing-style into .agents/skills/phg-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "phg-writing-style", 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 phg-writing-style -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills phg-writing-style --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/Progress-in-Human-Geography-Skills/skills/phg-writing-style .cursor/skills/phg-writing-style && 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 "phg-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Progress-in-Human-Geography-Skills/skills/phg-writing-style into .cursor/skills/phg-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "phg-writing-style", 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 Progress-in-Human-Geography-Skills/skills/phg-writing-style--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 phg-writing-style -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills phg-writing-style --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/Progress-in-Human-Geography-Skills/skills/phg-writing-style .gemini/skills/phg-writing-style && 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 "phg-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Progress-in-Human-Geography-Skills/skills/phg-writing-style into .gemini/skills/phg-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "phg-writing-style", 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 phg-writing-styleInstalls 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 phg-writing-style -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/Progress-in-Human-Geography-Skills/skills/phg-writing-style .github/skills/phg-writing-style && 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 "phg-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Progress-in-Human-Geography-Skills/skills/phg-writing-style into .github/skills/phg-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "phg-writing-style", 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 phg-writing-style -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 phg-writing-style --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/Progress-in-Human-Geography-Skills/skills/phg-writing-style .opencode/skills/phg-writing-style && 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 "phg-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Progress-in-Human-Geography-Skills/skills/phg-writing-style into .opencode/skills/phg-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "phg-writing-style", 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
phg-writing-style- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1.3k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 501 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 2,387
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
A skill your agent uses when polishing a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) review essay to house style — the argument-forward review voice, SAGE Harvard referencing, the ~8,000-word inclusive cap…
- Polishing a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) review essay to house style — the argument-forward review voice
- SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The PiHG voice, Format constraints (verify on… and Budgeting the short cap, plus 5 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
- SAGE Harvard referencing
What it does
Phg Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when polishing a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) review essay to house style — the argument-forward review voice, SAGE Harvard referencing, the ~8,000-word inclusive cap, ~100-word unstructured abstract, and 5+ keywords. Polishes prose and format; it does not build the argument.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k 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 Writing & Content, covering Brand voice and tone. 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
- Polishing a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) review essay to house style — the argument-forward review voice
- SAGE Harvard referencing
- 000-word inclusive cap
- ~100-word unstructured abstract
Example prompts
- “/phg-writing-style”
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 Writing Style loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 76 tokens; SKILL.md has 501 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). 501 words, ~1,334 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/phg-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- phg-writing-style
- description
- Use when polishing a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) review essay to house style — the argument-forward review voice, SAGE Harvard referencing, the ~8,000-word inclusive cap, ~100-word unstructured abstract, and 5+ keywords. Polishes prose and format; it does not build the argument.
Writing Style (phg-writing-style)
A PiHG essay should read as an authoritative, argument-led intervention by someone who commands a field — not as a neutral survey and not as an empirical report. This skill sets the voice, enforces the journal's format constraints, and catches the stylistic tells that mark a piece as annotated bibliography or misfit empirical study. Apply it after the argument is built, as a polish pass.
When to trigger
- The argument is settled and you are drafting/revising prose
- Fitting an over-length essay into the short inclusive cap
- Writing the abstract, keywords, and introduction to lead with the contribution
- A reviewer said the prose "buries the argument" or "reads like a summary"
The PiHG voice
- Argument-forward. Every section advances the thesis; the reader always knows what is being argued and
why. Topic sentences state ideas, not authors (
phg-argument-synthesis). - Authoritative but fair. Command without polemic; steelman before critique (
phg-critical-intervention). - Synthetic register. Write about the field, not about each paper — cite in support of claims, in clusters, rather than walking through sources one by one.
- Conceptually clear. Define coined terms on first use; do not hide a thin argument behind dense theory vocabulary. Clarity is a marker of command, not simplicity.
- International readership. Avoid unexplained national-policy shorthand and Global-North-only framing; PiHG is read across the discipline worldwide.
Format constraints (verify on the live SAGE page)
| Item | PiHG expectation (检索于 2026-07-16；以官网为准) |
|---|---|
| Length | Review article ~4,000–8,000 words, incl. endnotes, excl. bibliography — short for a review |
| Abstract | Unstructured, ~100 words — state the intervention and agenda, not just the topic |
| Keywords | Minimum 5, as specific to the topic as possible |
| Referencing | SAGE Harvard (author–date); one consistent style throughout |
| Notes | Endnotes count toward the cap; use sparingly |
| Anonymity | Double-anonymous — no identifying self-reference in the manuscript body |
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Budgeting the short cap
The 8,000-word ceiling includes endnotes. Reviews overrun because "comprehensiveness" tempts padding.
- Cut paper-by-paper walk-throughs; replace with claim-led clusters of citations.
- Move genuinely optional detail out; a review does not need a methods section or a data appendix.
- Kill throat-clearing ("It is important to note that…") and over-signposted seven-part roadmaps.
- Keep the introduction doing real work: state the debate, the intervention, and the agenda early.
The abstract in ~100 words
An unstructured 100-word abstract is tight. Spend it on the intervention, not the topic:
Weak: "This paper reviews the literature on platform labor geographies and discusses key themes."
Strong: "Geographical work on platform labor has split into parallel conversations on precarity, control,
and resistance. This essay argues they are one relation seen from different nodes of a spatial circuit,
a framing obscured by treating the platform as a bounded object. Reading across economic, urban, and
feminist geography, it proposes the circuit — not the platform — as the unit of analysis, and sets out
a research and political agenda that follows labor relations across space."Checklist
- Argument-forward: sections and topic sentences advance the thesis, not list papers
- Contribution stated in abstract and introduction, not just the conclusion
- Within ~8,000 words including endnotes; padding and walk-throughs cut
- Abstract ~100 words, unstructured, states the intervention
- 5+ specific keywords present
- SAGE Harvard referencing, consistent; coined terms defined on first use
- No identifying self-reference (double-anonymous); international readability checked
Anti-patterns
- Prose that reads as a summary or annotated bibliography
- Burying the argument until the conclusion
- Overrunning the cap by treating "comprehensive" as the goal
- A topic-describing abstract that never states the intervention
- Non-Harvard or inconsistent referencing; undefined jargon
- An empirical-paper skeleton (methods/results) grafted onto a review
Output format
【Voice】argument-forward + synthetic + fair? [Y/N]
【Length】words incl. endnotes vs. ~8,000 cap
【Abstract】~100 words, states the intervention? [Y/N]
【Keywords】5+ specific? [Y/N]
【Style】SAGE Harvard, consistent; jargon defined? [Y/N]
【Next】phg-submissionSupplementary resources
../../resources/worked-examples/01-introduction.md— before→after introduction in PiHG voice../../resources/official-source-map.md— caps, abstract, keywords, and style, with 待核实 markers
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Files
Just SKILL.md in Progress-in-Human-Geography-Skills/skills/phg-writing-style of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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Questions about Phg Writing Style
What does Phg Writing Style do?
A skill your agent uses when polishing a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) review essay to house style — the argument-forward review voice, SAGE Harvard referencing, the ~8,000-word inclusive cap…. Phg Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when polishing a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) review essay to house style — the argument-forward review voice, SAGE Harvard referencing, the ~8,000-word inclusive cap, ~100-word unstructured abstract, and 5+ keywords.
When should I use Phg Writing Style?
Phg Writing Style fits situations like: polishing a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) review essay to house style — the argument-forward review voice; SAGE Harvard referencing; 000-word inclusive cap; ~100-word unstructured abstract.
How do I install Phg Writing Style in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill phg-writing-style -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Progress-in-Human-Geography-Skills/skills/phg-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/phg-writing-style in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Phg Writing Style in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill phg-writing-style -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Progress-in-Human-Geography-Skills/skills/phg-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/phg-writing-style in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Phg Writing Style 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-writing-style -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-writing-style, .gemini/skills/phg-writing-style, .github/skills/phg-writing-style and .opencode/skills/phg-writing-style in your project.
What does Phg Writing Style need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Phg Writing Style is instructions for the agent only.
Does Phg Writing Style 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 Writing Style 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 Writing Style use?
Phg Writing Style 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 Writing Style use?
About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.3k 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 Writing Style?
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.