Agent skill

Popdevr Literature Positioning

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

A skill your agent uses when positioning a Population and Development Review (PDR, Wiley / Population Council) manuscript against the population-and-development literature so it reads as a…

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Install Popdevr Literature Positioning

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills popdevr-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/Population-and-Development-Review-Skills/skills/popdevr-literature-positioning .claude/skills/popdevr-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
popdevr-literature-positioning
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
607 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when positioning a Population and Development Review (PDR, Wiley / Population Council) manuscript against the population-and-development literature so it reads as a…

  • Works in 5 steps: Engage two conversations at once.… → Honor the synthetic tradition. PDR is… → Name the gap precisely. Not "little is… → …
  • Positioning a Population and Development Review (PDR
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, How PDR wants the literature…, Cross-field engagement (a… and Anti-patterns, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Popdevr Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when positioning a Population and Development Review (PDR, Wiley / Population Council) manuscript against the population-and-development literature so it reads as a broad-interest contribution. PDR readers span demography, economics, environment, and policy, so the paper must engage both the population-science conversation and the development debate it touches. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the lit review.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k 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

  • Positioning a Population and Development Review (PDR
  • Wiley / Population Council) manuscript against the population-and-development literature so it reads as a broad-interest contribution

Example prompts

  • “/popdevr-literature-positioning”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Engage two conversations at once. Identify the open question in population science (a
  2. Honor the synthetic tradition. PDR is famous for conceptual/synthetic essays that reorganize a
  3. Name the gap precisely. Not "little is known" — say what is mismeasured, undertheorized, or
  4. Position the contribution as a move. "Prior work attributes the trend to X; we show development
  5. Pre-empt the obvious objection. Reviewers are expert demographers and development scholars;

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

Popdevr Literature Positioning loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 114 tokens; SKILL.md has 607 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~114
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.4k

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). 607 words, ~1,446 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/popdevr-literature-positioning/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
popdevr-literature-positioning
description
Use when positioning a Population and Development Review (PDR, Wiley / Population Council) manuscript against the population-and-development literature so it reads as a broad-interest contribution. PDR readers span demography, economics, environment, and policy, so the paper must engage both the population-science conversation and the development debate it touches. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the lit review.

Literature Positioning (popdevr-literature-positioning)

PDR editors screen for whether a paper speaks to the relationships between population and social, economic, and environmental change and to policy — and whether it will interest a readership wider than one sub-discipline. A paper that engages only a narrow applied literature, or only formal demography, reads as off-fit. The goal is to place the paper where both population scientists and development/policy scholars can see the gap and the move.

When to trigger

  • Drafting or revising the introduction and the "contribution" paragraph
  • A reviewer said you "missed the development literature" or "this is just an applied estimate"
  • Your population analysis is solid but the paper does not connect to a development or policy debate
  • You need to distinguish your contribution from the closest prior population-and-development work

How PDR wants the literature engaged

  1. Engage two conversations at once. Identify the open question in population science (a contested trend, an unexplained gap, a measurement dispute) and the development/policy debate it bears on (growth, inequality, gender, climate, ageing systems). PDR's distinctive value is the bridge.
  2. Honor the synthetic tradition. PDR is famous for conceptual/synthetic essays that reorganize a field (proximate determinants, demographic transition theory, the second demographic transition). If your contribution is a framework, position it against the prior frameworks it revises, not a pile of empirical citations.
  3. Name the gap precisely. Not "little is known" — say what is mismeasured, undertheorized, or contested in the population-and-development record, and why resolving it matters for both audiences.
  4. Position the contribution as a move. "Prior work attributes the trend to X; we show development channel Y drives it" — or "the standard framing conflates A and B; we separate them and the policy implication flips."
  5. Pre-empt the obvious objection. Reviewers are expert demographers and development scholars; acknowledge the strongest rival explanation and say how the design adjudicates it (hand off to popdevr-research-design).

Cross-field engagement (a distinctive PDR demand)

If your paper is…also engage…
an estimate of a fertility/mortality/migration trendthe development or policy literature it bears on
a population–environment studythe climate/resource and the demographic literatures together
a synthetic/conceptual essaythe prior frameworks it revises, across fields
a single-country casethe comparative population-and-development theory it speaks to
an ageing/structure paperthe economic-growth, labor, or pension literature it informs
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Anti-patterns

  • A "literature dump" with no organizing population-and-development question
  • Engaging only formal demography (off-fit toward Demography/Population Studies) or only development economics (off-fit toward a development journal)
  • Strawmanning prior estimates or prior frameworks, or hiding the closest competitor
  • Self-citation that breaks double-anonymized review (strip self-identifying references — see popdevr-submission)
  • Claiming "first to study" when the contribution is incremental

Positioning pass for PDR

Run this as a concrete capability pass. First lock the population process, the development/policy linkage, the data and time scale, the selection/measurement issue, and the uncertainty; then test whether the manuscript addresses PDR's broad audience who inspect both the population evidence and its development meaning.

  • Primary move: Build a three-column map: incumbent conversation (population and development), unresolved tension, and this manuscript's delta; include one sibling-venue omission that would make a referee doubt the fit.
  • Decision ledger: return claim / evidence / blocker / next edit rows so the next pass can patch the manuscript directly.
  • Sibling comparison: compare against Demography and Population Studies (methods-forward), Population Research and Policy Review (applied policy), and Studies in Family Planning (programs); if a neighbor has the stronger audience claim, recommend re-routing before polishing.
  • Verification floor: before submission-ready advice, re-open resources/official-source-map.md for volatile rules and name the one unresolved fact that could change the recommendation.

Output format

【Conversation】the open population question + the development/policy debate it touches
【Key works】the 3-6 that define them (incl. prior frameworks if a synthetic essay)
【Gap】what is mismeasured / unexplained / contested across both
【Move】how this paper changes the population-and-development record or framing
【Strongest rival】and how the design will adjudicate it
【Next】popdevr-theory-building

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 Population-and-Development-Review-Skills/skills/popdevr-literature-positioning of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Popdevr Literature Positioning

What does Popdevr Literature Positioning do?

A skill your agent uses when positioning a Population and Development Review (PDR, Wiley / Population Council) manuscript against the population-and-development literature so it reads as a…. Popdevr Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when positioning a Population and Development Review (PDR, Wiley / Population Council) manuscript against the population-and-development literature so it reads as a broad-interest contribution.

When should I use Popdevr Literature Positioning?

Popdevr Literature Positioning fits situations like: positioning a Population and Development Review (PDR; wiley / Population Council) manuscript against the population-and-development literature so it reads as a broad-interest contribution.

How do I install Popdevr Literature Positioning in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Popdevr Literature Positioning in Codex?

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

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

What does Popdevr Literature Positioning need to run?

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

Does Popdevr 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 Popdevr 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 Popdevr Literature Positioning use?

Popdevr 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 Popdevr Literature Positioning use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.8k 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 Popdevr 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.

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.