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Ppsych Literature Synthesis

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

A skill your agent uses when systematically gathering and synthesizing literature across psychology sub-areas for a Perspectives on Psychological Science (PoPS) integrative review, theoretical…

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Ppsych Literature Synthesis

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ppsych-literature-synthesis --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/Perspectives-on-Psychological-Science-Skills/skills/ppsych-literature-synthesis .claude/skills/ppsych-literature-synthesis && 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
ppsych-literature-synthesis
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
639 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when systematically gathering and synthesizing literature across psychology sub-areas for a Perspectives on Psychological Science (PoPS) integrative review, theoretical…

  • Works in 5 steps: Seed set. Start from the proposal's key… → Forward + backward snowball. Backward:… → Database + keyword sweep. Search… → …
  • Theoretical statement
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Coverage discipline: read…, Meta-science: systematic… and From reading to synthesis (not…, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Ppsych Literature Synthesis is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when systematically gathering and synthesizing literature across psychology sub-areas for a Perspectives on Psychological Science (PoPS) integrative review, theoretical statement, or meta-science piece — coverage discipline, and for meta-science the systematic evidence about the field's practices. Builds the evidence corpus; it does not impose the analytical spine (ppsych-organizing-framework) or audit balance (ppsych-comprehensiveness-and-balance).

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k 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. 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

  • Theoretical statement
  • Meta-science piece — coverage discipline
  • For meta-science the systematic evidence about the fields practices

Example prompts

  • “/ppsych-literature-synthesis”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Seed set. Start from the proposal's key references and each sub-area's canonical pieces.
  2. Forward + backward snowball. Backward: every paper's reference list. Forward: who cites the seeds (Google Scholar / Scopus / Web of…
  3. Database + keyword sweep. Search PsycINFO/APA PsycNet, plus PubMed and discipline databases for adjacent fields (neuroscience, methods)…
  4. Preprints + adjacent fields. A current PoPS piece must include recent preprints (PsyArXiv) and the bordering literatures the argument…
  5. Saturation log. Record when each sub-area's search stops yielding new must-cite work — your evidence of comprehensiveness for…

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

Ppsych Literature Synthesis loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 121 tokens; SKILL.md has 639 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~121
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k

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). 639 words, ~1,552 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/ppsych-literature-synthesis/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
ppsych-literature-synthesis
description
Use when systematically gathering and synthesizing literature across psychology sub-areas for a Perspectives on Psychological Science (PoPS) integrative review, theoretical statement, or meta-science piece — coverage discipline, and for meta-science the systematic evidence about the field's practices. Builds the evidence corpus; it does not impose the analytical spine (ppsych-organizing-framework) or audit balance (ppsych-comprehensiveness-and-balance).

Literature Synthesis (ppsych-literature-synthesis)

When to trigger

  • The topic/proposal is set and it is time to read across the relevant sub-areas thoroughly
  • Reading feels unsystematic; you fear missing work a psychologist from an adjacent area would expect
  • You have many papers but no way to weigh, compare, or reconcile their findings across paradigms
  • For meta-science: you need systematic evidence about the field's practices, not just substantive findings

Coverage discipline: read across areas, not one literature

A PoPS piece's credibility rests on the reader's belief that you read across the relevant sub-areas, not only your home paradigm — and PoPS reviewers are often drawn from the very areas being integrated, so siloing is noticed. Build coverage systematically:

  1. Seed set. Start from the proposal's key references and each sub-area's canonical pieces.
  2. Forward + backward snowball. Backward: every paper's reference list. Forward: who cites the seeds (Google Scholar / Scopus / Web of Science). Iterate until new searches stop turning up unseen important work (saturation).
  3. Database + keyword sweep. Search PsycINFO/APA PsycNet, plus PubMed and discipline databases for adjacent fields (neuroscience, methods), by topic keywords and by the terms each sub-area uses for the same construct — different areas name the same phenomenon differently.
  4. Preprints + adjacent fields. A current PoPS piece must include recent preprints (PsyArXiv) and the bordering literatures the argument draws on, or referees flag staleness and siloing.
  5. Saturation log. Record when each sub-area's search stops yielding new must-cite work — your evidence of comprehensiveness for ppsych-comprehensiveness-and-balance.

Meta-science: systematic evidence about the field's practices

If the piece is meta-science (about replication, reporting, power, bias, or methods as practiced), the "literature" includes the field's outputs as data: prevalence of a practice, distributions of statistics, registered-report rates, sharing rates. Treat the search as a systematic protocol:

  • Pre-specify the sampling frame (journals, years, article filter) and inclusion/exclusion rules — ideally preregistered (see ppsych-transparency-and-reproducibility).
  • Pilot and document the coding scheme (what counts as a preregistration, an open-data badge, an underpowered design).
  • Report search dates, hit counts, and screening outcomes (a PRISMA-style flow) so a reader can audit the corpus.
  • Plan double-coding and inter-rater reliability for any subjective extraction.
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From reading to synthesis (not summary)

Summarizing restates each paper; synthesizing makes papers from different areas talk to each other. Maintain an evidence matrix:

ColumnWhat to capture
Studyauthor–year, the result/claim you will cite it for
Sub-area / constructwhich area + how it operationalizes the construct (so non-comparable work is not pooled)
Method/sampledesign and sample (so you can weight credibility)
Findingdirection + magnitude (effect sizes/CIs where available)
Credibilityidentification, power, replication status — your appraisal
Tensionwhich other studies/areas it agrees or conflicts with, and why

This matrix feeds the organizing framework, the summary exhibits, and the even-handed treatment of controversies. You appraise the primary work; you do not re-run it (unless the piece is a meta-analysis with a superordinate message — then its data/code must be reproducible).

Checklist

  • Seed set drawn from each sub-area's canonical pieces + proposal references
  • Forward and backward snowball iterated to saturation in every sub-area
  • PsycINFO/PsycNet + adjacent databases swept by keyword and each area's construct terms
  • Recent preprints (PsyArXiv) and bordering literatures included (no staleness, no silo)
  • Saturation log records where each area's searches stopped yielding new must-cites
  • Meta-science: sampling frame + coding scheme pre-specified (ideally preregistered); PRISMA-style flow
  • Evidence matrix captures construct + method + finding + credibility + cross-area tension
  • Non-comparable constructs flagged as such (not pooled into a false "the literature finds…")

Anti-patterns

  • Citing from one's home paradigm only (predictable cross-area gaps the integrated areas will spot)
  • Summarizing paper-by-paper instead of synthesizing across areas
  • Pooling studies that measure different constructs into one "the field finds…" claim
  • Ignoring preprints (looks stale) or adjacent fields (looks siloed) in a broad journal
  • Meta-science with an undocumented, unreplicable search — the reform critique applies to your own piece
  • Re-running or "correcting" primary studies in a non-meta-analytic review — you appraise, you don't re-estimate

Output format

text
【Seed set】<canonical pieces per sub-area + proposal references>
【Snowball status】backward/forward iterated to saturation across areas? Y/N
【Databases swept】PsycINFO/PsycNet + adjacent — by keyword + construct terms? Y/N
【Preprints + adjacency】PsyArXiv + bordering literatures included? Y/N
【Meta-science protocol】sampling frame + coding scheme pre-specified; PRISMA flow? Y/N · N/A
【Saturation evidence】<where searches stopped yielding new must-cites>
【Evidence matrix】rows ready with construct / method / finding / appraisal / tension? Y/N
【Coverage risks】<any area/author an omission referee could name>
【Next step】→ ppsych-organizing-framework (impose the analytical spine on the matrix)

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Perspectives-on-Psychological-Science-Skills/skills/ppsych-literature-synthesis of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Ppsych Literature Synthesis

What does Ppsych Literature Synthesis do?

A skill your agent uses when systematically gathering and synthesizing literature across psychology sub-areas for a Perspectives on Psychological Science (PoPS) integrative review, theoretical…. Ppsych Literature Synthesis is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when systematically gathering and synthesizing literature across psychology sub-areas for a Perspectives on Psychological Science (PoPS) integrative review, theoretical statement, or meta-science piece — coverage discipline, and for meta-science the systematic evidence about the field's practices.

When should I use Ppsych Literature Synthesis?

Ppsych Literature Synthesis fits situations like: theoretical statement; meta-science piece — coverage discipline; for meta-science the systematic evidence about the fields practices.

How do I install Ppsych Literature Synthesis in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ppsych-literature-synthesis -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Perspectives-on-Psychological-Science-Skills/skills/ppsych-literature-synthesis in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/ppsych-literature-synthesis in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Ppsych Literature Synthesis in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ppsych-literature-synthesis -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Perspectives-on-Psychological-Science-Skills/skills/ppsych-literature-synthesis in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/ppsych-literature-synthesis in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Ppsych Literature Synthesis 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 ppsych-literature-synthesis -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/ppsych-literature-synthesis, .gemini/skills/ppsych-literature-synthesis, .github/skills/ppsych-literature-synthesis and .opencode/skills/ppsych-literature-synthesis in your project.

What does Ppsych Literature Synthesis need to run?

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

Does Ppsych Literature Synthesis 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 Ppsych Literature Synthesis 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 Ppsych Literature Synthesis use?

Ppsych Literature Synthesis 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 Ppsych Literature Synthesis use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.2k 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 Ppsych Literature Synthesis?

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.