Agent skill

Ppsych Organizing Framework

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

A skill your agent uses when imposing an analytical or conceptual structure on a body of psychology research for a Perspectives on Psychological Science (PoPS) integrative review or theoretical…

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Install Ppsych Organizing Framework

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

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

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

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when imposing an analytical or conceptual structure on a body of psychology research for a Perspectives on Psychological Science (PoPS) integrative review or theoretical…

  • Imposing an analytical
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Why the spine is the whole…, The test of a good framework and For theoretical statements…, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Conceptual structure on a body of psychology research for a Perspectives on Psychological Science (PoPS) integrative review

What it does

Ppsych Organizing Framework is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when imposing an analytical or conceptual structure on a body of psychology research for a Perspectives on Psychological Science (PoPS) integrative review or theoretical statement — the unifying argument or "spine" that turns a reading list into a claim about the field. Designs the framework; it does not gather the literature (ppsych-literature-synthesis) 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.

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

  • Imposing an analytical
  • Conceptual structure on a body of psychology research for a Perspectives on Psychological Science (PoPS) integrative review
  • Theoretical statement — the unifying argument
  • Spine that turns a reading list into a claim about the field

Example prompts

  • “/ppsych-organizing-framework”

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 Organizing Framework loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 112 tokens; SKILL.md has 705 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~112
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). 705 words, ~1,550 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/ppsych-organizing-framework/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
ppsych-organizing-framework
description
Use when imposing an analytical or conceptual structure on a body of psychology research for a Perspectives on Psychological Science (PoPS) integrative review or theoretical statement — the unifying argument or "spine" that turns a reading list into a claim about the field. Designs the framework; it does not gather the literature (ppsych-literature-synthesis) or audit balance (ppsych-comprehensiveness-and-balance).

Organizing Framework — the Argument's Spine (ppsych-organizing-framework)

When to trigger

  • The evidence matrix is built but the draft would read like a list of papers
  • Sections are named after topics ("Behavioral studies", "Neuro work") rather than ideas
  • A reader could not predict what comes next or why papers are grouped as they are
  • You cannot state in one sentence the argument or unifying claim the piece makes about the field

Why the spine is the whole game at PoPS

The most-cited reason integrative reviews fail is that they are annotated bibliographies — paper-after-paper summaries with no organizing idea. A great PoPS piece imposes a structure the field did not have: a taxonomy, a unifying theory, a sequence of questions, or a reframing that makes scattered cross-area work legible and provocative. The framework is the contribution; the citations are the evidence. PoPS's breadth mandate raises the bar: the spine must be graspable by a psychologist from a different area on one read, and it should reframe, not merely organize. Choose it deliberately:

Spine typeOrganizes the field byBest when
Taxonomymutually-exclusive categories of mechanism/phenomenonthe field is fragmented into incommensurable camps
Unifying theory/modela framework whose constructs index the studiesresults disagree because they tap different parts of one structure
Question sequencea logical chain of sub-questionsthe field has a natural "first establish X, then Y" order
Paradigm/historicalhow thinking evolved and whythe evolution of ideas is itself the lesson
Reframe / inversionoverturning a default assumption the field holdsthe contribution is a provocation ("the field has it backwards")
Meta-science mappractices vs. outcomes (e.g., power × replicability)the piece is about how the field works, not what it finds

Pick one primary spine; a second axis can order papers within a section, but a piece with two competing spines reads as two papers.

The test of a good framework

  • Exhaustive + exclusive (MECE-ish): every important paper has exactly one natural home, and categories do not bleed.
  • Generative: the framework predicts gaps — empty cells are open questions, not omissions (PoPS prizes the forward agenda).
  • Reconciling: apparent contradictions become explained (studies disagree because they sit in different cells / tap different constructs).
  • Portable + provocative: a psychologist from another area can restate the spine after one read and feels the reframing is worth arguing about.

Stress-test by placing 5 hard cases (papers that resist categorization). If three have no home, the spine is wrong — redesign before drafting.

The spine is also what lets a PoPS piece be selective without being incomplete: once each cell is defined, confirmatory studies can be cited in clusters within their cell while the prose carries only the cell-defining work and the argument. This is how you honor cross-area coverage while staying concise. Design the spine before deciding what to foreground.

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For theoretical statements specifically

When the contribution is the theory (not a review of one), the framework section is the paper. Make the constructs and their relations explicit; state the assumptions; derive what the theory predicts that rival accounts do not; and specify what evidence would falsify it. A theoretical statement that cannot be wrong is not a contribution — name the discriminating tests.

Checklist

  • One primary spine chosen (taxonomy / theory / question-sequence / paradigm / reframe / meta-science map)
  • The piece's one-sentence argument about the field is written
  • Every category traces to evidence-matrix rows (no empty rhetorical buckets)
  • The framework reconciles at least one apparent contradiction across areas
  • Empty cells surfaced as open questions (generativity — the future agenda)
  • 5 hard-case papers each have a natural home
  • Section headings name ideas/mechanisms, not "theory vs. empirical"
  • A psychologist from another area could restate the spine and slot a new paper into it
  • (Theoretical statement) assumptions, novel predictions, and falsifying evidence are explicit

Anti-patterns

  • The annotated bibliography: paper-by-paper summaries with no organizing idea (the cardinal review sin)
  • Sections named "Theory", "Evidence", "Other" — categories with no analytical content
  • A taxonomy whose categories overlap so every paper is cited three times in three places
  • Two competing spines fighting for control of the same piece
  • A framework so bespoke only the author can apply it (fails PoPS's cross-area test)
  • Hiding the contribution: never stating, in one sentence, what the piece argues about the field
  • A theoretical statement that makes no falsifiable, discriminating prediction

Output format

text
【Spine type】taxonomy / unifying-theory / question-sequence / paradigm / reframe / meta-science-map
【Argument about the field】"<one sentence the piece makes>"
【Categories】<the cells / sub-questions, each MECE>
【Reconciliation】<which cross-area contradiction the framework explains>
【Open questions】<empty cells surfaced as the future agenda>
【Hard-case test】5 awkward papers each placed? Y/N
【Portability + provocation】another-area psychologist can restate it; worth arguing about? Y/N
【Theory (if applicable)】assumptions + novel predictions + falsifiers explicit? Y/N · N/A
【Next step】→ ppsych-comprehensiveness-and-balance (fill cells fairly; audit coverage + balance)

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Files

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

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Ppsych Organizing Framework

What does Ppsych Organizing Framework do?

A skill your agent uses when imposing an analytical or conceptual structure on a body of psychology research for a Perspectives on Psychological Science (PoPS) integrative review or theoretical…. Ppsych Organizing Framework is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when imposing an analytical or conceptual structure on a body of psychology research for a Perspectives on Psychological Science (PoPS) integrative review or theoretical statement — the unifying argument or "spine" that turns a reading list into a claim about the field.

When should I use Ppsych Organizing Framework?

Ppsych Organizing Framework fits situations like: imposing an analytical; conceptual structure on a body of psychology research for a Perspectives on Psychological Science (PoPS) integrative review; theoretical statement — the unifying argument; spine that turns a reading list into a claim about the field.

How do I install Ppsych Organizing Framework in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Ppsych Organizing Framework in Codex?

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

Can I use Ppsych Organizing Framework 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-organizing-framework -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-organizing-framework, .gemini/skills/ppsych-organizing-framework, .github/skills/ppsych-organizing-framework and .opencode/skills/ppsych-organizing-framework in your project.

What does Ppsych Organizing Framework need to run?

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

Does Ppsych Organizing Framework 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 Organizing Framework 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 Organizing Framework use?

Ppsych Organizing Framework 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 Organizing Framework 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 Organizing Framework?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,219 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

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