New: 98,000+ skills indexed from GitHub repos with 100+ stars · every skill safety-checkedBrowse top skillsTop skills
Esc to closeBrowse all skills
Submit a skillBrowse skills
Submit a skillBrowse skills

Agent skill

Ppsych Writing Style

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

A skill your agent uses when revising a Perspectives on Psychological Science (PoPS) piece for the PoPS voice — broad, provocative, accessible to psychologists outside the subfield, signposted, with…

MITAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Ppsych Writing Style

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ppsych-writing-style --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-writing-style .claude/skills/ppsych-writing-style && 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-writing-style
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
700 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when revising a Perspectives on Psychological Science (PoPS) piece for the PoPS voice — broad, provocative, accessible to psychologists outside the subfield, signposted, with…

  • Works in 4 steps: Provocative + agenda-setting. PoPS… → Accessible across areas. Technical… → Signposted. A broad piece needs a map:… → …
  • Revising a Perspectives on Psychological Science (PoPS) piece for the PoPS voice — broad
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The PoPS voice: broad +…, The perspective opening arc and The forward-looking close, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Ppsych Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when revising a Perspectives on Psychological Science (PoPS) piece for the PoPS voice — broad, provocative, accessible to psychologists outside the subfield, signposted, with a strong opening, a forward-looking close, an APA reference style, and a ≤200-word review-style abstract. Polishes prose and structure; it does not design the framework (ppsych-organizing-framework) or appraise evidence (ppsych-comprehensiveness-and-balance).

Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k 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

  • Revising a Perspectives on Psychological Science (PoPS) piece for the PoPS voice — broad
  • Accessible to psychologists outside the subfield
  • With a strong opening
  • A forward-looking close

Example prompts

  • “/ppsych-writing-style”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Provocative + agenda-setting. PoPS prizes pieces that reframe and instigate lasting impact, not ones that merely summarize. The reader…
  2. Accessible across areas. Technical machinery is explained intuition-first, notation/method-second; jargon from the home paradigm is…
  3. Signposted. A broad piece needs a map: section architecture that mirrors the spine, plus periodic "where we are / where we go next" cues…
  4. Synthesis prose, not summary prose. Sentences make papers and areas talk to each other ("Whereas the cognitive work finds…, the…

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 Writing Style loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 115 tokens; SKILL.md has 700 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~115
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.5k

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). 700 words, ~1,507 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/ppsych-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
ppsych-writing-style
description
Use when revising a Perspectives on Psychological Science (PoPS) piece for the PoPS voice — broad, provocative, accessible to psychologists outside the subfield, signposted, with a strong opening, a forward-looking close, an APA reference style, and a ≤200-word review-style abstract. Polishes prose and structure; it does not design the framework (ppsych-organizing-framework) or appraise evidence (ppsych-comprehensiveness-and-balance).

PoPS Writing Style — the Perspective Voice (ppsych-writing-style)

When to trigger

  • The framework and balance are settled and it is time to make the piece read well
  • A psychologist from an adjacent area would get lost or bored in the current draft
  • The opening buries the argument under machinery, methods, or throat-clearing
  • The abstract reads like an empirical-paper abstract ("we found…") rather than a perspective abstract

The PoPS voice: broad + provocative + accessible

A PoPS piece is read by psychologists outside the subfield — smart, but not specialists here. The voice is a trusted, fair expert making a big-picture argument to a colleague from another area. Four qualities define it:

  1. Provocative + agenda-setting. PoPS prizes pieces that reframe and instigate lasting impact, not ones that merely summarize. The reader should feel a claim worth arguing about, stated plainly and early. Provocation is earned by evidence and balance, never by hot takes.
  2. Accessible across areas. Technical machinery is explained intuition-first, notation/method-second; jargon from the home paradigm is defined or avoided. This bar is sharper than at a specialist journal: the defining reader is the outsider, and a piece only one area can follow has missed PoPS's mandate.
  3. Signposted. A broad piece needs a map: section architecture that mirrors the spine, plus periodic "where we are / where we go next" cues so the reader never loses the thread.
  4. Synthesis prose, not summary prose. Sentences make papers and areas talk to each other ("Whereas the cognitive work finds…, the developmental evidence suggests…"), not march paper-by-paper.

The perspective opening arc

A PoPS introduction differs from an empirical-paper intro:

frame the question (what is at stake for the field broadly) → why now (new evidence / method shift / reform debate) → the claim and the spine (the reframing the reader will be given) → what the piece concludes and the open agenda (the payoff, stated up front) → roadmap (brief).

State the bottom line early. A perspective that withholds its claim to the end wastes the outsider's time and reads as indecisive.

The forward-looking close

PoPS prizes the future-agenda ending: the empty cells of the framework become a concrete agenda — what we do not yet know, what evidence would resolve it, which methods or practices the field should adopt. A PoPS piece that ends with "more research is needed" has wasted its most valuable section; name the specific open questions and the call to action.

The abstract

The abstract is ≤ 200 words (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准) and describes what the piece does for the reader — the question, why a synthesis/argument now, the organizing idea, the headline take-home — not a single finding. Avoid "we found an effect of…"; that is an empirical-paper abstract.

Show full SKILL.md (260 more words)Show less

House style notes

PoPS is a SAGE/APS journal; manuscripts follow APA style for references, statistics, and exhibits (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准 — confirm the current APA edition and any house deviations on the SAGE author pages). There is no strict page limit for stand-alone articles, but concise pieces get more readership and impact — length is a privilege, and every section must earn its pages by advancing the argument about the field. Brief reports have their own limit (1,000–1,500 words) (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准).

Checklist

  • Opening follows the arc: frame → why now → claim + spine → conclusions + open agenda → roadmap
  • Bottom-line claim stated early, not withheld to the end
  • Technical material introduced intuition-first; home-paradigm jargon defined or avoided
  • Section architecture mirrors the spine; periodic signposting present
  • Prose synthesizes (papers/areas in dialogue), not summarizes (paper-by-paper)
  • The provocation/reframe is explicit and evidence-backed, not a hot take
  • The close names a concrete future agenda / call to action, not "more research is needed"
  • Abstract ≤ 200 words, perspective-style (contribution to reader), not a single finding
  • APA reference/stat style applied; length kept concise; a psychologist from another area can follow

Anti-patterns

  • The annotated-bibliography drone: "Smith (2010) found… Jones (2012) found…" with no connective argument
  • Opening with method/notation before the field's question and the stakes
  • Withholding the piece's claim until the final section
  • Home-paradigm jargon that locks out the cross-area reader (PoPS's defining audience)
  • An empirical-paper abstract ("we found d = 0.4") on a perspective, or an abstract over 200 words
  • A limp "more research is needed" ending instead of a specific agenda
  • Provocation without evidence (a hot take) — the opposite failure from neutrality-as-evasion

Output format

text
【Opening arc】frame → why-now → claim+spine → conclusions+agenda → roadmap? Y/N
【Bottom line early】claim stated up front? Y/N
【Accessibility】intuition-first; jargon controlled; another-area psychologist can follow? Y/N
【Signposting】architecture mirrors spine; periodic cues? Y/N
【Synthesis prose】papers/areas in dialogue, not listed? Y/N
【Provocation】reframe explicit and evidence-backed (not a hot take)? Y/N
【Forward agenda】close names concrete open questions / call to action? Y/N
【Abstract】≤ 200 words, perspective-style? Y/N
【Style】APA references/stats; concise? Y/N
【Next step】→ ppsych-transparency-and-reproducibility → ppsych-editor-strategy

© 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 Perspectives-on-Psychological-Science-Skills/skills/ppsych-writing-style of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

Compare with similar skills

Ppsych Writing Style next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

Ppsych Writing Style compared with similar skills
SkillStarsUsed inTokensAuto-checkLicenceRepo updated
Ppsych Writing Style this skillbrycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills1.2k—~1.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Avoid AI Writingconorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing4.9k3 repos~8.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
BrandOhh-889/skyroc79513 repos~733Automated safety check: PassMIT
Khazix WeChat Article WriterKKKKhazix/khazix-skills21k1 repos~2.9kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Writing Guidelinesvercel-labs/agent-skills32k7 repos~309Automated safety check: PassNone
Unslop AI Writing Cleanuptheclaymethod/unslop518—~1.7kAutomated safety check: PassMIT

Similar skills

  • Avoid AI Writing

    conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing

    Audit and rewrite content to remove AI writing patterns ("AI-isms").

    4.9k GitHub starsUsed in 3 repos~8.1k tokens
    Writing & ContentAuto-check passed

  • Brand

    Ohh-889/skyroc

    Brand voice, visual identity, messaging frameworks, asset management, brand consistency.

    795 GitHub starsUsed in 13 repos~733 tokens
    Writing & ContentAuto-check passed

  • Khazix WeChat Article Writer

    KKKKhazix/khazix-skills

    Writes long-form WeChat official account articles in the personal style of the Khazix account, from briefs, links, PDFs or rough notes, with a topic quality check.

    21k GitHub starsUsed in 1 repo~2.9k tokens
    Writing & ContentAuto-check passed

  • Writing Guidelines

    vercel-labs/agent-skills

    Official

    Review docs/prose for Writing Guidelines compliance. An agent skill from vercel-labs/agent-skills.

    32k GitHub starsUsed in 7 repos~309 tokens
    Writing & ContentAuto-check passed

  • Unslop AI Writing Cleanup

    theclaymethod/unslop

    Removes AI writing tells from prose through an audit-first flow, routing to a two-pass rewrite, a report-only cleanup, voice teaching or mimicry depending on the sub-command used.

    518 GitHub stars~1.7k tokensUpdated 1 mo ago
    Writing & ContentAuto-check passed

  • UX Writing

    content-designer/ux-writing-skill

    Applies UX writing practice to interface copy such as buttons, errors, forms and onboarding, using four quality standards and accessibility guidance.

    224 GitHub starsUsed in 1 repo~3.8k tokens
    Writing & ContentAuto-check passed

More from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

All 2,387 skills in this repo

  • Aaag Data Analysis

    brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

    A skill your agent uses when running and reporting the analysis for an Annals of the American Association of Geographers manuscript — spatial statistics and modeling, remote-sensing accuracy, or…

    1.2k GitHub stars~1.3k tokensUpdated 14 days ago
    Auto-check passed

  • Aaag Literature Positioning

    brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

    A skill your agent uses when positioning an Annals of the American Association of Geographers manuscript in the literature — engaging geographic scholarship across the relevant area and the…

    1.2k GitHub stars~1.3k tokensUpdated 14 days ago
    Auto-check passed

  • Aaag Rebuttal

    brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

    A skill your agent uses when responding to an Annals of the American Association of Geographers decision letter (major/minor revision) — building a point-by-point response to the subject editor and…

    1.2k GitHub stars~1.4k tokensUpdated 14 days ago
    Auto-check passed

  • Aaag Research Design

    brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

    A skill your agent uses when defending the research design of an Annals of the American Association of Geographers manuscript — spatial/quantitative analysis and GIScience, remote-sensing and…

    1.2k GitHub stars~1.4k tokensUpdated 14 days ago
    Auto-check passed

  • Aaag Review Process

    brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

    A skill your agent uses when you need to understand how the Annals of the American Association of Geographers evaluates a manuscript — double-anonymous review routed through a subject editor by…

    1.2k GitHub stars~1.3k tokensUpdated 14 days ago
    Auto-check passed

  • Aaag Submission

    brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

    A skill your agent uses when running the final pre-submission preflight for the Annals of the American Association of Geographers via ScholarOne Manuscripts — area/article-type selection…

    1.2k GitHub stars~1.6k tokensUpdated 14 days ago
    Auto-check passed

Categories

Questions about Ppsych Writing Style

What does Ppsych Writing Style do?

A skill your agent uses when revising a Perspectives on Psychological Science (PoPS) piece for the PoPS voice — broad, provocative, accessible to psychologists outside the subfield, signposted, with…. Ppsych Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when revising a Perspectives on Psychological Science (PoPS) piece for the PoPS voice — broad, provocative, accessible to psychologists outside the subfield, signposted, with a strong opening, a forward-looking close, an APA reference style, and a ≤200-word review-style abstract.

When should I use Ppsych Writing Style?

Ppsych Writing Style fits situations like: revising a Perspectives on Psychological Science (PoPS) piece for the PoPS voice — broad; accessible to psychologists outside the subfield; with a strong opening; A forward-looking close.

How do I install Ppsych Writing Style in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Ppsych Writing Style in Codex?

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

Can I use Ppsych 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 ppsych-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/ppsych-writing-style, .gemini/skills/ppsych-writing-style, .github/skills/ppsych-writing-style and .opencode/skills/ppsych-writing-style in your project.

What does Ppsych Writing Style need to run?

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

Does Ppsych 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 Ppsych 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 Ppsych Writing Style use?

Ppsych 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 Ppsych Writing Style use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Ppsych Writing Style?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Ppsych Writing Style: Avoid AI Writing (conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing, 4.9k stars), Brand (Ohh-889/skyroc, 795 stars), Khazix WeChat Article Writer (KKKKhazix/khazix-skills, 21k stars) and Writing Guidelines (vercel-labs/agent-skills, 32k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Ppsych 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.