Agent skill

Psychrev Literature Positioning

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

A skill your agent uses when locating a Psychological Review manuscript within its theoretical conversation — naming the theories it extends and, above all, the rival models it must beat or subsume.

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Install Psychrev Literature Positioning

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills psychrev-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/Psychological-Review-Skills/skills/psychrev-literature-positioning .claude/skills/psychrev-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
psychrev-literature-positioning
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
521 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when locating a Psychological Review manuscript within its theoretical conversation — naming the theories it extends and, above all, the rival models it must beat or subsume.

  • Works in 3 steps: Subsumption — your theory recovers the… → Adjudication — two rivals conflict; your… → Extension into new territory — rivals…
  • Locating a Psychological Review manuscript within its theoretical conversation — naming the theories it extends and
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The core move: name the…, Three positioning stances… and Reading the conversation…, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Psychrev Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when locating a Psychological Review manuscript within its theoretical conversation — naming the theories it extends and, above all, the rival models it must beat or subsume. Positions the theory; it does NOT build the model (psychrev-theory-construction) or run the head-to-head prediction contrast (psychrev-argument-development).

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k 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

  • Locating a Psychological Review manuscript within its theoretical conversation — naming the theories it extends and
  • The rival models it must beat

Example prompts

  • “/psychrev-literature-positioning”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Subsumption — your theory recovers the rival as a special case and explains more. The
  2. Adjudication — two rivals conflict; your theory (or a formal contrast) settles which is
  3. Extension into new territory — rivals are silent on phenomena yours explains. Weaker

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

Psychrev Literature Positioning loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 92 tokens; SKILL.md has 521 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~92
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k

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). 521 words, ~1,126 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/psychrev-literature-positioning/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
psychrev-literature-positioning
description
Use when locating a Psychological Review manuscript within its theoretical conversation — naming the theories it extends and, above all, the rival models it must beat or subsume. Positions the theory; it does NOT build the model (psychrev-theory-construction) or run the head-to-head prediction contrast (psychrev-argument-development).

Literature Positioning (psychrev-literature-positioning)

When to trigger

  • The model is forming but you cannot name whose account you improve on
  • Reviewers (you anticipate) will ask "how is this different from [established model]?"
  • Your introduction cites broadly but engages no specific theory
  • You are unsure whether your idea is new or a re-derivation of a known model

The core move: name the rivals, not just the topic

At Psychological Review the central positioning question is not "what is the area?" but "which existing theories make claims about this explanandum, and what does yours do that they cannot?" Editors and reviewers are typically drawn from exactly the modeling tradition you enter. A paper that does not engage the standing models reads as unaware of its own field.

For each phenomenon in your explanandum, build a rival map:

Phenomenon (diagnostic)Rival theory/modelWhat it predictsWhere it fails / is silentYour account

The most persuasive Review papers select diagnostic phenomena — cases where rivals make different predictions — and show their theory gets these right while saying clearly where rivals do not. "Systematic evaluation of alternative theories" is in the journal's own scope statement; positioning is where that evaluation begins.

Three positioning stances (pick the honest one)

  1. Subsumption — your theory recovers the rival as a special case and explains more. The strongest stance; show the limiting condition under which yours reduces to theirs.
  2. Adjudication — two rivals conflict; your theory (or a formal contrast) settles which is right, or shows both are special cases of a deeper mechanism.
  3. Extension into new territory — rivals are silent on phenomena yours explains. Weaker unless the new territory is important and the rivals genuinely cannot be stretched to cover it.

Avoid the false-novelty stance ("no one has modeled this") when a standing model could be applied — a reviewer will apply it for you.

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Reading the conversation honestly

  • Cite the current state of each rival, not its 1990 form, if it has since been revised.
  • Represent rivals at their strongest (steelman). Beating a weak version is the classic reviewer complaint at this journal.
  • Distinguish a rival's core commitment from its implementational details; do not claim victory by defeating a replaceable detail.
  • Locate yourself relative to formal rivals where they exist — a verbal contrast with a formal model invites the question "but what does your model predict quantitatively?"

Checklist

  • Every diagnostic phenomenon has a named rival theory/model
  • The rival map states what each rival predicts and where it fails or is silent
  • Rivals are represented at their current, strongest form (steelmanned)
  • The positioning stance (subsumption / adjudication / extension) is explicit
  • Where a rival is formal, your contrast addresses it on formal terms
  • The "before → after" the field can do is implied and ready for contribution-framing

Anti-patterns

  • A topic-level literature review with no specific rival models named
  • Beating a strawman or an outdated version of a standing theory
  • Claiming "no one has done this" when an existing model obviously applies
  • Citing rivals only in the introduction, then never contrasting predictions
  • Confusing positioning (whose account) with contribution (what is new) — keep them separate
  • Ignoring formal rivals because your own theory is verbal

Output format

【Conversation】[the modeling tradition / theoretical debate entered]
【Rival map】[phenomenon → rival → its prediction → its failure → your account] (table)
【Stance】subsumption | adjudication | extension — with the limiting/diagnostic condition
【Steelman check】rivals stated at strongest, current form: yes / fix
【Next step】psychrev-theory-construction (if model not built) → psychrev-argument-development

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Psychological-Review-Skills/skills/psychrev-literature-positioning of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Psychrev Literature Positioning

What does Psychrev Literature Positioning do?

A skill your agent uses when locating a Psychological Review manuscript within its theoretical conversation — naming the theories it extends and, above all, the rival models it must beat or subsume. Psychrev Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when locating a Psychological Review manuscript within its theoretical conversation — naming the theories it extends and, above all, the rival models it must beat or subsume.

When should I use Psychrev Literature Positioning?

Psychrev Literature Positioning fits situations like: locating a Psychological Review manuscript within its theoretical conversation — naming the theories it extends and; the rival models it must beat.

How do I install Psychrev Literature Positioning in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Psychrev Literature Positioning in Codex?

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

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

What does Psychrev Literature Positioning need to run?

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

Does Psychrev 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 Psychrev 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 Psychrev Literature Positioning use?

Psychrev 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 Psychrev Literature Positioning use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.5k 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 Psychrev Literature Positioning?

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Who maintains Psychrev 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.