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Audit and rewrite content to remove AI writing patterns ("AI-isms").
A skill your agent uses when polishing a Psychological Review manuscript to APA house style and theory-paper register — mechanism-first prose, model vocabulary, no empirical-report framing.
Install Psychrev Writing Style
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill psychrev-writing-style -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills psychrev-writing-style --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ 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-writing-style .claude/skills/psychrev-writing-style && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "psychrev-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Psychological-Review-Skills/skills/psychrev-writing-style into .claude/skills/psychrev-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "psychrev-writing-style", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Psychological-Review-Skills/skills/psychrev-writing-styleType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill psychrev-writing-style -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills psychrev-writing-style --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/Psychological-Review-Skills/skills/psychrev-writing-style .agents/skills/psychrev-writing-style && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "psychrev-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Psychological-Review-Skills/skills/psychrev-writing-style into .agents/skills/psychrev-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "psychrev-writing-style", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill psychrev-writing-style -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills psychrev-writing-style --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/Psychological-Review-Skills/skills/psychrev-writing-style .cursor/skills/psychrev-writing-style && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "psychrev-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Psychological-Review-Skills/skills/psychrev-writing-style into .cursor/skills/psychrev-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "psychrev-writing-style", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git --path Psychological-Review-Skills/skills/psychrev-writing-style--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill psychrev-writing-style -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills psychrev-writing-style --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/Psychological-Review-Skills/skills/psychrev-writing-style .gemini/skills/psychrev-writing-style && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "psychrev-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Psychological-Review-Skills/skills/psychrev-writing-style into .gemini/skills/psychrev-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "psychrev-writing-style", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills psychrev-writing-styleInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill psychrev-writing-style -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/Psychological-Review-Skills/skills/psychrev-writing-style .github/skills/psychrev-writing-style && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "psychrev-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Psychological-Review-Skills/skills/psychrev-writing-style into .github/skills/psychrev-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "psychrev-writing-style", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill psychrev-writing-style -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills psychrev-writing-style --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/Psychological-Review-Skills/skills/psychrev-writing-style .opencode/skills/psychrev-writing-style && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "psychrev-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Psychological-Review-Skills/skills/psychrev-writing-style into .opencode/skills/psychrev-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "psychrev-writing-style", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
psychrev-writing-style- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1.2k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 514 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 2,387
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
A skill your agent uses when polishing a Psychological Review manuscript to APA house style and theory-paper register — mechanism-first prose, model vocabulary, no empirical-report framing.
- Polishing a Psychological Review manuscript to APA house style and theory-paper register — mechanism-first prose
- SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The Psychological Review…, Register: the vocabulary is… and APA house-style essentials, plus 3 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
- Model vocabulary
What it does
Psychrev Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when polishing a Psychological Review manuscript to APA house style and theory-paper register — mechanism-first prose, model vocabulary, no empirical-report framing. A late-stage polish; it does NOT build the theory (psychrev-theory-construction) or derive its predictions (psychrev-argument-development).
Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k 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
- Polishing a Psychological Review manuscript to APA house style and theory-paper register — mechanism-first prose
- Model vocabulary
- No empirical-report framing
Example prompts
- “/psychrev-writing-style”
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 Writing Style loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 83 tokens; SKILL.md has 514 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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). 514 words, ~1,249 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/psychrev-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- psychrev-writing-style
- description
- Use when polishing a Psychological Review manuscript to APA house style and theory-paper register — mechanism-first prose, model vocabulary, no empirical-report framing. A late-stage polish; it does NOT build the theory (psychrev-theory-construction) or derive its predictions (psychrev-argument-development).
Writing Style: APA Theory-Paper Register (psychrev-writing-style)
Polish after the derivations stand up (
psychrev-argument-development) and the contribution is differentiated (psychrev-contribution-framing). Prose cannot rescue a theory whose logic does not hold.
When to trigger
- The theory, derivations, and figures are in place; the draft needs its final voice
- The prose reads like a literature review or an empirical report, not a theoretical argument
- You are unsure of APA conventions for a theory paper with no methods/results
- Reviewers (anticipated) will say "well written but I can't find the argument"
The Psychological Review introduction arc
A Review introduction moves: the phenomenon/tension → the standing theories and what they
cannot do → the move this paper makes (the model/mechanism) → the contribution, stated early
→ a brief roadmap. State what the paper delivers within the first page or two; do not bury
the theoretical move under a survey. The arc is the same disciplined shape used in the worked
example in resources/worked-examples/01-introduction.md.
Register: the vocabulary is theory, not data
The single most common tell of a wrong-register draft is empirical vocabulary. At Psychological Review you write about a model, its assumptions, mechanisms, parameters, predictions, and scope — not about "the study," "we found," "results," "significant," or "p < .05" (you ran no experiment). Existing data are evidence the model confronts, never the contribution.
| Avoid (empirical register) | Use (theory register) |
|---|---|
| "We found that..." | "The model predicts / entails that..." |
| "Our results show..." | "The derivation shows... / Simulation shows..." |
| "was significant (p < .05)" | "the predicted ordering holds / the signature appears" |
| "we ran a study / experiment" | "we derive... / we simulate... / existing data show..." |
| "limitation of this study" | "boundary condition of the theory" |
| "future research should test" | "the theory makes the falsifiable prediction that..." |
Show full SKILL.md (237 more words)Show less
APA house-style essentials
- APA 7th-edition formatting: double-spaced, 12-pt, 1-inch margins, author–date citations, full reference list (verify the current edition on the author page; 检索于 2026-06；以官网为准).
- Abstract within the journal's limit (250 words, verify) — state the problem, the theoretical move, and the contribution; no data/results language.
- Define every construct/parameter on first use and use the term consistently thereafter (construct clarity, in the spirit of APA theory-paper norms).
- Equations numbered and referenced in text; notation defined at first use and kept consistent.
- Plain, precise, mechanism-first sentences; avoid hedging chains and decorative jargon.
- Headings organize by theory, not by IMRaD — there is no Method or Results section; typical spine is problem → model → derivations/confrontation → scope → general discussion.
Checklist
- Introduction follows phenomenon/tension → standing theories' gap → the move → contribution-early → roadmap
- No empirical-report vocabulary ("we found," "results," "significant," "study")
- Existing data framed as evidence the model confronts, never as the contribution
- Every construct/parameter defined on first use and used consistently
- Equations numbered; notation defined and consistent
- Abstract within the limit; states problem, move, contribution; no results language
- APA 7th citations/references; headings organized by theory, not IMRaD
Anti-patterns
- A dictionary/survey opening ("X has been studied extensively...") instead of the tension
- Empirical-report register in a theory paper (the wrong-journal tell)
- Burying the contribution on page 10 under a literature review
- Inconsistent notation or undefined parameters
- Decorative formalism — equations that add symbols but no theoretical content
- Over-signposted roadmaps doing the work the argument should do
Output format
【Intro arc】tension → standing-theory gap → the move → contribution-early → roadmap: yes / fix
【Register】no empirical vocabulary; data = evidence, not contribution: yes / fix
【Definitions/notation】constructs & parameters defined once, used consistently: yes / fix
【APA】7th-ed citations; abstract ≤ limit; theory-organized headings: yes / fix
【Next step】psychrev-submission (Editorial Manager preflight)© 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 Psychological-Review-Skills/skills/psychrev-writing-style of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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Questions about Psychrev Writing Style
What does Psychrev Writing Style do?
A skill your agent uses when polishing a Psychological Review manuscript to APA house style and theory-paper register — mechanism-first prose, model vocabulary, no empirical-report framing. Psychrev Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when polishing a Psychological Review manuscript to APA house style and theory-paper register — mechanism-first prose, model vocabulary, no empirical-report framing.
When should I use Psychrev Writing Style?
Psychrev Writing Style fits situations like: polishing a Psychological Review manuscript to APA house style and theory-paper register — mechanism-first prose; model vocabulary; no empirical-report framing.
How do I install Psychrev Writing Style in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill psychrev-writing-style -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Psychological-Review-Skills/skills/psychrev-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/psychrev-writing-style in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Psychrev Writing Style in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill psychrev-writing-style -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Psychological-Review-Skills/skills/psychrev-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/psychrev-writing-style in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Psychrev 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 psychrev-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/psychrev-writing-style, .gemini/skills/psychrev-writing-style, .github/skills/psychrev-writing-style and .opencode/skills/psychrev-writing-style in your project.
What does Psychrev Writing Style need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Psychrev Writing Style is instructions for the agent only.
Does Psychrev 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 Psychrev 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 Psychrev Writing Style use?
Psychrev 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 Psychrev Writing Style use?
About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 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 Writing Style?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Psychrev 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 Psychrev 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.