Agent skill

Pubar Literature Positioning

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

A skill your agent uses when positioning a Public Administration Review (PAR) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a field-wide contribution that also informs practice.

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Install Pubar Literature Positioning

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills pubar-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/Public-Administration-Review-Skills/skills/pubar-literature-positioning .claude/skills/pubar-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
pubar-literature-positioning
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
603 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when positioning a Public Administration Review (PAR) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a field-wide contribution that also informs practice.

  • Works in 5 steps: Engage the live PA debate, not a pile of… → Two audiences at once. Satisfy PA… → Name the gap precisely. Not "little is… → …
  • Tasks that involve Positioning and messaging
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, How PAR wants the literature…, Cross-subfield engagement (a… and Don't drift to a sibling…, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Pubar Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when positioning a Public Administration Review (PAR) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a field-wide contribution that also informs practice. PAR readers span public management, governance, and the practitioner community, so the paper must engage the core PA debates and not just one niche. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the lit review.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k 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

  • Tasks that involve Positioning and messaging

Example prompts

  • “/pubar-literature-positioning”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Engage the live PA debate, not a pile of citations. Identify the open question your paper
  2. Two audiences at once. Satisfy PA scholars (you know the frontier) and the field's
  3. Name the gap precisely. Not "little is known" — say what is contested, mismeasured,
  4. Position the contribution as a move in the debate. "Prior PA work argues X via mechanism M; we
  5. Pre-empt the obvious objection. PAR reviewers are public-management experts; name the strongest

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

Pubar Literature Positioning loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 99 tokens; SKILL.md has 603 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~99
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

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). 603 words, ~1,317 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/pubar-literature-positioning/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
pubar-literature-positioning
description
Use when positioning a Public Administration Review (PAR) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a field-wide contribution that also informs practice. PAR readers span public management, governance, and the practitioner community, so the paper must engage the core PA debates and not just one niche. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the lit review.

Literature Positioning (pubar-literature-positioning)

PAR is read across public management and by reflective practitioners, so positioning must place the paper where a general public-administration audience sees both the scholarly gap and the practical stake. A "literature dump" that engages only one niche reads as off-fit for the field's flagship.

When to trigger

  • Drafting or revising the introduction and the "contribution" paragraph
  • A reviewer said you "missed core PA work" or "don't engage the debate"
  • Your niche literature is solid but the paper doesn't connect to broader public management
  • You need to distinguish your contribution from the closest prior PAR/JPART papers

How PAR wants the literature engaged

  1. Engage the live PA debate, not a pile of citations. Identify the open question your paper speaks to (e.g., does performance measurement improve outcomes or distort behavior; what makes collaborative governance work; how does red tape affect public service motivation).
  2. Two audiences at once. Satisfy PA scholars (you know the frontier) and the field's practice-bridging mission (why a manager would care). The intro should make a budgeting scholar care about a personnel paper and vice versa.
  3. Name the gap precisely. Not "little is known" — say what is contested, mismeasured, under-theorized, or untested in public management, and why resolving it advances the field.
  4. Position the contribution as a move in the debate. "Prior PA work argues X via mechanism M; we show M fails / is conditional on context C / is better explained by M′."
  5. Pre-empt the obvious objection. PAR reviewers are public-management experts; name the strongest rival account and say how your design adjudicates it (hand off to pubar-research-design).

Cross-subfield engagement (a distinctive PAR demand)

If your paper is…also engage…
a performance-management studythe accountability, goal-ambiguity, and gaming literatures
a public-HR / PSM studythe motivation, leadership, and bureaucratic-behavior work it bears on
a collaborative-governance casethe general theory of networks, coordination, and co-production
a budgeting / finance studythe implementation and managerial-discretion literatures it informs

Don't drift to a sibling literature

PAR is not JPART (theory-driven), Governance (comparative institutions), or JPAM (policy analysis). If your positioning cites only formal-theory work with no managerial payoff, you are writing a JPART intro. If it is a cost-benefit framing, you are writing a JPAM intro. Re-anchor to public-management practice.

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Anti-patterns

  • A "literature dump" with no organizing PA debate
  • Engaging only one niche (a top PAR rejection reason for the field's flagship)
  • Strawmanning prior work, or hiding the closest competitor paper
  • Self-citation that breaks anonymity (PAR is double-blind — see pubar-submission)
  • Claiming "first to study" when the contribution is incremental

Output format

【Debate】the live PA disagreement / open question
【Key works】the 3-6 that define it (incl. cross-subfield PA)
【Gap】what is contested / mismeasured / untested
【Move】how this paper changes the debate
【Practitioner stake】why the resolved gap matters for management
【Strongest rival】and how the design will adjudicate it
【Next】pubar-theory-building

Referee-pushback patterns and the PAR fix

  • "The contribution is niche, not field-level PA." → Recast the gap as a live debate the whole field recognizes, and add the 3–6 cross-subfield works that define it.
  • "You missed core PA work / don't engage the debate." → Map the live disagreement, then cite the works that constitute it, not a citation pile.
  • "This reads like JPART/JPAM." → Re-anchor positioning to public-management practice and the Evidence-for-Practice stake, not pure theory or policy choice.
  • "Closest competitor is hidden." → Name the nearest prior paper and state exactly what your move changes (mechanism fails / is conditional / is better explained).

Calibration anchors (hedged)

  • PAR's premium is field-wide significance plus practice relevance; positioning that satisfies only one niche is structurally weak even when the within-niche contribution is real.
  • The bridge across literatures (e.g., linking budgeting to motivation) is itself a positioning asset at a generalist PA flagship.
  • "Engage the relevant literature" wording and desk-screen criteria can change — confirm the current guidance on the journal's submission page before relying on it (检索于 2026-06;以官网为准).

Supplementary resources

© 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 Public-Administration-Review-Skills/skills/pubar-literature-positioning of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Pubar Literature Positioning

What does Pubar Literature Positioning do?

A skill your agent uses when positioning a Public Administration Review (PAR) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a field-wide contribution that also informs practice. Pubar Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when positioning a Public Administration Review (PAR) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a field-wide contribution that also informs practice.

When should I use Pubar Literature Positioning?

Pubar Literature Positioning fits situations like: tasks that involve Positioning and messaging.

How do I install Pubar Literature Positioning in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Pubar Literature Positioning in Codex?

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

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

What does Pubar Literature Positioning need to run?

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

Does Pubar 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 Pubar 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 Pubar Literature Positioning use?

Pubar 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 Pubar Literature Positioning use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.3k 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 Pubar Literature Positioning?

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Who maintains Pubar 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.