A skill your agent uses when applying Review of Economic Dynamics (RED) house style — the stand-alone abstract not exceeding 250 words, author-year (Harvard-style) references, 1 to 6 keywords, LaTeX…

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Install Red Writing Style

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills red-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/Review-of-Economic-Dynamics-Skills/skills/red-writing-style .claude/skills/red-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
red-writing-style
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
554 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when applying Review of Economic Dynamics (RED) house style — the stand-alone abstract not exceeding 250 words, author-year (Harvard-style) references, 1 to 6 keywords, LaTeX…

  • Works in 5 steps: Dynamic fact or puzzle. → Mechanism and state variable that make… → Model discipline: data moments,… → …
  • Applying Review of Economic Dynamics (RED) house style — the stand-alone abstract not exceeding 250 words
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, RED conventions (verified;…, Abstract shape and Style notes for dynamic papers, plus 7 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Red Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when applying Review of Economic Dynamics (RED) house style — the stand-alone abstract not exceeding 250 words, author-year (Harvard-style) references, 1 to 6 keywords, LaTeX via Elsevier's elsarticle class under "your paper your way", and the generative-AI declaration. Drafting conventions for a quantitative dynamic paper; it does not invent results.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k 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 Documents & Office, covering Brand voice and tone and LaTeX. It works with LaTeX. 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

  • Applying Review of Economic Dynamics (RED) house style — the stand-alone abstract not exceeding 250 words
  • Author-year (Harvard-style) references
  • 1 to 6 keywords
  • LaTeX via Elseviers elsarticle class under your paper your way

Example prompts

  • “s elsarticle class under”
  • “/red-writing-style”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Dynamic fact or puzzle.
  2. Mechanism and state variable that make the problem dynamic.
  3. Model discipline: data moments, calibration, estimation, or theoretical restriction.
  4. Headline quantitative result or theorem.
  5. Why the result changes how the SED/dynamic-economics audience thinks about the mechanism.

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

Red Writing Style loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 94 tokens; SKILL.md has 554 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~94
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.4k

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). 554 words, ~1,362 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/red-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
red-writing-style
description
Use when applying Review of Economic Dynamics (RED) house style — the stand-alone abstract not exceeding 250 words, author-year (Harvard-style) references, 1 to 6 keywords, LaTeX via Elsevier's elsarticle class under "your paper your way", and the generative-AI declaration. Drafting conventions for a quantitative dynamic paper; it does not invent results.

Writing Style for RED (red-writing-style)

When to trigger

  • Drafting or tightening the abstract, introduction, and front matter for a RED submission
  • Setting up references and keywords to RED specifications
  • Formatting the manuscript for initial submission

RED conventions (verified; re-confirm on the official Guide for Authors)

  • Abstract: concise and factual, not exceeding 250 words, and able to stand alone — references inside the abstract are discouraged. Lead with the question, the model, and the headline quantitative result.
  • References: author-year (Harvard-style) citation system; reference list alphabetical and consistent.
  • Keywords: 1 to 6 required.
  • Formatting: Elsevier's general Guide for Authors applies; LaTeX accepted via the elsarticle class; initial submission is flexible ("your paper your way"), so you need not fully typeset to Elsevier style for the first round.
  • Generative AI: any use of generative-AI tools must be declared at submission.
  • Length: this pack does not encode a RED-specific manuscript word/page cap. Use the current Guide and Editorial Manager prompts for live file constraints; keep the paper as long as the contribution warrants and no longer.

Abstract shape

Use this order:

text
Dynamic question -> model/mechanism -> discipline/evidence -> headline quantitative result -> implication.

Do not begin with data or policy motivation alone. RED readers need to see the dynamic mechanism before they decide whether the paper belongs in the journal.

Style notes for dynamic papers

  • Make the mechanism legible before the math — a reader should grasp the dynamic force from the intro.
  • Define the model cleanly; relegate long derivations and proofs to an appendix.
  • State magnitudes (the calibrated/estimated number that matters) early and precisely.

Introduction paragraph order

Use this sequence for RED introductions:

  1. Dynamic fact or puzzle.
  2. Mechanism and state variable that make the problem dynamic.
  3. Model discipline: data moments, calibration, estimation, or theoretical restriction.
  4. Headline quantitative result or theorem.
  5. Why the result changes how the SED/dynamic-economics audience thinks about the mechanism.

Avoid opening with institutional background that could fit a static paper. The first page should prove that time, state dependence, expectations, accumulation, adjustment costs, search, or equilibrium dynamics are essential to the contribution.

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Notation conventions for dynamic-model prose

  • Write recursive problems in standard Bellman form — V(a, z) = max over (c, a') of u(c) + βE[V(a', z')|z] — defining every state, choice, and shock at first use, and keep symbols stable across the model section, the calibration table, and the computational appendix.
  • Time variables explicitly (beginning- vs end-of-period assets): timing mismatches between the equations and the archived code are a referee-visible error class at a code-first journal.
  • Keep the body for the model, the calibration logic, and the experiments; equilibrium-condition derivations and algorithm detail go to appendices the body cites by number.
  • Give experiment units in-line ("a one-standard-deviation TFP shock", "a transfer of 1% of GDP") rather than relying on a figure caption to carry them.

Abstract rewrite example (illustrative)

text
WEAK:  "We study inequality and monetary policy in a rich model with many
realistic features and find interesting effects."

RED-SHAPED:  "How does household debt shape monetary transmission? In a
heterogeneous-agent New Keynesian model calibrated to U.S. wealth and MPC
distributions, a 25bp rate cut raises aggregate consumption by 0.4% — twice
the representative-agent benchmark — because constrained borrowers' interest
burdens fall."  (numbers illustrative)

The rewrite names the model class, the discipline (wealth and MPC distributions), and the headline magnitude in three sentences — the pattern a RED desk screen rewards.

Checklist

  • Abstract ≤250 words, stand-alone, no internal references, headline result stated
  • References clean author-year; list alphabetical and consistent
  • 1–6 keywords supplied
  • AI-use declaration prepared; LaTeX builds under elsarticle

Anti-patterns

  • A 250+-word abstract or one that cannot be read without the paper
  • Mixed citation styles instead of clean author-year
  • Asserting a manuscript length cap that the current RED Guide does not publish

Output format

text
[Style diagnosis] dynamic mechanism clear / static opening / too long / format risk
[Abstract fix] <250-word stand-alone target>
[Intro repair] <paragraph or sequence to rewrite>
[Front matter] keywords / references / AI declaration / LaTeX
[Next step] red-submission or red-tables-figures

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 Review-of-Economic-Dynamics-Skills/skills/red-writing-style of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Red Writing Style

What does Red Writing Style do?

A skill your agent uses when applying Review of Economic Dynamics (RED) house style — the stand-alone abstract not exceeding 250 words, author-year (Harvard-style) references, 1 to 6 keywords, LaTeX…. Red Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when applying Review of Economic Dynamics (RED) house style — the stand-alone abstract not exceeding 250 words, author-year (Harvard-style) references, 1 to 6 keywords, LaTeX via Elsevier's elsarticle class under "your paper your way", and the generative-AI declaration.

When should I use Red Writing Style?

Red Writing Style fits situations like: applying Review of Economic Dynamics (RED) house style — the stand-alone abstract not exceeding 250 words; author-year (Harvard-style) references; 1 to 6 keywords; laTeX via Elseviers elsarticle class under your paper your way.

How do I install Red Writing Style in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill red-writing-style -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Review-of-Economic-Dynamics-Skills/skills/red-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/red-writing-style in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Red Writing Style in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill red-writing-style -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Review-of-Economic-Dynamics-Skills/skills/red-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/red-writing-style in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

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

What does Red Writing Style need to run?

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

Does Red 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 Red 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 Red Writing Style use?

Red 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 Red Writing Style use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.4k 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 Red 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.