Agent skill

Revacc Literature Positioning

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

A skill your agent uses when the contribution relative to the accounting frontier and the sibling journals is fuzzy for a Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) manuscript — joining the right…

MITAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Revacc Literature Positioning

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

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

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

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when the contribution relative to the accounting frontier and the sibling journals is fuzzy for a Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) manuscript — joining the right…

  • Works in 4 steps: Name the conversation in one clause;… → State the marginal move in one sentence… → Say what changes if you are right — for… → …
  • Tasks that involve Accounting and bookkeeping
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Position into a conversation,…, Stake the contribution against… and Write the positioning paragraph, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Revacc Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when the contribution relative to the accounting frontier and the sibling journals is fuzzy for a Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) manuscript — joining the right disclosure/earnings/valuation conversation and stating the marginal contribution. Positions the paper; it does not sharpen the one-sentence claim (revacc-contribution-framing) or build the mechanism (revacc-theory-development).

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 Business, Finance & HR, covering Accounting and bookkeeping and 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 Accounting and bookkeeping
  • Tasks that involve Positioning and messaging

Example prompts

  • “/revacc-literature-positioning”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Name the conversation in one clause; cite its two or three frontier works.
  2. State the marginal move in one sentence (new friction / setting / construct / model / boundary).
  3. Say what changes if you are right — for theory and for empirics where you can.
  4. Pre-empt the obvious "this is just [prior paper]" with the precise difference.

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

Revacc Literature Positioning loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 107 tokens; SKILL.md has 589 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~107
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). 589 words, ~1,314 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/revacc-literature-positioning/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
revacc-literature-positioning
description
Use when the contribution relative to the accounting frontier and the sibling journals is fuzzy for a Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) manuscript — joining the right disclosure/earnings/valuation conversation and stating the marginal contribution. Positions the paper; it does not sharpen the one-sentence claim (revacc-contribution-framing) or build the mechanism (revacc-theory-development).

Literature Positioning (revacc-literature-positioning)

When to trigger

  • The intro reads as gap-spotting ("no one has studied X") rather than joining a conversation
  • You cannot name the three or four papers your result directly speaks to or overturns
  • A referee asks "what do we learn beyond [prior paper]?" or "how is this not [classic result]?"
  • The paper straddles disclosure, earnings, and valuation literatures without committing to one
  • You are unsure whether the natural cite set is the RAST/analytical-accounting frontier or the empirical-archival frontier

Position into a conversation, not a gap

RAST referees punish gap-spotting. The job is to identify the specific accounting conversation your paper joins, name the two or three works that define its current frontier, and state the marginal move — a new friction, a cleaner setting, a sharper construct, a model that rationalizes a puzzle, or a boundary the prior work did not reach. Because RAST runs both archival and analytical lanes, your positioning must place you on the right frontier and, where relevant, bridge the two: an empirical paper that tests a disclosure-theory prediction, or a model that explains an archival regularity, lands especially well at RAST.

Map your cite set onto the live debates RAST publishes in:

  • Disclosure: voluntary vs. mandatory disclosure, disclosure quality and granularity, proprietary costs, real effects of disclosure.
  • Earnings quality: earnings management, accruals quality, smoothing, the contracting vs. capital-market motives.
  • Valuation / capital markets: value-relevance, information content of earnings, post-earnings-announcement drift, cost of capital effects.
  • Analysts / forecasting: forecast accuracy and bias, the information environment, analyst incentives.
  • Audit & tax: audit quality and demand, tax avoidance and reporting, regulatory and enforcement consequences.

Stake the contribution against the siblings

State explicitly why the paper is RAST rather than a sibling, because referees and the editor will:

JournalCenter of gravityWhen it, not RAST, is the home
TAR (AAA)Contribution-to-the-literature bar; method-agnostic; archival-dominatedThe contribution is broad-significance accounting with no special modeling angle
JAR (Chicago Booth)Identification-first; posts a data-and-code package; Registered ReportsThe paper lives or dies on a sharp causal design and reproducibility is the headline
JAE (Elsevier)Economics-of-accounting; contracting and capital markets; JAE data archiveA contracting/positive-accounting question in the JAE house style
CAR (CPA Canada)Broad, methodologically catholic accountingA solid but not frontier-defining accounting study

RAST's edge: it welcomes analytical modeling on equal footing and rewards papers that connect a model to data — use that to justify the venue.

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Write the positioning paragraph

  1. Name the conversation in one clause; cite its two or three frontier works.
  2. State the marginal move in one sentence (new friction / setting / construct / model / boundary).
  3. Say what changes if you are right — for theory and for empirics where you can.
  4. Pre-empt the obvious "this is just [prior paper]" with the precise difference.

Checklist

  • The specific accounting conversation is named, not a generic gap
  • Two or three frontier works are cited and the marginal move over them is explicit
  • The archival/analytical bridge is exploited if the paper supports it
  • The "why RAST not TAR/JAR/JAE/CAR" sentence is present and honest
  • The nearest rival paper is named and distinguished precisely
  • Citations are real and verifiable; none fabricated (mark 待核实 if unsure)

Anti-patterns

  • Gap-spotting: "the literature is silent on X" instead of joining a debate.
  • Citation dumping: a paragraph of cites with no statement of the marginal move.
  • Sibling blindness: never explaining why RAST and not the more obvious AAA/Chicago/Elsevier outlet.
  • One-lane tunnel vision: ignoring the analytical (or empirical) frontier the paper actually touches.
  • Inventing exemplars: citing papers you have not verified exist in the archive.

Output format

text
【Conversation】the specific accounting debate joined
【Frontier works】2–3 real, verified cites
【Marginal move】new friction / setting / construct / model / boundary
【Archival↔analytical bridge】present? how exploited
【Why RAST】vs TAR / JAR / JAE / CAR — one honest sentence
【Nearest rival】named + precise difference
【Source status】citations verified / 待核实
【Next skill】revacc-methods (then revacc-contribution-framing)

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Review-of-Accounting-Studies-Skills/skills/revacc-literature-positioning of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Revacc Literature Positioning

What does Revacc Literature Positioning do?

A skill your agent uses when the contribution relative to the accounting frontier and the sibling journals is fuzzy for a Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) manuscript — joining the right…. Revacc Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when the contribution relative to the accounting frontier and the sibling journals is fuzzy for a Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) manuscript — joining the right disclosure/earnings/valuation conversation and stating the marginal contribution.

When should I use Revacc Literature Positioning?

Revacc Literature Positioning fits situations like: tasks that involve Accounting and bookkeeping; tasks that involve Positioning and messaging.

How do I install Revacc Literature Positioning in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Revacc Literature Positioning in Codex?

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

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

What does Revacc Literature Positioning need to run?

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

Does Revacc 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 Revacc 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 Revacc Literature Positioning use?

Revacc 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 Revacc 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.

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Who maintains Revacc 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.