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Worlddev Literature Positioning

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

A skill your agent uses when staking a World Development (WD) manuscript's contribution across the multidisciplinary development literature.

MITAuto-check passedMarketing & SEO

Install Worlddev Literature Positioning

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills worlddev-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/World-Development-Skills/skills/worlddev-literature-positioning .claude/skills/worlddev-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
worlddev-literature-positioning
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
769 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when staking a World Development (WD) manuscript's contribution across the multidisciplinary development literature.

  • Works in 3 steps: Name the development conversation, not… → Bridge disciplines deliberately. WD… → State the marginal claim as one sentence…
  • Staking a World Development (WD) manuscripts contribution across the multidisciplinary development literature
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Positioning for a…, A contribution-type ladder… and Handling the qualitative and…, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Worlddev Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when staking a World Development (WD) manuscript's contribution across the multidisciplinary development literature. Sharpens the gap and the claim; it does not invent evidence or citations.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k 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 and Citation management. 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

  • Staking a World Development (WD) manuscripts contribution across the multidisciplinary development literature
  • Tasks that involve Positioning and messaging
  • Tasks that involve Citation management

Example prompts

  • “/worlddev-literature-positioning”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Name the development conversation, not just the technique literature. "We contribute to the literature on community-driven development and…
  2. Bridge disciplines deliberately. WD prizes papers that connect, say, an economic finding to an institutional or political-economy…
  3. State the marginal claim as one sentence a non-specialist can repeat. "Decentralization improves service delivery only where local…

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

Worlddev Literature Positioning loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 57 tokens; SKILL.md has 769 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~57
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k

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). 769 words, ~1,563 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/worlddev-literature-positioning/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
worlddev-literature-positioning
description
Use when staking a World Development (WD) manuscript's contribution across the multidisciplinary development literature. Sharpens the gap and the claim; it does not invent evidence or citations.

Literature Positioning (worlddev-literature-positioning)

When to trigger

  • The intro cites only one disciplinary literature (e.g. only development economics) for a problem that spans several
  • A referee asks "what do we learn that we did not already know?" and the answer is thin
  • The contribution is framed as "first study of X in country Y" with no conceptual payoff
  • The paper sits between economics and another field and risks reading as derivative to both
  • The cited frontier is a top-5 economics literature, but WD's actual conversation is broader and more applied

Positioning for a multidisciplinary readership

WD readers come from economics, political science, sociology, anthropology, geography, public health, and practice. Positioning that satisfies only one of these communities reads as parochial to the rest. The strongest WD intros do three things:

  1. Name the development conversation, not just the technique literature. "We contribute to the literature on community-driven development and local accountability" lands; "we contribute to the staggered-DID literature" does not — that is a JDE move. The method is a tool; the contribution is to a development debate.
  2. Bridge disciplines deliberately. WD prizes papers that connect, say, an economic finding to an institutional or political-economy mechanism that another field has theorized. Cite across fields where the problem genuinely spans them; do not name-drop.
  3. State the marginal claim as one sentence a non-specialist can repeat. "Decentralization improves service delivery only where local elections are competitive" is a WD contribution. "We estimate a heterogeneous treatment effect" is not.

A contribution-type ladder (pick the rung you actually occupy)

RungWhat it claimsWD verdict
Replication / context transfer"X holds (or fails) in a new context"Publishable only if the context teaches something general about why
New evidence on a contested mechanism"The effect runs through institutions, not income"Strong WD contribution
New measurement / concept"We operationalize livelihood resilience and show it predicts…"Strong, if the concept travels
Reframing / synthesis"These contradictory findings reconcile once we distinguish…"Strong, high-risk; needs breadth
Pure method"A better estimator for…"Reroute to JDE; WD wants the development payoff

Position one rung up from where a skeptic would place you, and defend that rung — not two rungs up.

Handling the qualitative and mixed-methods case

For qualitative or mixed work, "the gap" is rarely a missing coefficient. It is usually an unexamined mechanism, an untheorized context, or a contradiction in the existing record. Position against the interpretive literature: whose account does your evidence revise, extend, or complicate? A mixed-methods paper should state what the qualitative strand explains that the quantitative strand cannot, and vice versa — that integration is the contribution.

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A worked positioning (illustrative)

A draft on decentralization and water access opens: "Few studies examine decentralization in [country]." That is a site-novelty claim — the weakest rung. The WD rewrite engages the conversation: the economics literature finds decentralization improves service delivery; the political-science literature finds it can be captured by local elites; these conflict. The paper's contribution becomes the reconciliation — "decentralization improves water access only where local elections are competitive enough to discipline elites" — cited against both literatures, with the bridging mechanism (political competition) named explicitly. The same evidence now reframes a contested debate instead of merely adding a data point.

Engaging the grey literature

WD's practitioner readership knows the World Bank, UNDP, FAO, and major NGO evidence base. A positioning that ignores a well-known Bank report or systematic review on the same question reads as out of touch — even if the academic citations are impeccable. Engage the grey literature where it frames the policy debate, and show what your study adds beyond it (rigor, mechanism, contrary finding, or context). Do not, however, treat grey-literature claims as peer-reviewed evidence; cite them as the policy conversation, not as established fact.

Checklist

  • The contribution is to a development conversation, not to a methods literature
  • Literatures from at least the relevant adjacent field are engaged where the problem spans them
  • The marginal claim is one sentence a non-specialist can repeat
  • The chosen contribution rung is defended, not inflated
  • Sibling-journal work (JDE, WBER, JDS, EDCC) on the same question is cited and differentiated
  • Qual/mixed papers position against the interpretive record, not against an absent regression
  • No fabricated citations; uncertain attributions flagged

Anti-patterns

  • A literature review that is a serial summary ("X found… Y found…") with no synthesis or tension
  • Citing only economics for a problem that political scientists and sociologists have long studied
  • "First study in [country]" as the whole contribution — novelty of site is not novelty of insight
  • Over-claiming the rung: calling a context transfer a reframing
  • Ignoring grey literature (World Bank, UN, NGO reports) that the practitioner readership knows

Output format

text
【Journal】World Development (WD)
【Skill】worlddev-literature-positioning
【Verdict】positioned / under-claimed / over-claimed
【Marginal claim】one sentence, non-specialist-legible
【Contribution rung】replication / mechanism / measurement / reframing
【Cross-field bridges】which adjacent literatures are engaged and why
【Sibling boundary】how the claim differs from JDE / WBER / JDS / EDCC work
【Source status】verified URL / 待核实 / not asserted
【Next skill】worlddev-identification

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Files

Just SKILL.md in World-Development-Skills/skills/worlddev-literature-positioning of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Worlddev Literature Positioning

What does Worlddev Literature Positioning do?

A skill your agent uses when staking a World Development (WD) manuscript's contribution across the multidisciplinary development literature. Worlddev Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when staking a World Development (WD) manuscript's contribution across the multidisciplinary development literature.

When should I use Worlddev Literature Positioning?

Worlddev Literature Positioning fits situations like: staking a World Development (WD) manuscripts contribution across the multidisciplinary development literature; tasks that involve Positioning and messaging; tasks that involve Citation management.

How do I install Worlddev Literature Positioning in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Worlddev Literature Positioning in Codex?

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

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

What does Worlddev Literature Positioning need to run?

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

Does Worlddev 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 Worlddev 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 Worlddev Literature Positioning use?

Worlddev 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 Worlddev Literature Positioning use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.3k 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 Worlddev 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.