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A skill your agent uses when planning where and when to submit a law-review piece and how to handle an expedite, with The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) as a target.
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Install Ylj Placement Strategy
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ylj-placement-strategy -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ylj-placement-strategy --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/Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-placement-strategy .claude/skills/ylj-placement-strategy && 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 "ylj-placement-strategy" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-placement-strategy into .claude/skills/ylj-placement-strategy/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ylj-placement-strategy", 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/Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-placement-strategyType 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 ylj-placement-strategy -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ylj-placement-strategy --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/Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-placement-strategy .agents/skills/ylj-placement-strategy && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "ylj-placement-strategy" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-placement-strategy into .agents/skills/ylj-placement-strategy/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ylj-placement-strategy", 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 ylj-placement-strategy -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ylj-placement-strategy --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/Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-placement-strategy .cursor/skills/ylj-placement-strategy && 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 "ylj-placement-strategy" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-placement-strategy into .cursor/skills/ylj-placement-strategy/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ylj-placement-strategy", 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 Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-placement-strategy--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 ylj-placement-strategy -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ylj-placement-strategy --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/Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-placement-strategy .gemini/skills/ylj-placement-strategy && 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 "ylj-placement-strategy" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-placement-strategy into .gemini/skills/ylj-placement-strategy/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ylj-placement-strategy", 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 ylj-placement-strategyInstalls 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 ylj-placement-strategy -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/Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-placement-strategy .github/skills/ylj-placement-strategy && 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 "ylj-placement-strategy" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-placement-strategy into .github/skills/ylj-placement-strategy/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ylj-placement-strategy", 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 ylj-placement-strategy -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 ylj-placement-strategy --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/Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-placement-strategy .opencode/skills/ylj-placement-strategy && 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 "ylj-placement-strategy" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-placement-strategy into .opencode/skills/ylj-placement-strategy/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ylj-placement-strategy", 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
ylj-placement-strategy- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1.1k 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 planning where and when to submit a law-review piece and how to handle an expedite, with The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) as a target.
- Works in 4 steps: Hold a written offer with a decision… → Expedite up the tiers across the market… → For YLJ specifically, file the expedite… → …
- Planning where and when to submit a law-review piece and how to handle an expedite
- SKILL.md covers When to trigger, YLJ-specific facts (these…, Season timing and Running an expedite (generic…, plus 4 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Ylj Placement Strategy is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when planning where and when to submit a law-review piece and how to handle an expedite, with The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) as a target. It covers multi-submission timing, season strategy, and YLJ's specific expedite rules; it does not run the final upload preflight (ylj-submission).
Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
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
- Planning where and when to submit a law-review piece and how to handle an expedite
- With The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) as a target
Example prompts
- “/ylj-placement-strategy”
Workflow steps
4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Hold a written offer with a decision deadline from another review.
- Expedite up the tiers across the market (via Scholastica/ExpressO where those journals live).
- For YLJ specifically, file the expedite through the YLJ author portal — but **do not expect it to
- Never bluff an offer you don't hold; the legal-academy market is small and reputational.
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
Ylj Placement Strategy loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 77 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, ~1,115 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/ylj-placement-strategy/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- ylj-placement-strategy
- description
- Use when planning where and when to submit a law-review piece and how to handle an expedite, with The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) as a target. It covers multi-submission timing, season strategy, and YLJ's specific expedite rules; it does not run the final upload preflight (ylj-submission).
Placement Strategy (ylj-placement-strategy)
Law-review placement is a multi-submission market: authors submit one near-final piece to many
reviews at once and use an offer from a lower-ranked journal to expedite review at higher-ranked
ones. This skill plans the campaign and the expedite — with the YLJ-specific rules, which diverge
from the generic model. It does not run the upload checklist (ylj-submission).
When to trigger
- Deciding the submission slate and what tier to target alongside YLJ
- Timing the submission to a season (Feb–Mar main, Aug smaller)
- Holding an offer from another review and considering an expedite to YLJ
- Weighing whether the piece is YLJ-ready or belongs at a specialty/secondary review
YLJ-specific facts (these differ from the generic law-review playbook)
- YLJ uses its own online submission system — NOT Scholastica or ExpressO. You still multi-submit across the market via Scholastica/ExpressO, but YLJ must be submitted (and expedited) through its own author portal (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准).
- Expedite gives NO competitive advantage at YLJ. YLJ states it will not depart from its rigorous review process for expedited pieces; an offer elsewhere does not move you to the front. Request an expedite via your YLJ author account; if facing an imminent deadline you may also email the submissions office (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准).
- Anonymized review. The Articles & Essays Committee reviews pieces without the author's name, affiliation, or prior-publication record — so prestige signaling in the manuscript does nothing.
- Length weighs. Over-length pieces weigh against acceptance (Article < 25k / Essay < 15k / Forum < 10k words incl. footnotes, encouraged).
Season timing
| Window | Character | Strategy |
|---|---|---|
| Spring (Feb–Mar) | The main cycle; front-loaded into early-mid February | Submit when the piece is genuinely near-final; the slate is busiest |
| Fall (Aug) | Smaller cycle | Viable if the piece misses spring or is timely; fewer slots |
Submitting a not-yet-finished draft early to "be first" backfires: student editors evaluate a finished manuscript, and a rough draft draws a fast pass.
Show full SKILL.md (208 more words)Show less
Running an expedite (generic market + YLJ caveat)
- Hold a written offer with a decision deadline from another review.
- Expedite up the tiers across the market (via Scholastica/ExpressO where those journals live).
- For YLJ specifically, file the expedite through the YLJ author portal — but do not expect it to create priority; it only ensures your deadline is on record.
- Never bluff an offer you don't hold; the legal-academy market is small and reputational.
Checklist
- Slate chosen across tiers; YLJ targeted via its own portal, not Scholastica
- Submitted to YLJ only when near-final (not a placeholder draft)
- Season chosen deliberately (Feb–Mar main / Aug smaller)
- Expedite, if any, backed by a real written offer + deadline
- Understood that a YLJ expedite confers no queue priority
- Manuscript anonymized of prestige cues (review is name-blind)
Anti-patterns
- Submitting YLJ through Scholastica/ExpressO (it isn't accepted there) and assuming it arrived
- Treating an expedite as a YLJ fast-pass — it explicitly is not
- Rushing an unfinished draft into the early-February crush to "beat the rush"
- Bluffing an offer to manufacture an expedite deadline
- Sending an over-length piece and hoping quality overrides the length penalty
Output format
【Slate】journals + tiers; YLJ via its own portal? Y/N
【Season】Feb–Mar / Aug; piece near-final? Y/N
【Expedite】real offer held? filed in YLJ portal? (no priority expected)
【Anonymized】prestige cues removed? Y/N
【Next】ylj-submission for the upload preflightSupplementary resources
../../resources/official-source-map.md— YLJ portal, expedite, and season facts with sources../../resources/external_tools.md— Scholastica/ExpressO and the YLJ author portal
© 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 Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-placement-strategy of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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Questions about Ylj Placement Strategy
What does Ylj Placement Strategy do?
A skill your agent uses when planning where and when to submit a law-review piece and how to handle an expedite, with The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) as a target. Ylj Placement Strategy is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when planning where and when to submit a law-review piece and how to handle an expedite, with The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) as a target.
When should I use Ylj Placement Strategy?
Ylj Placement Strategy fits situations like: planning where and when to submit a law-review piece and how to handle an expedite; with The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) as a target.
How do I install Ylj Placement Strategy in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ylj-placement-strategy -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-placement-strategy in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/ylj-placement-strategy in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Ylj Placement Strategy in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ylj-placement-strategy -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-placement-strategy in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/ylj-placement-strategy in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Ylj Placement Strategy 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 ylj-placement-strategy -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/ylj-placement-strategy, .gemini/skills/ylj-placement-strategy, .github/skills/ylj-placement-strategy and .opencode/skills/ylj-placement-strategy in your project.
What does Ylj Placement Strategy need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Ylj Placement Strategy is instructions for the agent only.
Does Ylj Placement Strategy 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 Ylj Placement Strategy 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 Ylj Placement Strategy use?
Ylj Placement Strategy 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 Ylj Placement Strategy use?
About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.5k 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 Ylj Placement Strategy?
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.