A skill your agent uses when running the final pre-submission preflight for The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) via its own online author portal — track selection, anonymization, word/length caps, Bluebook…

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Install Ylj Submission

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ylj-submission -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ylj-submission --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/Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-submission .claude/skills/ylj-submission && 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
ylj-submission
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
577 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when running the final pre-submission preflight for The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) via its own online author portal — track selection, anonymization, word/length caps, Bluebook…

  • Running the final pre-submission preflight for The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) via its own online author portal — track selection
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Process facts (verify volatile…, Preflight checklist and Gate decision, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Word/length caps

What it does

Ylj Submission is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) via its own online author portal — track selection, anonymization, word/length caps, Bluebook readiness, and required materials. Final checks; it does not draft content.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files (for example `templates/checklist.md`).

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

  • Running the final pre-submission preflight for The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) via its own online author portal — track selection
  • Word/length caps
  • Bluebook readiness
  • Required materials

Example prompts

  • “/ylj-submission”

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 Submission loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 67 tokens; SKILL.md has 577 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~67
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). 577 words, ~1,393 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/ylj-submission/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
ylj-submission
description
Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) via its own online author portal — track selection, anonymization, word/length caps, Bluebook readiness, and required materials. Final checks; it does not draft content.

Submission Preflight (ylj-submission)

The last check before uploading to YLJ's own online submission system (not Scholastica/ExpressO). YLJ review is anonymized, so the most common avoidable failure is leaving identity cues in the manuscript. Verify volatile specifics on the official submissions page before relying on them (检索于 2026-06;以官网为准).

When to trigger

  • "Submitting this week" — last pass before upload
  • Unsure what the YLJ portal expects vs. the rest of your Scholastica slate
  • Confirming the track's encouraged caps are met and the piece is anonymized

Process facts (verify volatile items on the official page)

  • Owner / publisher: The Yale Law Journal Company, Inc., affiliated with Yale Law School; student-edited, not peer-reviewed.
  • Portal: YLJ's own online author submission system — YLJ does not accept pieces through Scholastica/ExpressO (检索于 2026-06;以官网为准).
  • Review model: anonymized — the Articles & Essays Committee reads without author name, affiliation, or prior publications.
  • Tracks & encouraged length (incl. footnotes): Article < 25,000 words (~50 Journal pages); Essay < 15,000 words (~30 pages); Forum < 10,000 words (~20 pages); student Note first-time cap ~20,000 words; student Comment first-time cap ~7,000 words. Over-length weighs against acceptance (检索于 2026-06;以官网为准).
  • Style: Bluebook (The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation) plus the Journal's own citation requirements; quotations need quotation marks + pinpoint cites.
  • Fee: no submission fee and no APC — YLJ takes manuscripts on its own portal with article selection by student editors; no Scholastica/ExpressO fee attaches to its own intake (verified 2026-06-22; 以官网为准).
  • Leadership: led by an annually-elected student Editor-in-Chief; the masthead rotates each volume (current: Volume 135, 2025–2026, EiC Jeremy N. Thomas '26 — a rotating student role, pinned 2026-06-23 via Yale Law School news + YBLSA announcement) — re-check the live masthead before relying on any EiC name.

Preflight checklist

Track & length
  • Track chosen; submit as Essay or Article to help the Committee assess it
  • Encouraged word cap met (Article < 25k / Essay < 15k / Forum < 10k, incl. footnotes)
  • (Students) Note/Comment first-time cap met (~20k / ~7k)
Anonymization
  • No author name, affiliation, or acknowledgments in the manuscript
  • No self-identifying references ("as I argued in…") that reveal authorship
  • Prior-publication / prestige cues removed (review is name-blind)
  • File metadata (document properties, comments) stripped of identity
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Apparatus & format
  • Footnotes complete; Bluebook form correct; pinpoints present (see ylj-sources-and-bluebook)
  • Quotations marked + pinpointed; paraphrase cited; alterations flagged
  • Manuscript is near-final and source-pull-ready (see ylj-student-editor-review)
Portal & materials
  • Submitting through the YLJ author portal, not Scholastica
  • Any abstract/cover info the portal requests prepared
  • Current-volume guidelines PDF or live submissions page checked; date and file/page noted
  • Expedite (if any) filed in the YLJ portal — no queue priority expected (see ylj-placement-strategy)

Gate decision

Classify the submission before upload:

  • STOP if identity cues remain, file metadata is dirty, the manuscript is materially over the encouraged cap without a deliberate reason, or any load-bearing citation fails existence/support.
  • HOLD if the current-volume guidelines PDF, portal fields, or fee/window status have not been checked on the live YLJ page this cycle.
  • GO only when track, length, anonymization, footnote apparatus, portal path, and expedite handling are all confirmed.

Record the evidence packet in a short note: track, word count including footnotes, live guideline page or PDF checked, anonymization sweep result, cite-check status, and any expedite deadline.

Anti-patterns

  • Sending YLJ through Scholastica/ExpressO and assuming it was received
  • Leaving author name/affiliation/acknowledgments or file-metadata identity cues (breaks anonymization)
  • Submitting an over-length piece (length weighs against acceptance)
  • Uploading with an incomplete footnote apparatus, planning to finish cites later
  • Budgeting for a submission fee — YLJ charges none (no submission fee / no APC)

Output format

【Track】Article / Essay / Feature / Note / Comment / Forum (cap met? Y/N)
【Anonymized】text + self-refs + metadata clean? [Y/N]
【Apparatus】Bluebook + pinpoints + quotations marked? [Y/N]
【Portal】submitting via YLJ's own system (not Scholastica)? [Y/N]
【Expedite】filed in YLJ portal (no priority)? [Y/N or N/A]
【Gate】GO / HOLD / STOP — blocker if any
【Evidence】guidelines page/PDF checked + word count incl. footnotes + cite-check status
【Next】await decision → ylj-revision-and-editing on acceptance

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

SKILL.md and 1 other file in Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-submission of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • templates/checklist.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Ylj Submission

What does Ylj Submission do?

A skill your agent uses when running the final pre-submission preflight for The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) via its own online author portal — track selection, anonymization, word/length caps, Bluebook…. Ylj Submission is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) via its own online author portal — track selection, anonymization, word/length caps, Bluebook readiness, and required materials.

When should I use Ylj Submission?

Ylj Submission fits situations like: running the final pre-submission preflight for The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) via its own online author portal — track selection; word/length caps; bluebook readiness; required materials.

How do I install Ylj Submission in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Ylj Submission in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ylj-submission -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-submission in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/ylj-submission in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Ylj Submission 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-submission -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-submission, .gemini/skills/ylj-submission, .github/skills/ylj-submission and .opencode/skills/ylj-submission in your project.

What does Ylj Submission need to run?

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

Does Ylj Submission 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 Submission 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 Submission use?

Ylj Submission 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 Submission use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.6k 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 Submission?

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.