Academic Paper Strategist
AAASS554/codex-academic-paper-skills
A skill your agent uses when the user needs to plan, de-risk, or ground a software engineering / computer science undergraduate thesis from a real codebase before final writing.
A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a legal-scholarship idea is a fit for The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) and which track it belongs in.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ylj-topic-selection -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ylj-topic-selection --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-topic-selection .claude/skills/ylj-topic-selection && 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-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-topic-selection into .claude/skills/ylj-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ylj-topic-selection", 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-topic-selectionType 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-topic-selection -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ylj-topic-selection --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-topic-selection .agents/skills/ylj-topic-selection && 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-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-topic-selection into .agents/skills/ylj-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ylj-topic-selection", 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-topic-selection -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ylj-topic-selection --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-topic-selection .cursor/skills/ylj-topic-selection && 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-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-topic-selection into .cursor/skills/ylj-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ylj-topic-selection", 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-topic-selection--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-topic-selection -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ylj-topic-selection --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-topic-selection .gemini/skills/ylj-topic-selection && 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-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-topic-selection into .gemini/skills/ylj-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ylj-topic-selection", 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-topic-selectionInstalls 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-topic-selection -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-topic-selection .github/skills/ylj-topic-selection && 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-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-topic-selection into .github/skills/ylj-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ylj-topic-selection", 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-topic-selection -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-topic-selection --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-topic-selection .opencode/skills/ylj-topic-selection && 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-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-topic-selection into .opencode/skills/ylj-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ylj-topic-selection", 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.
ylj-topic-selectionA skill your agent uses when deciding whether a legal-scholarship idea is a fit for The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) and which track it belongs in.
Ylj Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a legal-scholarship idea is a fit for The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) and which track it belongs in. It tests generalist significance, timeliness, and novelty potential; it does not draft the thesis or run the formal preemption search.
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 Education, covering Essays and academic help. 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.
4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
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.
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.
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Ylj Topic Selection loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 69 tokens; SKILL.md has 653 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.
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.
The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 653 words, ~1,389 tokens.
.claude/skills/ylj-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).YLJ is the generalist flagship of American legal scholarship — read across the whole discipline by
academics, judges, and practitioners. A topic earns a slot only if its claim matters beyond a single
doctrinal niche. This skill screens the idea before you invest in a full draft; it does not yet build
the claim (ylj-thesis-and-contribution) or prove novelty (ylj-preemption-check).
ylj-preemption-check.Before sending the user onward, write a short keep / reframe / reject ledger. This prevents generic "top law review" advice from passing as a YLJ fit decision.
| Gate | Pass evidence | If weak |
|---|---|---|
| Audience travel | Name two legal audiences outside the subfield and the reason each should care | Reframe the stakes or route to a specialty review |
| Claim pressure | State the contestable move, not just the topic | Route to ylj-thesis-and-contribution before picking a venue |
| Novelty headroom | Identify the first SSRN / Westlaw / HeinOnline scan and the closest near-miss | Route to ylj-preemption-check before investing in the draft |
| Track fit | Match ambition, timeliness, and length to Article / Essay / Forum / Note / Comment | Split or compress the idea before submission planning |
Use KEEP only when all four gates have concrete evidence. Use REFRAME when the idea could become YLJ-shaped after narrowing, broadening, or changing tracks. Use REJECT when the only plausible value is specialist, descriptive, or already preempted.
| Rung | Example framing | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| Doctrinal fix in one circuit | "The Ninth Circuit misreads § X" | Specialty review, not YLJ |
| Doctrine-wide problem | "Courts across circuits misframe X" | Borderline — needs a theory |
| Doctrine ↔ theory | "X reveals a flaw in how we think about Y" | YLJ Essay candidate |
| New framework for an institution | "A new account of how Y should work" | YLJ Article candidate |
ylj-placement-strategy.ylj-student-editor-review for the Notes
Development process and the first-time word caps.【Topic】one line
【Generalist stakes】who outside the subfield cares, and why
【Fit gate】KEEP / REFRAME / REJECT + weakest gate
【Track】Article / Essay / Feature / Note / Comment / Forum (length realistic? Y/N)
【Novelty headroom】initial read (formal check pending)
【Next】ylj-thesis-and-contribution to sharpen the claim../../resources/exemplars/library.md — landmark YLJ pieces by type, for calibrating ambition../../resources/official-source-map.md — official YLJ track/length facts© 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
Just SKILL.md in Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
Ylj Topic Selection next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ylj Topic Selection this skillbrycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills | 1.2k | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Academic Paper StrategistAAASS554/codex-academic-paper-skills | 539 | 1 repos | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Modeling Paper Rubric and Model Selectoryushui2022/MathModel-Skill | 453 | 1 repos | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Humanities Thesisganzhi-black/humanities-thesis-skill | 632 | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Skill Thesis Writeryanlin-cheng/skill-thesis-writer | 207 | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Thesis CreatorStars-OC/thesis-creator | 230 | — | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a legal-scholarship idea is a fit for The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) and which track it belongs in. Ylj Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a legal-scholarship idea is a fit for The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) and which track it belongs in.
Ylj Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a legal-scholarship idea is a fit for The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) and which track it belongs in; tasks that involve Essays and academic help.
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ylj-topic-selection -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/ylj-topic-selection in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ylj-topic-selection -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/ylj-topic-selection in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
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-topic-selection -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-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/ylj-topic-selection, .github/skills/ylj-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/ylj-topic-selection in your project.
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Ylj Topic Selection is instructions for the agent only.
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.
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.
Ylj Topic Selection is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
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.
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Ylj Topic Selection: Academic Paper Strategist (AAASS554/codex-academic-paper-skills, 539 stars), Modeling Paper Rubric and Model Selector (yushui2022/MathModel-Skill, 453 stars), Humanities Thesis (ganzhi-black/humanities-thesis-skill, 632 stars) and Skill Thesis Writer (yanlin-cheng/skill-thesis-writer, 207 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,228 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.