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A skill your agent uses when revising prose to match The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) house style — clear, generalist-legible legal writing with a disciplined footnote-to-text balance.
Install Ylj Writing Style
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ylj-writing-style -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ylj-writing-style --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-writing-style .claude/skills/ylj-writing-style && 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-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-writing-style into .claude/skills/ylj-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ylj-writing-style", 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-writing-styleType 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-writing-style -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ylj-writing-style --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-writing-style .agents/skills/ylj-writing-style && 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-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-writing-style into .agents/skills/ylj-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ylj-writing-style", 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-writing-style -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ylj-writing-style --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-writing-style .cursor/skills/ylj-writing-style && 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-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-writing-style into .cursor/skills/ylj-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ylj-writing-style", 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-writing-style--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-writing-style -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ylj-writing-style --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-writing-style .gemini/skills/ylj-writing-style && 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-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-writing-style into .gemini/skills/ylj-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ylj-writing-style", 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-writing-styleInstalls 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-writing-style -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-writing-style .github/skills/ylj-writing-style && 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-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-writing-style into .github/skills/ylj-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ylj-writing-style", 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-writing-style -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-writing-style --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-writing-style .opencode/skills/ylj-writing-style && 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-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-writing-style into .opencode/skills/ylj-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ylj-writing-style", 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-writing-style- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1.1k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 527 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 2,387
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
A skill your agent uses when revising prose to match The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) house style — clear, generalist-legible legal writing with a disciplined footnote-to-text balance.
- Works in 5 steps: Text-first. The argument must be… → Generalist legibility. Define terms of… → Plain, confident voice. Prefer the… → …
- Revising prose to match The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) house style — clear
- SKILL.md covers When to trigger, House-style priorities, Sentence and paragraph craft and The footnote-to-text balance…, plus 4 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Ylj Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when revising prose to match The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) house style — clear, generalist-legible legal writing with a disciplined footnote-to-text balance. It governs voice and readability; it does not format citations (ylj-sources-and-bluebook) or sequence the argument (ylj-argument-structure).
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.
It sits in Writing & Content, covering Brand voice and tone, Plain language and style rules 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
- Revising prose to match The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) house style — clear
- Generalist-legible legal writing with a disciplined footnote-to-text balance
Example prompts
- “/ylj-writing-style”
Workflow steps
5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Text-first. The argument must be followable from the text alone; footnotes support and elaborate
- Generalist legibility. Define terms of art on first use; don't assume the reader lives in your
- Plain, confident voice. Prefer the active voice and concrete subjects. State the claim; don't
- Topic sentences that argue. Each paragraph opens with the claim it proves, not the subject it
- Footnote discipline. Substance belongs in text; footnotes hold cites, qualifications, and
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 Writing Style loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 79 tokens; SKILL.md has 527 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). 527 words, ~1,123 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/ylj-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- ylj-writing-style
- description
- Use when revising prose to match The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) house style — clear, generalist-legible legal writing with a disciplined footnote-to-text balance. It governs voice and readability; it does not format citations (ylj-sources-and-bluebook) or sequence the argument (ylj-argument-structure).
Writing Style (ylj-writing-style)
YLJ prose is read by a generalist legal audience: scholars in other fields, judges, clerks, and
practitioners. The house standard is clear, confident legal writing where the text carries the
argument and footnotes carry the support. This skill polishes voice and readability; citation form
lives in ylj-sources-and-bluebook and structure in ylj-argument-structure.
When to trigger
- The argument is sound but the prose is dense, hedged, or jargon-heavy
- A subfield reader follows it but a generalist editor would stall
- The footnotes have swallowed the argument (text is thin, footnotes are essays)
- Final polish pass before submission or before the Forum's faster turnaround
House-style priorities
- Text-first. The argument must be followable from the text alone; footnotes support and elaborate but never hide a step the reader needs. If a key move lives only in a footnote, promote it.
- Generalist legibility. Define terms of art on first use; don't assume the reader lives in your doctrine. A clerk in a different field should follow the through-line.
- Plain, confident voice. Prefer the active voice and concrete subjects. State the claim; don't bury it under "it could be argued that." Hedge only where the law is genuinely uncertain.
- Topic sentences that argue. Each paragraph opens with the claim it proves, not the subject it touches. A reader skimming topic sentences should get the argument.
- Footnote discipline. Substance belongs in text; footnotes hold cites, qualifications, and genuinely tangential material. A footnote that is a second article competing with the text is a YLJ-specific tell of an undisciplined draft.
Sentence and paragraph craft
- Cut throat-clearing ("It is important to note that"); start with the subject and verb.
- One idea per sentence; break the 60-word doctrinal sentence into two.
- Signpost transitions with logic ("Because…," "Yet…," "If that is right, then…"), not filler.
- Use defined short forms for repeated case/statute names; don't restate the full caption every time.
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The footnote-to-text balance (a YLJ pressure point)
| Symptom | Fix |
|---|---|
| 40% of the page is footnote | Promote argument to text; cut footnote essays to cites + key qualifier |
| The reader must read footnotes to follow the argument | Move the load-bearing reasoning up into the text |
| A footnote runs longer than its paragraph | Split: keep the cite; relocate substance or delete |
| Stacked see also with no parentheticals | Trim; add explanatory parentheticals only where they earn space |
Checklist
- Argument followable from text alone; no load-bearing reasoning stranded in footnotes
- Terms of art defined on first use; generalist can follow
- Active voice and concrete subjects predominate; hedging only where warranted
- Topic sentences state claims, not topics
- Footnotes are support, not parallel essays; no footnote dwarfs its paragraph
- Length within the track's encouraged cap (Article < 25k / Essay < 15k / Forum < 10k)
Anti-patterns
- A "great footnotes" draft where the text is a skeleton and the argument lives below the line
- Subfield jargon and undefined acronyms that lock out a generalist editor
- Passive, over-hedged prose that never commits to the claim
- Topic sentences that announce a subject instead of advancing the argument
- Padding to hit a perceived "Article length" — over-length weighs against acceptance
Output format
【Voice】active + confident? generalist-legible? Y/N
【Text-first】argument followable without footnotes? Y/N
【Footnote balance】any footnote dwarfing its paragraph? fixed? Y/N
【Length】within track cap? Y/N
【Next】ylj-placement-strategy (where/when to submit) → ylj-submissionSupplementary resources
../../resources/worked-examples/01-introduction.md— a dense intro rewritten for generalist legibility../../resources/official-source-map.md— YLJ length / style 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
Files
Just SKILL.md in Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-writing-style of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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Questions about Ylj Writing Style
What does Ylj Writing Style do?
A skill your agent uses when revising prose to match The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) house style — clear, generalist-legible legal writing with a disciplined footnote-to-text balance. Ylj Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when revising prose to match The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) house style — clear, generalist-legible legal writing with a disciplined footnote-to-text balance.
When should I use Ylj Writing Style?
Ylj Writing Style fits situations like: revising prose to match The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) house style — clear; generalist-legible legal writing with a disciplined footnote-to-text balance.
How do I install Ylj Writing Style in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ylj-writing-style -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/ylj-writing-style in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Ylj Writing Style in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ylj-writing-style -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Yale-Law-Journal-Skills/skills/ylj-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/ylj-writing-style in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Ylj Writing Style 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-writing-style -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-writing-style, .gemini/skills/ylj-writing-style, .github/skills/ylj-writing-style and .opencode/skills/ylj-writing-style in your project.
What does Ylj Writing Style need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Ylj Writing Style is instructions for the agent only.
Does Ylj Writing Style 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 Writing Style 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 Writing Style use?
Ylj Writing Style 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 Writing Style 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.
What are the alternatives to Ylj Writing Style?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Ylj Writing Style: UX Writing (content-designer/ux-writing-skill, 224 stars), Technical Writing Workflow (tokenbender/agent-guides, 367 stars), Blog Persona (AgriciDaniel/claude-blog, 2.3k stars) and Repo System Map (tamdogood/builder-essential-skills, 222 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Ylj Writing Style?
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.