Agent skill

Ahr Historiography Positioning

by franklee16 in franklee16/academic-research-skills

A skill your agent uses when positioning an American Historical Review (AHR) manuscript within the historiography so it reads as an intervention, not a report.

No licenceAuto-check passedMarketing & SEO

Install Ahr Historiography Positioning

skills CLI
$ npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill ahr-historiography-positioning -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills ahr-historiography-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/franklee16/academic-research-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/American-Historical-Review-Skills/skills/ahr-historiography-positioning .claude/skills/ahr-historiography-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
ahr-historiography-positioning
GitHub stars
223
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~904 tokens
SKILL.md length
367 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,617
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when positioning an American Historical Review (AHR) manuscript within the historiography so it reads as an intervention, not a report.

  • Works in 5 steps: Name the conversation, not a citation… → State the intervention precisely. Not… → Two audiences at once. Satisfy… → …
  • Positioning an American Historical Review (AHR) manuscript within the historiography so it reads as an intervention
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, How the AHR wants…, Intervention types (pick the… and Anti-patterns, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Ahr Historiography Positioning is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when positioning an American Historical Review (AHR) manuscript within the historiography so it reads as an intervention, not a report. AHR readers are historians across fields who expect you to engage the relevant scholarship and say precisely what you change. Stakes the contribution against prior work; it does not write the literature survey.

Its SKILL.md is about 900 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. The repository describes itself as: Comprehensive collection of Claude Code skills for academic research in economics, finance, and social sciences.

When your agent uses it

  • Positioning an American Historical Review (AHR) manuscript within the historiography so it reads as an intervention
  • Tasks that involve Positioning and messaging

Example prompts

  • “/ahr-historiography-positioning”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Name the conversation, not a citation pile. Identify the live interpretive debate or the
  2. State the intervention precisely. Not "little has been written" — say what the prevailing
  3. Two audiences at once. Satisfy specialists (you command the field) and generalists (why it
  4. Be fair to your predecessors. Represent prior interpretations accurately; the strongest
  5. Locate yourself in historiographical turns where relevant — social, cultural, transnational,

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9a4b2db. 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

Ahr Historiography Positioning loads about 904 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 95 tokens; SKILL.md has 367 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~95
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~904

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

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 367 words (~904 tokens).

“For the AHR, the historiographical intervention is the contribution. An article is not "here is what I found in the archive" — it is "historians have understood X this way; the evidence shows it is better understood this other way."…”

— opening of SKILL.md by franklee16
name
ahr-historiography-positioning

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/American-Historical-Review-Skills/skills/ahr-historiography-positioning of franklee16/academic-research-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9a4b2db

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in franklee16/academic-research-skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Ahr Historiography Positioning

What does Ahr Historiography Positioning do?

A skill your agent uses when positioning an American Historical Review (AHR) manuscript within the historiography so it reads as an intervention, not a report. Ahr Historiography Positioning is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when positioning an American Historical Review (AHR) manuscript within the historiography so it reads as an intervention, not a report.

When should I use Ahr Historiography Positioning?

Ahr Historiography Positioning fits situations like: positioning an American Historical Review (AHR) manuscript within the historiography so it reads as an intervention; tasks that involve Positioning and messaging.

How do I install Ahr Historiography Positioning in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill ahr-historiography-positioning -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/American-Historical-Review-Skills/skills/ahr-historiography-positioning in franklee16/academic-research-skills) into .claude/skills/ahr-historiography-positioning in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Ahr Historiography Positioning in Codex?

Run `npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill ahr-historiography-positioning -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/American-Historical-Review-Skills/skills/ahr-historiography-positioning in franklee16/academic-research-skills) into .agents/skills/ahr-historiography-positioning in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Ahr Historiography 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 franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill ahr-historiography-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/ahr-historiography-positioning, .gemini/skills/ahr-historiography-positioning, .github/skills/ahr-historiography-positioning and .opencode/skills/ahr-historiography-positioning in your project.

What does Ahr Historiography Positioning need to run?

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

Does Ahr Historiography 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 Ahr Historiography 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 Ahr Historiography Positioning use?

No licence was found for Ahr Historiography Positioning or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Ahr Historiography Positioning use?

About 904 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.6k 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 Ahr Historiography Positioning?

franklee16 (a GitHub user) maintains it in franklee16/academic-research-skills, which has 223 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,617 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 18, 2026.

Source: franklee16/academic-research-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.