Agent skill

Pmla Argument Development

by franklee16 in franklee16/academic-research-skills

A skill your agent uses when building the argument of a PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association) essay into a significant contribution to literary and language studies.

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Install Pmla Argument Development

skills CLI
$ npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill pmla-argument-development -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills pmla-argument-development --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/PMLA-Skills/skills/pmla-argument-development .claude/skills/pmla-argument-development && 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
pmla-argument-development
GitHub stars
223
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~952 tokens
SKILL.md length
435 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,616
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when building the argument of a PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association) essay into a significant contribution to literary and language studies.

  • Works in 5 steps: Thesis. State the central claim in one… → The move. Name what the essay does to… → Warrant. Show why the textual evidence… → …
  • Tasks that involve Essays and academic help
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Build the argument, The "so what" test… and Keep the argument honest, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Pmla Argument Development is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when building the argument of a PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association) essay into a significant contribution to literary and language studies. PMLA rewards a clear, consequential claim whose implications are drawn out — not a description or a reading without stakes. Structures the argument; it does not perform the close reading or invent evidence.

Its SKILL.md is about 950 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: Comprehensive collection of Claude Code skills for academic research in economics, finance, and social sciences.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Essays and academic help

Example prompts

  • “/pmla-argument-development”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Thesis. State the central claim in one sentence — contestable, specific, and consequential.
  2. The move. Name what the essay does to the conversation: re-reads, reframes, recovers,
  3. Warrant. Show why the textual evidence supports the claim — the interpretive reasoning that
  4. Stakes. Draw out the implications: for how we read this text, this genre or period, or this
  5. Counter-reading. State the strongest rival interpretation and show how your argument answers

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

Pmla Argument Development loads about 952 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 99 tokens; SKILL.md has 435 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~99
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~952

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 435 words (~952 tokens).

“At PMLA a reading is not a contribution until it becomes an argument the field can use — a claim that addresses a significant problem and whose implications are drawn out clearly. This skill turns interpretation into argument: a thesis…”

— opening of SKILL.md by franklee16
name
pmla-argument-development

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/PMLA-Skills/skills/pmla-argument-development 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 Pmla Argument Development

What does Pmla Argument Development do?

A skill your agent uses when building the argument of a PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association) essay into a significant contribution to literary and language studies. Pmla Argument Development is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when building the argument of a PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association) essay into a significant contribution to literary and language studies.

When should I use Pmla Argument Development?

Pmla Argument Development fits situations like: tasks that involve Essays and academic help.

How do I install Pmla Argument Development in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill pmla-argument-development -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/PMLA-Skills/skills/pmla-argument-development in franklee16/academic-research-skills) into .claude/skills/pmla-argument-development in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Pmla Argument Development in Codex?

Run `npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill pmla-argument-development -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/PMLA-Skills/skills/pmla-argument-development in franklee16/academic-research-skills) into .agents/skills/pmla-argument-development in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Pmla Argument Development 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 pmla-argument-development -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/pmla-argument-development, .gemini/skills/pmla-argument-development, .github/skills/pmla-argument-development and .opencode/skills/pmla-argument-development in your project.

What does Pmla Argument Development need to run?

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

Does Pmla Argument Development 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 Pmla Argument Development 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 Pmla Argument Development use?

No licence was found for Pmla Argument Development or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Pmla Argument Development use?

About 952 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.8k 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 Pmla Argument Development?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Pmla Argument Development: Academic Paper Strategist (AAASS554/codex-academic-paper-skills, 539 stars), Modeling Paper Rubric and Model Selector (yushui2022/MathModel-Skill, 452 stars), Humanities Thesis (ganzhi-black/humanities-thesis-skill, 630 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.

Who maintains Pmla Argument Development?

franklee16 (a GitHub user) maintains it in franklee16/academic-research-skills, which has 223 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,616 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.