aeri-literature-positioning
Use when positioning the contribution of an American Economic Review: Insights (AER: Insights) short-format manuscript against the closest published work in one or two tight paragraphs. Stakes the gap concisely; it does not write the full literature review (there is no room for one).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aeri-literature-positioning --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Literature Positioning — Compressed (aeri-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - The contribution relative to the nearest paper is fuzzy or oversold - A draft contains a multi-page literature review that the format cannot afford - A referee might say "this is already known" or "this is a known method applied" - You need to show the single insight is **new** without spending the word budget ## The short-format positioning problem AER: Insights gives you **no room for a survey**. Positioning must be done in **one or two paragraphs** that do exactly one job: pin the **single closest prior result** and state precisely what your one insight adds, corrects, or overturns. Because the whole paper is one idea, the literature task is narrow — locate that idea on the frontier, not map the whole field. The word budget is shared with everything else (≤7,000 words minus exhibits), so every citation must earn its place. ## How to position in two paragraphs 1. **Name the closest paper(s), not a field.** Identify the one or two papers a referee will immediately think of. Engage them directly: what did they establish, and what did they leave open or get wrong that your insight resolves? 2. *
- When to trigger
- The short-format positioning problem
- How to position in two paragraphs
- Decision table: what kind of gap is it?
- Where positioning lives in the short paper
- The general-interest test for citations
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the aeri-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning the contribution of an American Economic Review: Insights (AER: Insights) short-format manuscript against the closest published work in one or two tight paragraphs. Stakes the gap concisely; it does not write the full literature review (there is no room for one).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aeri-literature-positioning --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.