agsy-literature-positioning
Use when positioning an Agricultural Systems (AgSy) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a systems contribution. AgSy readers span agronomy, modelling, livestock, economics, environment, and food-system science, so the paper must engage the systems and modelling literatures they expect — not only one subfield. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the lit review.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill agsy-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 (agsy-literature-positioning) AgSy is read by a **systems-science** audience that spans crop and livestock modelling, whole-farm and bio-economic analysis, sustainability assessment, and food-system science. Positioning is therefore not throat-clearing — the paper must show it advances the **systems and modelling** conversation, not just add another data point to one subfield. ## When to trigger - Drafting or revising the introduction and the "contribution" paragraph - A reviewer said you "ignored the relevant modelling work" or "don't engage the systems debate" - Your agronomic or model results are solid but the framing reads as single-discipline - You need to distinguish your contribution from the closest prior systems studies / models ## How AgSy wants the literature engaged 1. **Engage the systems debate, not a citation pile.** Identify the open systems question — an unresolved trade-off, a contested mechanism, a model limitation, a scaling gap — that your paper addresses. Cite the works that *define* it. 2. **Two literatures at once.** The **domain** literature (the crop/livestock/farm/food system you study) **and** the **methods** literature (the mode
- When to trigger
- How AgSy wants the literature engaged
- Cross-system engagement (a distinctive AgSy demand)
- Worked micro-example: locating one contribution (illustrative)
- Referee pushback → the AgSy-specific fix
- Anti-patterns
- Positioning pass for Agricultural Systems
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the agsy-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning an Agricultural Systems (AgSy) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a systems contribution. AgSy readers span agronomy, modelling, livestock, economics, environment, and food-system science, so the paper must engage the systems and modelling literatures they expect — not only one subfield. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the lit review.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill agsy-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.