ahr-workflow
Use as the entry point for any American Historical Review (AHR) manuscript. Routes to the right AHR sub-skill based on where you are in the lifecycle of a history article — from significance and historiography through archives, interpretation, Chicago-style prose, review, and revision. It dispatches; it does not draft content.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ahr-workflow --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.
# AHR Workflow Router (ahr-workflow) The orchestrator for an AHR submission. Figure out the stage of the project, then send the user to the matching skill. The AHR is the **flagship journal of the historical profession** — its articles are **historiographical interventions** built on **primary sources**, judged by historians across all fields. The router's first job is to make sure the project has both a significant question and a real archival basis before polishing prose. ## When to trigger - Starting a new AHR article and unsure where to begin - Mid-project and unsure which skill applies next - Sitting on rich archival material but no argument yet (route to `ahr-argument-development`) - Returning with a decision letter (route to `ahr-revision-and-response`) ## What the AHR is (and is not) - It is a **generalist history journal**: all periods, all places, all subfields, English-language. - It is **not** a social-science venue: there is **no data-availability/replication policy**, no statistical-significance bar, no results tables. The currency is **argument, evidence, and interpretation** anchored in primary sources and a historiographical conversation. ## Routing map (stage → sk
- When to trigger
- What the AHR is (and is not)
- Routing map (stage → skill)
- Default order
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the ahr-workflow skill do?
Use as the entry point for any American Historical Review (AHR) manuscript. Routes to the right AHR sub-skill based on where you are in the lifecycle of a history article — from significance and historiography through archives, interpretation, Chicago-style prose, review, and revision. It dispatches; it does not draft content.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ahr-workflow --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.