ajs-workflow
Use as the entry point for any American Journal of Sociology (AJS) manuscript. Routes to the right AJS sub-skill based on where you are in the lifecycle and whether the piece is a research article, a Comment/Reply, or a book-review response. It dispatches; it does not draft content.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ajs-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.
# AJS Workflow Router (ajs-workflow) The orchestrator for an AJS submission. Figure out the stage and the **piece type**, then send the user to the matching skill. AJS is the discipline's **oldest** journal — generalist sociology with a premium on **theoretical ambition** and a distinctive **student-run, double-blind** review run out of the University of Chicago Department of Sociology. The router's first job is to make sure the paper is **in dialogue with current sociology** (AJS "prejects" papers that are not). ## When to trigger - Starting a new AJS paper and unsure where to begin - Mid-project and unsure which skill applies next - Deciding whether the piece is a **research article** or a **Comment/Reply** on a published AJS paper - Returning with a decision letter (route to `ajs-rebuttal`) ## First question: which piece type? | Situation | Type | Route to | |-----------|------|----------| | Full original sociological study | **Research article** | normal pipeline below | | Engaging/critiquing a specific published AJS article | **Comment** (then author **Reply**) | `ajs-literature-positioning` + `ajs-rebuttal` | | Reviewing a book | **Book review** (usually invited) | `ajs-writi
- When to trigger
- First question: which piece type?
- Routing map (stage → skill)
- Default order
- Calibration anchors (what an AJS trajectory feels like)
- Stage-to-symptom dispatch (route on the complaint, not the calendar)
- Worked micro-example (illustrative numbers)
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the ajs-workflow skill do?
Use as the entry point for any American Journal of Sociology (AJS) manuscript. Routes to the right AJS sub-skill based on where you are in the lifecycle and whether the piece is a research article, a Comment/Reply, or a book-review response. It dispatches; it does not draft content.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ajs-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.