cps-workflow
Use when starting or navigating any Comparative Political Studies (CPS) manuscript and you need the right next sub-skill, chosen by lifecycle stage and whether the paper makes a genuinely comparative claim across countries or over time. It dispatches; it does not draft content.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cps-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.
# CPS Workflow Router (cps-workflow) The orchestrator for a Comparative Political Studies submission. Figure out the stage, then send the user to the matching skill. CPS is the discipline's **comparative-politics specialist** (SAGE, since 1968) — the router's first job is to confirm the paper makes a *comparative* argument (across countries, subnational units, or over time), not a single-case study with no comparative leverage. ## When to trigger - Starting a new CPS paper and unsure where to begin - Mid-project and unsure which skill applies next - Unsure whether the paper is comparative enough for CPS (vs. a single-country area-studies piece) - Returning with a decision letter (route to `cps-rebuttal`) ## First question: is it comparative? | Situation | CPS fit | Route to | |-----------|---------|----------| | Cross-national or cross-regional claim | Strong | normal pipeline below | | Subnational comparison or over-time within one country | Strong (intra-national counts) | normal pipeline | | Single case used to build/test a portable theory | Conditional — must travel | `cps-topic-selection` + `cps-theory-building` | | Single country, descriptive, no comparative leverage | Weak —
- When to trigger
- First question: is it comparative?
- Routing map (stage → skill)
- Default order
- Comparative-fit routing check
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the cps-workflow skill do?
Use when starting or navigating any Comparative Political Studies (CPS) manuscript and you need the right next sub-skill, chosen by lifecycle stage and whether the paper makes a genuinely comparative claim across countries or over time. It dispatches; it does not draft content.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cps-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.