hlr-footnotes-and-cite-check
Use when building and stress-testing the heavy footnote apparatus of a Harvard Law Review (HLR) piece so it survives the student-editor cite-check / source-pull. Builds and audits the apparatus for pull-readiness; it does not set Bluebook form per citation (hlr-sources-and-bluebook) or manage the editor relationship (hlr-student-editor-review).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill hlr-footnotes-and-cite-check --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.
# Footnotes and Cite-Check (hlr-footnotes-and-cite-check) Legal scholarship runs on a **dense footnote apparatus**, and HLR editors run a **full cite-check / source-pull**: they obtain every cited source and confirm that each footnote actually supports its proposition, that quotations are exact, and that pincites are right. The author who is **pull-ready before submission** sails through; the one who is not faces painful rounds. This skill builds the apparatus and audits it for that scrutiny. ## When to trigger - Building footnotes as you draft, or auditing them before submission - Preparing for the source-pull after an offer - A footnote carries a proposition you are not sure the source supports - Quotations, pincites, or short forms feel shaky after editing moved footnotes ## What the apparatus must do 1. **Support every proposition.** Each assertion of law or fact in the text has a footnote whose source actually states (or, with the right signal, supports) it — at the **exact page** cited. 2. **Carry the qualifications.** Caveats, contrary authority, and side disputes live in footnotes so the text reads as a clean argument (see the text/footnote division in `hlr-writing-style`).
- When to trigger
- What the apparatus must do
- Pull-readiness: the author's source file
- Self-running cite-check (do this before editors do)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the hlr-footnotes-and-cite-check skill do?
Use when building and stress-testing the heavy footnote apparatus of a Harvard Law Review (HLR) piece so it survives the student-editor cite-check / source-pull. Builds and audits the apparatus for pull-readiness; it does not set Bluebook form per citation (hlr-sources-and-bluebook) or manage the editor relationship (hlr-student-editor-review).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill hlr-footnotes-and-cite-check --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.