jaar-workflow
Use as the entry point for any Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) manuscript. Routes to the right JAAR sub-skill by lifecycle stage, and enforces the journal's gatekeeping demand up front — the article must speak to a question of broad and fundamental interest to the study of religion, not just a subfield. It dispatches; it does not draft content.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jaar-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.
# JAAR Workflow Router (jaar-workflow) The orchestrator for a JAAR submission. JAAR's editorial office reads **every** submission and, before any peer review, asks one decisive question: does this article address a problem of **"broad and fundamental interest to the study of religion"** and reach **beyond the sub-specialty** it comes from? If not, the editor **returns it for reframing before review**. The router makes you answer that first. ## When to trigger - Starting a JAAR article and unsure where to begin - Mid-project and unsure which skill applies next - A draft reads as a contribution to one tradition/subfield only (reframing risk) - Returning with a decision letter (route to `jaar-revision-and-response`) ## The gate before everything: the reframing test Before drafting, state in one sentence what your article teaches **the study of religion as a whole** — not just Buddhist studies, or American religious history, or philosophy of religion. If you cannot, go to `jaar-topic-selection` and `jaar-scholarly-positioning` and reframe **now**; the editor will otherwise bounce it back unreviewed. ## Routing map (stage → skill) ```text Idea / fit + reframing? → jaar-topic-selection W
- When to trigger
- The gate before everything: the reframing test
- Routing map (stage → skill)
- Default order
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Symptom-to-skill dispatch table
- Worked vignette: routing a stalled manuscript
- Router anti-pattern → correction
- Supplementary resources
What does the jaar-workflow skill do?
Use as the entry point for any Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) manuscript. Routes to the right JAAR sub-skill by lifecycle stage, and enforces the journal's gatekeeping demand up front — the article must speak to a question of broad and fundamental interest to the study of religion, not just a subfield. It dispatches; it does not draft content.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jaar-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.