jet-literature-positioning
Use when staking a Journal of Economic Theory (JET) contribution against the theory frontier — show precisely which assumption is weakened, which result is generalized, or which new phenomenon is characterized relative to the closest existing theorems. Positions the result; it is not a standalone survey.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jet-literature-positioning --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.
# Literature Positioning (jet-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - Writing the related-work paragraph(s) for a JET theory paper - A referee or editor may ask "how is this different from [closest existing theorem]?" - You need to defend originality at the desk screen ## How JET wants the literature handled JET spans general theory, so referees are expert in the **nearest existing results**, not a broad empirical literature. Positioning is **theorem-relative**, not topic-relative. For each closest paper, state the **delta in one of these precise forms**: - **Weaker assumptions:** "X obtains the result under [strong condition]; we obtain it dropping/weakening it to [weaker condition]." - **Greater generality:** "their characterization holds for [finite / quasi-linear / single-crossing] environments; ours covers [the general case]." - **New object:** "no prior result characterizes [the equilibrium set / optimal mechanism / preference domain] in this environment; Theorem 1 does." - **Tighter / constructive:** "existence was known; we give the [closed form / sharp bound / algorithm]." ## Reference-handling rules (JET-specific) - **References cited in the abstract must be written
- When to trigger
- How JET wants the literature handled
- Reference-handling rules (JET-specific)
- Theorem-delta table
- Subfield frontier maps
- Positioning-paragraph skeleton
- Vignette: placing an information-design result
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jet-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when staking a Journal of Economic Theory (JET) contribution against the theory frontier — show precisely which assumption is weakened, which result is generalized, or which new phenomenon is characterized relative to the closest existing theorems. Positions the result; it is not a standalone survey.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jet-literature-positioning --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 984 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.