jru-literature-positioning
Use when staking a Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (JRU) manuscript's contribution against the expected-utility-and-alternatives literature. Positions the claim within risk/uncertainty scholarship; it does not invent evidence or citations.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jru-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 (jru-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - The contribution is described as "new" but the relevant decision-theory or measurement literature is not engaged - A referee is likely to say "this was settled by [the prospect-theory / ambiguity / VSL literature] decades ago" - The paper sits between behavioral camps (EU loyalists vs. PT/RDU vs. ambiguity) and has not declared which conversation it joins - Citations lean on textbooks and reviews rather than the primary representations the paper builds on ## The conversations JRU papers must locate themselves in JRU readers hold a precise map of the field. Position the paper on it explicitly rather than against "the literature" generically: - **Expected utility and its critiques** — vNM/Savage as the benchmark; the Allais and Ellsberg paradoxes as the canonical anomalies a contribution must respect or explain. - **Non-EU under risk** — prospect theory and cumulative prospect theory (probability weighting, loss aversion, reference dependence); rank-dependent utility; disappointment/regret models. Say which functional family you adopt and why. - **Uncertainty / ambiguity** — maxmin and α-MEU, smooth ambiguity,
- When to trigger
- The conversations JRU papers must locate themselves in
- How to stake the contribution
- Citation discipline for a specialist readership
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Positioning across paradigms vs. within one
- Checklist
- Where the introduction makes the contribution land
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jru-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when staking a Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (JRU) manuscript's contribution against the expected-utility-and-alternatives literature. Positions the claim within risk/uncertainty scholarship; it does not invent evidence or citations.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jru-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.