ylj-workflow
Use as the entry point for any The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) piece. Routes to the right YLJ sub-skill based on lifecycle stage and which track (Article, Essay, Feature, student Note/Comment, or Forum) fits. It dispatches; it does not draft content.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ylj-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.
# YLJ Workflow Router (ylj-workflow) The orchestrator for a Yale Law Journal submission. YLJ is a **student-edited, generalist** law review at Yale Law School — **not peer-reviewed**. Figure out the **track** and the **stage**, then send the user to the matching skill. Unlike a peer-reviewed journal, the piece must already read as a **near-final, heavily-footnoted, Bluebook-compliant** article when it is submitted, because student editors evaluate a finished manuscript and then cite-check every footnote. ## When to trigger - Starting a new piece for YLJ and unsure where to begin - Mid-draft and unsure which skill applies next - Deciding which **track** fits (Article / Essay / Feature / Note / Comment / Forum) - Holding an offer from another review and weighing an **expedite** (route to `ylj-placement-strategy`) - An offer landed and student editing is starting (route to `ylj-student-editor-review`) ## First question: which track? | Situation | Track | Route to | |-----------|-------|----------| | Full original scholarship by a professional author | **Article** (encourage < 25,000 words incl. footnotes) | normal pipeline below | | Shorter, more pointed professional piece | **Essay**
- When to trigger
- First question: which track?
- Routing map (stage → skill)
- Default order
- Generalist fit check (run before routing onward)
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the ylj-workflow skill do?
Use as the entry point for any The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) piece. Routes to the right YLJ sub-skill based on lifecycle stage and which track (Article, Essay, Feature, student Note/Comment, or Forum) fits. It dispatches; it does not draft content.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ylj-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.