From geb-skills
Positions a game-theory manuscript against existing literature for Games and Economic Behavior (GEB), sharpening the contribution by naming specific prior results and stating the delta.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
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/geb-skills:geb-literature-positioningThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
- The relation to prior game-theory results is vague ("related to a large literature")
GEB is a specialist journal, so its referees and Advisory Editors are game-theory experts who know the canonical results cold. Positioning here is sharper than at a general-economics journal: you are not explaining game theory to outsiders, you are convincing insiders that your theorem, mechanism, or experiment is not implied by what they already know. Because the chief editor routes your paper to an anonymous Advisory Editor (one of ~45) who selects referees, the people judging novelty are likely to include authors of the nearest prior work — position honestly and precisely.
GEB also spans economics, political science, biology, computer science, mathematics, and psychology, so the "nearest neighbor" to your result may live in a CS/EC or biology literature, not only in economics. Search across those fields; a result already known in algorithmic game theory or evolutionary biology is not novel just because it is new to economics.
Use this as a second-pass capability check. First lock the primitives, equilibrium concept, comparative statics, and proof or experiment boundary; then test whether the manuscript addresses game theorists who ask what the model teaches beyond a clever example.
claim / evidence / blocker / next edit rows so the next pass can patch the manuscript directly.resources/official-source-map.md for volatile rules and name the one unresolved fact that could change the recommendation.【Nearest prior work】[2-3 specific papers / theorems / mechanisms]
【Delta sentence】"relative to X, we ..."
【Special-case defense】recovers X as a limit / corollary? [Y/N]
【Cross-field check】CS-EC / biology / poli-sci neighbors cited? [Y/N]
【Conference-version overlap】disclosed + differentiated? [Y/N / NA]
【Next step】geb-contribution-framing
npx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin geb-skillsJudges whether a game-theory result fits the scope, scale, and selectivity of Games and Economic Behavior (GEB). Use when deciding between GEB and field journals, or when a result feels correct but incremental.
Evaluates game-theory manuscripts for fit with Games and Economic Behavior, covering scope, method bar, house style, and desk-reject risks. Guides framing and venue selection.
Stakes a JET theory contribution against the closest existing theorems by specifying which assumption is weakened, result generalized, or phenomenon characterized. For related-work paragraphs or referee defense.