From jel-skills
Audits a JEL survey for completeness vs. selectivity and fairness across schools, authors, and controversies, including guarding against over-citation of the author's own work.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/jel-skills:jel-comprehensiveness-and-balanceThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
- The framework is set and you are filling cells with the literature
A JEL survey must be comprehensive in coverage yet selective in emphasis. The reader should trust that nothing important is missing, while the prose foregrounds what matters. Resolve the tension by tiering the corpus:
| Tier | Treatment |
|---|---|
| Foundational / field-defining | discussed in the text, with what they established and their limits |
| Important contributions | grouped and weighed within the framework's cells; cited with their finding |
| Confirmatory / incremental | cited in clusters ("see also …") to demonstrate coverage without bloating prose |
| Tangential | cited only where they bear on a specific claim; not every adjacent paper belongs |
Comprehensiveness is proven by the citation set (the saturation log from jel-literature-synthesis); selectivity is exercised in the prose. A survey that discusses every paper at equal length has abdicated the editorial judgment that is its value.
JEL is the survey of record: its account of a debate becomes the field's shared reference. That obliges genuine even-handedness:
If you have published in the field, the survey must not read as a retrospective of your program. Guardrails:
【Tiering】corpus split foundational/important/confirmatory/tangential? Y/N
【Comprehensiveness evidence】saturation log + citation set support "nothing important missing"? Y/N
【Steelman】each rival school stated at its strongest? Y/N
【Conflict handling】reconciled by credibility + estimand (not vote-count)? Y/N
【Controversy】evidence-to-settle stated; author's read labelled? Y/N
【Self-citation audit】own work at warranted tier; emphasis identity-blind? Y/N
【Next step】→ jel-tables-figures (who-found-what tables) → jel-writing-style
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