aeja-literature-positioning — independently scanned and version-tracked by SaferSkills.
SaferSkills independently audited aeja-literature-positioning (Agent Skill) and scored it 100/100 (green). The audit ran 55 deterministic rules across Security, Supply Chain, Maintenance, Transparency, and Community; it found 0 high-severity and 0 lower-severity findings. The full rule-by-rule trace and per-finding evidence are below. Free, methodology-open.
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Every scanned point with the score it earned and what moved between them.
First recorded scan — no prior version to compare against.
The primary manifest — the file an agent reads to learn what this artifact does.
At AEJ: Applied the contribution is judged as: a credibly identified answer to a question the applied-micro community has not yet settled, positioned against the closest prior work — not the whole field. Editors and referees reward a contribution that is specific, honest, and load-bearing. Name your contribution type, then position only against the papers that threaten it.
| Contribution type | What "new" must mean | Positioning move |
|---|---|---|
| New answer | a magnitude prior work did not credibly estimate | show why prior designs failed to identify it |
| New design / source of variation | a cleaner identification of a known question | contrast your design's assumptions vs. the standard one |
| New setting / population | external validity that changes the lesson | argue why this setting is informative, not just available |
| New mechanism | decomposing a known effect into channels | show the prior literature left the channel ambiguous |
| New measurement | a quantity nobody could measure before | establish the measure's validity, not just its novelty |
A draft claims to be "the first study of cash transfers and schooling in [country]." A referee replies that three RCTs already estimate this effect elsewhere, so geography is not a contribution. The AEJ: Applied fix is to reposition by identification and mechanism: the closest papers estimate the effect where transfers are conditional, leaving open the unconditional case; this paper exploits an unconditional rollout and shows the schooling response is half as large (illustrative), isolating the conditionality channel. The contribution becomes a mechanism the closest authors would agree they did not pin down — not a new map pin.
author would accept; show the specific gap their design left open.
mechanism, with the design reason prior work left it open.
position in the residual gap rather than the whole field.
【Contribution type】answer / design / setting / mechanism / measurement
【Three closest papers】1) ___ (open: ___) 2) ___ (open: ___) 3) ___ (open: ___)
【Honest delta】one sentence the closest author would accept
【Positioned by】identification reason prior work left it open: ___
【Sibling check】settled by AER/AEJ:Policy/field that we do NOT re-claim: ___
【Next step】aeja-identification (or aeja-writing-style if design is settled)~30 seconds. Free. No account. Every finding cites a rule and a line of evidence.