aejmic-literature-positioning — independently scanned and version-tracked by SaferSkills.
SaferSkills independently audited aejmic-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.
For a theory-first journal, positioning is theorem-relative: identify the closest existing result and state precisely the delta — what your model relaxes, generalizes, characterizes, or overturns. Vague "we contribute to the literature on X" framing is the most common avoidable weakness. AEJ: Micro referees are subject-matter experts; they know the nearest theorem and will measure your delta against it.
Position against the theory frontier (mechanism design, IO theory, information economics, decision theory…), not against empirical applied-micro papers — that signals an AEJ: Applied framing. If your result has an empirical or experimental companion literature, cite it as motivation, not as the bar your contribution clears.
| Delta type | What it looks like | What the reader must see |
|---|---|---|
| Weaker assumption | Same conclusion, fewer/looser hypotheses | The dropped assumption named; that the old proof breaks without your argument |
| New environment | Old mechanism, richer setting (search, networks, dynamics) | What the new setting adds that the old result could not capture |
| Full characterization | Prior work had a special case or sufficiency only | Both directions; the boundary of the characterization |
| Impossibility / no-go | Prior work conjectured or assumed possibility | The exact obstruction and which primitive causes it |
| New mechanism | Same phenomenon, different economic force | Why the new force is the right explanation |
State which row you are in in the contribution paragraph — a referee who cannot classify your delta will undervalue it.
If a close result appeared independently and around the same time, acknowledge it explicitly and state the relationship (different method, complementary result, prior circulation date). Silence here reads as either ignorance or concealment to an expert referee.
A persuasion paper says it "extends the Bayesian-persuasion literature." A referee asks how it differs from the canonical single-sender result. The fix: "Closest is the single-sender concavification result; we relax commitment to partial commitment and characterize the sender-optimal signal, which coincides with full commitment only when the state space is binary." That one sentence is the delta — environment relaxed (partial commitment), full characterization, and an explicit scope limit (coincides only in the binary case).
【Closest result】[Author, Year]: shows [P] under [assumptions A]
【Our delta】[weaker assumption / new environment / characterization / impossibility / new mechanism]
【Not improved】[explicit scope limit]
【Anchor map】3–6 papers, one clause each
【Frontier check】positioned against theory, not empirics? [Y/N]
【Next step】aejmic-theory-model (build/sharpen the result) or aejmic-writing-style (intro)~30 seconds. Free. No account. Every finding cites a rule and a line of evidence.