apsa-style
APSA style checker for Quarto (.qmd) files. Checks numbers, capitalization, abbreviations, italics, in-text citations, titles of works, neutral and unbiased language, and APSA-specific terminology against the APSA Style Manual for Political Science (2018, updated 2023).
Install / Use
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill apsa-styleInstalls into whichever agent you are using.
SKILL.md
Installable skill definition
Quality Score
Category
Content & MediaSupported Platforms
Our assessment of apsa-style
apsa-style scores 87/100 on our quality scale, 314th of 622 Content & Media skills we index.
We have not analysed the SKILL.md file itself yet, so the content part of this score is an estimate until our crawler reaches it.
With 4,360 GitHub stars, it is one of the more widely adopted skills in the catalogue.
Maintenance, license and trust
- The repository was last updated 4 days ago, so apsa-style is actively maintained.
- No license is declared. By default that means all rights are reserved: you can read it, but reusing or redistributing it is not clearly permitted. Ask the author before building on it commercially.
- Its trust signals score 88/100, with 1 caution from licensing, adoption, age or documentation. These come from repository metadata, not a code audit — read the skill file before letting an agent act on it.
apsa-style compared with similar skills
All 4 of these similar skills score higher than apsa-style; compare them before choosing.
| Skill | Score | Stars | Updated | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| apsa-style (this skill)by brycewang-stanford | 87 | 4.4k | 4d ago | SKILL.md |
| Agent-Reachby Panniantong | 100 | 85.7k | 12d ago | CLAUDE.md |
| headroomby headroomlabs-ai | 100 | 73.9k | today | CLAUDE.md |
| crawl4aiby unclecode | 100 | 84.4k | 2d ago | MCP Server |
| Scraplingby D4Vinci | 100 | 84.0k | today | MCP Server |
Frequently asked questions
- How do I install apsa-style?
- Run
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill apsa-style. The install tabs above show the steps for each supported agent. - Which AI agents does apsa-style work with?
- It is written for Zed, as a SKILL.md file. Other agents that read the same format can often use it too.
- Is apsa-style safe to use?
- It declares no license and scores 88/100 on trust signals. Skills are instructions an agent will follow, so read the file before installing it and do not approve commands you do not understand.
- Is apsa-style still maintained?
- The repository was last updated 4 days ago, so apsa-style is actively maintained.
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Trust signals
From repository metadata: license, adoption, age and documentation. Not a code audit — see the Safety scan above for what the skill file itself contains.