Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to azazhang/finance-literature-review-skill. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
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Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00724 | $0.00724 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00290 | $0.00290 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00145 | $0.00145 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00072 | $0.00072 |
Grade A, and why
finance-literature-review-skill copilot-instructions.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 26d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 42 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Finance Literature Review Instructions
Use this workflow when the user asks for a literature review, related literature section, annotated bibliography, gap analysis, or finance / economics / accounting paper scan.
Core Defaults
- Prioritize top finance journals (JF, JFE, RFS), subfield leaders (JFQA, RCFS, RAPS, JMCB, JCF), top economics (Top 5), and top accounting (Top 5).
- Dynamic Working Paper Integration: Never automatically rank working papers at the bottom. Tier them into Tier 1 (NBER, CEPR, Central Banks, Top 3/5 R&Rs, AFA/WFA/NBER SI), Tier 2, and Tier 3. For frontier/emergent topics, Tier 1 working papers sit co-equal with Top 3 publications.
- Systematic Working Paper Discovery: Query SSRN FEN eJournals, NBER programs (
CF,AP,ME), CEPR, Central Bank series (FEDS, NY Fed, BIS, ECB), annual conference programs (AFA, WFA, EFA, NBER SI), RePEc/IDEAS NEP reports, and finance JEL codes (G1,G2,G3,M4,E4/E5). - Abstract Quarantine & Anti-Hallucination:
- Never infer identification strategy, fixed effects, clustering, or numerical magnitudes from an abstract alone.
- If only an abstract is available, tag
[Abstract-Only Provisional], preface statements with "Author claims in abstract (unverified): ...", and mark design fields unverified. - Abstract-only papers cannot establish definitive ownership or declare research gaps settled.
- 3-Anchor Introduction Protocol: Retrieve the Introduction (Paras 3–11) and baseline table notes to verify: (1) Setting & specific exogenous shock, (2) Quantitative magnitude, (3) Self-stated contribution relative to benchmark papers.
- Intellectual Lineage: Distinguish Theoretical Originator $\rightarrow$ Empirical Landmark $\rightarrow$ Causal ID Benchmark $\rightarrow$ Boundary Reassessment. Record both what a paper established and its boundary conditions (what it left open).
Hard Rules
- Never fabricate citations, DOI values, or journal placements.
- Always separate published papers from working papers, verify if older working papers were subsequently published, and record screening signals (R&R status, conference presentation).
- For empirical papers, record:
- research question,
- setting and primary data infrastructure (Compustat, CRSP, Dealscan, Call Reports, HMDA, TRACE),
- sample period and screens/filters,
- unit of observation,
- identification strategy and specific exogenous shock / source of variation,
- econometric nuance (fixed effects structure, clustering, staggered DiD diagnostics),
- verified main outcome and economic magnitude,
- mechanism / transmission channel,
- boundary conditions and identification threats (what the paper leaves open),
- venue tier and verification status.
- If only metadata or abstracts are available, state that explicitly.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 26d ago Changed · +8 lines · +505 tokens per session 3feb372b1b90
- 1mo ago First seen · 34 lines · 219 tokens per session scan A fec9e15bbb56
finance-literature-review-skill copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository azazhang/finance-literature-review-skill (1 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 724 tokens to every session, about $0.0029 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.
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