Awesome Journal Skills is a collection of agent skill packs tailored to hundreds of academic journals across fields including economics, social science, medicine, science, and engineering. Researchers use the packs for tasks such as choosing topics, designing empirical strategies, preparing tables and figures, submitting papers, and responding to reviewers. The catalogue entries are the project's journal-specific skills and related plugins.
Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aeja-workflowgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-SkillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
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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 | $0.00000 | $0.01656 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00662 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00331 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00166 |
Grade A, and why
aeja-workflow 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 1mo 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 — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AEJ: Applied Workflow Router (aeja-workflow)
Overview
This is the router. It tells you which aeja- skill to use at the current stage* of a manuscript aimed at the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) — the American Economic Association's quarterly journal for empirical applied microeconomics with credible causal identification: labor, development, health, education, public, urban, environmental, and household finance. AEJ: Applied is empirical-first: a clean research design carrying a substantive economic question, with theory used to interpret and structure rather than to lead.
Default assumption: unless the user says otherwise, treat the target as AEJ: Applied. Operational tells that you are at AEJ: Applied and not a sibling: review is single-blind (author identities are visible to referees); submission is via the AEA ScholarOne system with fee tiers by AEA membership and country-income status; JEL codes and a 100-word abstract are required; and the signature stable differentiator is the AEA Data and Code Availability Policy — administered by the AEA Data Editor (Lars Vilhuber), accepted papers deposit data + code to the AEA Data and Code Repository on openICPSR, and the package is checked for reproducibility before publication. On 2026-06-20 the editor page listed Raymond Fisman (Boston University) as Editor, with coeditors Leah Boustan, Marika Cabral, Peter Hull, Xavier Jaravel, and Nicholas Ryan. Check live AEA pages for fees and editors before submission-week advice.
When to trigger
- The user asks "what should I do next?"
- A draft needs its current bottleneck diagnosed
- Work is ping-ponging between identification, framing, writing, and the response letter
- An AEJ: Applied decision letter arrived and the user needs to switch into revision mode
Routing table
| Current symptom | Next skill |
|---|---|
| Unsure the paper fits AEJ: Applied vs AER / AEJ: Policy / a field journal | aeja-topic-selection |
| Contribution vs. the literature is fuzzy or undersold | aeja-literature-positioning |
| Causal design rests on OLS+controls, TWFE on staggered timing, or a weak IV | aeja-identification |
| A model is needed to interpret estimates or structure a mechanism | aeja-theory-model |
| Results not shown robust to specification, sample, inference | aeja-robustness |
| Exhibits are dense; main result not legible in one table/figure | aeja-tables-figures |
| Prose buries the design; abstract/intro do not land | aeja-writing-style |
| Data/code deposit, README, openICPSR prep for the AEA Data Editor | aeja-replication-package |
| Want to anticipate referee objections before submitting | aeja-referee-strategy |
| Ready to submit via the AEA portal; need a preflight | aeja-submission |
| Received an R&R; need a response-letter strategy | aeja-rebuttal |
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 90 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A a430ef4f4d70
aeja-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills (1,259 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,656 tokens. 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 2026-09-15.
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