aejmac-theory-model

aejmac-theory-model is a skill for Claude Code from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,248 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for checking the quantitative model in a macroeconomics paper, including models such as DSGE and HANK, which describe how economies behave over time.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps document calibration and estimation, check solution accuracy, compare model and observed data, and assess whether policy or welfare experiments are credible.
Why use it?
It helps find unsupported parameter choices, inaccurate solutions, weak comparisons with data, and counterfactual claims that the model cannot justify.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the aej-macroeconomics-skills plugin — 12 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps document calibration and estimation, check solution accuracy, compare model and observed data, and assess whether policy or welfare experiments are credible.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills/aejmac-theory-model
About the project

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.

brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills · 1,264 stars · on GitHub · copaper.ai

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aejmac-theory-model
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aej-macroeconomics-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,248 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00000 $0.01248
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00499
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00250
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00125

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6004f8e63867, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aejmac-theory-model 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.

AEJ-Macroeconomics-Skills/skills/aejmac-theory-model/SKILL.md · 78 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Quantitative Theory & Model Discipline (aejmac-theory-model)

When to trigger

  • Parameters are calibrated or estimated but it is unclear what disciplines each one
  • A DSGE/HANK model is solved but the solution method / accuracy is unstated
  • A counterfactual or welfare number is reported with no validity argument (Lucas critique)
  • Untargeted moments are never shown, so the model's fit is asserted not demonstrated
  • You are unsure the model clears AEJ: Macro's quantitative-discipline bar

The AEJ: Macro model bar

AEJ: Macro welcomes quantitative-theoretical macro, but the standard is discipline, not decoration: a calibration or structural estimate must be tied to data, the solution must be accurate enough for the claim, and the counterfactual must be defensible. The model exists to deliver a broad-interest macro quantity (a multiplier, a welfare cost, a share of inequality, a propagation magnitude), not to display machinery.

Discipline paths

Path A: Calibration discipline

  • Source every parameter. Externally calibrated (cited micro/macro estimates) vs. internally calibrated (matched to targeted moments) — label each and give the target.
  • Targeted moments table. Show data vs. model on the moments you matched.
  • Untargeted-moment validation. Show the model matches moments it was not asked to match — this is the credibility payoff for calibration.
  • Sensitivity. Report how the headline quantity moves with the key parameters (and which moment moves which parameter).

Path B: Structural estimation discipline

  • Name what identifies each parameter — the data feature / moment, not "the likelihood." Report a sensitivity / informativeness measure (e.g., a sensitivity matrix) so readers see which data move which parameter.
  • Estimator stated (MLE / GMM / SMM / indirect inference / Bayesian) with priors (if Bayesian), starting values, tolerances, and multi-start evidence of a global enough optimum.
  • Monte Carlo recovery: simulated data return the true parameters.

Read the full file on GitHub · 78 lines

Changes

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.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 78 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 6004f8e63867

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aejmac-theory-model is a skill published in the GitHub repository brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills (1,264 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,248 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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