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 aejmic-topic-selectiongit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-SkillsWrote this? Show the measurements
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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 | $0.01121 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00448 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00224 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00112 |
Grade A, and why
aejmic-topic-selection 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 — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Topic Selection & Scope Fit (aejmic-topic-selection)
When to trigger
- The project could plausibly go to AEJ: Micro, a specialist theory journal, or an applied/empirical venue, and you must choose
- The question feels narrow, technical, or of interest only to a sub-sub-field
- A reviewer or colleague asked "is this really an AEJ: Micro paper?"
- You have a clever model but are unsure it carries a broad-interest economic message
The AEJ: Micro fit gate
AEJ: Micro is the AEA's quarterly journal for microeconomic theory and its applications, founded 2009. It is theory-first but values broad microeconomic interest delivered through the AEA editorial process. The fit question is two-pronged: (1) is the contribution a theory contribution (a model, result, characterization, or theory-grounded experiment)? and (2) is the result broadly interesting to micro economists, not only to specialists in one technique?
In scope
- Game theory, mechanism and market design, matching, auctions and contests
- Contract theory, information economics, Bayesian persuasion / information design
- Industrial-organization theory (and structural IO where the theory is the point)
- Decision theory, behavioral theory, and theory-grounded experiments
- Political economy / networks when the contribution is a micro-theoretic result
Sibling boundaries — route elsewhere if
- JET / GEB: specialist theory prizing maximal generality or a technical advance with narrower audience → those venues; AEJ: Micro wants broader micro interest + AEA process.
- Theoretical Economics / Econometrica: more abstract or methodological (a new solution concept, an estimator, deep foundations) → those venues.
- AEJ: Applied: the contribution is an empirical applied-micro finding with no central theoretical result → AEJ: Applied (a sibling AEJ).
- A pure econometric-method paper → Econometrica / QE / a metrics journal.
Decision table
| Your contribution is primarily… | Likely best home |
|---|---|
| A clean, broadly interesting micro-theory result | AEJ: Micro |
| A maximally general or highly technical theory advance | JET / GEB |
| A new solution concept / methodological foundation | Theoretical Economics / Econometrica |
| An empirical applied-micro finding | AEJ: Applied |
| A theory-grounded experiment testing a model | AEJ: Micro (or a field/experimental venue) |
| A structural IO paper where the model delivers the insight | AEJ: Micro (or QE / a field journal) |
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 · 74 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 13037be4118e
aejmic-topic-selection is a skill published in the GitHub repository brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills (1,289 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,121 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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