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 aeri-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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills/aeri-workflow)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills/aeri-workflow"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills/aeri-workflow/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills/aeri-workflow"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills/aeri-workflow.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00000 | $0.01598 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00639 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00320 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00160 |
Grade A, and why
aeri-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 — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AER: Insights Workflow Router (aeri-workflow)
Overview
This is the router. It tells you which aeri- skill to use at the current stage* of a manuscript aimed at American Economic Review: Insights (AER: Insights) — the AEA's short-format, general-interest journal (founded 2019) for papers built around ONE clear, important, well-executed idea, empirical, theoretical, or methodological. The bar is AER-level importance compressed into a short paper. AER: Insights is the short sibling of the American Economic Review (long, multi-result, flagship) and is general-interest, unlike the field-oriented full papers of the AEJ family.
Default assumption: unless the user says otherwise, treat the target as AER: Insights. The two operational tells that you are at AER: Insights and not AER or an AEJ: (1) a hard length cap — main text ≤7,000 words with no exhibits, minus 200 words per exhibit, maximum five exhibits, abstract ≤100 words — papers over the cap are returned unreviewed; (2) a single insight must carry the whole paper, with everything secondary pushed to the online Supplemental Appendix. Process tells: AEA single-blind review that is fast and decisive — no traditional revise-and-resubmit; first decisions are conditional accept or reject, and conditional accepts (usually an 8-week window) are normally not sent back to referees. Editor as of 2026: Matthew Gentzkow (lead editor beginning January 2024; founding editor Amy Finkelstein). Live-check volatile specifics on the official AEA pages.
When to trigger
- The user asks "what should I do next?"
- A draft is over the word/exhibit cap or is sprawling into multiple results
- Work is ping-ponging between the core result, framing, exhibits, and the response letter
- An AER: Insights decision letter (conditional accept or reject) arrived
Routing table
| Current symptom | Next skill |
|---|---|
| Paper has several results / no single crisp insight; fit to short format unclear | aeri-topic-selection |
| Contribution vs. the closest published work is fuzzy or oversold | aeri-literature-positioning |
| The causal or parameter identification is shaky | aeri-identification |
| A model is present but bloated, or unclear what it must minimally show | aeri-theory-model |
| Robustness is sprawling; unclear what stays in-text vs. appendix | aeri-robustness |
| Over the five-exhibit budget; exhibits are dense or carry significance asterisks | aeri-tables-figures |
| Prose buries the result; abstract/intro do not lead with it; over word cap | aeri-writing-style |
| Data/code deposit, README, or AEA Data Editor prep | aeri-replication-package |
| Want to understand the fast review / conditional-accept-vs-reject odds | aeri-referee-strategy |
| Ready to submit via the AEA portal; need a preflight | aeri-submission |
| Received a conditional accept; need a short, decisive response | aeri-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 · 87 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 307cb64a46e3
aeri-workflow 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 1,598 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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