A skill your agent uses when anticipating the objections a sophisticated American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) referee will raise, so a manuscript pre-empts them before…

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Install Aeja Referee Strategy

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aeja-referee-strategy -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills aeja-referee-strategy --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/AEJ-Applied-Economics-Skills/skills/aeja-referee-strategy .claude/skills/aeja-referee-strategy && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
aeja-referee-strategy
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
537 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when anticipating the objections a sophisticated American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) referee will raise, so a manuscript pre-empts them before…

  • Works in 5 steps: War-game the design. For each… → Pre-empt, do not hide. Address the… → Sequence robustness. Put decisive checks… → …
  • Anticipating the objections a sophisticated American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) referee will raise
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, How AEJ: Applied review works…, The objection map (pre-empt in… and Strategy craft, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Aeja Referee Strategy is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when anticipating the objections a sophisticated American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) referee will raise, so a manuscript pre-empts them before submission or addresses them in revision. Plans the defense; it does not draft the response letter (aeja-rebuttal) or run the submission preflight (aeja-submission).

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Research & Science, covering Peer review and Econometrics and empirical research. The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. | 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Anticipating the objections a sophisticated American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) referee will raise
  • So a manuscript pre-empts them before submission
  • Addresses them in revision

Example prompts

  • “/aeja-referee-strategy”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. War-game the design. For each identifying assumption, write the sentence a hostile referee would use; if you cannot answer it in one…
  2. Pre-empt, do not hide. Address the obvious weakness head-on in the text; referees punish papers that ignore the elephant.
  3. Sequence robustness. Put decisive checks in the main paper; hold secondary ones for the appendix/online appendix so the paper stays…
  4. Anticipate the external-validity ask. It is almost guaranteed for a local design — have the estimand and scope statement ready.
  5. Make reproducibility visible. A referee who sees a clean package is less inclined to suspect specification search.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Aeja Referee Strategy loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 90 tokens; SKILL.md has 537 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~90
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 537 words, ~1,241 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/aeja-referee-strategy/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
aeja-referee-strategy
description
Use when anticipating the objections a sophisticated American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) referee will raise, so a manuscript pre-empts them before submission or addresses them in revision. Plans the defense; it does not draft the response letter (aeja-rebuttal) or run the submission preflight (aeja-submission).

Referee Strategy (aeja-referee-strategy)

When to trigger

  • The paper is near submission and you want to stress-test it against the referees it will draw
  • You need to decide which robustness checks to run before submitting vs. hold in reserve
  • An R&R arrived and you must map referee concerns to concrete responses
  • You want to understand how AEJ: Applied's single-blind peer-review process shapes strategy

How AEJ: Applied review works (plan around it)

AEJ: Applied uses single-blind review through the AEA ScholarOne system: author identities are visible to referees, while referee identities remain anonymous to authors. An editor assigns the paper to a coeditor or handles it directly, and before a first R&R the handling coeditor consults a second coeditor. Referees here are identification-literate applied microeconomists; the modal report attacks the credibility of the design first, then magnitude/mechanism, then external validity. The editor weighs whether the contribution is novel and the design clears the bar. Plan to pre-empt the predictable objections in the paper itself, leaving the response letter for genuinely new asks.

The objection map (pre-empt in the paper)

Referee objection (by design)Pre-emption to build in now
"TWFE is biased under staggered timing"heterogeneity-robust estimator + Bacon decomposition already in the paper
"Parallel trends is not credible"clean pre-trend leads + honest-DID sensitivity bound
"Instrument is not excludable"institutional + theoretical exclusion argument + falsification tests
"RD jump is manipulation / bandwidth-driven"density test + bandwidth sensitivity + donut
"Effect is just selection / confounding"Oster δ / coefficient-stability bounds
"Local/ITT effect ≠ the policy-relevant effect"explicit estimand + calibrated external-validity discussion
"Inference too narrow (few clusters)"wild-cluster bootstrap / randomization inference
"Mechanism is a black box"a test that distinguishes the proposed channel from rivals
"Not reproducible"the openICPSR package built and referenced (aeja-replication-package)
Show full SKILL.md (255 more words)Show less

Strategy craft

  1. War-game the design. For each identifying assumption, write the sentence a hostile referee would use; if you cannot answer it in one paragraph + one exhibit, that is a hole to fix before submission.
  2. Pre-empt, do not hide. Address the obvious weakness head-on in the text; referees punish papers that ignore the elephant.
  3. Sequence robustness. Put decisive checks in the main paper; hold secondary ones for the appendix/online appendix so the paper stays readable.
  4. Anticipate the external-validity ask. It is almost guaranteed for a local design — have the estimand and scope statement ready.
  5. Make reproducibility visible. A referee who sees a clean package is less inclined to suspect specification search.

The shared, venue-neutral objection catalog is in ../../resources/README.md (links to the empirical-methods hub) — walk it before drafting.

Checklist

  • Title/byline/front matter align with AEJ: Applied's single-blind process
  • Each identifying assumption has a written hostile-referee sentence and a one-paragraph+one-exhibit answer
  • The paper's biggest weakness is addressed in the text, not hidden
  • Decisive robustness in the main paper; secondary checks in the appendix
  • Estimand + external-validity scope stated to pre-empt the guaranteed ask
  • Reproducibility package referenced so specification-search suspicion is defused
  • Mechanism evidence distinguishes the proposed channel from rivals

Anti-patterns

  • Ignoring the obvious design weakness and hoping no referee notices
  • Writing self-citations or acknowledgments as if the venue required anonymous review
  • Dumping every robustness check into the main text so the paper becomes unreadable
  • No estimand statement, guaranteeing an external-validity round-trip
  • Treating the replication package as someone else's problem until acceptance

Output format

【Front matter】single-blind title/byline and disclosures ready? [Y/N]
【Objection map】per assumption: [objection → pre-emption in paper]
【Biggest weakness】addressed in text? [Y/N] — how: ___
【Robustness placement】main vs appendix split: ___
【External validity】estimand + scope stated? [Y/N]
【Reproducibility visible】package referenced? [Y/N]
【Next step】aeja-submission

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Files

Just SKILL.md in AEJ-Applied-Economics-Skills/skills/aeja-referee-strategy of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Aeja Referee Strategy

What does Aeja Referee Strategy do?

A skill your agent uses when anticipating the objections a sophisticated American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) referee will raise, so a manuscript pre-empts them before…. Aeja Referee Strategy is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when anticipating the objections a sophisticated American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) referee will raise, so a manuscript pre-empts them before submission or addresses them in revision.

When should I use Aeja Referee Strategy?

Aeja Referee Strategy fits situations like: anticipating the objections a sophisticated American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) referee will raise; so a manuscript pre-empts them before submission; addresses them in revision.

How do I install Aeja Referee Strategy in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aeja-referee-strategy -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (AEJ-Applied-Economics-Skills/skills/aeja-referee-strategy in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/aeja-referee-strategy in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Aeja Referee Strategy in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aeja-referee-strategy -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (AEJ-Applied-Economics-Skills/skills/aeja-referee-strategy in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/aeja-referee-strategy in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Aeja Referee Strategy in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aeja-referee-strategy -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/aeja-referee-strategy, .gemini/skills/aeja-referee-strategy, .github/skills/aeja-referee-strategy and .opencode/skills/aeja-referee-strategy in your project.

What does Aeja Referee Strategy need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Aeja Referee Strategy is instructions for the agent only.

Does Aeja Referee Strategy access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Aeja Referee Strategy safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Aeja Referee Strategy use?

Aeja Referee Strategy is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Aeja Referee Strategy use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Aeja Referee Strategy?

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