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Aeja Writing Style

by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

A skill your agent uses when revising the prose, abstract, and introduction of an American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) manuscript so the design and headline estimate land in…

MITAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Aeja Writing Style

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills aeja-writing-style --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-writing-style .claude/skills/aeja-writing-style && 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-writing-style
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
617 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when revising the prose, abstract, and introduction of an American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) manuscript so the design and headline estimate land in…

  • Works in 6 steps: Lead with the answer, not the setup. The… → Numbers with units and SEs in sentences.… → Name the design plainly. "We use a… → …
  • Revising the prose
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The AEJ: Applied introduction…, Writing craft and Checklist, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Aeja Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when revising the prose, abstract, and introduction of an American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) manuscript so the design and headline estimate land in the first paragraph in AEA house style. Polishes exposition; it does not change the result (aeja-identification / aeja-robustness) or the exhibits.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k 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 Writing & Content, covering Brand voice and tone 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

  • Revising the prose
  • Tasks that involve Brand voice and tone
  • Tasks that involve Econometrics and empirical research

Example prompts

  • “/aeja-writing-style”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Lead with the answer, not the setup. The first paragraph states what you find and roughly how big; the apparatus comes after.
  2. Numbers with units and SEs in sentences. "We find X raises Y by 6.2% (s.e. 0.7)" — the magnitude lives in the prose, not only the table.
  3. Name the design plainly. "We use a regression discontinuity at the eligibility cutoff" beats euphemism; AEJ: Applied readers want the…
  4. Calibrate the claim. State what the estimand is (local / ITT) and what it does not establish — over-claiming external validity is a…
  5. Plain English over jargon. Short sentences; active voice; define field-specific terms once. Broad applied-micro readership is the audience.
  6. Write the abstract and intro last, after the result is final.

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 Writing Style loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 86 tokens; SKILL.md has 617 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~86
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

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). 617 words, ~1,296 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/aeja-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
aeja-writing-style
description
Use when revising the prose, abstract, and introduction of an American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) manuscript so the design and headline estimate land in the first paragraph in AEA house style. Polishes exposition; it does not change the result (aeja-identification / aeja-robustness) or the exhibits.

Writing Style (aeja-writing-style)

When to trigger

  • Identification and robustness are settled and the paper needs its final exposition pass
  • The introduction buries the question and the estimate under setup or literature
  • The abstract does not state the headline number with its uncertainty
  • The prose reads like a field-internal note rather than broad applied micro

The AEJ: Applied introduction arc

AEJ: Applied prose is plain, direct, and design-forward. The introduction should follow the applied-micro arc: question → why credible identification is hard → the design that solves it → headline causal estimate with a standard error → mechanism → policy/economic lesson → brief roadmap. A non-specialist applied economist should grasp the question and the answer in the first paragraph; the design should be legible by the end of the second.

SectionWhat it must do at AEJ: Applied
Abstractquestion + design + headline estimate (with units & SE) + lesson, in ≤ the AEA word norm
Intro ¶1the economic question and the headline number, with uncertainty, no throat-clearing
Intro ¶2–3why naive estimates fail + the source of variation that fixes it
Intro midthe estimate, the mechanism, and the magnitude's economic meaning
Intro endcontribution (honest delta), scope of the claim, brief roadmap

Writing craft

  1. Lead with the answer, not the setup. The first paragraph states what you find and roughly how big; the apparatus comes after.
  2. Numbers with units and SEs in sentences. "We find X raises Y by 6.2% (s.e. 0.7)" — the magnitude lives in the prose, not only the table.
  3. Name the design plainly. "We use a regression discontinuity at the eligibility cutoff" beats euphemism; AEJ: Applied readers want the identification stated.
  4. Calibrate the claim. State what the estimand is (local / ITT) and what it does not establish — over-claiming external validity is a frequent referee complaint.
  5. Plain English over jargon. Short sentences; active voice; define field-specific terms once. Broad applied-micro readership is the audience.
  6. Write the abstract and intro last, after the result is final.

Checklist

  • Abstract states question + design + headline estimate (units & SE) + lesson, within the AEA word norm
  • Intro ¶1 gives the economic question and the headline number with uncertainty — no throat-clearing
  • The naive-estimate problem and the identifying variation appear by ¶2–3
  • Magnitudes written into sentences with units and standard errors
  • Estimand and scope stated; external-validity claim calibrated, not inflated
  • Plain English, active voice, jargon defined once; abstract/intro written last
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Anti-patterns

  • An introduction that spends a page on institutional background before stating the question
  • A "literature tour" intro with no contribution sentence up front (see aeja-literature-positioning)
  • Reporting "statistically significant" without the magnitude, units, or SE in the prose
  • Over-claiming the local/ITT estimate as a general population effect
  • Jargon-dense, passive-voice writing aimed only at sub-field specialists
  • Polishing the intro before identification and robustness are settled

Worked vignette (illustrative)

A first-draft intro opens with a page of institutional background on a transit program, then a TWFE specification, then "the effect is statistically significant." The AEJ: Applied rewrite leads with the answer: "Does cheap transportation help teenagers find work? Using a staggered municipal rollout of free bus passes, we find the program raised teen employment by 3.1 percentage points (s.e. 0.9)." The design is named in the next sentence, the mechanism and the calibrated scope follow, and the institutional detail moves to Section 2. The full before→after is in ../../resources/worked-examples/01-introduction.md.

Referee pushback mapped to the writing fix

  • "I read three pages before learning what you find." → Move the headline number and design to ¶1; demote background to the data section.
  • "You report significance but not the magnitude." → Put the point estimate, its units, and its SE in the sentence, not only the table.
  • "You overclaim external validity." → State the estimand (local/ITT) and what it does not establish.

Output format

【Abstract】question + design + estimate(units,SE) + lesson within word norm? [Y/N]
【Intro ¶1】headline number + uncertainty up front? [Y/N]
【Identification legible by ¶3】[Y/N]
【Magnitudes in prose】units + SEs in sentences? [Y/N]
【Claim calibrated】estimand + scope stated, no overclaim? [Y/N]
【Next step】aeja-replication-package

© brycewang-stanford, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

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

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Aeja Writing Style

What does Aeja Writing Style do?

A skill your agent uses when revising the prose, abstract, and introduction of an American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) manuscript so the design and headline estimate land in…. Aeja Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when revising the prose, abstract, and introduction of an American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) manuscript so the design and headline estimate land in the first paragraph in AEA house style.

When should I use Aeja Writing Style?

Aeja Writing Style fits situations like: revising the prose; tasks that involve Brand voice and tone; tasks that involve Econometrics and empirical research.

How do I install Aeja Writing Style in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Aeja Writing Style in Codex?

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

Can I use Aeja Writing Style 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-writing-style -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-writing-style, .gemini/skills/aeja-writing-style, .github/skills/aeja-writing-style and .opencode/skills/aeja-writing-style in your project.

What does Aeja Writing Style need to run?

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

Does Aeja Writing Style 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 Writing Style 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 Writing Style use?

Aeja Writing Style 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 Writing Style use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Aeja Writing Style?

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Who maintains Aeja Writing Style?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,231 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.