Agent skill

Aejmic Referee Strategy

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

A skill your agent uses when anticipating referee objections or calibrating review expectations for an American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (AEJ: Micro) manuscript before submission.

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Aejmic Referee Strategy

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills aejmic-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-Microeconomics-Skills/skills/aejmic-referee-strategy .claude/skills/aejmic-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
aejmic-referee-strategy
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
539 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when anticipating referee objections or calibrating review expectations for an American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (AEJ: Micro) manuscript before submission.

  • Anticipating referee objections
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The AEJ: Micro process (检索于…, Objections AEJ: Micro referees… and Checklist, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Calibrating review expectations for an American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (AEJ: Micro) manuscript before submission

What it does

Aejmic Referee Strategy is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when anticipating referee objections or calibrating review expectations for an American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (AEJ: Micro) manuscript before submission. Pre-empts the objections theory referees raise and reads the editorial process; it does not draft the response letter (see aejmic-rebuttal).

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. 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 referee objections
  • Calibrating review expectations for an American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (AEJ: Micro) manuscript before submission

Example prompts

  • “/aejmic-referee-strategy”

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

Aejmic Referee Strategy loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 83 tokens; SKILL.md has 539 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~83
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). 539 words, ~1,231 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/aejmic-referee-strategy/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
aejmic-referee-strategy
description
Use when anticipating referee objections or calibrating review expectations for an American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (AEJ: Micro) manuscript before submission. Pre-empts the objections theory referees raise and reads the editorial process; it does not draft the response letter (see aejmic-rebuttal).

Referee Strategy (aejmic-referee-strategy)

When to trigger

  • Before submission, to stress-test the paper against the objections experts will raise
  • Deciding whether the contribution clears the desk-reject bar
  • Choosing JEL codes / framing that route the paper to the right co-editor
  • Unsure what the AEJ: Micro review process looks like

The AEJ: Micro process (检索于 2026-06;以官网为准)

  • AEJ: Micro uses single-blind review via the AEA submission system: the referee sees the author, but referees are anonymous to authors. There is no anonymization burden — reputation is visible, so the paper must stand on rigor.
  • There is a submission fee (AEA member $200 high-income / $100 middle / $0 low; nonmember higher — 检索于 2026-06,volatile), and JEL classification per AEA practice helps route the paper to the right co-editor and expert referees.
  • Decisions run the usual ladder: desk reject → reject after review → R&R (minor/major) → accept. Theory referees verify proofs; a flawed or non-tight proof is a common reject reason.
  • Re-confirm fee, timelines, and co-editor list on the official AEA AEJ: Micro page (see resources/official-source-map.md).

Objections AEJ: Micro referees actually raise — and the pre-emption

Likely objectionPre-empt it by (skill)
"The result is a knife-edge artifact of assumption A."Name the load-bearing assumption; show necessity / a counterexample on failure (aejmic-identification)
"This is too specialized / maximal-generality for AEJ: Micro."Re-frame the broad-interest message; cut generality that hides it (aejmic-topic-selection, aejmic-theory-model)
"How does this differ from [closest result]?"State the theorem-relative delta in one sentence (aejmic-literature-positioning)
"Does it survive [a continuum / asymmetry / perturbation]?"Provide the earned extension or a clean negative result (aejmic-robustness)
"A step in the proof is asserted, not shown."Complete the lemma scaffolding; self-contained proofs (aejmic-replication-package)
"The model is overloaded; the mechanism is invisible."Reduce to the minimal environment; lead with intuition (aejmic-theory-model, aejmic-writing-style)
"This is an empirical paper, not theory."Either restore the theoretical contribution or redirect to AEJ: Applied (aejmic-topic-selection)
(Applied) "Identification / inference is shaky; asterisks used."Branch B/C identification; SEs not asterisks (aejmic-identification, aejmic-tables-figures)
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Checklist

  • Listed the three most likely referee objections for this paper and mapped each to a fix
  • The load-bearing assumption is named and defended before submission
  • The theorem-relative delta is crisp (one sentence)
  • The broad-interest message is explicit (not specialist-only)
  • Every proof step a referee will check is complete
  • JEL codes chosen to route to the right co-editor (single-blind: no anonymization needed)
  • Decided the venue is right (not actually an AEJ: Applied paper)

Anti-patterns

  • Submitting without anticipating the single most obvious expert objection
  • Relying on generality to impress when the audience-fit objection is the real risk
  • Leaving a checkable proof gap for a referee to find
  • Mis-routing via vague JEL codes so a non-expert co-editor handles it
  • Assuming anonymity protects a thin result — single-blind means the referee knows whose work it is

Worked vignette (illustrative)

Before submitting a matching paper, the author lists likely objections: (1) "rides on substitutability" → already pre-empted in aejmic-identification with a counterexample; (2) "how does it differ from the deferred-acceptance literature?" → one-sentence delta ready; (3) "is the existence proof complete?" → lemma scaffolding done. The remaining risk is audience fit, so the intro is rewritten to foreground the broad market-design message rather than the technical condition. JEL codes C78/D47 route it to a market-design co-editor.

Output format

【Top 3 likely objections】[...]  →  【Fix / owning skill】[...]
【Load-bearing assumption defended】[Y/N]
【Delta crisp】[Y/N]   【Broad-interest message explicit】[Y/N]
【Proof gaps closed】[Y/N]
【Routing】JEL codes [...] (single-blind — no anonymization)
【Venue confirmed】AEJ: Micro (not AEJ: Applied)? [Y/N]
【Next step】aejmic-submission

Supplementary resources

© 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-Microeconomics-Skills/skills/aejmic-referee-strategy of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Aejmic Referee Strategy

What does Aejmic Referee Strategy do?

A skill your agent uses when anticipating referee objections or calibrating review expectations for an American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (AEJ: Micro) manuscript before submission. Aejmic Referee Strategy is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when anticipating referee objections or calibrating review expectations for an American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (AEJ: Micro) manuscript before submission.

When should I use Aejmic Referee Strategy?

Aejmic Referee Strategy fits situations like: anticipating referee objections; calibrating review expectations for an American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (AEJ: Micro) manuscript before submission.

How do I install Aejmic Referee Strategy in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Aejmic Referee Strategy in Codex?

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

Can I use Aejmic 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 aejmic-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/aejmic-referee-strategy, .gemini/skills/aejmic-referee-strategy, .github/skills/aejmic-referee-strategy and .opencode/skills/aejmic-referee-strategy in your project.

What does Aejmic Referee Strategy need to run?

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

Does Aejmic 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 Aejmic 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 Aejmic Referee Strategy use?

Aejmic 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 Aejmic Referee Strategy use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.9k 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 Aejmic Referee Strategy?

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.