A skill your agent uses when positioning a manuscript against the existing economics literature, building the antecedents map for the introduction, deciding what to cite, or verifying that every…

Custom licenceAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Aer Literature

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill aer-literature -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills aer-literature --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/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/50-brycewang-aer-skills/skills/aer-literature .claude/skills/aer-literature && 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
aer-literature
GitHub stars
4.6k
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~2.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,270 words
Files
3 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
383
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when positioning a manuscript against the existing economics literature, building the antecedents map for the introduction, deciding what to cite, or verifying that every…

  • Works in 5 steps: Existence → Field accuracy → Claim accuracy → …
  • Positioning a manuscript against the existing economics literature
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, When to Use, Search Protocol and The Antecedents Map, plus 8 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Aer Literature is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Use when positioning a manuscript against the existing economics literature, building the antecedents map for the introduction, deciding what to cite, or verifying that every reference in the bibliography is real, correctly attributed, and cited to the published version. Apply at topic selection for the novelty scan and again before drafting the introduction.

Its SKILL.md is about 2.5k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 4 other files, including reference files (for example `agents/openai.yaml` and `references/citation-verification-protocol.md`).

It sits in Research & Science, covering Citation management and Positioning and messaging. The repository describes itself as: 🔬 A curated collection of 23,000+ agent skills for empirical research across 8 social science disciplines. | 精选 23,000+ AI Agent 技能库,覆盖8大社会科学学科的实证研究。CoPaper.AI…

When your agent uses it

  • Positioning a manuscript against the existing economics literature
  • Building the antecedents map for the introduction
  • Deciding what to cite
  • Verifying that every reference in the bibliography is real

Example prompts

  • “/aer-literature”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Existence
  2. Field accuracy
  3. Claim accuracy
  4. Status
  5. Ledger

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9fa87d8. 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

Aer Literature loads about 2.5k tokens when it runs, and up to ~4.6k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 94 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,270 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~94
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.5k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~4.6k

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

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,270 words (~2,527 tokens).

“This skill does two jobs that AER referees grade separately:”

— opening of SKILL.md by brycewang-stanford, Custom licence
name
aer-literature

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (references) in skills/50-brycewang-aer-skills/skills/aer-literature of brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml
  • references/citation-verification-protocol.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9fa87d8

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Aer Literature

What does Aer Literature do?

A skill your agent uses when positioning a manuscript against the existing economics literature, building the antecedents map for the introduction, deciding what to cite, or verifying that every…. Aer Literature is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Use when positioning a manuscript against the existing economics literature, building the antecedents map for the introduction, deciding what to cite, or verifying that every reference in the bibliography is real, correctly attributed, and cited to the published version.

When should I use Aer Literature?

Aer Literature fits situations like: positioning a manuscript against the existing economics literature; building the antecedents map for the introduction; deciding what to cite; verifying that every reference in the bibliography is real.

How do I install Aer Literature in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill aer-literature -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/50-brycewang-aer-skills/skills/aer-literature in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .claude/skills/aer-literature in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Aer Literature in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill aer-literature -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/50-brycewang-aer-skills/skills/aer-literature in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .agents/skills/aer-literature in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Aer Literature 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/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill aer-literature -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/aer-literature, .gemini/skills/aer-literature, .github/skills/aer-literature and .opencode/skills/aer-literature in your project.

What does Aer Literature need to run?

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

Does Aer Literature 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 Aer Literature 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 Aer Literature use?

Aer Literature has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Aer Literature use?

About 2.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 10k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 2k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Aer Literature?

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Who maintains Aer Literature?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, which has 4,556 GitHub stars. The repository holds 383 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.

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