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A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project is the ONE crisp, important, well-identified insight that an American Economic Review: Insights (AER: Insights) short-format manuscript…
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Install Aeri Topic Selection
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aeri-topic-selection -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills aeri-topic-selection --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/AER-Insights-Skills/skills/aeri-topic-selection .claude/skills/aeri-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "aeri-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/AER-Insights-Skills/skills/aeri-topic-selection into .claude/skills/aeri-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "aeri-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/AER-Insights-Skills/skills/aeri-topic-selectionType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aeri-topic-selection -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills aeri-topic-selection --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/AER-Insights-Skills/skills/aeri-topic-selection .agents/skills/aeri-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "aeri-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/AER-Insights-Skills/skills/aeri-topic-selection into .agents/skills/aeri-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "aeri-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aeri-topic-selection -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills aeri-topic-selection --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/AER-Insights-Skills/skills/aeri-topic-selection .cursor/skills/aeri-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "aeri-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/AER-Insights-Skills/skills/aeri-topic-selection into .cursor/skills/aeri-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "aeri-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git --path AER-Insights-Skills/skills/aeri-topic-selection--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aeri-topic-selection -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills aeri-topic-selection --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/AER-Insights-Skills/skills/aeri-topic-selection .gemini/skills/aeri-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "aeri-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/AER-Insights-Skills/skills/aeri-topic-selection into .gemini/skills/aeri-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "aeri-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills aeri-topic-selectionInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aeri-topic-selection -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/AER-Insights-Skills/skills/aeri-topic-selection .github/skills/aeri-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "aeri-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/AER-Insights-Skills/skills/aeri-topic-selection into .github/skills/aeri-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "aeri-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aeri-topic-selection -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills aeri-topic-selection --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/AER-Insights-Skills/skills/aeri-topic-selection .opencode/skills/aeri-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "aeri-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/AER-Insights-Skills/skills/aeri-topic-selection into .opencode/skills/aeri-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "aeri-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
aeri-topic-selection- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1.5k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 749 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 2,387
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project is the ONE crisp, important, well-identified insight that an American Economic Review: Insights (AER: Insights) short-format manuscript…
- Works in 3 steps: Single-insight test. State the paper in… → Importance test. The single insight must… → Self-containment test. The whole…
- Deciding whether a project is the ONE crisp
- SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The AER: Insights bar: one…, Where it goes if it is NOT… and Sharpening a candidate into a…, plus 6 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Aeri Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a project is the ONE crisp, important, well-identified insight that an American Economic Review: Insights (AER: Insights) short-format manuscript requires, rather than a multi-result paper for AER or a field paper for the AEJ family. Tests single-insight fit; it does not run the analysis.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
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
- Deciding whether a project is the ONE crisp
- Well-identified insight that an American Economic Review: Insights (AER: Insights) short-format manuscript requires
- Rather than a multi-result paper for AER
- A field paper for the AEJ family
Example prompts
- “/aeri-topic-selection”
Workflow steps
3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Single-insight test. State the paper in one sentence with one headline object (one estimate, one theorem, one fact, one…
- Importance test. The single insight must clear AER-level general interest — a non-specialist economist should care. AER: Insights is…
- Self-containment test. The whole argument — setup, identification, headline result, the one or two checks that matter — must fit in ≤7,000…
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
Aeri Topic Selection loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 84 tokens; SKILL.md has 749 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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
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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). 749 words, ~1,495 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/aeri-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- aeri-topic-selection
- description
- Use when deciding whether a project is the ONE crisp, important, well-identified insight that an American Economic Review: Insights (AER: Insights) short-format manuscript requires, rather than a multi-result paper for AER or a field paper for the AEJ family. Tests single-insight fit; it does not run the analysis.
Topic Selection — Single-Insight Fit (aeri-topic-selection)
When to trigger
- A project has a strong main result but also two or three secondary results
- Unsure whether to send to AER: Insights, AER, or an AEJ field journal
- The draft is creeping past the word cap because there is more than one idea
- A result feels surprising and clean but you are unsure it is "important enough"
The AER: Insights bar: one idea, AER-level importance, short
AER: Insights publishes short, self-contained papers built around a single important, well-executed idea. The decision is not "is this good?" but "is there exactly ONE crisp, surprising, well-identified insight that can stand alone in a short paper at AER-level importance?" Three filters:
- Single-insight test. State the paper in one sentence with one headline object (one estimate, one theorem, one fact, one method-changes-the-answer result). If you need "and" to describe the contribution, you likely have an AER paper or two AER: Insights papers, not one.
- Importance test. The single insight must clear AER-level general interest — a non-specialist economist should care. AER: Insights is short, not minor; a small or incremental result is a reject regardless of length.
- Self-containment test. The whole argument — setup, identification, headline result, the one or two checks that matter — must fit in ≤7,000 words (minus 200 per exhibit, ≤5 exhibits) with everything else in the online appendix. If the core argument cannot be made short, it is not an AER: Insights paper.
Where it goes if it is NOT AER: Insights
| Symptom | Better venue |
|---|---|
| Multiple inter-dependent results that need each other | AER (long, multi-result flagship) |
| One result but field-specific, not general interest | AEJ: Applied / Micro / Macro / Policy |
| Incremental / a robustness note on existing work | a field journal or a comment |
| Pure methods with no substantive payoff in a short paper | a methods/econometrics journal |
Sharpening a candidate into a single insight
- Pick the headline. Of the results you have, which ONE is most surprising and most cleanly identified? Make that the paper; demote the rest.
- Cut, do not summarize. Secondary results become appendix material or a future paper — not a compressed in-text paragraph.
- Name the surprise. AER: Insights rewards a result that overturns or sharply refines a prior belief; write the prior you are correcting.
- Confirm identification early (
aeri-identification) — a clean insight with a shaky design is not publishable short, because there is no room to defend a weak design.
Common AER: Insights archetypes (and what makes each "one insight")
| Archetype | The single insight is… | Failure mode |
|---|---|---|
| One clean causal estimate | a single headline effect from a credible design | reporting every heterogeneity split in-text |
| A striking new fact / measurement | one important fact a non-specialist did not know | a descriptive paper with no single takeaway |
| A sharp theory result | one surprising theorem / impossibility | a general framework with the result as a corollary |
| A method that flips an answer | the substantive answer it changes, in few pages | the method shown without a substantive payoff |
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Worked vignette (illustrative)
A fictional project has (a) a clean RCT effect of posted wages on women's applications, (b) a heterogeneity split by occupation, and (c) a structural extension on wage offers. The AER: Insights paper is (a) alone — one surprising, general-interest, cleanly identified effect. (b) and (c) go to the Supplemental Appendix or a separate paper. Compressing all three into one short paper would be a "mini-AER" and likely a reject; the discipline is to make (a) the entire paper and defend it superbly in few pages.
Going-or-not-going decision
If you cannot pass all three filters — single insight, AER-level importance, self-containment — the honest
move is to route elsewhere (AER for multi-result, an AEJ for field interest) rather than force-fit. The
fast, no-R&R process (aeri-referee-strategy) punishes a borderline
fit with a quick reject.
Checklist
- The paper is stated in one sentence with a single headline object
- The insight clears AER-level general-interest importance (not just length-appropriate)
- A clear prior belief is named that the result overturns or sharply refines
- The full argument plausibly fits the cap with secondary material in the appendix
- Venue checked vs. AER (multi-result) and AEJ (field) — AER: Insights chosen deliberately
- Identification is clean enough to defend in a short paper
Anti-patterns
- A "mini-AER": one main result plus several supporting results kept in-text
- A correct but incremental result pitched as short-because-small
- A field-interest result with no general-interest hook
- Splitting one idea across two thin papers, or fusing two ideas into one over-cap paper
- Choosing AER: Insights for speed when the idea genuinely needs AER's length
Output format
【One-sentence insight】<single headline object>
【Importance】why a non-specialist cares (general interest, AER-level)
【Prior overturned】<belief the result corrects>
【Fits short format?】core argument under cap, rest to appendix? [Y/N]
【Venue check】AER: Insights vs AER vs AEJ — chosen because […]
【Next step】aeri-literature-positioning© 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 AER-Insights-Skills/skills/aeri-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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Questions about Aeri Topic Selection
What does Aeri Topic Selection do?
A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project is the ONE crisp, important, well-identified insight that an American Economic Review: Insights (AER: Insights) short-format manuscript…. Aeri Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a project is the ONE crisp, important, well-identified insight that an American Economic Review: Insights (AER: Insights) short-format manuscript requires, rather than a multi-result paper for AER or a field paper for the AEJ family.
When should I use Aeri Topic Selection?
Aeri Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a project is the ONE crisp; well-identified insight that an American Economic Review: Insights (AER: Insights) short-format manuscript requires; rather than a multi-result paper for AER; A field paper for the AEJ family.
How do I install Aeri Topic Selection in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aeri-topic-selection -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (AER-Insights-Skills/skills/aeri-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/aeri-topic-selection in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Aeri Topic Selection in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aeri-topic-selection -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (AER-Insights-Skills/skills/aeri-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/aeri-topic-selection in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Aeri Topic Selection 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 aeri-topic-selection -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/aeri-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/aeri-topic-selection, .github/skills/aeri-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/aeri-topic-selection in your project.
What does Aeri Topic Selection need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Aeri Topic Selection is instructions for the agent only.
Does Aeri Topic Selection 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 Aeri Topic Selection 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 Aeri Topic Selection use?
Aeri Topic Selection 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 Aeri Topic Selection use?
About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6k 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 Aeri Topic Selection?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Aeri Topic Selection: Import (asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks, 69k stars), Nx Import (nrwl/nx, 29k stars), Type Only Imports (thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist, 74k stars) and Import Memory (asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks, 69k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Aeri Topic Selection?
brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,228 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.