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Aos Topic Selection

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

A skill your agent uses when choosing or sharpening a research question for an Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript — testing whether the question genuinely concerns the social…

MITAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Aos Topic Selection

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aos-topic-selection -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills aos-topic-selection --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/Accounting-Organizations-and-Society-Skills/skills/aos-topic-selection .claude/skills/aos-topic-selection && 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
aos-topic-selection
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
648 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when choosing or sharpening a research question for an Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript — testing whether the question genuinely concerns the social…

  • Sharpening a research question for an Accounting
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, What AOS was built to publish, The desk-reject genre — know… and Pick the tradition the…, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript — testing whether the question genuinely concerns the social

What it does

Aos Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when choosing or sharpening a research question for an Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript — testing whether the question genuinely concerns the social, organizational, behavioral or institutional life of accounting, and picking the intellectual tradition the question demands. Screens fit; it does not build the theory (aos-theory-development).

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.

It sits in Business, Finance & HR, covering Accounting and bookkeeping and Hypothesis generation. 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

  • Sharpening a research question for an Accounting
  • Organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript — testing whether the question genuinely concerns the social
  • Institutional life of accounting
  • Picking the intellectual tradition the question demands

Example prompts

  • “/aos-topic-selection”

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

Aos Topic Selection loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 97 tokens; SKILL.md has 648 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~97
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.5k

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). 648 words, ~1,489 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/aos-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
aos-topic-selection
description
Use when choosing or sharpening a research question for an Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript — testing whether the question genuinely concerns the social, organizational, behavioral or institutional life of accounting, and picking the intellectual tradition the question demands. Screens fit; it does not build the theory (aos-theory-development).

Topic Selection & AOS Fit (aos-topic-selection)

When to trigger

  • You have a phenomenon, a field site, or a dataset but no question AOS would recognize as its own
  • You cannot decide between AOS and a sibling outlet (JAR, JAE, TAR, CAR, MAR, AAAJ, CPA)
  • A coauthor asks "isn't this really a capital-markets paper?"
  • You are choosing between studying an accounting practice in the field, in the lab, or in the archive

What AOS was built to publish

Anthony Hopwood launched AOS in 1976 precisely because the leading journals of the day treated accounting as a technical input to markets. AOS instead asks how accounting shapes and is shaped by human behavior, organizational processes, and social and political institutions. Its home turf: how budgets exercise power inside organizations (Covaleski & Dirsmith 1986); how costing regimes construct "governable persons" (Miller & O'Leary 1987); how accounting gains roles no textbook assigned it (Burchell et al. 1980); how preparers, auditors and investors actually judge and decide (Libby, Bloomfield & Nelson 2002); how audit and risk practices order social life (Power 2009). The core fit test: would the paper still matter if security prices never appeared in it? If yes, AOS is plausible. If the payoff is an asset-pricing or earnings-quality coefficient, you are writing for JAR/JAE/TAR.

The desk-reject genre — know it before you submit

The most common AOS misfire is a competent archival-financial-economics paper — Compustat/CRSP panel, fixed effects, identification appendix — with no organizational or social theorizing. Method is not the problem; AOS publishes archival work when the question is institutional or organizational and the theory is real. The problem is importing JAR's contribution logic into a journal whose founding editorial rejected it. If your draft's motivation section could open a JAE paper unchanged, stop and rethink before spending months on polish.

Pick the tradition the question demands

If the question concerns…Lean toward…
How accounting is practiced, resisted, or given meaning inside organizationsQualitative field study (interviews, observation, documents)
How individuals judge, decide, or are influenced by accounting informationExperiment (behavioral / JDM)
Attitudes, roles, or practices across many organizationsSurvey (validated instrument)
How an accounting practice or institution came to exist and with what effectsHistorical / genealogical archival work
An institutional or regulatory shift with organizational consequencesArchival design plus social/organizational theory
Show full SKILL.md (274 more words)Show less

Sharpen the question

  • Write it in one sentence naming the accounting practice, the actors, and the organizational or societal stake.
  • Prefer a genuine puzzle (accounting doing something unexpected, or failing to do what it promises) over an unstudied empirical cell.
  • Test early feasibility: field access and site anonymity for qualitative work; participant pool and IRB for experiments; archive availability for historical work.
  • Check that the question rewards a theoretical answer — AOS pays for insight into accounting's social operation, not for novel data alone.

Sibling-venue triage

  • MAR (Management Accounting Research): narrower — management accounting and control specifically.
  • AAAJ / CPA: kindred interpretive/critical venues; AOS expects a stricter theory-evidence discipline and broader interdisciplinary reach.
  • CAR / TAR: take AOS-style behavioral experiments too, but frame contribution to accounting literature rather than to social theory.
  • BRIA: behavioral accounting with a lower theoretical-novelty bar. If a sibling owns the audience your answer serves, reroute now — before the framing hardens.

Checklist

  • The question is about accounting's social/organizational/behavioral/institutional operation, not its pricing consequences
  • The paper would survive the "no security prices" test
  • A tradition is chosen because the question needs it, not because the data were convenient
  • A puzzle or tension is named, not just an unstudied setting
  • Access / participants / archives / ethics look feasible
  • No sibling venue has a stronger claim on the intended audience

Anti-patterns

  • JAR-in-disguise: capital-markets question submitted to AOS because the sample is unusual.
  • Setting-as-contribution: "no one has studied accounting in [exotic context]" with nothing at stake theoretically.
  • Method-first: running an experiment on a question that is really about situated organizational practice (or vice versa).
  • Theory shopping after data collection — pick the intellectual tradition before the design locks in.

Output format

【Question】one sentence: accounting practice / actors / organizational-societal stake ...
【AOS fit】survives the no-prices test? social/organizational theorizing available? ...
【Tradition】qualitative-field / experimental / survey / historical / archival+theory — why ...
【Puzzle】what accounting does here that existing accounts cannot explain ...
【Feasibility】access, participants, archives, ethics ...
【Venue triage】AOS vs MAR / AAAJ / CPA / CAR — decision ...
【Next step】aos-theory-development

© 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 Accounting-Organizations-and-Society-Skills/skills/aos-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Aos Topic Selection

What does Aos Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when choosing or sharpening a research question for an Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript — testing whether the question genuinely concerns the social…. Aos Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when choosing or sharpening a research question for an Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript — testing whether the question genuinely concerns the social, organizational, behavioral or institutional life of accounting, and picking the intellectual tradition the question demands.

When should I use Aos Topic Selection?

Aos Topic Selection fits situations like: sharpening a research question for an Accounting; organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript — testing whether the question genuinely concerns the social; institutional life of accounting; picking the intellectual tradition the question demands.

How do I install Aos Topic Selection in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aos-topic-selection -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Accounting-Organizations-and-Society-Skills/skills/aos-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/aos-topic-selection in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Aos Topic Selection in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aos-topic-selection -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Accounting-Organizations-and-Society-Skills/skills/aos-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/aos-topic-selection in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Aos 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 aos-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/aos-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/aos-topic-selection, .github/skills/aos-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/aos-topic-selection in your project.

What does Aos Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Aos 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 Aos 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 Aos Topic Selection use?

Aos 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 Aos 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.

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Who maintains Aos 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.