A skill your agent uses when deciding which ecj- sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing manuscript work from topic selection through rebuttal for a The Economic Journal (EJ) submission.

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Install Ecj Workflow

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ecj-workflow -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ecj-workflow --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/The-Economic-Journal-Skills/skills/ecj-workflow .claude/skills/ecj-workflow && 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
ecj-workflow
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~2.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
874 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when deciding which ecj- sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing manuscript work from topic selection through rebuttal for a The Economic Journal (EJ) submission.

  • Works in 11 steps: ecj-topic-selection — lock a question of… → ecj-literature-positioning — situate the… → ecj-identification — make the… → …
  • Deciding which ecj- sub-skill to invoke next
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, When to trigger, Routing table and Default order, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Ecj Workflow is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding which ecj- sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing manuscript work from topic selection through rebuttal for a The Economic Journal (EJ) submission. Routes — it does not replace — the specialized skills.

Its SKILL.md is about 2.2k 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. 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 which ecj- sub-skill to invoke next
  • Sequencing manuscript work from topic selection through rebuttal for a The Economic Journal (EJ) submission

Example prompts

  • “/ecj-workflow”

Workflow steps

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

  1. ecj-topic-selection — lock a question of broad interest, and decide full-length vs. short paper
  2. ecj-literature-positioning — situate the contribution for a general-interest readership
  3. ecj-identification — make the causal/empirical claim credible
  4. ecj-theory-model — the model or mechanism that gives the result its economic meaning
  5. ecj-robustness — kill the alternative explanations a referee will float
  6. ecj-tables-figures — finalize exhibits so each carries economic content
  7. ecj-writing-style — make the idea land for a generalist (intro/abstract last)
  8. ecj-referee-strategy — pre-mortem the report you expect, patch holes
  9. ecj-replication-package — assemble data/code to DCAS standard for the EJ Data Editor
  10. ecj-submission — Editorial Express preflight (single-blind, JEL, short-paper option)
  11. ecj-rebuttal — after the R&R lands

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

Ecj Workflow loads about 2.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 60 tokens; SKILL.md has 874 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~60
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.2k

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). 874 words, ~2,180 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/ecj-workflow/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
ecj-workflow
description
Use when deciding which ecj-* sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing manuscript work from topic selection through rebuttal for a The Economic Journal (EJ) submission. Routes — it does not replace — the specialized skills.

EJ Workflow Router (ecj-workflow)

Overview

This is the router. It does not replace any specialized skill. It tells you which ecj- skill to use given where you are right now* in a manuscript aimed at The Economic Journal (EJ) — the Royal Economic Society's flagship general-interest journal, founded 1891 and published by Oxford University Press. EJ publishes across all fields of economics, theory and applied alike, for a broad international readership, and prizes work that is technically well-crafted, makes a substantial contribution, and is of broad interest to economists at large. Its house personality is breadth of relevance plus clear exposition — a sharp idea legible to a generalist beats a narrow result only specialists can read.

Default assumption: unless the user says otherwise, treat the target as EJ. Operational tells that you are at EJ and not a sibling: submission is through the Editorial Express portal (not ScholarOne); review is single-blind (referees are anonymous to authors; authors are not anonymized); there is an explicit short-paper option in the AER:Insights style (<6,000 words, 5 exhibits) alongside full-length articles; and accepted empirical, experimental, and numerical papers go through an EJ Data Editor reproducibility check with the replication package deposited to Zenodo or another trusted repository. Editor-in-chief as of the 2026-06-20 source refresh: Francesco Lippi; Data Editor: Damian Clarke. Re-verify volatile fees, charges, and rosters on the official OUP/RES pages.

When to trigger

  • The user asks "what should I do next?" on an EJ-targeted paper
  • A draft is handed over and the current bottleneck is unclear
  • Work is bouncing between modeling, empirics, and writing with no clear order
  • An EJ decision letter (reject / R&R) has arrived and the user needs to switch into response mode

Routing table

Current symptomNext skill
Idea is narrow / not clearly of broad interest to economists at largeecj-topic-selection
Lit review reads as a list; contribution not framed for a general audienceecj-literature-positioning
Empirics are OLS + controls; causal claim not defendedecj-identification
A reduced-form result has no model / mechanism behind itecj-theory-model
Theory/structural model present but its discipline is unclearecj-theory-model
Main result rests on a single specificationecj-robustness
Tables overloaded; figures not carrying the economic storyecj-tables-figures
Prose buries the idea; a generalist cannot follow the argumentecj-writing-style
Accepted/near-accept; need a DCAS package for the EJ Data Editor / Zenodoecj-replication-package
Want to anticipate the breadth/identification objections a referee will raiseecj-referee-strategy
Ready to submit via Editorial Express; need a single-blind preflightecj-submission
Received an R&R; need the response-letter strategyecj-rebuttal

Default order

  1. ecj-topic-selection — lock a question of broad interest, and decide full-length vs. short paper
  2. ecj-literature-positioning — situate the contribution for a general-interest readership
  3. ecj-identification — make the causal/empirical claim credible
  4. ecj-theory-model — the model or mechanism that gives the result its economic meaning
  5. ecj-robustness — kill the alternative explanations a referee will float
  6. ecj-tables-figures — finalize exhibits so each carries economic content
  7. ecj-writing-style — make the idea land for a generalist (intro/abstract last)
  8. ecj-referee-strategy — pre-mortem the report you expect, patch holes
  9. ecj-replication-package — assemble data/code to DCAS standard for the EJ Data Editor
  10. ecj-submission — Editorial Express preflight (single-blind, JEL, short-paper option)
  11. ecj-rebuttal — after the R&R lands

ecj-writing-style is a late polish stage; do not rewrite the intro before identification and the model settle. At EJ, exposition is part of the contribution — budget real time for it, but after the substance is sound.

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Decision heuristics

  • "I have a clean causal effect but only specialists would care" → ecj-topic-selection (broaden the framing or rescope)
  • "My result is sharp and self-contained but short" → ecj-topic-selection then ecj-submission (consider the short-paper route)
  • "My intro cites everyone but never says what economics learns" → ecj-literature-positioning
  • "DID uses TWFE with staggered timing and I haven't addressed heterogeneity bias" → ecj-identification
  • "All my evidence is one regression" → ecj-robustness
  • "A non-specialist reader gets lost by page 3" → ecj-writing-style
  • "Submitting tomorrow" → ecj-submission
  • "Got referee reports" → ecj-rebuttal

Question ladder

Answer the questions in order; the first "no" routes you. Note the ladder never says "anonymize" — EJ review is single-blind and author identity is expected.

text
ecj-workflow question ladder (EJ, single-blind)
Q1  breadth       would an economist outside your field finish
                  this paper?                                        no → ecj-topic-selection
Q1b length        result sharp but compact? consider the short
                  paper (<6,000 words, 5 exhibits,
                  AER:Insights style)                                yes → flag for ecj-submission
Q2  positioning   does the intro say what economics at large
                  learns, not just who wrote before?                 no → ecj-literature-positioning
Q3  causal claim  is the empirical claim defended beyond
                  OLS + controls?                                    no → ecj-identification
Q4  mechanism     is there a model or mechanism disciplining
                  the reduced form?                                  no → ecj-theory-model
Q5  robustness    does the result survive off a single
                  specification?                                     no → ecj-robustness
Q6  exhibits      does each table and figure carry the
                  economic story on its own?                         no → ecj-tables-figures
Q7  exposition    can a generalist still follow the argument
                  by page 3?                                         no → ecj-writing-style
Q8  pre-mortem    have the expected referee objections been
                  patched in the draft?                              no → ecj-referee-strategy
Q9  package       DCAS-standard replication set ready for the
                  EJ Data Editor (Zenodo or another trusted
                  repository)?                                       no → ecj-replication-package
ALL YES → Editorial Express preflight (JEL codes, paper type) → ecj-submission
R&R arrives → ecj-rebuttal

Differences vs. JEEA / EER / top-5 stacks

EJ is a leading general-interest journal just below the top-5, with a distinct taste:

  • EJ: the RES flagship, long history, breadth of relevance + clear exposition; theory and applied both core; an explicit short-paper option. A generalist must be able to read it.
  • JEEA (EEA): European general-interest flagship; comparably broad, sometimes more selective/methodological in tilt.
  • EER: European general-interest, often more field-specialized in practice; faster turnaround perception.
  • Top-5 (AER/QJE/JPE/Econometrica/REStud): a notch higher on novelty/importance; EJ welcomes substantial, broadly interesting work that may not clear that bar but is excellent and general.

If the paper is purely methodological/econometric, The Econometrics Journal (also RES) may fit better. If it is a narrow field contribution a generalist would skip, reconsider framing in ecj-topic-selection before targeting EJ.

Anti-patterns

  • Do not target EJ with a narrow result no generalist would finish — breadth of interest is a stated bar
  • Do not waste effort anonymizing the manuscript — EJ review is single-blind, so author identity is expected
  • Do not let ecj-tables-figures polish exhibits while the identification is still contested
  • Do not let ecj-rebuttal draft a response letter before the manuscript itself has been revised
  • Do not defer reproducible code to post-accept; the EJ Data Editor verifies the package before final publication

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Files

Just SKILL.md in The-Economic-Journal-Skills/skills/ecj-workflow of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Ecj Workflow

What does Ecj Workflow do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding which ecj- sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing manuscript work from topic selection through rebuttal for a The Economic Journal (EJ) submission. Ecj Workflow is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding which ecj- sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing manuscript work from topic selection through rebuttal for a The Economic Journal (EJ) submission.

When should I use Ecj Workflow?

Ecj Workflow fits situations like: deciding which ecj- sub-skill to invoke next; sequencing manuscript work from topic selection through rebuttal for a The Economic Journal (EJ) submission.

How do I install Ecj Workflow in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Ecj Workflow in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ecj-workflow -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (The-Economic-Journal-Skills/skills/ecj-workflow in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/ecj-workflow in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Ecj Workflow 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 ecj-workflow -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/ecj-workflow, .gemini/skills/ecj-workflow, .github/skills/ecj-workflow and .opencode/skills/ecj-workflow in your project.

What does Ecj Workflow need to run?

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

Does Ecj Workflow 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 Ecj Workflow 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 Ecj Workflow use?

Ecj Workflow 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 Ecj Workflow use?

About 2.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.7k 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 Ecj Workflow?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,219 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

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