Agent skill

Ecopol Referee Strategy

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

A skill your agent uses when preparing an Economic Policy (EP) manuscript for its panel review — the two named discussants and the conference debate that replace standard anonymous refereeing.

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Ecopol Referee Strategy

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ecopol-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/Economic-Policy-Skills/skills/ecopol-referee-strategy .claude/skills/ecopol-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
ecopol-referee-strategy
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
616 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when preparing an Economic Policy (EP) manuscript for its panel review — the two named discussants and the conference debate that replace standard anonymous refereeing.

  • Works in 3 steps: Reviewers are named and public. You can… → The debate is live and oral. Unlike a… → Two perspectives, two failure modes. The…
  • Tasks that involve Peer review
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, EP review is a panel, not a…, War-game the two discussants and Pre-conference moves, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Ecopol Referee Strategy is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when preparing an Economic Policy (EP) manuscript for its panel review — the two named discussants and the conference debate that replace standard anonymous refereeing. War-games the discussants; it does not invent evidence or citations.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k 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 and Citation management. 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

  • Tasks that involve Peer review
  • Tasks that involve Citation management

Example prompts

  • “/ecopol-referee-strategy”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Reviewers are named and public. You can (and should) anticipate the specific people and institutions likely to discuss your paper. Their…
  2. The debate is live and oral. Unlike a referee letter you answer in writing, you respond in real time. You cannot run a new regression…
  3. Two perspectives, two failure modes. The academic discussant attacks rigor; the policy discussant attacks relevance, magnitude, and…

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

Ecopol Referee Strategy loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 66 tokens; SKILL.md has 616 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~66
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

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). 616 words, ~1,259 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/ecopol-referee-strategy/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
ecopol-referee-strategy
description
Use when preparing an Economic Policy (EP) manuscript for its panel review — the two named discussants and the conference debate that replace standard anonymous refereeing. War-games the discussants; it does not invent evidence or citations.

Panel & Discussant Strategy (ecopol-referee-strategy)

When to trigger

  • A paper has been (or is likely to be) invited to present at an EP biannual conference
  • You need to anticipate the two discussants and the live panel debate before standing up
  • A coauthor assumes EP runs anonymous refereeing and is preparing the wrong way
  • The paper is strong academically but you have not stress-tested the policy angle a policy discussant will press
  • You must decide what to fix before the conference vs. what to commit to revising after

EP review is a panel, not a referee pool — plan for it

This is the most EP-specific skill in the pack, because EP does not run standard double-blind refereeing. Papers are selected by the Managing Editor / Panel, presented at a biannual conference (summer and winter), where two invited discussants — chosen to bring an academic and a policy perspective — act as the referees, debate the paper live in front of the panel and audience, and whose written comments are published alongside the final paper (检索于 2026-06;以官网为准). This changes the strategy in three ways:

  1. Reviewers are named and public. You can (and should) anticipate the specific people and institutions likely to discuss your paper. Their comments will appear in print next to yours — they have an incentive to be sharp.
  2. The debate is live and oral. Unlike a referee letter you answer in writing, you respond in real time. You cannot run a new regression mid-session. Pre-empt, don't defer.
  3. Two perspectives, two failure modes. The academic discussant attacks rigor; the policy discussant attacks relevance, magnitude, and legibility. A paper can pass one and fail the other.

War-game the two discussants

Discussant personaWhat they will pressPre-empt by
Academic (subfield expert)identification, estimator choice, robustness, "have you tried…"ecopol-identification + ecopol-robustness done thoroughly; top 3 objections answered in text
Policy (ministry/central bank/Commission)magnitude, welfare/cost framing, external validity, "what do I do with this?"ecopol-tables-figures units + a crisp policy bottom line; legible main text

Concretely: name two plausible real discussants for your paper (by subfield and by institution, not necessarily by individual), then read your draft as each of them. Where each would object, decide: fix now, or prepare a one-paragraph live answer.

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Pre-conference moves

  • Build an objection ledger: every anticipated point, its source persona, and your response (fix vs. defend).
  • Prepare the live answers to the top objections you choose not to pre-fix — a sentence and, ideally, a backup slide/appendix exhibit.
  • Make the policy bottom line unmissable so the policy discussant cannot say "I don't know what to do with this."
  • Tighten the central magnitude's robustness — the most common live takedown is "your number isn't stable."
  • Have the replication package ready (ecopol-replication-package) so a provenance challenge is answerable on the spot.

Checklist

  • Two plausible discussant personas named (academic subfield + policy institution)
  • Draft read as each persona; objections logged with fix-vs-defend decisions
  • Top academic objections (identification/robustness) pre-empted in the main text
  • Policy bottom line is crisp and unmissable for the policy discussant
  • Central magnitude's robustness tightened against the "your number moves" attack
  • Live answers prepared for objections you chose not to pre-fix
  • Replication package ready for a provenance challenge at the conference
  • You are not preparing as if for anonymous written refereeing

Anti-patterns

  • Treating EP review as anonymous refereeing and writing a defensive response letter instead of pre-empting live
  • Preparing only for the academic discussant and getting blindsided by the policy discussant (or vice versa)
  • Deferring a known weakness to "we'll address it in revision" when it will be debated live and published
  • No crisp policy takeaway, so the policy discussant fills the vacuum with skepticism
  • Ignoring that the discussants' published comments become a permanent part of the record

Output format

text
【Journal】Economic Policy (EP)
【Skill】ecopol-referee-strategy
【Review model】panel + two named discussants (NOT anonymous refereeing)
【Academic discussant】subfield → top objections → fix/defend
【Policy discussant】institution → top objections → fix/defend
【Objection ledger】top 3 with responses
【Live-answer prep】backup exhibits ready? Y/N
【Next skill】ecopol-submission

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Economic-Policy-Skills/skills/ecopol-referee-strategy of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Ecopol Referee Strategy

What does Ecopol Referee Strategy do?

A skill your agent uses when preparing an Economic Policy (EP) manuscript for its panel review — the two named discussants and the conference debate that replace standard anonymous refereeing. Ecopol Referee Strategy is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when preparing an Economic Policy (EP) manuscript for its panel review — the two named discussants and the conference debate that replace standard anonymous refereeing.

When should I use Ecopol Referee Strategy?

Ecopol Referee Strategy fits situations like: tasks that involve Peer review; tasks that involve Citation management.

How do I install Ecopol Referee Strategy in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Ecopol Referee Strategy in Codex?

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

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

What does Ecopol Referee Strategy need to run?

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

Does Ecopol 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 Ecopol 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 Ecopol Referee Strategy use?

Ecopol 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 Ecopol Referee Strategy use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5k 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 Ecopol 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.