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Agent skill

Ier Workflow

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

A skill your agent uses when deciding which ier- sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing manuscript work from topic through rebuttal for an International Economic Review (IER) manuscript.

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Ier Workflow

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ier-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/International-Economic-Review-Skills/skills/ier-workflow .claude/skills/ier-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
ier-workflow
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.9k tokens
SKILL.md length
855 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 ier- sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing manuscript work from topic through rebuttal for an International Economic Review (IER) manuscript.

  • Works in 11 steps: ier-topic-selection — lock a… → ier-literature-positioning — stake the… → ier-theory-model — make the model tight… → …
  • Deciding which ier- sub-skill to invoke next
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, When to trigger, Routing table and Default order, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Ier Workflow is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding which ier- sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing manuscript work from topic through rebuttal for an International Economic Review (IER) manuscript. Routes — it does not replace — the specialized skills.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.9k 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 ier- sub-skill to invoke next
  • Sequencing manuscript work from topic through rebuttal for an International Economic Review (IER) manuscript

Example prompts

  • “/ier-workflow”

Workflow steps

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

  1. ier-topic-selection — lock a general-interest quantitative question
  2. ier-literature-positioning — stake the contribution vs. the frontier and siblings
  3. ier-theory-model — make the model tight (assumptions, results, comparative statics)
  4. ier-identification — structural parameter or empirical causal identification
  5. ier-robustness — stability to specification, sample, and inference choices
  6. ier-tables-figures — exhibits that carry the argument
  7. ier-writing-style — make the idea land for a broad rigor audience (intro/abstract last)
  8. ier-replication-package — AER-policy package + proof appendix
  9. ier-referee-strategy — anticipate objections, pre-empt the obvious referee
  10. ier-submission — Editorial Express preflight (fee + ≤50pp + format)
  11. ier-rebuttal — after the R&R

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

Ier Workflow loads about 1.9k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 60 tokens; SKILL.md has 855 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
~1.9k

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). 855 words, ~1,911 tokens.

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

IER Workflow Router (ier-workflow)

Overview

This is the router. It tells you which ier- skill to use at the current stage* of a manuscript aimed at the International Economic Review (IER) — the broad, rigor-leaning general-interest journal founded in 1960 "to provide a forum for modern quantitative economics," owned by the Economics Department of the University of Pennsylvania together with the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka University, and published with Wiley. "International" names the Penn–Osaka partnership (and the Klein Lectures it hosts), not a field restriction: IER covers economic theory, econometrics, quantitative/structural macro, and applied micro, with a pronounced theory/structural tilt and a premium on methodological rigor, generality, and a clean model-to-evidence link.

Default assumption: unless the user says otherwise, treat the target as IER. Operational tells that you are at IER and not a sibling: submission runs through Editorial Express (editorialexpress.com/ier), not ScholarOne/Manuscript Central (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准); there is a flat US$150 / ¥15,000 submission fee and the paper is not reviewed until it is paid; the manuscript ceiling is ≤50 pages, double-spaced; the journal adopted the AER data availability policy effective Jan 1, 2022. Editor names and exact figures are volatile — re-verify on the official Penn/Wiley pages (待核实).

When to trigger

  • The user asks "what should I do next?" on an IER-bound draft
  • A draft needs its current bottleneck diagnosed
  • Work is ping-ponging between theory/model, identification, evidence, exhibits, and the response letter
  • An IER decision letter arrived and the user needs to switch into revision mode
  • The team is weighing IER against Econometrica/QE, a top-5, or a field journal

Routing table

Current symptomNext skill
Question feels narrow / not clearly general-interest quantitativeier-topic-selection
Contribution vs. the frontier or vs. sibling journals is fuzzyier-literature-positioning
The model is the contribution but its assumptions/results aren't tightier-theory-model
Empirical causal design or structural parameter identification is shakyier-identification
Results may be specification-, sample-, or inference-sensitiveier-robustness
Exhibits are dense or do not answer the questionier-tables-figures
Prose buries the idea; intro/abstract do not land for a broad audienceier-writing-style
Data/code deposit, README, proof appendix, or AER-policy prepier-replication-package
Likely referee objections should be anticipated before submissionier-referee-strategy
Ready to submit via Editorial Express; need a preflightier-submission
Received an R&R; need a response-letter strategyier-rebuttal

Default order

  1. ier-topic-selection — lock a general-interest quantitative question
  2. ier-literature-positioning — stake the contribution vs. the frontier and siblings
  3. ier-theory-model — make the model tight (assumptions, results, comparative statics)
  4. ier-identification — structural parameter or empirical causal identification
  5. ier-robustness — stability to specification, sample, and inference choices
  6. ier-tables-figures — exhibits that carry the argument
  7. ier-writing-style — make the idea land for a broad rigor audience (intro/abstract last)
  8. ier-replication-package — AER-policy package + proof appendix
  9. ier-referee-strategy — anticipate objections, pre-empt the obvious referee
  10. ier-submission — Editorial Express preflight (fee + ≤50pp + format)
  11. ier-rebuttal — after the R&R

For a theory paper, ier-theory-model precedes ier-identification; for an applied paper they often swap. Do not let ier-writing-style rewrite the intro before the model and evidence settle.

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Routing by paper archetype

IER spans four broad branches, and the binding constraint differs by branch. Read the archetype, then enter the chain at the right link.

ArchetypeLikely first bottleneckEnter at
pure / applied theorywhich assumptions are load-bearing; is the result general or knife-edgeier-theory-model
structural / quantitative macroparameter identification + numerical discipline + counterfactual validityier-theory-model → ier-identification
econometric theory / methodwhat the estimator buys over incumbents; asymptotics + finite-sample evidenceier-theory-model → ier-robustness
applied micro (causal)credible design (staggered DID, weak IV, RDD) tied to a mechanismier-identification

Worked routing example (illustrative)

A user says: "My quantitative trade model fits the moments, but a referee says the welfare gain is an artifact of the elasticity I calibrated and the proof of equilibrium uniqueness is hand-waved." That is two distinct IER pushbacks — a load-bearing assumption / parameter is undefended (owned by ier-identification for what pins the elasticity, and ier-theory-model for the uniqueness argument) and the headline number isn't robust (owned by ier-robustness). Route to ier-theory-model first to make the equilibrium argument airtight, then ier-identification to show what in the data moves the elasticity, then ier-robustness to bound the welfare number — only then back to ier-tables-figures and ier-rebuttal.

How IER differs from its siblings (use this to route a mis-targeted paper)

  • Econometrica / Quantitative Economics are Econometric Society journals: method-first, membership-gated, no flat per-paper submission fee, ScholarOne-style portals. IER is Penn–Osaka-owned, broad/theory-leaning, flat US$150 fee, Editorial Express portal.
  • Top-5 (AER/QJE/JPE/REStud/Eca) demand topical importance on top of rigor; IER rewards rigor and generality without requiring the "splash."
  • Field journals (JIE, J. of Econometrics, etc.) want depth in one field; IER wants the result to travel beyond it. If a draft fits a sibling better, route the user to ier-topic-selection to reframe or to retarget before going further down the chain.

Anti-patterns

  • Treating IER as interchangeable with Econometrica/QE (Econometric Society, method-first, no flat fee) or with a fee-free top-5
  • Polishing prose before the model, identification, and evidence hierarchy are stable
  • Skipping ier-replication-package until acceptance — the AER policy and proof appendix are part of the contribution, not an afterthought
  • Submitting past the 50-page ceiling or before the $150 fee clears (the paper is not even reviewed)

Minimal decision snippet

if decision_letter_arrived:        -> ier-rebuttal
elif ready_to_submit:              -> ier-submission
elif anticipating_referees:        -> ier-referee-strategy
elif data_code_or_proofs:          -> ier-replication-package
elif exhibits_dense:               -> ier-tables-figures
elif results_fragile:              -> ier-robustness
elif identification_shaky:         -> ier-identification
elif model_not_tight:             -> ier-theory-model
elif contribution_fuzzy:           -> ier-literature-positioning
else:                              -> ier-topic-selection

© 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 International-Economic-Review-Skills/skills/ier-workflow of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Ier Workflow

What does Ier Workflow do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding which ier- sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing manuscript work from topic through rebuttal for an International Economic Review (IER) manuscript. Ier Workflow is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding which ier- sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing manuscript work from topic through rebuttal for an International Economic Review (IER) manuscript.

When should I use Ier Workflow?

Ier Workflow fits situations like: deciding which ier- sub-skill to invoke next; sequencing manuscript work from topic through rebuttal for an International Economic Review (IER) manuscript.

How do I install Ier Workflow in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Ier Workflow in Codex?

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

Can I use Ier 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 ier-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/ier-workflow, .gemini/skills/ier-workflow, .github/skills/ier-workflow and .opencode/skills/ier-workflow in your project.

What does Ier Workflow need to run?

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

Does Ier 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 Ier 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 Ier Workflow use?

Ier 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 Ier Workflow use?

About 1.9k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.6k 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 Ier Workflow?

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Who maintains Ier 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.

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.