Agent skill

Jep Evidence Without Equations

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

A skill your agent uses when presenting empirical or theoretical evidence credibly in a Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) article with minimal math — intuition, examples, well-chosen numbers…

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Install Jep Evidence Without Equations

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jep-evidence-without-equations -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jep-evidence-without-equations --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/Journal-of-Economic-Perspectives-Skills/skills/jep-evidence-without-equations .claude/skills/jep-evidence-without-equations && 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
jep-evidence-without-equations
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
688 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when presenting empirical or theoretical evidence credibly in a Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) article with minimal math — intuition, examples, well-chosen numbers…

  • Presenting empirical
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The JEP evidence bar, How to present evidence… and Honesty devices (build…, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Theoretical evidence credibly in a Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) article with minimal math — intuition

What it does

Jep Evidence Without Equations is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when presenting empirical or theoretical evidence credibly in a Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) article with minimal math — intuition, examples, well-chosen numbers, and honest caveats. Handles how evidence is conveyed in prose; defer figures/tables to jep-exhibits-for-general-readers and fairness across studies to jep-balance-and-objectivity.

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.

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

  • Presenting empirical
  • Theoretical evidence credibly in a Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) article with minimal math — intuition
  • Well-chosen numbers

Example prompts

  • “/jep-evidence-without-equations”

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

Jep Evidence Without Equations loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 97 tokens; SKILL.md has 688 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
~1.3k

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). 688 words, ~1,339 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/jep-evidence-without-equations/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
jep-evidence-without-equations
description
Use when presenting empirical or theoretical evidence credibly in a Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) article with minimal math — intuition, examples, well-chosen numbers, and honest caveats. Handles how evidence is conveyed in prose; defer figures/tables to jep-exhibits-for-general-readers and fairness across studies to jep-balance-and-objectivity.

Evidence Without Equations (jep-evidence-without-equations)

When to trigger

  • You need to convince a reader of a finding without a regression table in the body
  • The draft leans on "significant at the 1% level" or coefficient dumps to make its case
  • You have many numbers and aren't sure which few to feature
  • You worry that going light on math will make the evidence look soft

The JEP evidence bar

JEP communicates evidence through intuition, well-chosen numbers, and honest caveats, not through equations and estimation tables in the body. The credibility comes from which evidence you feature, how clearly you convey magnitude, and how honestly you state limits — not from displaying machinery. A JEP reader should finish a paragraph knowing the size of an effect, how sure the field is, and what could be wrong.

How to present evidence credibly with little math

  • Lead with magnitude in plain units. "Roughly a third of the cost is passed through to prices" beats a coefficient. Translate elasticities/log points into amounts a reader feels (dollars, percentage points, days).
  • Pick a few load-bearing numbers. Two or three vivid, well-sourced figures land; a wall of estimates does not. Each featured number should earn its place in the argument.
  • Convey precision plainly. Instead of asterisks, say how settled it is: "estimates cluster between 5% and 8%," or "studies disagree, ranging from near zero to large." Give the reader a sense of the range, not a star.
  • Use examples and analogies. A concrete case or a familiar analogy makes a mechanism stick where a model would not.
  • Characterize the body of evidence, not one study. "A dozen studies across countries find…" is more JEP than "Smith (2019) estimates…". Synthesis means describing the weight and consistency of evidence.
  • State caveats in the same breath. "This holds for short horizons; over decades the evidence thins" builds trust and is the JEP norm.

Honesty devices (build credibility without machinery)

  • Name the identification in words, once. A reader should know why a number is believable (a natural experiment, a long literature, a clean comparison) without seeing the design.
  • Distinguish settled from contested. Tell the reader what is consensus, what is debated, and what is unknown — this is also the bridge to jep-balance-and-objectivity.
  • Flag external validity. Say where a result travels and where it likely doesn't.
  • Avoid false precision. "About 6%" is more honest than "6.23%" when the range is wide.
  • Anchor with a benchmark. A number means more next to a familiar reference point: "about the size of a typical recession's effect on employment," or "roughly a month's rent." Benchmarks let a non-specialist judge whether an effect is big or small.
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Checklist

  • Effect sizes given in plain, feelable units (not raw coefficients)
  • Only a few load-bearing numbers featured, each well-sourced
  • Precision conveyed as ranges / degree of agreement, never asterisks
  • Evidence characterized as a body (weight, consistency), not one study
  • Identification/credibility explained in words, once, not displayed
  • Caveats and external-validity limits stated alongside the claims
  • Key magnitudes anchored against a familiar benchmark
  • No false precision; magnitudes rounded to what the evidence supports

Worked vignette (illustrative)

A draft says: "The treatment effect is 0.184 log points (s.e. 0.061), significant at the 1% level (***)." A JEP rewrite drops the asterisks and the raw coefficient: "Workers in the program earned about 20% more a year later — an effect large enough to matter for a household budget, and one that a dozen studies in different settings find consistently, though the gains fade after a few years." The reader now has magnitude in feelable units, a sense of how settled it is (many consistent studies), and the key caveat (fading) — all without an equation or a star.

Anti-patterns

  • A regression table or estimating equation in the body to "prove" a point
  • "Significant at the 1% level" (and asterisks) standing in for magnitude and precision
  • A blizzard of numbers with no hierarchy — the reader can't tell which matter
  • Citing a single study as if it settled a question (synthesis means weighing many)
  • Hiding caveats to make the evidence look stronger (a balance and an honesty failure)
  • False precision ("6.23%") that overstates how much the field actually knows

Output format

【Headline magnitude (plain units)】[...]
【Load-bearing numbers (≤3)】1) … 2) … 3) … (sources)
【Precision conveyed as】[range / degree of agreement]
【Why believable (in words)】[natural experiment / long literature / clean comparison]
【Caveats + external validity】[...]
【Body of evidence framed?】many studies vs. one: [Y/N]
【Next step】jep-exhibits-for-general-readers

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Journal-of-Economic-Perspectives-Skills/skills/jep-evidence-without-equations of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Jep Evidence Without Equations

What does Jep Evidence Without Equations do?

A skill your agent uses when presenting empirical or theoretical evidence credibly in a Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) article with minimal math — intuition, examples, well-chosen numbers…. Jep Evidence Without Equations is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when presenting empirical or theoretical evidence credibly in a Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) article with minimal math — intuition, examples, well-chosen numbers, and honest caveats.

When should I use Jep Evidence Without Equations?

Jep Evidence Without Equations fits situations like: presenting empirical; theoretical evidence credibly in a Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) article with minimal math — intuition; well-chosen numbers.

How do I install Jep Evidence Without Equations in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jep-evidence-without-equations -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Journal-of-Economic-Perspectives-Skills/skills/jep-evidence-without-equations in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/jep-evidence-without-equations in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Jep Evidence Without Equations in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jep-evidence-without-equations -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Journal-of-Economic-Perspectives-Skills/skills/jep-evidence-without-equations in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/jep-evidence-without-equations in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Jep Evidence Without Equations 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 jep-evidence-without-equations -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/jep-evidence-without-equations, .gemini/skills/jep-evidence-without-equations, .github/skills/jep-evidence-without-equations and .opencode/skills/jep-evidence-without-equations in your project.

What does Jep Evidence Without Equations need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Jep Evidence Without Equations is instructions for the agent only.

Does Jep Evidence Without Equations 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 Jep Evidence Without Equations 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 Jep Evidence Without Equations use?

Jep Evidence Without Equations 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 Jep Evidence Without Equations use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.4k 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 Jep Evidence Without Equations?

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