A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a topic is right for the Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) — broadly interesting, timely, and synthesizable for non-specialists — rather than a…

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Install Jep Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jep-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/Journal-of-Economic-Perspectives-Skills/skills/jep-topic-selection .claude/skills/jep-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
jep-topic-selection
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
673 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a topic is right for the Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) — broadly interesting, timely, and synthesizable for non-specialists — rather than a…

  • Deciding whether a topic is right for the Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) — broadly interesting
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The JEP fit bar, Sibling and neighbor… and Symposium lens, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Synthesizable for non-specialists — rather than a narrow research contribution

What it does

Jep Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a topic is right for the Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) — broadly interesting, timely, and synthesizable for non-specialists — rather than a narrow research contribution. Judges venue fit; it does not draft the article or the proposal.

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

  • Deciding whether a topic is right for the Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) — broadly interesting
  • Synthesizable for non-specialists — rather than a narrow research contribution

Example prompts

  • “/jep-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

Jep Topic Selection loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 72 tokens; SKILL.md has 673 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~72
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). 673 words, ~1,276 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/jep-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
jep-topic-selection
description
Use when deciding whether a topic is right for the Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) — broadly interesting, timely, and synthesizable for non-specialists — rather than a narrow research contribution. Judges venue fit; it does not draft the article or the proposal.

Topic Selection for JEP (jep-topic-selection)

When to trigger

  • You have an idea and are unsure it belongs in JEP versus a research journal or JEL
  • A topic feels important to you but you cannot say why a non-specialist economist should care
  • The "article" is really a single new result looking for a home
  • You want to gauge whether a cluster of topics could anchor a symposium

The JEP fit bar

JEP publishes accessible synthesis for a broad audience of economists, readable by 90 percent or more of the AEA membership (检索于 2026-06;以官网为准). A JEP topic is judged on four axes — a topic must clear all four, not just one.

AxisPassFail
Breadth of interestA labor, macro, or finance economist who does not work on this would still want to read itOnly specialists in one subfield care
Timeliness / "why now"A live debate, a maturing literature, a policy moment, or a method whose lessons have spreadA topic equally publishable five years ago or five years hence with no hook
SynthesizabilityThere is a body of work to distill into a through-line and a few takeawaysA single new finding with nothing yet to synthesize
Accessibility ceilingThe core ideas survive translation into plain languageThe contribution is the technical machinery and dies without it

JEP is a synthesis venue, not a discovery venue. If the value is "here is my new estimate," that is a research-journal paper. If the value is "here is what we now collectively understand, and what we don't," that is JEP.

Sibling and neighbor disambiguation

  • vs. AER / AEJ / field journals (primary research): those reward a new identified result. JEP rewards understanding distilled for non-specialists. A JEP article may mention the author's own work but is not built to establish a new finding.
  • vs. Journal of Economic Literature (JEL): JEL is the technical survey of record — long, comprehensive, equations and full method coverage for specialists. JEP is shorter, non-technical, broad-audience. If your draft needs the full apparatus and exhaustive coverage, it is JEL-shaped; if it needs a clear story and selective evidence, it is JEP-shaped.
  • vs. op-ed / popular writing: JEP is rigorous synthesis by economists for economists — more careful, more balanced, and more cited than a popular piece, even though it is accessible.
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Symposium lens

JEP often groups articles into symposia on a theme. Ask: could this topic be one panel of a conversation (e.g., three to five complementary angles on a single question)? If yes, note the companion angles — that framing strengthens both a single-article pitch and a symposium proposal (hand to jep-proposal-and-symposium).

Checklist

  • Stated in one sentence why a non-specialist economist should care
  • Named the "why now" (debate / literature maturity / policy moment / method diffusion)
  • Confirmed there is a body of work to synthesize, not a single result
  • Confirmed the core ideas survive translation to plain language
  • Decided JEP vs. JEL vs. research journal explicitly, with the reason
  • Considered whether the topic anchors or joins a symposium

Worked vignette (illustrative)

An author has three recent papers estimating how remote work affects city wage gradients. As a research output that's a JPE/AEJ paper. As a JEP topic the question becomes broader: "What has a decade of evidence taught us about how remote work is reshaping where people live and what they earn — and what remains uncertain?" That clears all four axes: a generalist cares (it touches housing, labor, and cities), it is timely, there is now a body of work to synthesize (not one result), and the core lessons survive plain language. The author's own three papers become part of the evidence, not the point of the article.

Anti-patterns

  • Pitching "a summary of my own recent papers" with no broader synthesis or lesson
  • A narrow methods or measurement contribution dressed up as a perspective
  • A topic only specialists care about ("interesting to my subfield" is not the bar)
  • A timeless survey with no "why now" — reads as a textbook chapter, not JEP
  • Choosing JEP because the research journals rejected the result (wrong reason; wrong venue)

Output format

【Topic】one sentence
【Why a non-specialist cares】[...]
【Why now】[debate / literature maturity / policy moment / method diffusion]
【Synthesizable?】body-of-work to distill: [Y/N + what]
【Survives translation?】core ideas in plain language: [Y/N]
【Venue call】JEP / JEL / research journal — because [...]
【Symposium angle】standalone / could anchor or join a symposium on [...]
【Next step】jep-proposal-and-symposium

© 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 Journal-of-Economic-Perspectives-Skills/skills/jep-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Jep Topic Selection

What does Jep Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a topic is right for the Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) — broadly interesting, timely, and synthesizable for non-specialists — rather than a…. Jep Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a topic is right for the Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) — broadly interesting, timely, and synthesizable for non-specialists — rather than a narrow research contribution.

When should I use Jep Topic Selection?

Jep Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a topic is right for the Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) — broadly interesting; synthesizable for non-specialists — rather than a narrow research contribution.

How do I install Jep Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Jep Topic Selection in Codex?

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

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

What does Jep Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Jep 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 Jep 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 Jep Topic Selection use?

Jep 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 Jep Topic Selection use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.1k 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 Topic Selection?

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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