A skill your agent uses when deciding which jep- sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing work on an accessible synthesis article from topic idea through editor revision for a Journal of…

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Install Jep Workflow

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jep-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/Journal-of-Economic-Perspectives-Skills/skills/jep-workflow .claude/skills/jep-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
jep-workflow
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
731 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 jep- sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing work on an accessible synthesis article from topic idea through editor revision for a Journal of…

  • Works in 11 steps: jep-topic-selection — confirm the topic… → jep-proposal-and-symposium — craft the… → jep-narrative-arc — structure the essay… → …
  • Deciding which jep- 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

Jep Workflow is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding which jep- sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing work on an accessible synthesis article from topic idea through editor revision for a Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) submission. Routes — it does not replace — the specialized skills.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.7k 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 jep- sub-skill to invoke next

Example prompts

  • “/jep-workflow”

Workflow steps

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

  1. jep-topic-selection — confirm the topic is JEP-shaped (broad, timely, synthesizable)
  2. jep-proposal-and-symposium — craft the 2–5 page proposal or symposium pitch
  3. jep-narrative-arc — structure the essay as an argument, not a survey
  4. jep-accessibility-and-translation — strip jargon/notation without dumbing down
  5. jep-evidence-without-equations — present evidence credibly with minimal math
  6. jep-exhibits-for-general-readers — build self-explanatory figures/tables
  7. jep-writing-style — the JEP voice; abstract and opening last
  8. jep-balance-and-objectivity — fair to competing views; honest about uncertainty
  9. jep-editor-strategy — scope/length/symposium negotiation with the team
  10. jep-submission — email-proposal preflight (accessibility bar, disclosure, JEL)
  11. jep-revision — after the editor's letter

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 Workflow loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 70 tokens; SKILL.md has 731 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~70
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.7k

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). 731 words, ~1,688 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/jep-workflow/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
jep-workflow
description
Use when deciding which jep-* sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing work on an accessible synthesis article from topic idea through editor revision for a Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) submission. Routes — it does not replace — the specialized skills.

JEP Workflow Router (jep-workflow)

Overview

This is the router. It tells you which jep- skill to use at the current stage* of an article aimed at the Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) — the open-access, non-technical synthesis journal of the American Economic Association, founded 1987. JEP is not a primary-research outlet. It rewards articles that synthesize and communicate a body of economics to a broad audience — readable by 90 percent or more of the AEA membership — avoiding formal models and heavy econometrics in the body. The product is a compelling, accessible, balanced essay, not an identification strategy or a replication package.

Default assumption: unless the user says otherwise, treat the target as JEP. Operational tells that you are at JEP and not a research journal or its sibling Journal of Economic Literature (JEL): JEP is largely invited / commissioned and organized in symposia; almost all articles begin as a 2–5 page proposal emailed to jep@aeapubs.org (about 10–15% of published articles originate as unsolicited proposals); the writing must be legible to non-specialists; there are recurring features ("Recommendations for Further Reading", retrospectives). Editor as of 2026: Heidi Williams; Managing Editor Timothy Taylor (检索于 2026-06;以官网为准). Re-verify volatile specifics on the official AEA pages.

When to trigger

  • The user asks "what should I do next?" on a JEP article or proposal
  • A draft reads like a research paper or a JEL survey, not a JEP essay
  • Work is ping-ponging between idea, proposal, narrative, accessibility, and balance
  • A JEP editor's letter arrived and the user needs to switch into revision mode

Routing table

Current symptomNext skill
Unsure the topic is broad/timely/synthesizable for non-specialistsjep-topic-selection
Need to pitch the article or a symposium to the editorsjep-proposal-and-symposium
Structure is a literature dump, not a story/argumentjep-narrative-arc
Prose is jargon-heavy; notation everywhere; reads like a working paperjep-accessibility-and-translation
Evidence is presented with equations/regressions a general reader can't followjep-evidence-without-equations
Figures/tables are dense, not self-explanatoryjep-exhibits-for-general-readers
Voice is dry/hedged; abstract and opening don't landjep-writing-style
Reads as advocacy; competing views or uncertainty underplayedjep-balance-and-objectivity
Need to negotiate scope/length/symposium with the editorial teamjep-editor-strategy
Ready to email the proposal/manuscript; need a preflightjep-submission
An editor asked for revisions (accessibility/balance/length/framing)jep-revision

Default order

  1. jep-topic-selection — confirm the topic is JEP-shaped (broad, timely, synthesizable)
  2. jep-proposal-and-symposium — craft the 2–5 page proposal or symposium pitch
  3. jep-narrative-arc — structure the essay as an argument, not a survey
  4. jep-accessibility-and-translation — strip jargon/notation without dumbing down
  5. jep-evidence-without-equations — present evidence credibly with minimal math
  6. jep-exhibits-for-general-readers — build self-explanatory figures/tables
  7. jep-writing-style — the JEP voice; abstract and opening last
  8. jep-balance-and-objectivity — fair to competing views; honest about uncertainty
  9. jep-editor-strategy — scope/length/symposium negotiation with the team
  10. jep-submission — email-proposal preflight (accessibility bar, disclosure, JEL)
  11. jep-revision — after the editor's letter

jep-writing-style is a late polish; do not perfect sentences before the narrative arc and the balance settle.

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Anti-patterns

  • Writing a full unsolicited manuscript before pitching a 2–5 page proposal (low odds; editors prefer proposals)
  • Treating JEP like a research journal — leading with identification, a model, or a regression table
  • Confusing JEP with JEL: JEL is the long, technical survey of record; JEP is the short, non-technical, broad-audience essay
  • Letting jep-exhibits-for-general-readers polish a dense figure while the argument is still a literature dump
  • Advocacy framing that an editor will read as an op-ed, not a balanced synthesis

Routing by article archetype

JEP essays come in a few shapes, and the bottleneck differs. Read the archetype, then enter the chain at the right link.

ArchetypeLikely first bottleneckEnter at
"State of a field" synthesisscope too narrow or too technicaljep-topic-selection → jep-narrative-arc
Symposium contribution (invited)fit with the symposium frame + lengthjep-editor-strategy → jep-narrative-arc
Translating one's own technical agendajargon/notation; over-claimingjep-accessibility-and-translation → jep-balance-and-objectivity
Policy-relevant debatereads as advocacy; uncertainty buriedjep-balance-and-objectivity

Worked routing example (illustrative)

A user says: "I've drafted a 9,000-word piece summarizing my structural IO research for JEP, but a colleague says it reads like my JPE paper with the proofs deleted." That is two distinct JEP problems — not yet translated for a general reader and no story for a non-specialist — owned by jep-accessibility-and-translation and jep-narrative-arc. Route there first; only once a non-IO economist can follow the argument and one memorable through-line carries it do you return to jep-writing-style and jep-exhibits-for-general-readers. And before any of that, since this is an unsolicited full draft, jep-proposal-and-symposium would convert it into the 2–5 page proposal the editors actually want.

Minimal decision snippet

if editor_letter_arrived:          -> jep-revision
elif ready_to_email:               -> jep-submission
elif reads_as_advocacy:            -> jep-balance-and-objectivity
elif exhibits_dense:               -> jep-exhibits-for-general-readers
elif math_or_jargon_heavy:         -> jep-evidence-without-equations / jep-accessibility-and-translation
elif structure_is_a_survey:        -> jep-narrative-arc
elif no_pitch_yet:                 -> jep-proposal-and-symposium
else:                              -> jep-topic-selection

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Files

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

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Jep Workflow

What does Jep Workflow do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding which jep- sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing work on an accessible synthesis article from topic idea through editor revision for a Journal of…. Jep Workflow is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding which jep- sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing work on an accessible synthesis article from topic idea through editor revision for a Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) submission.

When should I use Jep Workflow?

Jep Workflow fits situations like: deciding which jep- sub-skill to invoke next.

How do I install Jep Workflow in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Jep Workflow in Codex?

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

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

What does Jep Workflow need to run?

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

Does Jep 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 Jep 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 Jep Workflow use?

Jep 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 Jep Workflow use?

About 1.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.8k 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 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.