Hypothesis Generation
spacering-net/codeg
Structured hypothesis formulation from observations. An agent skill from spacering-net/codeg.
A skill your agent uses when choosing or auditing a research question for a Journal of International Marketing (JIM) manuscript — testing whether the international dimension is the theoretical core…
Install Jim Topic Selection
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jim-topic-selection -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jim-topic-selection --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ 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-International-Marketing-Skills/skills/jim-topic-selection .claude/skills/jim-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "jim-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Journal-of-International-Marketing-Skills/skills/jim-topic-selection into .claude/skills/jim-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "jim-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Journal-of-International-Marketing-Skills/skills/jim-topic-selectionType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jim-topic-selection -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jim-topic-selection --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/Journal-of-International-Marketing-Skills/skills/jim-topic-selection .agents/skills/jim-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "jim-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Journal-of-International-Marketing-Skills/skills/jim-topic-selection into .agents/skills/jim-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "jim-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jim-topic-selection -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jim-topic-selection --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/Journal-of-International-Marketing-Skills/skills/jim-topic-selection .cursor/skills/jim-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "jim-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Journal-of-International-Marketing-Skills/skills/jim-topic-selection into .cursor/skills/jim-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "jim-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git --path Journal-of-International-Marketing-Skills/skills/jim-topic-selection--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jim-topic-selection -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jim-topic-selection --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/Journal-of-International-Marketing-Skills/skills/jim-topic-selection .gemini/skills/jim-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "jim-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Journal-of-International-Marketing-Skills/skills/jim-topic-selection into .gemini/skills/jim-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "jim-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jim-topic-selectionInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jim-topic-selection -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/Journal-of-International-Marketing-Skills/skills/jim-topic-selection .github/skills/jim-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "jim-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Journal-of-International-Marketing-Skills/skills/jim-topic-selection into .github/skills/jim-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "jim-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jim-topic-selection -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jim-topic-selection --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/Journal-of-International-Marketing-Skills/skills/jim-topic-selection .opencode/skills/jim-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "jim-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Journal-of-International-Marketing-Skills/skills/jim-topic-selection into .opencode/skills/jim-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "jim-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
jim-topic-selection- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1.6k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 716 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 2,387
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
A skill your agent uses when choosing or auditing a research question for a Journal of International Marketing (JIM) manuscript — testing whether the international dimension is the theoretical core…
- Works in 3 steps: Cross-national variation as moderator. A… → Cross-border phenomena as the object.… → Global-local tension. Perceived brand…
- Tasks that involve Hypothesis generation
- SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The JIM gate: the border must…, Stress tests before committing and Domains where JIM currently…, plus 4 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Jim Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when choosing or auditing a research question for a Journal of International Marketing (JIM) manuscript — testing whether the international dimension is the theoretical core and whether JIM beats sibling outlets. It vets the question; jim-theory-development builds the mechanism.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k 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 Hypothesis generation. 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 Hypothesis generation
Example prompts
- “/jim-topic-selection”
Workflow steps
3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Cross-national variation as moderator. A marketing mechanism is theorized to strengthen, weaken, or reverse across countries for reasons…
- Cross-border phenomena as the object. Exporting, entry-mode choice, global brand architecture, international channel governance…
- Global-local tension. Perceived brand globalness vs. local iconness, standardization vs. adaptation, global consumer culture vs…
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
Jim Topic Selection loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 76 tokens; SKILL.md has 716 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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). 716 words, ~1,553 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/jim-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- jim-topic-selection
- description
- Use when choosing or auditing a research question for a Journal of International Marketing (JIM) manuscript — testing whether the international dimension is the theoretical core and whether JIM beats sibling outlets. It vets the question; jim-theory-development builds the mechanism.
Topic Selection (jim-topic-selection)
When to trigger
- An idea exists but nobody has tested whether it is internationally interesting or merely set abroad
- The dataset covers several countries and the temptation is to let the data pick the question
- A domestic finding is being considered for "extension" to new markets
- The team cannot decide among JIM, JIBS, IMR, JWB, and Journal of Marketing
The JIM gate: the border must do theoretical work
JIM's editorial identity is built around one test. Ask it before anything else:
If this study were run inside a single country, would the research question still make sense?
If yes, the paper is not yet a JIM paper. The cross-national element — differences in culture, institutions, market development, regulation, consumer sophistication, or firm resources across borders — must be what generates the prediction, not what decorates the sample. Three acceptable shapes:
- Cross-national variation as moderator. A marketing mechanism is theorized to strengthen, weaken, or reverse across countries for reasons stated before seeing the data (e.g., trust-based appeals working differently under weak contract enforcement).
- Cross-border phenomena as the object. Exporting, entry-mode choice, global brand architecture, international channel governance, cross-border e-commerce, global segmentation — phenomena that only exist because borders exist.
- Global-local tension. Perceived brand globalness vs. local iconness, standardization vs. adaptation, global consumer culture vs. ethnocentrism — questions where the global and the local pull in opposite directions.
Stress tests before committing
- The relabel test. Delete every country name from the pitch. If the sentence still describes the contribution, the international dimension is cosmetic.
- The two-country test. Can you name at least two countries where theory predicts different outcomes, and say why? "We collected data in the U.S. and China" is a sampling fact, not a prediction.
- The manager test. Which decision of a firm operating across borders changes if the answer flips — market selection, adaptation depth, partner choice, brand positioning, resource allocation across subsidiaries?
- The conversation test. Point to an active thread in JIM's last five volumes (or a JIM call for papers — e.g., the 2025–2026 calls on global sustainability and on AI in international marketing) that this paper would extend or correct.
- The feasibility test. Multi-country primary data, matched secondary panels, or a credible cross-cultural experiment must be attainable; a JIM question without JIM-grade data is a trap.
Domains where JIM currently lives
International marketing strategy (standardization/adaptation, global segmentation, marketing-mix decisions across markets); exporting and international entrepreneurship (export performance, born globals, SME internationalization); entry modes and international channels; global branding and country-of-origin; cross-cultural consumer behavior (values, ethnocentrism, animosity, xenocentrism, global consumer culture); emerging markets and institutional voids; digital and platform-based internationalization. A topic outside these threads is not banned — but the burden of proving relevance to international marketing (not international business generally) rises sharply.
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Sibling boundary — say why JIM and not…
| Outlet | Its center of gravity | Choose JIM instead when |
|---|---|---|
| JIBS | firm internationalization, IB theory broadly | the mechanism is a marketing mechanism (brands, customers, channels) |
| Journal of Marketing | broad marketing strategy, mostly context-free | cross-national variation is the engine, not a robustness note |
| International Marketing Review | earlier-stage, broader empirical bar | evidence meets top-tier standards (invariance, identification, multi-study) |
| Journal of World Business | management/strategy of MNEs | the outcome is a marketing outcome, not an org-level one |
| JCR / JCP | consumer psychology per se | the cultural comparison, not the psychological process alone, carries the paper |
Write the one-sentence boundary claim now; the cover letter and introduction will reuse it verbatim.
Checklist
- The relabel test passes: removing country names breaks the pitch
- At least two countries with theoretically different predicted outcomes named
- The phenomenon or moderator is inherently cross-border, not sample decoration
- A cross-border managerial decision that hinges on the answer is identified
- An active JIM conversation (recent volumes or a live call for papers) is cited
- Multi-country data of top-tier quality is realistically obtainable
- The JIM-vs-sibling sentence is written down
Anti-patterns
- "Prior work studied X in the West; we study X in country Y" — new-context replication, JIM's most common desk reject
- Choosing countries by data convenience and inventing the cultural story afterwards
- Framing an international business question (FDI, governance, HQ-subsidiary politics) with a thin marketing veneer
- A 40-country secondary dataset with no theory about why country membership matters
- Pitching a topic no JIM issue has touched in a decade without explaining why it is due for revival
Output format
【Candidate question】one sentence, no country names
【International engine】moderator / cross-border phenomenon / global-local tension
【Two-country prediction】country A → outcome; country B → different outcome; because …
【Managerial hinge】the cross-border decision that flips with the answer
【Sibling boundary】why JIM over JIBS / JM / IMR / JWB (one sentence)
【Verdict】proceed / reshape / retarget outlet
【Next skill】jim-theory-development© 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-International-Marketing-Skills/skills/jim-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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What does Jim Topic Selection do?
A skill your agent uses when choosing or auditing a research question for a Journal of International Marketing (JIM) manuscript — testing whether the international dimension is the theoretical core…. Jim Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when choosing or auditing a research question for a Journal of International Marketing (JIM) manuscript — testing whether the international dimension is the theoretical core and whether JIM beats sibling outlets.
When should I use Jim Topic Selection?
Jim Topic Selection fits situations like: tasks that involve Hypothesis generation.
How do I install Jim Topic Selection in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jim-topic-selection -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Journal-of-International-Marketing-Skills/skills/jim-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/jim-topic-selection in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Jim Topic Selection in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jim-topic-selection -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Journal-of-International-Marketing-Skills/skills/jim-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/jim-topic-selection in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Jim 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 jim-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/jim-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/jim-topic-selection, .github/skills/jim-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/jim-topic-selection in your project.
What does Jim Topic Selection need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Jim Topic Selection is instructions for the agent only.
Does Jim 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 Jim 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 Jim Topic Selection use?
Jim 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 Jim Topic Selection use?
About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.2k 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 Jim Topic Selection?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Jim Topic Selection: Hypothesis Generation (spacering-net/codeg, 3.9k stars), Nature Paper Card (Yuan1z0825/nature-skills, 47k stars), Hypothesis Generation (K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer, 2.4k stars) and Good Question (Rimagination/good-question, 305 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Jim Topic Selection?
brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,228 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.