A skill your agent uses when anticipating the referee read on a Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (JLEO) manuscript before submitting — modeling the institutional/organizational economist…

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Install Jleo Referee Strategy

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jleo-referee-strategy -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jleo-referee-strategy --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-Law-Economics-and-Organization-Skills/skills/jleo-referee-strategy .claude/skills/jleo-referee-strategy && 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
jleo-referee-strategy
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
719 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when anticipating the referee read on a Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (JLEO) manuscript before submitting — modeling the institutional/organizational economist…

  • Works in 5 steps: Triage by severity. Separate fatal… → Pre-empt in the text, not just in your… → Use the cover letter for honest… → …
  • Anticipating the referee read on a Journal of Law
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Who reviews at JLEO and what…, The objections that recur at… and Strategy moves, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Jleo Referee Strategy is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when anticipating the referee read on a Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (JLEO) manuscript before submitting — modeling the institutional/organizational economist who will review it and pre-empting the objections that sink JLEO papers. Anticipates objections; it does not write the response to an actual report (jleo-rebuttal).

Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k 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 Peer review. 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

  • Anticipating the referee read on a Journal of Law
  • Tasks that involve Peer review

Example prompts

  • “/jleo-referee-strategy”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Triage by severity. Separate fatal objections (identification, contribution) from fixable ones (an extra robustness table). Fix the fatal…
  2. Pre-empt in the text, not just in your head. For each anticipated objection, put the defense where the referee will look — a paragraph, a…
  3. Use the cover letter for honest limitations. Flag a known limitation transparently rather than hoping it goes unnoticed; institutional…
  4. Suggest reviewers who know the tradition. If the system allows suggestions, name scholars in the relevant TCE/PPE conversation who will…
  5. Decide the sibling-boundary defense in advance. Have a one-paragraph answer to "why JLEO and not JLE/Org Science" ready, because a referee…

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

Jleo Referee Strategy loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 91 tokens; SKILL.md has 719 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~91
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.5k

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). 719 words, ~1,471 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/jleo-referee-strategy/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
jleo-referee-strategy
description
Use when anticipating the referee read on a Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (JLEO) manuscript before submitting — modeling the institutional/organizational economist who will review it and pre-empting the objections that sink JLEO papers. Anticipates objections; it does not write the response to an actual report (jleo-rebuttal).

Referee Strategy (jleo-referee-strategy)

When to trigger

  • The paper is near submission and you want to see it through a JLEO referee's eyes first
  • You suspect a credibility gap (selection into governance, reform endogeneity, a decorative model) that a referee will find
  • The contribution is real but might read as "applied micro with institutional labels" to a TCE/PPE reviewer
  • You need to decide which weaknesses to fix now versus flag transparently in the cover letter
  • The paper sits near a sibling boundary and a referee might say "this belongs at JLE / Org Science"

Who reviews at JLEO and what they look for

JLEO referees are drawn from the institutional and organizational economics and PPE communities — people fluent in transaction-cost economics, contract theory, and the political economy of institutions. They are unusually attentive to two things generic economics referees are not: (1) whether the institutional mechanism is real and named, and (2) whether the empirical object — usually chosen by the agents — is credibly identified despite that choice. Model the reviewer, then pre-empt.

The objections that recur at JLEO

Likely referee objectionPre-empt by
"This is applied micro dressed as institutional economics"Make the institutional mechanism the headline; show the result speaks to a JLEO frontier (jleo-literature-positioning)
"Governance form is endogenous — you've measured selection"Address selection head-on with IV / selection model / shock; bound it (jleo-identification, jleo-robustness)
"The model adds notation but no prediction the intuition lacked"Make comparative statics the deliverable; flag the surprising one (jleo-theory-model)
"Reform timing is endogenous to the outcome"Show timing exogeneity, anticipation tests, clean event-study leads
"Your institutional measure is not valid"Validate the construct with alternative measures; document coding (jleo-replication-package)
"An alternative mechanism explains this"Include a test only your mechanism predicts
"This belongs at JLE / Org Science"State the organization/PPE payoff that makes it JLEO, not a sibling

Strategy moves

  1. Triage by severity. Separate fatal objections (identification, contribution) from fixable ones (an extra robustness table). Fix the fatal ones before submitting; do not gamble that the referee will miss them.
  2. Pre-empt in the text, not just in your head. For each anticipated objection, put the defense where the referee will look — a paragraph, a robustness table, a footnote — so the report can say "the authors already address this."
  3. Use the cover letter for honest limitations. Flag a known limitation transparently rather than hoping it goes unnoticed; institutional referees respect candor and punish concealment.
  4. Suggest reviewers who know the tradition. If the system allows suggestions, name scholars in the relevant TCE/PPE conversation who will read the mechanism charitably and competently — and note conflicts to avoid.
  5. Decide the sibling-boundary defense in advance. Have a one-paragraph answer to "why JLEO and not JLE/Org Science" ready, because a referee may raise it as a desk-level concern.
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Checklist

  • The institutional mechanism is unmistakable to a TCE/PPE referee on first read
  • The endogeneity of the governance form / institution is addressed in the text, not just acknowledged
  • The model's value-add (a prediction the intuition lacked) is visible
  • Each anticipated objection has a defense placed where the referee will look
  • The sibling-boundary answer (why JLEO) is written and ready
  • Known limitations are flagged honestly, ideally in the cover letter

Anti-patterns

  • Hoping the referee misses the selection problem instead of confronting it
  • A defense that lives only in your head, not in the manuscript where the referee reads
  • Concealing a limitation that an institutional referee will find anyway
  • Suggesting reviewers who are conflicted, or who work in a different (JLE/Org-Science) tradition
  • No prepared answer to "why isn't this a JLE / Organization Science paper?"

Worked vignette (illustrative)

A paper argues that delegating rule-making to an independent agency improves regulatory quality. Anticipating the JLEO referee: the fatal objection is endogeneity — legislatures delegate precisely where they expect quality gains, so the estimate may be selection. The author pre-empts by exploiting a constitutional change that forced delegation for a subset of policy areas regardless of expected gain, places the design in Section 3 where any referee looks first, and writes the cover-letter limitation that external validity is bounded to the affected areas. The second-order objection ("this is political science, not JLEO") gets a ready paragraph: the payoff is a PPE claim about the credible-commitment value of delegation — squarely the North–Weingast line — with formal comparative statics, making it JLEO and not QJPS.

Output format

text
【Top 3 anticipated objections】1) ___ 2) ___ 3) ___
【Severity】fatal (fix now) / fixable (table/footnote)
【Pre-empt location in MS】where each defense lives
【Sibling-boundary answer】why JLEO not JLE/Org Science (one paragraph ready)
【Cover-letter limitations】what to flag transparently
【Suggested reviewers】TCE/PPE scholars; conflicts noted
【Next skill】jleo-submission

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Journal-of-Law-Economics-and-Organization-Skills/skills/jleo-referee-strategy of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Jleo Referee Strategy

What does Jleo Referee Strategy do?

A skill your agent uses when anticipating the referee read on a Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (JLEO) manuscript before submitting — modeling the institutional/organizational economist…. Jleo Referee Strategy is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when anticipating the referee read on a Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (JLEO) manuscript before submitting — modeling the institutional/organizational economist who will review it and pre-empting the objections that sink JLEO papers.

When should I use Jleo Referee Strategy?

Jleo Referee Strategy fits situations like: anticipating the referee read on a Journal of Law; tasks that involve Peer review.

How do I install Jleo Referee Strategy in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jleo-referee-strategy -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Journal-of-Law-Economics-and-Organization-Skills/skills/jleo-referee-strategy in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/jleo-referee-strategy in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Jleo Referee Strategy in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jleo-referee-strategy -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Journal-of-Law-Economics-and-Organization-Skills/skills/jleo-referee-strategy in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/jleo-referee-strategy in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Jleo Referee Strategy 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 jleo-referee-strategy -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/jleo-referee-strategy, .gemini/skills/jleo-referee-strategy, .github/skills/jleo-referee-strategy and .opencode/skills/jleo-referee-strategy in your project.

What does Jleo Referee Strategy need to run?

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

Does Jleo Referee Strategy 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 Jleo Referee Strategy 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 Jleo Referee Strategy use?

Jleo Referee Strategy 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 Jleo Referee Strategy use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.9k 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 Jleo Referee Strategy?

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