Hypothesis Generation
spacering-net/codeg
Structured hypothesis formulation from observations. An agent skill from spacering-net/codeg.
A skill your agent uses when judging whether a research idea fits the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM) — a credibly evaluable policy or program question with a decision-relevant…
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jpam-topic-selection -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jpam-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-Policy-Analysis-and-Management-Skills/skills/jpam-topic-selection .claude/skills/jpam-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 "jpam-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Journal-of-Policy-Analysis-and-Management-Skills/skills/jpam-topic-selection into .claude/skills/jpam-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "jpam-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-Policy-Analysis-and-Management-Skills/skills/jpam-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 jpam-topic-selection -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jpam-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-Policy-Analysis-and-Management-Skills/skills/jpam-topic-selection .agents/skills/jpam-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 "jpam-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Journal-of-Policy-Analysis-and-Management-Skills/skills/jpam-topic-selection into .agents/skills/jpam-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "jpam-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 jpam-topic-selection -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jpam-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-Policy-Analysis-and-Management-Skills/skills/jpam-topic-selection .cursor/skills/jpam-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 "jpam-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Journal-of-Policy-Analysis-and-Management-Skills/skills/jpam-topic-selection into .cursor/skills/jpam-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "jpam-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-Policy-Analysis-and-Management-Skills/skills/jpam-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 jpam-topic-selection -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jpam-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-Policy-Analysis-and-Management-Skills/skills/jpam-topic-selection .gemini/skills/jpam-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 "jpam-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Journal-of-Policy-Analysis-and-Management-Skills/skills/jpam-topic-selection into .gemini/skills/jpam-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "jpam-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 jpam-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 jpam-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-Policy-Analysis-and-Management-Skills/skills/jpam-topic-selection .github/skills/jpam-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 "jpam-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Journal-of-Policy-Analysis-and-Management-Skills/skills/jpam-topic-selection into .github/skills/jpam-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "jpam-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 jpam-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 jpam-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-Policy-Analysis-and-Management-Skills/skills/jpam-topic-selection .opencode/skills/jpam-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 "jpam-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Journal-of-Policy-Analysis-and-Management-Skills/skills/jpam-topic-selection into .opencode/skills/jpam-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "jpam-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.
jpam-topic-selectionA skill your agent uses when judging whether a research idea fits the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM) — a credibly evaluable policy or program question with a decision-relevant…
Jpam Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when judging whether a research idea fits the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM) — a credibly evaluable policy or program question with a decision-relevant takeaway that reaches across economics, political science, and public management. Tests fit and sharpens the question; it does not design the study or run analysis.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k 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.
5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
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.
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.
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Jpam Topic Selection loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 90 tokens; SKILL.md has 667 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.
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.
The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 667 words, ~1,449 tokens.
.claude/skills/jpam-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).JPAM publishes work that evaluates real policies and programs and informs a real decision. The fit bar is two-sided: the question must be causally answerable with a credible design and policy-relevant in a way an APPAM audience (economists, political scientists, public-management scholars, and practitioners) recognizes. A clever identification with no policy stake is off-fit; so is an urgent policy question with no path to a credible estimate.
Education, health, labor & welfare, housing, crime & justice, environment & energy, immigration, social policy, public finance, program administration. Domestic and international policy are both in scope.
| If the work is… | Type | Note |
|---|---|---|
| A full, credibly identified evaluation | Feature Research Article | the core of the journal |
| A short, timely, decision-relevant take | Policy Insights (≤ 3,000 words, not peer-reviewed) | confirm invitation/rules (检索于 2026-06) |
| A methods advance for policy analysts | Methods for Policy Analysis | route to jpam-research-design |
| A reflective look back at a policy/literature | Policy Retrospective | route to jpam-theory-building |
"The determinants of college enrollment" is off-fit — descriptive, no lever. Reframed as "Does a state's automatic-FAFSA-completion mandate raise enrollment among low-income students, and at what cost per additional enrollee?" it names a policy (the mandate), a decision (whether other states should adopt it), identifying variation (staggered state adoption → heterogeneity-robust DiD), a cross-field stake (mobility for economists, administrative-burden for public-management readers), and a magnitude that matters (an effect large enough to justify the administrative cost). That is a JPAM Feature Article. (Policy/numbers illustrative.)
【Policy / program】the intervention being evaluated
【Decision informed】who acts differently, and the counterfactual
【Identifying variation】RCT / DiD / RD / IV / synthetic control / none-yet
【Cross-field stake】why a reader outside the subfield cares
【Article type】Feature / Policy Insights / Methods / Retrospective
【Next】jpam-literature-positioning../../resources/external_tools.md — policy data sources by field (education, health, labor, crime, housing)../../resources/exemplars/library.md — real JPAM papers by field × method to calibrate fit© 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
Just SKILL.md in Journal-of-Policy-Analysis-and-Management-Skills/skills/jpam-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
Jpam Topic Selection next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jpam Topic Selection this skillbrycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills | 1.2k | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Hypothesis Generationspacering-net/codeg | 3.9k | 14 repos | ~3.6k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | |
| Nature Paper CardYuan1z0825/nature-skills | 47k | 2 repos | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Hypothesis GenerationK-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer | 2.4k | 2 repos | ~3.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Good QuestionRimagination/good-question | 305 | 1 repos | ~4.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| High Stakes Analytics Decision Lablimingrui679-design/high-stakes-analytics-decision-lab | 1k | — | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
spacering-net/codeg
Structured hypothesis formulation from observations. An agent skill from spacering-net/codeg.
Yuan1z0825/nature-skills
Builds a structured deep-reading card for one scientific paper, covering methods, how experiments support claims, limitations and research ideas, with a script to prepare the source.
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Rimagination/good-question
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limingrui679-design/high-stakes-analytics-decision-lab
Build or review source-backed descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analysis for consequential decisions.
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A skill your agent uses when responding to an Annals of the American Association of Geographers decision letter (major/minor revision) — building a point-by-point response to the subject editor and…
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A skill your agent uses when judging whether a research idea fits the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM) — a credibly evaluable policy or program question with a decision-relevant…. Jpam Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when judging whether a research idea fits the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM) — a credibly evaluable policy or program question with a decision-relevant takeaway that reaches across economics, political science, and public management.
Jpam Topic Selection fits situations like: judging whether a research idea fits the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM) — a credibly evaluable policy; program question with a decision-relevant takeaway that reaches across economics; political science; public management.
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jpam-topic-selection -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Journal-of-Policy-Analysis-and-Management-Skills/skills/jpam-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/jpam-topic-selection in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jpam-topic-selection -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Journal-of-Policy-Analysis-and-Management-Skills/skills/jpam-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/jpam-topic-selection in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
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 jpam-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/jpam-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/jpam-topic-selection, .github/skills/jpam-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/jpam-topic-selection in your project.
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Jpam Topic Selection is instructions for the agent only.
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.
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.
Jpam 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.
About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Jpam 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.
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.