A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a question belongs in the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (JRU) and how to frame it as a risk/uncertainty primitive.

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Install Jru Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jru-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-Risk-and-Uncertainty-Skills/skills/jru-topic-selection .claude/skills/jru-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
jru-topic-selection
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.9k tokens
SKILL.md length
972 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 question belongs in the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (JRU) and how to frame it as a risk/uncertainty primitive.

  • Works in 5 steps: State the contribution in one sentence… → Name which JRU readership would cite it… → Identify the parameter or function the… → …
  • Deciding whether a question belongs in the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (JRU) and how to frame it as a risk/uncertainty primitive
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, What JRU actually rewards, How to re-anchor a borderline… and What gets desk-screened at JRU, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Jru Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a question belongs in the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (JRU) and how to frame it as a risk/uncertainty primitive. Tests scope fit and sibling boundaries; it does not invent evidence or citations.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.9k 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 Citation management. 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 question belongs in the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (JRU) and how to frame it as a risk/uncertainty primitive
  • Tasks that involve Citation management

Example prompts

  • “/jru-topic-selection”

Workflow steps

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

  1. State the contribution in one sentence as a claim about a primitive: "We show probability weighting is [steeper / flatter] when…
  2. Name which JRU readership would cite it — decision theorists, experimental risk researchers, or VSL/insurance empiricists — and which…
  3. Identify the parameter or function the paper moves. If you cannot name one, the paper is probably a sibling-journal paper wearing a risk…
  4. Separate what the draft already shows from what still needs a model, an experiment, or an estimation pass.
  5. Hand off to jru-literature-positioning if a primitive is named; otherwise return to jru-workflow to reconsider the venue.

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

Jru Topic Selection loads about 1.9k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 61 tokens; SKILL.md has 972 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~61
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.9k

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). 972 words, ~1,891 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/jru-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
jru-topic-selection
description
Use when deciding whether a question belongs in the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (JRU) and how to frame it as a risk/uncertainty primitive. Tests scope fit and sibling boundaries; it does not invent evidence or citations.

Topic Selection (jru-topic-selection)

When to trigger

  • You have a behavioral or decision result and are unsure JRU is the right home rather than a method-general or broad-behavioral venue
  • The question is phrased as "people do X" but does not yet name a risk or uncertainty primitive (a utility curvature, a probability-weighting parameter, an ambiguity attitude, a VSL, an insurance elasticity)
  • A coauthor wants to "add a risk angle" to a paper whose core object is really a market, a game, or a generic nudge
  • The draft could plausibly go to JRU, Experimental Economics, JEBO, or Theory and Decision and the team needs the boundary drawn

What JRU actually rewards

JRU's center of gravity is the economics of decision-making under risk and uncertainty: expected utility and its descendants (prospect theory, rank-dependent / cumulative prospect theory, ambiguity and Knightian uncertainty), the measurement of risk and ambiguity preferences, the value of a statistical life and other risk-money tradeoffs, and insurance, precaution, and intertemporal risk. A JRU paper's contribution is a sharper representation, a cleaner measurement, or a more credible estimate of one of these primitives — not merely a new domain where a known anomaly appears.

Use this triage before committing the venue:

Your core objectJRU fitIf weak, where it likely belongs
A utility / probability-weighting representation with behavioral contentStrong — jru-theory-modelTheory and Decision (if pure axiomatics, no measurement)
An incentive-compatible elicitation of risk or ambiguity attitudesStrong — jru-identificationExperimental Economics (if the contribution is the method, not the risk primitive)
A VSL / mortality-risk valuation or insurance-demand estimateStrong — JRU's signature empirical territoryhealth/labor field journal (if risk is incidental)
A general behavioral anomaly (default effects, social preferences)Weak unless re-anchored on a risk primitiveJEBO, JEEA, a field journal
A market design or equilibrium where risk is a feature, not the objectWeakGEB, a micro-theory journal

How to re-anchor a borderline paper

  1. State the contribution in one sentence as a claim about a primitive: "We show probability weighting is [steeper / flatter] when [condition]," not "We find people are inconsistent."
  2. Name which JRU readership would cite it — decision theorists, experimental risk researchers, or VSL/insurance empiricists — and which would desk-skip it.
  3. Identify the parameter or function the paper moves. If you cannot name one, the paper is probably a sibling-journal paper wearing a risk costume.
  4. Separate what the draft already shows from what still needs a model, an experiment, or an estimation pass.
  5. Hand off to jru-literature-positioning if a primitive is named; otherwise return to jru-workflow to reconsider the venue.

What gets desk-screened at JRU

The Editor-in-Chief (W. Kip Viscusi) reserves the right to return papers that do not fit, so the topic decision is also a desk-rejection-avoidance decision. Papers most at risk of a fast return:

  • Risk-incidental applications. A labor or health study where uncertainty is background, not the object of measurement — better suited to a field journal.
  • Method demonstrations. A clever new lab procedure whose payoff is the procedure, not a sharper risk primitive — Experimental Economics territory.
  • Broad behavioral grab-bags. Several anomalies loosely themed around "irrationality" with no single decision-theoretic claim — JEBO territory.
  • Pure axiomatics with no behavioral or measurement hook. Elegant but content-free for JRU's interface readership — Theory and Decision territory.
  • Underpowered one-off experiments that cannot pin a parameter with usable precision.
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Worked vignette (illustrative)

A team has survey evidence that small firms under-insure against rare disasters and wants to send it to JRU. As written, the object is a market outcome (takeup), so it reads as a field-economics paper. The re-anchored version makes the primitive the target: it elicits the firms' subjective disaster probabilities and ambiguity attitudes, then shows under-insurance is driven by ambiguity aversion rather than by misperception — a claim about a risk primitive that JRU's readership owns. The application becomes the setting; the decision parameter becomes the contribution.

Drawing the four sibling boundaries precisely

The boundary is not "is it about risk?" but "is the contribution a risk primitive?" Use these one-line tests:

  • vs. Experimental Economics: if you could swap the risk task for any other well-incentivized task and the contribution would survive, it is a method paper, not a JRU paper.
  • vs. JEBO: if the result is one of several loosely related behavioral findings with no single decision-theoretic claim, it is broad-behavioral, not JRU.
  • vs. Theory and Decision: if the model has no behavioral or measurement implication anyone could test, it is pure axiomatics, not JRU.
  • vs. Management Science (decision analysis): if the contribution is a managerial decision tool rather than a positive claim about how people value risk, it is applied decision analysis, not JRU.

When two venues genuinely both fit, JRU wins if the primitive is the headline and the application is the setting; the sibling wins if it is the reverse.

Checklist

  • The contribution names a specific risk/uncertainty primitive (curvature, weighting, ambiguity, VSL, insurance demand), not just a behavior
  • A JRU reader can see why decision theory or risk measurement, not the application domain, is the point
  • The boundary against Experimental Economics is drawn: the contribution is the risk object, not the experimental technique per se
  • The boundary against JEBO / Theory and Decision is drawn (not broad-behavioral; not pure axiomatics without measurement)
  • Process-fact claims trace to resources/official-source-map.md or are marked 待核实
  • The handoff names the next decision, not a prose edit

Anti-patterns

  • "Risk-washing": bolting the word risk onto a paper whose real object is a nudge, a market, or a social preference
  • Pitching a pure axiomatization with no behavioral or measurement implication (that is Theory and Decision's lane)
  • Pitching a clean experiment whose only novelty is the procedure, not what it reveals about a risk primitive (Experimental Economics' lane)
  • Claiming "general interest" breadth that JRU does not promise — its readership is specialized in risk and uncertainty
  • Inventing editor names, fees, or scope quotes instead of marking them 待核实

Output format

text
【Journal】Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
【Skill】jru-topic-selection
【Verdict】fit / re-anchor / reroute to sibling
【Primitive named】curvature / weighting / ambiguity / VSL / insurance / intertemporal
【One-sentence contribution】<claim about the primitive>
【Sibling boundary】why not Experimental Economics / JEBO / Theory and Decision
【Source status】verified / 待核实 / not asserted
【Next skill】jru-literature-positioning

© 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-Risk-and-Uncertainty-Skills/skills/jru-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Jru Topic Selection

What does Jru Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a question belongs in the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (JRU) and how to frame it as a risk/uncertainty primitive. Jru Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a question belongs in the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (JRU) and how to frame it as a risk/uncertainty primitive.

When should I use Jru Topic Selection?

Jru Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a question belongs in the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (JRU) and how to frame it as a risk/uncertainty primitive; tasks that involve Citation management.

How do I install Jru Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Jru Topic Selection in Codex?

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

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

What does Jru Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Jru 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 Jru 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 Jru Topic Selection use?

Jru 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 Jru Topic Selection use?

About 1.9k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.6k 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 Jru 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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