A skill your agent uses when research design and identification are the bottleneck for a Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) manuscript — choosing the setting, shock, and design that credibly…

MITAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Revacc Methods

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills revacc-methods --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/Review-of-Accounting-Studies-Skills/skills/revacc-methods .claude/skills/revacc-methods && 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
revacc-methods
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
703 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when research design and identification are the bottleneck for a Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) manuscript — choosing the setting, shock, and design that credibly…

  • Research design and identification are the bottleneck for a Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) manuscript — choosing the setting
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Identification for archival…, Measurement design is part of… and If the lane is analytical, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Design that credibly identify an accounting effect

What it does

Revacc Methods is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when research design and identification are the bottleneck for a Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) manuscript — choosing the setting, shock, and design that credibly identify an accounting effect, or fixing the primitives and solution concept of an analytical model. Designs the study; it does not run the estimation and robustness (revacc-data-analysis) or frame the contribution (revacc-contribution-framing).

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 Business, Finance & HR, covering Accounting and bookkeeping, Econometrics and empirical research and Data analysis. 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

  • Research design and identification are the bottleneck for a Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) manuscript — choosing the setting
  • Design that credibly identify an accounting effect
  • Fixing the primitives and solution concept of an analytical model

Example prompts

  • “/revacc-methods”

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

Revacc Methods loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 108 tokens; SKILL.md has 703 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~108
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). 703 words, ~1,699 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/revacc-methods/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
revacc-methods
description
Use when research design and identification are the bottleneck for a Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) manuscript — choosing the setting, shock, and design that credibly identify an accounting effect, or fixing the primitives and solution concept of an analytical model. Designs the study; it does not run the estimation and robustness (revacc-data-analysis) or frame the contribution (revacc-contribution-framing).

Research Design & Identification (revacc-methods)

When to trigger

  • Your treatment (a disclosure, a standard adoption, an audit/tax regime) may be endogenous
  • Adoption is staggered across firms/years and you need a defensible DiD
  • You have an association and a referee will ask "is this causal or just correlation?"
  • You are designing an experiment to isolate a channel archival data cannot separate
  • You are building an analytical model and must fix primitives, timing, and the equilibrium concept

Identification for archival accounting at RAST

Accounting treatments — disclosure choices, conservatism, auditor selection, tax positions, standard adoption — are rarely random, so RAST referees expect a credible identification strategy, not kitchen-sink controls. Pick the design that breaks the endogeneity for your accounting setting.

Identification threat / settingDesign
Regulation / standard adoption with a clean date (e.g., a reporting mandate)Difference-in-differences; event study around the adoption date
Staggered adoption across firms/states/countriesStaggered DiD with modern estimators (avoid naive TWFE bias)
Endogenous accounting/auditor/tax choiceInstrumental variables / 2SLS with a defensible exclusion
A threshold rule (covenant, index inclusion, size or regulatory cutoff)Regression discontinuity
Selection on observablesMatching (PSM/entropy) as a complement, not the main claim
A plausibly exogenous shock to the information environmentNatural experiment; pre-trends shown
Information content of an accounting signalShort-window event study with a clean benchmark and confound check

State the estimating equation, the unit and level, the fixed effects (firm, year, industry-year), and the identifying variation explicitly. The design section must make a skeptic believe the variation is as-good-as-random conditional on controls. RAST's first-round-decision culture means a weak design is more likely to draw a reject than a "fix it in revision."

Measurement design is part of identification

For contested accounting constructs (discretionary accruals, earnings quality, disclosure indices, audit quality, information asymmetry), the proxy choice is a design decision. Pre-commit a primary measure with precedent and plan the alternative proxies you will use to show the result is not proxy-driven (carried out in revacc-data-analysis). A clean design on a fragile proxy still fails.

If the lane is analytical

  • Fix the information structure, players, timing, and payoffs before solving; state the equilibrium concept (PBE, sequential, etc.).
  • Show the model is the minimal structure that generates the accounting result; defend each assumption as load-bearing.
  • Plan the comparative statics that become testable or normative accounting implications.

If the lane is experimental

  • Manipulate the focal accounting construct with realistic stimuli and a fit-for-purpose pool (investors, auditors, managers); IRB documentation is expected.
  • Pre-register where feasible; include manipulation and attention checks; power the design for the interaction, not just the main effect.
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Design hygiene

  • Show parallel pre-trends for any DiD and report dynamic (event-time) effects.
  • Defend the exclusion restriction for any IV in words — relevance alone is not enough.
  • Pre-commit the main specification; relegate alternatives to robustness.
  • Plan the data provenance trail now (Compustat/CRSP/I/B/E/S/audit-data vintages and screens).

Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)

For the empirical / causal lane, estimate and audit rather than only specify. Full map: execution-with-mcp. RAST is empirical accounting; emphasize identification of disclosure / governance effects and the multiple-testing haircut for mined associations.

  • detect_design → recommend → fit with as_handle=true → audit_result to enumerate the checks the design owes.
  • Panel / staggered DiD: callaway_santanna / sun_abraham + bacon_decomposition
    • honest_did_from_result. IV: effective_f_test + anderson_rubin_ci. RDD: rdrobust + mccrary_test.
  • Experiments: randomization-based inference and romano_wolf for the many-outcome family-wise correction reviewers expect.

Match the toolchain to the reviewer pool, and report the effect size the venue wants. A run end-to-end (synthetic data, real returns) is in the JF execution walkthrough.

Checklist

  • The identifying variation (shock/setting/threshold) is named and defended
  • Estimating equation, unit, level, fixed effects, and clustering plan are stated
  • DiD shows pre-trends and dynamic effects; staggered designs use a modern estimator
  • IV exclusion restriction is argued, not asserted; matching is a complement, not the claim
  • Primary construct proxy pre-committed; alternative proxies planned
  • Analytical models fix primitives/timing and the solution concept before solving
  • Experiments have IRB, realistic stimuli, manipulation/attention checks, adequate power

Anti-patterns

  • Kitchen-sink controls standing in for identification ("we control for everything").
  • TWFE on staggered adoption without addressing heterogeneous-treatment-effect bias.
  • IV by convenience: an instrument correlated with the outcome directly.
  • Matching as causal proof when selection is on unobservables.
  • Proxy fragility: a single contested construct measure with no alternative planned.
  • Non-minimal model: primitives a referee can strip without losing the result.

Output format

text
【Lane】archival / analytical / experimental
【Setting & identifying variation】...
【Design】DiD / staggered-DiD / IV / RDD / event study / experiment / model
【Spec】equation; unit/level; fixed effects; clustering plan
【Construct】primary proxy + alternatives planned
【Identification defense】pre-trends / exclusion / discontinuity / randomization ...
【Data provenance】sources + vintages + screens noted
【Next skill】revacc-data-analysis

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Review-of-Accounting-Studies-Skills/skills/revacc-methods of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Revacc Methods

What does Revacc Methods do?

A skill your agent uses when research design and identification are the bottleneck for a Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) manuscript — choosing the setting, shock, and design that credibly…. Revacc Methods is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when research design and identification are the bottleneck for a Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) manuscript — choosing the setting, shock, and design that credibly identify an accounting effect, or fixing the primitives and solution concept of an analytical model.

When should I use Revacc Methods?

Revacc Methods fits situations like: research design and identification are the bottleneck for a Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) manuscript — choosing the setting; design that credibly identify an accounting effect; fixing the primitives and solution concept of an analytical model.

How do I install Revacc Methods in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Revacc Methods in Codex?

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

Can I use Revacc Methods 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 revacc-methods -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/revacc-methods, .gemini/skills/revacc-methods, .github/skills/revacc-methods and .opencode/skills/revacc-methods in your project.

What does Revacc Methods need to run?

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

Does Revacc Methods 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 Revacc Methods 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 Revacc Methods use?

Revacc Methods 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 Revacc Methods 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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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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