Synthesis
yologdev/yoyo-evolve
Multi-source research synthesis — aggregate and compare 3+ sources or any source 5KB using sub-agent dispatch and SharedState
Agent skill
by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills
A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a question is synthesis-worthy and RER-scale before committing to a Review of Educational Research (RER) review or meta-analysis.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill revedres-topic-selection -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills revedres-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/Review-of-Educational-Research-Skills/skills/revedres-topic-selection .claude/skills/revedres-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 "revedres-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Review-of-Educational-Research-Skills/skills/revedres-topic-selection into .claude/skills/revedres-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "revedres-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/Review-of-Educational-Research-Skills/skills/revedres-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 revedres-topic-selection -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills revedres-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/Review-of-Educational-Research-Skills/skills/revedres-topic-selection .agents/skills/revedres-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 "revedres-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Review-of-Educational-Research-Skills/skills/revedres-topic-selection into .agents/skills/revedres-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "revedres-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 revedres-topic-selection -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills revedres-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/Review-of-Educational-Research-Skills/skills/revedres-topic-selection .cursor/skills/revedres-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 "revedres-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Review-of-Educational-Research-Skills/skills/revedres-topic-selection into .cursor/skills/revedres-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "revedres-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 Review-of-Educational-Research-Skills/skills/revedres-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 revedres-topic-selection -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills revedres-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/Review-of-Educational-Research-Skills/skills/revedres-topic-selection .gemini/skills/revedres-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 "revedres-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Review-of-Educational-Research-Skills/skills/revedres-topic-selection into .gemini/skills/revedres-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "revedres-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 revedres-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 revedres-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/Review-of-Educational-Research-Skills/skills/revedres-topic-selection .github/skills/revedres-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 "revedres-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Review-of-Educational-Research-Skills/skills/revedres-topic-selection into .github/skills/revedres-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "revedres-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 revedres-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 revedres-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/Review-of-Educational-Research-Skills/skills/revedres-topic-selection .opencode/skills/revedres-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 "revedres-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Review-of-Educational-Research-Skills/skills/revedres-topic-selection into .opencode/skills/revedres-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "revedres-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.
revedres-topic-selectionA skill your agent uses when deciding whether a question is synthesis-worthy and RER-scale before committing to a Review of Educational Research (RER) review or meta-analysis.
Revedres Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a question is synthesis-worthy and RER-scale before committing to a Review of Educational Research (RER) review or meta-analysis. Tests fit and frames the contribution; it does not run the search (revedres-literature-synthesis) or write the protocol (revedres-proposal-and-commissioning).
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.
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.
4 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.
Revedres Topic Selection loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 85 tokens; SKILL.md has 744 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). 744 words, ~1,503 tokens.
.claude/skills/revedres-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).RER publishes comprehensive, critical, integrative reviews — not original empirical research, and not narrow stock-takes. Before investing months in a search, run the topic through four gates.
The fit tests also tell you which RER review type fits — and the type drives every later skill.
| If the question is… | The review type is… | The contribution lives in… |
|---|---|---|
| "What is the average effect of X on Y, and what moderates it?" | meta-analysis | pooled effect + moderator/heterogeneity story |
| "What does the body of evidence on X establish, by what designs?" | systematic review (PRISMA, narrative/qualitative synthesis) | the documented, reliable map of evidence |
| "How should we think about X — what framework reorganizes the field?" | critical / conceptual / integrative synthesis | the organizing framework itself |
Most strong RER pieces are explicit about type and hold to its standards; mixing a hand-picked narrative with a "meta-analysis" label invites rejection.
Because RER is the field's review-of-record, an editor's first instinct is "has this been reviewed already?" A topic survives only if you can name the nearest recent review (in RER or elsewhere) and say precisely how yours differs. Strong differentiators:
If you cannot articulate the differentiator in one sentence, the topic is not yet an RER review — it is a literature you have read, not a synthesis the field needs.
【Topic】<one-sentence review question>
【Importance】<why it matters to education broadly>
【Maturity】<size/shape of the primary literature; enough to integrate? Y/N>
【Why now】<growth / method shift / conflict / policy / missing frame>
【Scope】<population × constructs × designs × dates × settings — searchable to saturation? Y/N>
【Review type】meta-analysis | systematic review | critical-integrative synthesis
【Distinct from prior reviews】<the nearest recent review and how this differs>
【Next step】→ revedres-proposal-and-commissioning (write/preregister the protocol)© 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 Review-of-Educational-Research-Skills/skills/revedres-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
Revedres 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revedres Topic Selection this skillbrycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills | 1.2k | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Synthesisyologdev/yoyo-evolve | 1.9k | — | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| TopicsZimoLiao/scholaraio | 577 | — | ~294 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Topic Modelingbrycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills | 4.6k | — | ~3.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Five Questionsbrycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills | 4.6k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Notes | Custom licence | |
| Bestblogs Topicginobefun/BestBlogs | 4.1k | — | ~670 | Automated safety check: Pass | None |
yologdev/yoyo-evolve
Multi-source research synthesis — aggregate and compare 3+ sources or any source 5KB using sub-agent dispatch and SharedState
ZimoLiao/scholaraio
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ginobefun/BestBlogs
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brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills
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A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a question is synthesis-worthy and RER-scale before committing to a Review of Educational Research (RER) review or meta-analysis. Revedres Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a question is synthesis-worthy and RER-scale before committing to a Review of Educational Research (RER) review or meta-analysis.
Revedres Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a question is synthesis-worthy and RER-scale before committing to a Review of Educational Research (RER) review.
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill revedres-topic-selection -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Review-of-Educational-Research-Skills/skills/revedres-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/revedres-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 revedres-topic-selection -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Review-of-Educational-Research-Skills/skills/revedres-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/revedres-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 revedres-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/revedres-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/revedres-topic-selection, .github/skills/revedres-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/revedres-topic-selection in your project.
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Revedres 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.
Revedres 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 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6k 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 Revedres Topic Selection: Synthesis (yologdev/yoyo-evolve, 1.9k stars), Topics (ZimoLiao/scholaraio, 577 stars), Topic Modeling (brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, 4.6k stars) and Five Questions (brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, 4.6k 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 1,231 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.