This skill covers academic journal submission, referee responses, and revision management.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Submission Guide

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill submission-guide -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills submission-guide --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/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/11-James-Traina-compound-science/skills/submission-guide .claude/skills/submission-guide && 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
submission-guide
GitHub stars
4.6k
Token cost
~3.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,724 words
Files
4 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
383
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

This skill covers academic journal submission, referee responses, and revision management.

  • Works in 4 steps: Create a flat submission folder with:… → Adjust preamble: remove… → Remove or inline any custom .sty files → …
  • The user is preparing a manuscript for submission
  • SKILL.md covers When to Use This Skill, Pre-Submission Checklist, Journal-Specific Formatting and Referee Response Strategy, plus 4 more sections
  • Calls git

What it does

Submission Guide is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. This skill covers academic journal submission, referee responses, and revision management. Use when the user is preparing a manuscript for submission, formatting for a specific journal, responding to referees, or managing revisions. Triggers on "submit", "referee", "revision", "R&R", "response letter", "journal", "formatting", "submission", "resubmit", "cover letter", "referee report", "revise and resubmit".

Its SKILL.md is about 3.6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 4 other files, including reference files (for example `references/journal-profiles.md`, `references/referee-response-templates.md` and `references/referee-tactics.md`).

It sits in Business, Finance & HR, covering Scientific writing, Resume and CV writing and Econometrics and empirical research. The repository describes itself as: 🔬 A curated collection of 23,000+ agent skills for empirical research across 8 social science disciplines. | 精选 23,000+ AI Agent 技能库,覆盖8大社会科学学科的实证研究。CoPaper.AI…

When your agent uses it

  • The user is preparing a manuscript for submission
  • Formatting for a specific journal
  • Responding to referees
  • Managing revisions

Example prompts

  • “submit”
  • “referee”
  • “revision”
  • “/submission-guide”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Create a flat submission folder with: paper.tex, paper.bbl (compiled bibliography), all figures as PDF
  2. Adjust preamble: remove \usepackage{hyperref} if it causes issues, ensure \graphicspath is relative
  3. Remove or inline any custom .sty files
  4. Zip and upload to arxiv.org; select econ category (econ.EM for econometrics, econ.GN for general)

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9fa87d8. 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

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • git

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • aeaweb.org

    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

Submission Guide loads about 3.6k tokens when it runs, and up to ~10k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 107 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,724 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~107
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~3.6k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~10k

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

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,724 words (~3,590 tokens).

“Reference for the full journal submission lifecycle: pre-submission preparation, journal-specific formatting, referee response strategy, and revision management. Covers conventions for top journals in economics, finance, political science, sociology, marketing, and statistics.”

— opening of SKILL.md by brycewang-stanford, Custom licence
name
submission-guide
argument-hint
<journal name or submission task>

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 3 other files (references) in skills/11-James-Traina-compound-science/skills/submission-guide of brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/journal-profiles.md
  • references/referee-response-templates.md
  • references/referee-tactics.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9fa87d8

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Questions about Submission Guide

What does Submission Guide do?

This skill covers academic journal submission, referee responses, and revision management. Submission Guide is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. This skill covers academic journal submission, referee responses, and revision management.

When should I use Submission Guide?

Submission Guide fits situations like: the user is preparing a manuscript for submission; formatting for a specific journal; responding to referees; managing revisions.

How do I install Submission Guide in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill submission-guide -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/11-James-Traina-compound-science/skills/submission-guide in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .claude/skills/submission-guide in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Submission Guide in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill submission-guide -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/11-James-Traina-compound-science/skills/submission-guide in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .agents/skills/submission-guide in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Submission Guide 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/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill submission-guide -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/submission-guide, .gemini/skills/submission-guide, .github/skills/submission-guide and .opencode/skills/submission-guide in your project.

What does Submission Guide need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Submission Guide needs the command-line tools its instructions call (git).

Does Submission Guide access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: aeaweb.org. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Submission Guide 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 Submission Guide use?

Submission Guide has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Submission Guide use?

About 3.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 14k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 6.7k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Submission Guide?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Submission Guide: Medical Cv Resume Builder (aipoch/medical-research-skills, 1.9k stars), Scholar Journal (joshzyj/open-scholar-skill, 168 stars), Mksc Submission (franklee16/academic-research-skills, 223 stars) and Ectj Submission (franklee16/academic-research-skills, 223 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Submission Guide?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, which has 4,556 GitHub stars. The repository holds 383 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.