A skill your agent uses when deciding which wber- sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing manuscript work from topic selection through rebuttal for a The World Bank Economic Review (WBER)…

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Install Wber Workflow

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills wber-workflow --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/World-Bank-Economic-Review-Skills/skills/wber-workflow .claude/skills/wber-workflow && 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
wber-workflow
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
735 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when deciding which wber- sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing manuscript work from topic selection through rebuttal for a The World Bank Economic Review (WBER)…

  • Works in 11 steps: wber-topic-selection — lock a… → wber-literature-positioning — stake the… → wber-identification — make the causal… → …
  • Deciding which wber- sub-skill to invoke next
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, When to trigger, Routing table and Default order, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Wber Workflow is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding which wber- sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing manuscript work from topic selection through rebuttal for a The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) submission. Routes — it does not replace — the specialized skills.

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 Research & Science. 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 which wber- sub-skill to invoke next
  • Sequencing manuscript work from topic selection through rebuttal for a The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) submission

Example prompts

  • “/wber-workflow”

Workflow steps

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

  1. wber-topic-selection — lock a development question with policy stakes
  2. wber-literature-positioning — stake the contribution; rule out sibling venues
  3. wber-identification — make the causal design credible
  4. wber-theory-model — only if interpretation or counterfactual needs a model
  5. wber-robustness — threat-by-threat, not an appendix dump
  6. wber-tables-figures — exhibits a policymaker can read; no asterisks
  7. wber-writing-style — make the policy contribution land (abstract + intro last)
  8. wber-replication-package — assemble the data + code deposit with a DOI
  9. wber-referee-strategy — pre-empt the predictable objections
  10. wber-submission — ScholarOne preflight (40-page cap, single-anon title page)
  11. wber-rebuttal — after the R&R

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

Wber Workflow loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 64 tokens; SKILL.md has 735 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~64
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). 735 words, ~1,738 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/wber-workflow/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
wber-workflow
description
Use when deciding which wber-* sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing manuscript work from topic selection through rebuttal for a The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) submission. Routes — it does not replace — the specialized skills.

WBER Workflow Router (wber-workflow)

Overview

This is the router. It tells you which wber- skill to use at the current stage* of a manuscript aimed at The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) — the rigorous empirical development-economics journal published by Oxford University Press for the World Bank (founded 1986, quarterly). WBER prizes two things at once: credible identification AND clear development-policy relevance for a World Bank / policymaker audience. A paper that nails one and ignores the other is the classic WBER misfire.

Default assumption: unless the user says otherwise, treat the target as WBER. Operational tells that you are at WBER and not a sibling: the journal requires public release of all data and code as a condition of publication (it is, by repute, the only development field journal that does this routinely); review is single-anonymized (referees blind, author names on the title page); there is a 40-page total cap including everything; and WBER welcomes short-format policy-relevant papers alongside full articles. Editors as of 2026: Eric Edmonds and Nina Pavcnik (Dartmouth) (检索于 2026-06;以官网为准). Re-verify volatile specifics on the OUP WBER pages.

When to trigger

  • The user asks "what should I do next?" on a development-economics manuscript
  • A draft's binding constraint (fit, identification, policy framing, exhibits, package) is unclear
  • Work is ping-ponging between design, framing, evidence, and the response letter
  • A WBER decision letter arrived and the user needs to switch into revision mode

Routing table

Current symptomNext skill
Question is interesting but not clearly development + policy-relevantwber-topic-selection
Contribution vs. JDE / World Development / the Research Observer is fuzzywber-literature-positioning
Causal design (RCT/DiD/RD/IV) credibility is the bottleneckwber-identification
A development model is needed to interpret or to run a counterfactualwber-theory-model
Results may be specification-, sample-, or inference-sensitivewber-robustness
Exhibits are dense; significance asterisks still presentwber-tables-figures
Prose buries the policy "so what"; intro/abstract do not landwber-writing-style
Data + code deposit, README, DOI link, restricted-data pathwber-replication-package
Want to anticipate referee objections before submittingwber-referee-strategy
Ready to submit via ScholarOne; need a preflightwber-submission
Received an R&R; need a response-letter strategywber-rebuttal

Default order

  1. wber-topic-selection — lock a development question with policy stakes
  2. wber-literature-positioning — stake the contribution; rule out sibling venues
  3. wber-identification — make the causal design credible
  4. wber-theory-model — only if interpretation or counterfactual needs a model
  5. wber-robustness — threat-by-threat, not an appendix dump
  6. wber-tables-figures — exhibits a policymaker can read; no asterisks
  7. wber-writing-style — make the policy contribution land (abstract + intro last)
  8. wber-replication-package — assemble the data + code deposit with a DOI
  9. wber-referee-strategy — pre-empt the predictable objections
  10. wber-submission — ScholarOne preflight (40-page cap, single-anon title page)
  11. wber-rebuttal — after the R&R

wber-writing-style is a late polish; do not rewrite the intro before identification and the policy frame settle. wber-theory-model is conditional — a clean reduced-form evaluation often needs no formal model.

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Anti-patterns

  • Treating WBER as interchangeable with the Journal of Development Economics (the rigorous-dev-econ field journal — equally demanding on method but less insistent on a World Bank policy hook)
  • Treating WBER as World Development (interdisciplinary, broader on qualitative/mixed methods)
  • Routing a survey or literature overview to WBER — that belongs at the World Bank Research Observer (not refereed; Editorial-Board reviewed)
  • Polishing prose before design, contribution, and the evidence hierarchy are stable
  • Letting the appendix carry claims the main 40 pages must establish

Routing by paper archetype

WBER spans several development archetypes, and the binding constraint differs. Read the archetype, then enter the chain at the right link.

ArchetypeLikely first bottleneckEnter at
program/impact evaluation (RCT or quasi-experiment)estimand + external validity / scalingwber-identification
policy-reform DiD / RD around a developing-country reformstaggered-DiD bias or RD manipulationwber-identification
measurement / poverty / inequality using LSMS/DHS/admin datadata construction transparency + reproducibilitywber-replication-package → wber-robustness
development model + structural counterfactualwhat identifies parameters; policy-invariancewber-theory-model → wber-identification
short-format policy notesharp single result + tight framingwber-topic-selection → wber-writing-style

Worked routing example (illustrative)

A user says: "My RCT of a school-grants program in three districts estimates a clean ITT, but a referee says it reads like a project report and isn't general enough for WBER." That is two distinct WBER pushbacks — policy/general-interest framing (owned by wber-topic-selection + wber-literature-positioning) and external validity / scaling (owned by wber-identification). Route to positioning first to reframe the evaluation as evidence on a mechanism of interest to development policy, then to wber-identification to argue what the three-district LATE implies for scale-up (general-equilibrium, fiscal cost). Only once the framing and external-validity story hold do you return to exhibits and the rebuttal.

Minimal decision snippet

if decision_letter_arrived:          -> wber-rebuttal
elif ready_to_submit:                -> wber-submission
elif anticipating_referees:          -> wber-referee-strategy
elif data_code_deposit:              -> wber-replication-package
elif exhibits_or_significance:       -> wber-tables-figures
elif results_fragile:                -> wber-robustness
elif need_model_for_counterfactual:  -> wber-theory-model
elif identification_shaky:           -> wber-identification
elif contribution_or_fit_fuzzy:      -> wber-literature-positioning / wber-topic-selection
else:                                -> wber-topic-selection

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Files

Just SKILL.md in World-Bank-Economic-Review-Skills/skills/wber-workflow of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Wber Workflow

What does Wber Workflow do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding which wber- sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing manuscript work from topic selection through rebuttal for a The World Bank Economic Review (WBER)…. Wber Workflow is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding which wber- sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing manuscript work from topic selection through rebuttal for a The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) submission.

When should I use Wber Workflow?

Wber Workflow fits situations like: deciding which wber- sub-skill to invoke next; sequencing manuscript work from topic selection through rebuttal for a The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) submission.

How do I install Wber Workflow in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill wber-workflow -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (World-Bank-Economic-Review-Skills/skills/wber-workflow in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/wber-workflow in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Wber Workflow in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill wber-workflow -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (World-Bank-Economic-Review-Skills/skills/wber-workflow in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/wber-workflow in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

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

What does Wber Workflow need to run?

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

Does Wber Workflow 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 Wber Workflow 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 Wber Workflow use?

Wber Workflow 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 Wber Workflow use?

About 1.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7k 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 Wber Workflow?

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.