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Agent skill
by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills
A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a development question fits World Development (WD) and which sibling journal it really belongs to.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill worlddev-topic-selection -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills worlddev-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/World-Development-Skills/skills/worlddev-topic-selection .claude/skills/worlddev-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 "worlddev-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/World-Development-Skills/skills/worlddev-topic-selection into .claude/skills/worlddev-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "worlddev-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/World-Development-Skills/skills/worlddev-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 worlddev-topic-selection -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills worlddev-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/World-Development-Skills/skills/worlddev-topic-selection .agents/skills/worlddev-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 "worlddev-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/World-Development-Skills/skills/worlddev-topic-selection into .agents/skills/worlddev-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "worlddev-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 worlddev-topic-selection -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills worlddev-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/World-Development-Skills/skills/worlddev-topic-selection .cursor/skills/worlddev-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 "worlddev-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/World-Development-Skills/skills/worlddev-topic-selection into .cursor/skills/worlddev-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "worlddev-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 World-Development-Skills/skills/worlddev-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 worlddev-topic-selection -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills worlddev-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/World-Development-Skills/skills/worlddev-topic-selection .gemini/skills/worlddev-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 "worlddev-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/World-Development-Skills/skills/worlddev-topic-selection into .gemini/skills/worlddev-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "worlddev-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 worlddev-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 worlddev-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/World-Development-Skills/skills/worlddev-topic-selection .github/skills/worlddev-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 "worlddev-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/World-Development-Skills/skills/worlddev-topic-selection into .github/skills/worlddev-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "worlddev-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 worlddev-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 worlddev-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/World-Development-Skills/skills/worlddev-topic-selection .opencode/skills/worlddev-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 "worlddev-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/World-Development-Skills/skills/worlddev-topic-selection into .opencode/skills/worlddev-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "worlddev-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.
worlddev-topic-selectionA skill your agent uses when deciding whether a development question fits World Development (WD) and which sibling journal it really belongs to.
Worlddev Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a development question fits World Development (WD) and which sibling journal it really belongs to. Tests scope, relevance, and outlet fit; it does not invent evidence or citations.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k 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.
3 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.
Worlddev Topic Selection loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 58 tokens; SKILL.md has 815 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). 815 words, ~1,595 tokens.
.claude/skills/worlddev-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).WD is a multidisciplinary journal. The desk-screen question is not "is the identification clean?" but "does this advance how we understand or improve development in low- and middle-income contexts, and will a multidisciplinary readership care?" Three things must be present, in roughly this order:
| If the paper is best described as… | Lean toward |
|---|---|
| Frontier development econometrics; the contribution IS the identification/method | Journal of Development Economics |
| Economics-centric, often Bank-data or Bank-policy framed, technical economics audience | World Bank Economic Review |
| Interdisciplinary but more political-science / sociological / area-studies framing | Journal of Development Studies |
| Long-run growth, culture, demography, economic history of development | Economic Development and Cultural Change |
| Broad development relevance, methodologically pluralist, equity- and institution-aware, policy-facing | World Development ✓ |
The WD-defining move: a paper that a development economist and a development sociologist would both want to read, because the problem and its implications outrun any single method. If only one specialist audience cares, reconsider the venue.
"A cash-transfer RCT in one district raises school enrollment by 6pp." On its own this is a clean estimate that JDE would judge on design. To become a WD paper it must answer "so what for development?": does the effect persist, who is left out, what does it cost relative to alternatives, and what does it reveal about the institutions delivering it? The WD version foregrounds the mechanism and the implementation context — the RCT becomes evidence in a broader argument about how transfers interact with local institutions, which is what makes it travel.
Run these in order; a "no" sends you back to reframing, not forward.
resources/official-source-map.md or marked 待核实【Journal】World Development (WD)
【Skill】worlddev-topic-selection
【Verdict】fit / reroute / sharpen
【Development stake】the problem in the world, one sentence
【Audience】who across disciplines cares, and why it travels
【Sibling boundary】why WD not JDE / WBER / JDS / EDCC
【Source status】verified URL / 待核实 / not asserted
【Next skill】worlddev-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
Just SKILL.md in World-Development-Skills/skills/worlddev-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
Worlddev 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Worlddev Topic Selection this skillbrycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills | 1.2k | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Content Research Writerweapp-tailwindcss/weapp-tailwindcss | 1.9k | 25 repos | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| NetworkxzLanqing/codex-claude-academic-skills | 4.6k | 16 repos | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | BSD-3-Clause | |
| Citation Verification GuideGalaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar | 5.7k | 3 repos | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Systematic Review ScreenerImbad0202/academic-research-skills | 51k | — | ~8.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Literature Reviewneflibata-feng/MyArxiv-Agent | 126 | 21 repos | ~5.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT |
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A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a development question fits World Development (WD) and which sibling journal it really belongs to. Worlddev Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a development question fits World Development (WD) and which sibling journal it really belongs to.
Worlddev Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a development question fits World Development (WD) and which sibling journal it really belongs to; tasks that involve Citation management.
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill worlddev-topic-selection -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (World-Development-Skills/skills/worlddev-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/worlddev-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 worlddev-topic-selection -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (World-Development-Skills/skills/worlddev-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/worlddev-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 worlddev-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/worlddev-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/worlddev-topic-selection, .github/skills/worlddev-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/worlddev-topic-selection in your project.
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Worlddev 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.
Worlddev 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 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.4k 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 1,216 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.