Agent skill

Ajps Topic Selection

by franklee16 in franklee16/academic-research-skills

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a political-science project fits the American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) and which submission type (Article, Research Note, Correspondence) to…

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Install Ajps Topic Selection

skills CLI
$ npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill ajps-topic-selection -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills ajps-topic-selection --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/franklee16/academic-research-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/American-Journal-of-Political-Science-Skills/skills/ajps-topic-selection .claude/skills/ajps-topic-selection && 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
ajps-topic-selection
GitHub stars
223
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~930 tokens
SKILL.md length
379 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,617
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a political-science project fits the American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) and which submission type (Article, Research Note, Correspondence) to…

  • Works in 4 steps: A sharp question with a generalizable… → Credible identification or inference.… → A real contribution, not a finding. It… → …
  • Deciding whether a political-science project fits the American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) and which submission type (Article
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The AJPS fit test, Choosing the submission type and Anti-patterns, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Ajps Topic Selection is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when deciding whether a political-science project fits the American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) and which submission type (Article, Research Note, Correspondence) to target. AJPS is a generalist but quantitatively leaning venue that rewards a sharp, well-identified question with a generalizable payoff. Helps frame the question and pick the type; it does not collect data.

Its SKILL.md is about 930 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: Comprehensive collection of Claude Code skills for academic research in economics, finance, and social sciences.

When your agent uses it

  • Deciding whether a political-science project fits the American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) and which submission type (Article
  • Correspondence) to target

Example prompts

  • “/ajps-topic-selection”

Workflow steps

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

  1. A sharp question with a generalizable answer. Not "what happened in case X" but "what does X
  2. Credible identification or inference. AJPS reviewers expect the design to support the causal or
  3. A real contribution, not a finding. It moves a theory, a measure, or a method forward, or
  4. Answerable within the cap. Sharp enough to settle convincingly in <= 10,000 words (Article) or

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9a4b2db. 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

Ajps Topic Selection loads about 930 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 102 tokens; SKILL.md has 379 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~102
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~930

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

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 379 words (~930 tokens).

“AJPS publishes across the discipline but most of its pages carry rigorous empirical, experimental, computational, or formal-empirical work. The test is not "novel to my subfield" alone — it is a clear, well-identified contribution that a broad political-science audience will…”

— opening of SKILL.md by franklee16
name
ajps-topic-selection

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/American-Journal-of-Political-Science-Skills/skills/ajps-topic-selection of franklee16/academic-research-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9a4b2db

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in franklee16/academic-research-skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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TopicsZimoLiao/scholaraio577—~294Automated safety check: PassMIT
Topic Modelingbrycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.5k—~3.7kAutomated safety check: PassCustom licence
Ajps Submissionbrycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills1.2k—~1.7kAutomated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Ajps Topic Selection

What does Ajps Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a political-science project fits the American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) and which submission type (Article, Research Note, Correspondence) to…. Ajps Topic Selection is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when deciding whether a political-science project fits the American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) and which submission type (Article, Research Note, Correspondence) to target.

When should I use Ajps Topic Selection?

Ajps Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a political-science project fits the American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) and which submission type (Article; correspondence) to target.

How do I install Ajps Topic Selection in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill ajps-topic-selection -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/American-Journal-of-Political-Science-Skills/skills/ajps-topic-selection in franklee16/academic-research-skills) into .claude/skills/ajps-topic-selection in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Ajps Topic Selection in Codex?

Run `npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill ajps-topic-selection -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/American-Journal-of-Political-Science-Skills/skills/ajps-topic-selection in franklee16/academic-research-skills) into .agents/skills/ajps-topic-selection in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Ajps Topic Selection 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 franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill ajps-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/ajps-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/ajps-topic-selection, .github/skills/ajps-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/ajps-topic-selection in your project.

What does Ajps Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Ajps Topic Selection 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 Ajps Topic Selection 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 Ajps Topic Selection use?

No licence was found for Ajps Topic Selection or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Ajps Topic Selection use?

About 930 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Ajps Topic Selection?

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Who maintains Ajps Topic Selection?

franklee16 (a GitHub user) maintains it in franklee16/academic-research-skills, which has 223 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,617 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 18, 2026.

Source: franklee16/academic-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.