Agent skill

Amj Topic Selection

by franklee16 in franklee16/academic-research-skills

A skill your agent uses when scoping or sanity-checking a research question for an Academy of Management Journal (AMJ) manuscript — fit, theory-drivenness, and feasibility.

No licenceAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Amj Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills amj-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/Academy-of-Management-Journal-Skills/skills/amj-topic-selection .claude/skills/amj-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
amj-topic-selection
GitHub stars
223
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
574 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,616
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when scoping or sanity-checking a research question for an Academy of Management Journal (AMJ) manuscript — fit, theory-drivenness, and feasibility.

  • Works in 4 steps: Phenomenon-grounded but theory-driven.… → A theoretical mechanism, not just an… → Original data and a defensible design… → …
  • Sanity-checking a research question for an Academy of Management Journal (AMJ) manuscript — fit
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, AMJ fit test (all four must…, Choosing the divisional home and From phenomenon to question, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Amj Topic Selection is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when scoping or sanity-checking a research question for an Academy of Management Journal (AMJ) manuscript — fit, theory-drivenness, and feasibility. Decides whether the idea can earn a theoretical contribution; it does not build the theory itself (use amj-theory-development) or position the literature (amj-literature-positioning).

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k 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 Hypothesis generation. 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

  • Sanity-checking a research question for an Academy of Management Journal (AMJ) manuscript — fit
  • Theory-drivenness

Example prompts

  • “/amj-topic-selection”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Phenomenon-grounded but theory-driven. AMJ wants real organizational phenomena (micro OB, macro/strategy, HR, entrepreneurship…
  2. A theoretical mechanism, not just an empirical association. Ask: why would A affect B, and when? If you can only say "they are…
  3. Original data and a defensible design are feasible. AMJ is empirical and welcomes all empirical methods — qualitative, quantitative…
  4. Surprise or tension. The strongest AMJ questions sit on a tension between theories, a counterintuitive boundary condition, or an…

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

Amj Topic Selection loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 89 tokens; SKILL.md has 574 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~89
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

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 574 words (~1,283 tokens).

“AMJ's mission is "to publish empirical research that tests, extends, or builds management theory and contributes to management practice," and it judges every paper on three criteria: a strong empirical contribution, a meaningful theoretical contribution, and practical relevance. The fit…”

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

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Academy-of-Management-Journal-Skills/skills/amj-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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Questions about Amj Topic Selection

What does Amj Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when scoping or sanity-checking a research question for an Academy of Management Journal (AMJ) manuscript — fit, theory-drivenness, and feasibility. Amj Topic Selection is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when scoping or sanity-checking a research question for an Academy of Management Journal (AMJ) manuscript — fit, theory-drivenness, and feasibility.

When should I use Amj Topic Selection?

Amj Topic Selection fits situations like: sanity-checking a research question for an Academy of Management Journal (AMJ) manuscript — fit; theory-drivenness.

How do I install Amj Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Amj Topic Selection in Codex?

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

Can I use Amj 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 amj-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/amj-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/amj-topic-selection, .github/skills/amj-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/amj-topic-selection in your project.

What does Amj Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Amj 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 Amj 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 Amj Topic Selection use?

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

How many tokens does Amj Topic Selection use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.1k 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 Amj Topic Selection?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Amj Topic Selection: Jms Topic Selection (brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, 1.2k stars), Respol Topic Selection (brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, 1.2k stars), Hypothesis Generation (spacering-net/codeg, 3.8k stars) and Nature Paper Card (Yuan1z0825/nature-skills, 46k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Amj Topic Selection?

franklee16 (a GitHub user) maintains it in franklee16/academic-research-skills, which has 223 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,616 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.