Agent skill

Amr Topic Selection

by franklee16 in franklee16/academic-research-skills

A skill your agent uses when the theoretical puzzle is the bottleneck for an Academy of Management Review (AMR) manuscript — deciding whether an idea is theory-worthy and AMR-fit before any…

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Install Amr Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills amr-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-Review-Skills/skills/amr-topic-selection .claude/skills/amr-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
amr-topic-selection
GitHub stars
223
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
669 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,617
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when the theoretical puzzle is the bottleneck for an Academy of Management Review (AMR) manuscript — deciding whether an idea is theory-worthy and AMR-fit before any…

  • Works in 6 steps: Is it conceptual? AMR publishes no data.… → Is there a genuine puzzle / tension /… → Whose theory is at stake? Name the… → …
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The AMR fit test, Sources of a strong AMR puzzle and From phenomenon to puzzle…, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Amr Topic Selection is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when the theoretical puzzle is the bottleneck for an Academy of Management Review (AMR) manuscript — deciding whether an idea is theory-worthy and AMR-fit before any theorizing begins. Frames the puzzle; it does NOT build constructs (that is amr-theory-development) or design any empirical study (AMR has none).

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.

The repository describes itself as: Comprehensive collection of Claude Code skills for academic research in economics, finance, and social sciences.

Example prompts

  • “/amr-topic-selection”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Is it conceptual? AMR publishes no data. If the natural next step is "collect a sample," stop — that is AMJ/ASQ/SMJ. AMR builds the theory…
  2. Is there a genuine puzzle / tension / contradiction? A gap ("no one has studied Z") is NOT a puzzle. A puzzle is a place where current…
  3. Whose theory is at stake? Name the existing theory you will challenge and extend. If you cannot, route to amr-literature-positioning.
  4. Will it change how scholars think? AMR asks for theory that reorients a conversation, not an incremental relabeling.
  5. Does it yield testable knowledge-based claims? AMR's scope requires submissions to "extend theory in ways that develop testable…
  6. Is the scope a journal article, not a book? One focused theoretical move, fully developed.

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

Amr Topic Selection loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 84 tokens; SKILL.md has 669 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~84
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 669 words (~1,303 tokens).

“AMR wants a theoretical puzzle, not a topic. A topic is "leadership and remote work." A puzzle is "existing leadership theory predicts X, yet under condition C we should see not-X — and no current theory resolves the contradiction." Run…”

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

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Academy-of-Management-Review-Skills/skills/amr-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 Amr Topic Selection

What does Amr Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when the theoretical puzzle is the bottleneck for an Academy of Management Review (AMR) manuscript — deciding whether an idea is theory-worthy and AMR-fit before any…. Amr Topic Selection is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when the theoretical puzzle is the bottleneck for an Academy of Management Review (AMR) manuscript — deciding whether an idea is theory-worthy and AMR-fit before any theorizing begins.

How do I install Amr Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Amr Topic Selection in Codex?

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

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

What does Amr Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Amr 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 Amr 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 Amr Topic Selection use?

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

How many tokens does Amr Topic Selection use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.2k 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 Amr 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.