Agent skill

Asr Topic Selection

by franklee16 in franklee16/academic-research-skills

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a sociology project fits the American Sociological Review (ASR) and whether to write a full Article or a Comment/Reply.

No licenceAuto-check passedAI & LLM Engineering

Install Asr Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills asr-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-Sociological-Review-Skills/skills/asr-topic-selection .claude/skills/asr-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
asr-topic-selection
GitHub stars
223
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~867 tokens
SKILL.md length
348 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,616
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a sociology project fits the American Sociological Review (ASR) and whether to write a full Article or a Comment/Reply.

  • Works in 4 steps: Broad significance. A sociologist in… → A theoretical payoff that travels. It… → Credible on its own methodological… → …
  • Deciding whether a sociology project fits the American Sociological Review (ASR) and whether to write a full Article
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The ASR fit test, Subfield framing (write past… and Article vs. Comment/Reply, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Asr Topic Selection is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when deciding whether a sociology project fits the American Sociological Review (ASR) and whether to write a full Article or a Comment/Reply. ASR is sociology's general flagship, so the test is broad significance and theoretical payoff across subfields, not novelty within one. Frames the question; it does not collect data.

Its SKILL.md is about 870 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 AI & LLM Engineering, covering Speech recognition and synthesis. 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 sociology project fits the American Sociological Review (ASR) and whether to write a full Article
  • A Comment/Reply

Example prompts

  • “/asr-topic-selection”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Broad significance. A sociologist in another subfield should see why it matters — for
  2. A theoretical payoff that travels. It changes how the field explains something, not just what
  3. Credible on its own methodological terms. Quantitative, demographic, comparative-historical,
  4. Answerable within scope. Sharp enough to convince within ~15,000 words (an Article includes

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

Asr Topic Selection loads about 867 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 87 tokens; SKILL.md has 348 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~87
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~867

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 348 words (~867 tokens).

“ASR is the discipline's general journal. The bar is not "new to my subfield" — it is "advances how sociology understands something important." Use this skill to pressure-test fit before investing.”

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

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/American-Sociological-Review-Skills/skills/asr-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 Asr Topic Selection

What does Asr Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a sociology project fits the American Sociological Review (ASR) and whether to write a full Article or a Comment/Reply. Asr Topic Selection is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when deciding whether a sociology project fits the American Sociological Review (ASR) and whether to write a full Article or a Comment/Reply.

When should I use Asr Topic Selection?

Asr Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a sociology project fits the American Sociological Review (ASR) and whether to write a full Article; A Comment/Reply.

How do I install Asr Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Asr Topic Selection in Codex?

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

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

What does Asr Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Asr 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 Asr 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 Asr Topic Selection use?

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

How many tokens does Asr Topic Selection use?

About 867 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.5k 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 Asr Topic Selection?

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Who maintains Asr 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.