Agent skill

Ceq Topic Selection

by franklee16 in franklee16/academic-research-skills

A skill your agent uses when shaping or sharpening a 《经济学(季刊)》 (China Economic Quarterly, CEQ) research question — turning data/correlation into a clean causal, model-able, internationally-legible…

No licenceAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Ceq Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills ceq-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/China-Economic-Quarterly-Skills/skills/ceq-topic-selection .claude/skills/ceq-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
ceq-topic-selection
GitHub stars
223
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~338 tokens
SKILL.md length
69 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,617
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when shaping or sharpening a 《经济学(季刊)》 (China Economic Quarterly, CEQ) research question — turning data/correlation into a clean causal, model-able, internationally-legible…

  • Works in 3 steps: 干净因果:存在可信的处理/外生变异(政策冲击、断点、自然实验、强工具)。 → 可建模:问题能写成一个机制清晰的(结构或简约)模型,含可检验命题。 → 国际可对话:问题表述去本土包装后,field 同行仍能识别其一般性贡献。
  • Sharpening a 《经济学(季刊)》 (China Economic Quarterly
  • SKILL.md covers 触发时机, CEQ 选题的三个硬条件, 从弱选题到强选题(对照) and 选题前置三问, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Ceq Topic Selection is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when shaping or sharpening a 《经济学(季刊)》 (China Economic Quarterly, CEQ) research question — turning data/correlation into a clean causal, model-able, internationally-legible topic that a field economist can recognize as a contribution. Use before literature review and identification.

Its SKILL.md is about 340 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 Literature review and 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

  • Sharpening a 《经济学(季刊)》 (China Economic Quarterly
  • CEQ) research question — turning data/correlation into a clean causal
  • Internationally-legible topic that a field economist can recognize as a contribution

Example prompts

  • “/ceq-topic-selection”

Workflow steps

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

  1. 干净因果:存在可信的处理/外生变异(政策冲击、断点、自然实验、强工具)。
  2. 可建模:问题能写成一个机制清晰的(结构或简约)模型,含可检验命题。
  3. 国际可对话:问题表述去本土包装后,field 同行仍能识别其一般性贡献。

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

Ceq Topic Selection loads about 338 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 77 tokens; SKILL.md has 69 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~77
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~338

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 69 words (~338 tokens).

name
ceq-topic-selection

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/China-Economic-Quarterly-Skills/skills/ceq-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 Ceq Topic Selection

What does Ceq Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when shaping or sharpening a 《经济学(季刊)》 (China Economic Quarterly, CEQ) research question — turning data/correlation into a clean causal, model-able, internationally-legible…. Ceq Topic Selection is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when shaping or sharpening a 《经济学(季刊)》 (China Economic Quarterly, CEQ) research question — turning data/correlation into a clean causal, model-able, internationally-legible topic that a field economist can recognize as a contribution.

When should I use Ceq Topic Selection?

Ceq Topic Selection fits situations like: sharpening a 《经济学(季刊)》 (China Economic Quarterly; CEQ) research question — turning data/correlation into a clean causal; internationally-legible topic that a field economist can recognize as a contribution.

How do I install Ceq Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Ceq Topic Selection in Codex?

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

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

What does Ceq Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Ceq 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 Ceq 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 Ceq Topic Selection use?

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

How many tokens does Ceq Topic Selection use?

About 338 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.4k 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 Ceq Topic Selection?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Ceq Topic Selection: Nature Paper Card (Yuan1z0825/nature-skills, 47k stars), Research Survey (EvoScientist/EvoSkills, 478 stars), Research Proposal (luwill/research-skills, 860 stars) and Paper Navigator (EvoScientist/EvoSkills, 478 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Ceq 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.