Agent skill

Cie Topic Selection

by franklee16 in franklee16/academic-research-skills

A skill your agent uses to sharpen a topic for 《中国工业经济》 (China Industrial Economics) — anchoring on a clean China-policy quasi-experiment, firm behavior, industrial organization, or the digital…

No licenceAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Cie Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills cie-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-Industrial-Economics-Skills/skills/cie-topic-selection .claude/skills/cie-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
cie-topic-selection
GitHub stars
223
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~403 tokens
SKILL.md length
79 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,617
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

A skill your agent uses to sharpen a topic for 《中国工业经济》 (China Industrial Economics) — anchoring on a clean China-policy quasi-experiment, firm behavior, industrial organization, or the digital…

  • Works in 4 steps: 政策评估类准实验:某产业 / 区域 /… → 企业行为与绩效:创新研发、出口、全要素生产率、数字化转型、ESG、僵尸企业、要素错配 → 产业组织与竞争:市场结构、进入退出、加成率、竞争政策、平台治理 → …
  • Sharpen a topic for 《中国工业经济》 (China Industrial Economics) — anchoring on a clean China-policy quasi-experiment
  • SKILL.md covers 触发时机, 本刊选题偏好(强 → 弱), 立选题三件套(缺一不可) and 边际贡献写法(黑名单 → 白名单), plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Cie Topic Selection is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use to sharpen a topic for 《中国工业经济》 (China Industrial Economics) — anchoring on a clean China-policy quasi-experiment, firm behavior, industrial organization, or the digital economy, backed by stylized facts and 3–5 marginal contributions. Use before drafting, when the research question or contribution is fuzzy.

Its SKILL.md is about 400 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

  • Sharpen a topic for 《中国工业经济》 (China Industrial Economics) — anchoring on a clean China-policy quasi-experiment
  • Industrial organization
  • The digital economy
  • Backed by stylized facts and 3–5 marginal contributions

Example prompts

  • “/cie-topic-selection”

Workflow steps

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

  1. 政策评估类准实验:某产业 / 区域 / 环境政策对企业或地区结果的因果效应(试点、补贴、督察、宽带中国、低碳城市、自创区、数据要素、智能制造试点……)
  2. 企业行为与绩效:创新研发、出口、全要素生产率、数字化转型、ESG、僵尸企业、要素错配
  3. 产业组织与竞争:市场结构、进入退出、加成率、竞争政策、平台治理
  4. 数字经济与新动能:平台、数据要素、人工智能、工业互联网对生产率/就业的影响

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

Cie Topic Selection loads about 403 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 83 tokens; SKILL.md has 79 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~83
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~403

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 79 words (~403 tokens).

name
cie-topic-selection

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/China-Industrial-Economics-Skills/skills/cie-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 Cie Topic Selection

What does Cie Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses to sharpen a topic for 《中国工业经济》 (China Industrial Economics) — anchoring on a clean China-policy quasi-experiment, firm behavior, industrial organization, or the digital…. Cie Topic Selection is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use to sharpen a topic for 《中国工业经济》 (China Industrial Economics) — anchoring on a clean China-policy quasi-experiment, firm behavior, industrial organization, or the digital economy, backed by stylized facts and 3–5 marginal contributions.

When should I use Cie Topic Selection?

Cie Topic Selection fits situations like: sharpen a topic for 《中国工业经济》 (China Industrial Economics) — anchoring on a clean China-policy quasi-experiment; industrial organization; the digital economy; backed by stylized facts and 3–5 marginal contributions.

How do I install Cie Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Cie Topic Selection in Codex?

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

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

What does Cie Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Cie 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 Cie 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 Cie Topic Selection use?

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

How many tokens does Cie Topic Selection use?

About 403 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.6k 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 Cie Topic Selection?

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Who maintains Cie 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.