X Research
rohunvora/x-research-skill
General-purpose X/Twitter research agent. An agent skill from rohunvora/x-research-skill.
A skill your agent uses when judging whether a result is general, deep, and method-driven enough to belong in Econometrica, and when sharpening the contribution statement.
Install Ecta Topic Selection
$ npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill ecta-topic-selection -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills ecta-topic-selection --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ 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/Econometrica-Skills/skills/ecta-topic-selection .claude/skills/ecta-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "ecta-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/franklee16/academic-research-skills/tree/master/Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Econometrica-Skills/skills/ecta-topic-selection into .claude/skills/ecta-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ecta-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/franklee16/academic-research-skills/tree/master/Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Econometrica-Skills/skills/ecta-topic-selectionType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill ecta-topic-selection -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills ecta-topic-selection --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/franklee16/academic-research-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Econometrica-Skills/skills/ecta-topic-selection .agents/skills/ecta-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "ecta-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/franklee16/academic-research-skills/tree/master/Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Econometrica-Skills/skills/ecta-topic-selection into .agents/skills/ecta-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ecta-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill ecta-topic-selection -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills ecta-topic-selection --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/franklee16/academic-research-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Econometrica-Skills/skills/ecta-topic-selection .cursor/skills/ecta-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "ecta-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/franklee16/academic-research-skills/tree/master/Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Econometrica-Skills/skills/ecta-topic-selection into .cursor/skills/ecta-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ecta-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/franklee16/academic-research-skills.git --path Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Econometrica-Skills/skills/ecta-topic-selection--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill ecta-topic-selection -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills ecta-topic-selection --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/franklee16/academic-research-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Econometrica-Skills/skills/ecta-topic-selection .gemini/skills/ecta-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "ecta-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/franklee16/academic-research-skills/tree/master/Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Econometrica-Skills/skills/ecta-topic-selection into .gemini/skills/ecta-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ecta-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills ecta-topic-selectionInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill ecta-topic-selection -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/franklee16/academic-research-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Econometrica-Skills/skills/ecta-topic-selection .github/skills/ecta-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "ecta-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/franklee16/academic-research-skills/tree/master/Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Econometrica-Skills/skills/ecta-topic-selection into .github/skills/ecta-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ecta-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill ecta-topic-selection -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills ecta-topic-selection --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/franklee16/academic-research-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Econometrica-Skills/skills/ecta-topic-selection .opencode/skills/ecta-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "ecta-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/franklee16/academic-research-skills/tree/master/Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Econometrica-Skills/skills/ecta-topic-selection into .opencode/skills/ecta-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ecta-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
ecta-topic-selection- GitHub stars
- 223
- Used in
- 1 other repo
- Token cost
- ~1.4k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 610 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 1,616
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- None found
At a glance
A skill your agent uses when judging whether a result is general, deep, and method-driven enough to belong in Econometrica, and when sharpening the contribution statement.
- Works in 4 steps: Scope. State the most general setting… → Necessity of assumptions. For each… → Payoff. What can a reader do with this… → …
- Judging whether a result is general
- SKILL.md covers When to trigger, What Econometrica rewards, The generality test and Contribution statement template, plus 3 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Ecta Topic Selection is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when judging whether a result is general, deep, and method-driven enough to belong in Econometrica, and when sharpening the contribution statement. Diagnoses fit and frames the contribution — it does not write proofs (use ecta-theory-model) or position against the literature (use ecta-literature-positioning).
Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k 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. 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
- Judging whether a result is general
- Method-driven enough to belong in Econometrica
- When sharpening the contribution statement
Example prompts
- “/ecta-topic-selection”
Workflow steps
4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Scope. State the most general setting under which the result holds. If the proof
- Necessity of assumptions. For each assumption, ask: does the result fail without it?
- Payoff. What can a reader do with this that they could not before — estimate
- Depth vs. incremental. Is this a genuinely new object/argument, or a marginal
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
Ecta Topic Selection loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 84 tokens; SKILL.md has 610 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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 610 words (~1,375 tokens).
“Econometrica (Econometric Society / Wiley; founded 1933) is the field's flagship for econometric methods and rigorous economic theory, not applied "top-5" causal-inference papers. Its charter is the unification of the theoretical-quantitative and the empirical-quantitative approaches, penetrated by constructive and rigorous…”
- name
- ecta-topic-selection
Files
Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Econometrica-Skills/skills/ecta-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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| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ecta Topic Selection this skillfranklee16/academic-research-skills | 223 | 1 repos | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
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| Ray Trend Searchimraywang/rayskills | 160 | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
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Questions about Ecta Topic Selection
What does Ecta Topic Selection do?
A skill your agent uses when judging whether a result is general, deep, and method-driven enough to belong in Econometrica, and when sharpening the contribution statement. Ecta Topic Selection is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when judging whether a result is general, deep, and method-driven enough to belong in Econometrica, and when sharpening the contribution statement.
When should I use Ecta Topic Selection?
Ecta Topic Selection fits situations like: judging whether a result is general; method-driven enough to belong in Econometrica; when sharpening the contribution statement.
How do I install Ecta Topic Selection in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill ecta-topic-selection -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Econometrica-Skills/skills/ecta-topic-selection in franklee16/academic-research-skills) into .claude/skills/ecta-topic-selection in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Ecta Topic Selection in Codex?
Run `npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill ecta-topic-selection -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Econometrica-Skills/skills/ecta-topic-selection in franklee16/academic-research-skills) into .agents/skills/ecta-topic-selection in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Ecta 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 ecta-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/ecta-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/ecta-topic-selection, .github/skills/ecta-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/ecta-topic-selection in your project.
What does Ecta Topic Selection need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Ecta Topic Selection is instructions for the agent only.
Does Ecta 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 Ecta 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 Ecta Topic Selection use?
No licence was found for Ecta Topic Selection or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.
How many tokens does Ecta Topic Selection use?
About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.5k 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 Ecta Topic Selection?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Ecta Topic Selection: X Research (rohunvora/x-research-skill, 1.2k stars), Bmad Deep Recon (delorenj/mcp-server-trello, 446 stars), Ray Trend Search (imraywang/rayskills, 160 stars) and Pxmeter (bytedance/PXMeter, 102 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Ecta 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.