Agent skill

Fcr Topic Selection

by franklee16 in franklee16/academic-research-skills

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether an agronomy or crop-science project fits Field Crops Research (FCR) and which article type to target.

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Install Fcr Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills fcr-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/Field-Crops-Research-Skills/skills/fcr-topic-selection .claude/skills/fcr-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
fcr-topic-selection
GitHub stars
223
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
435 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 an agronomy or crop-science project fits Field Crops Research (FCR) and which article type to target.

  • Works in 4 steps: Field-based. Conducted in the field, not… → Multi-season / multi-environment… → A field crop. Crops grown for food,… → …
  • Deciding whether an agronomy
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The FCR scope gate (must clear…, Frame the agronomic contribution and Article-type choice, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Fcr Topic Selection is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when deciding whether an agronomy or crop-science project fits Field Crops Research (FCR) and which article type to target. FCR's defining test is field-based agronomic significance with multi-season/-environment relevance — it rejects controlled-environment-only, single-site single-season, horticultural/woody-perennial, and corroborative/descriptive/local-only work. Helps frame the question; it does not collect data.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k 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.

When your agent uses it

  • Deciding whether an agronomy
  • Crop-science project fits Field Crops Research (FCR) and which article type to target

Example prompts

  • “/fcr-topic-selection”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Field-based. Conducted in the field, not exclusively under controlled conditions
  2. Multi-season / multi-environment relevance. Field experiments should, unless exceptional
  3. A field crop. Crops grown for food, fibre, feed, or biofuel. Out of scope
  4. General significance, not local/descriptive. Must show **new scientific insight, original

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

Fcr Topic Selection loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 111 tokens; SKILL.md has 435 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~111
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k

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 435 words (~1,101 tokens).

“FCR is a field-agronomy journal. The bar is not "a new result in my plot" — it is "a field-based insight of general relevance to field crops." Use this skill to pressure-test fit before you invest, because FCR's scope boundary…”

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

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Field-Crops-Research-Skills/skills/fcr-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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Topic Modelingbrycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.5k—~3.7kAutomated safety check: PassCustom licence
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Questions about Fcr Topic Selection

What does Fcr Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether an agronomy or crop-science project fits Field Crops Research (FCR) and which article type to target. Fcr Topic Selection is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when deciding whether an agronomy or crop-science project fits Field Crops Research (FCR) and which article type to target.

When should I use Fcr Topic Selection?

Fcr Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether an agronomy; crop-science project fits Field Crops Research (FCR) and which article type to target.

How do I install Fcr Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Fcr Topic Selection in Codex?

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

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

What does Fcr Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Fcr 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 Fcr 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 Fcr Topic Selection use?

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

How many tokens does Fcr Topic Selection use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.4k 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 Fcr Topic Selection?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Fcr Topic Selection: Fcr Writing Style (brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, 1.2k stars), Topics (ZimoLiao/scholaraio, 576 stars), Topic Modeling (brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, 4.5k stars) and Bestblogs Topic (ginobefun/BestBlogs, 4k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Fcr 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.