Agent skill

Jaar Topic Selection

by franklee16 in franklee16/academic-research-skills

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project fits the Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) and how to frame it.

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Install Jaar Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills jaar-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/Journal-of-the-American-Academy-of-Religion-Skills/skills/jaar-topic-selection .claude/skills/jaar-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
jaar-topic-selection
GitHub stars
223
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~884 tokens
SKILL.md length
371 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,617
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project fits the Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) and how to frame it.

  • Works in 4 steps: Broad and fundamental interest. It… → It has a point. JAAR explicitly wants… → Method-conscious and reflexive. It is… → …
  • Deciding whether a project fits the Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) and how to frame it
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The JAAR fit test, How to reframe a subfield… and Anti-patterns, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Jaar Topic Selection is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when deciding whether a project fits the Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) and how to frame it. JAAR's bar is broad and fundamental interest to the study of religion across traditions and methods — a contribution only to one subfield will be returned for reframing before review. Frames the question; it does not do the research.

Its SKILL.md is about 880 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 a project fits the Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) and how to frame it

Example prompts

  • “/jaar-topic-selection”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Broad and fundamental interest. It changes how the study of religion understands something —
  2. It has a point. JAAR explicitly wants analysis with a thesis, not description or a survey. The
  3. Method-conscious and reflexive. It is aware of how it studies religion and of the scholar's own
  4. Right venue. If the contribution is genuinely only intelligible to specialists in one tradition,

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

Jaar Topic Selection loads about 884 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 93 tokens; SKILL.md has 371 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~93
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~884

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 371 words (~884 tokens).

“JAAR is widely considered the top general journal in religious studies, and it is generalist by mandate: an article must matter to scholars working on other traditions and with other methods. Roughly 90% of submissions are rejected, and a subfield-bound…”

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

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Journal-of-the-American-Academy-of-Religion-Skills/skills/jaar-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 Jaar Topic Selection

What does Jaar Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project fits the Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) and how to frame it. Jaar Topic Selection is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when deciding whether a project fits the Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) and how to frame it.

When should I use Jaar Topic Selection?

Jaar Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a project fits the Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) and how to frame it.

How do I install Jaar Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Jaar Topic Selection in Codex?

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

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

What does Jaar Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Jaar 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 Jaar 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 Jaar Topic Selection use?

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

How many tokens does Jaar Topic Selection use?

About 884 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 Jaar Topic Selection?

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Who maintains Jaar 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.