Agent skill

Jape Topic Selection

by franklee16 in franklee16/academic-research-skills

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project fits the Journal of Applied Econometrics (JAE) — an applied (not pure-theory) journal publishing empirical, replicable work that applies or…

No licenceAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Jape Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills jape-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-Applied-Econometrics-Skills/skills/jape-topic-selection .claude/skills/jape-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
jape-topic-selection
GitHub stars
223
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~565 tokens
SKILL.md length
229 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 Applied Econometrics (JAE) — an applied (not pure-theory) journal publishing empirical, replicable work that applies or…

  • Deciding whether a project fits the Journal of Applied Econometrics (JAE) — an applied (not pure-theory) journal publishing empirical
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, JAE's scope test, The non-negotiable filter:… and Output format, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Replicable work that applies

What it does

Jape Topic Selection is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when deciding whether a project fits the Journal of Applied Econometrics (JAE) — an applied (not pure-theory) journal publishing empirical, replicable work that applies or develops econometric techniques on real data. Tests scope fit, the replicability requirement, and the Research vs. Replication Article tracks before you commit.

Its SKILL.md is about 570 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 Econometrics and empirical research and Database administration. 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 Applied Econometrics (JAE) — an applied (not pure-theory) journal publishing empirical
  • Replicable work that applies
  • Develops econometric techniques on real data

Example prompts

  • “/jape-topic-selection”

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

Jape Topic Selection loads about 565 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 89 tokens; SKILL.md has 229 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~89
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~565

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 229 words (~565 tokens).

“JAE publishes applied econometrics: papers that apply and develop econometric techniques on real data, with the focus on the application rather than pure econometric theory. A purely theoretical contribution (a new estimator with asymptotics but no real-data application) is off-fit…”

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

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Journal-of-Applied-Econometrics-Skills/skills/jape-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 Jape Topic Selection

What does Jape Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project fits the Journal of Applied Econometrics (JAE) — an applied (not pure-theory) journal publishing empirical, replicable work that applies or…. Jape Topic Selection is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when deciding whether a project fits the Journal of Applied Econometrics (JAE) — an applied (not pure-theory) journal publishing empirical, replicable work that applies or develops econometric techniques on real data.

When should I use Jape Topic Selection?

Jape Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a project fits the Journal of Applied Econometrics (JAE) — an applied (not pure-theory) journal publishing empirical; replicable work that applies; develops econometric techniques on real data.

How do I install Jape Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Jape Topic Selection in Codex?

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

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

What does Jape Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Jape 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 Jape 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 Jape Topic Selection use?

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

How many tokens does Jape Topic Selection use?

About 565 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.3k 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 Jape Topic Selection?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Jape Topic Selection: Referee2 (scunning1975/MixtapeTools, 473 stars), Stata Replication (pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow, 1.7k stars), Aer Replication (brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, 4.5k stars) and Audit Reproducibility (pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow, 1.7k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Jape 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.