Agent skill

Jpube Topic Selection

by franklee16 in franklee16/academic-research-skills

A skill your agent uses when assessing whether a research question fits the Journal of Public Economics (JPubE) — the economic role of government (taxation, public expenditure, social insurance…

No licenceAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Jpube Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills jpube-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-Public-Economics-Skills/skills/jpube-topic-selection .claude/skills/jpube-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
jpube-topic-selection
GitHub stars
223
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~927 tokens
SKILL.md length
388 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,617
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when assessing whether a research question fits the Journal of Public Economics (JPubE) — the economic role of government (taxation, public expenditure, social insurance…

  • Assessing whether a research question fits the Journal of Public Economics (JPubE) — the economic role of government (taxation
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The JPubE fit bar, Fit diagnostics and Checklist, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Public expenditure

What it does

Jpube Topic Selection is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when assessing whether a research question fits the Journal of Public Economics (JPubE) — the economic role of government (taxation, public expenditure, social insurance, redistribution, externalities, public goods, fiscal policy) — and whether the policy stakes clear the bar for an international readership. Scopes the question; it does not run the analysis.

Its SKILL.md is about 930 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 Business, Finance & HR, 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

  • Assessing whether a research question fits the Journal of Public Economics (JPubE) — the economic role of government (taxation
  • Public expenditure
  • Social insurance
  • Fiscal policy) — and whether the policy stakes clear the bar for an international readership

Example prompts

  • “/jpube-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

Jpube Topic Selection loads about 927 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 97 tokens; SKILL.md has 388 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~97
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~927

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 388 words (~927 tokens).

“JPubE was founded in 1972 by Tony Atkinson to be the home for rigorous analysis of the economic role of government, and under Co-Editors-in-Chief John N. Friedman and Wojciech Kopczuk it still rewards exactly that: a question about how government…”

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

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Journal-of-Public-Economics-Skills/skills/jpube-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 Jpube Topic Selection

What does Jpube Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when assessing whether a research question fits the Journal of Public Economics (JPubE) — the economic role of government (taxation, public expenditure, social insurance…. Jpube Topic Selection is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when assessing whether a research question fits the Journal of Public Economics (JPubE) — the economic role of government (taxation, public expenditure, social insurance, redistribution, externalities, public goods, fiscal policy) — and whether the policy stakes clear the bar for an international readership.

When should I use Jpube Topic Selection?

Jpube Topic Selection fits situations like: assessing whether a research question fits the Journal of Public Economics (JPubE) — the economic role of government (taxation; public expenditure; social insurance; fiscal policy) — and whether the policy stakes clear the bar for an international readership.

How do I install Jpube Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Jpube Topic Selection in Codex?

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

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

What does Jpube Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Jpube 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 Jpube 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 Jpube Topic Selection use?

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

How many tokens does Jpube Topic Selection use?

About 927 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.7k 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 Jpube Topic Selection?

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Who maintains Jpube 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.