Agent skill

Mathfin Topic Selection

by franklee16 in franklee16/academic-research-skills

A skill your agent uses when choosing or sharpening a problem for Mathematical Finance (Wiley) — tests whether the question is a methodologically novel, rigorously tractable contribution to…

No licenceAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Mathfin Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills mathfin-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/Mathematical-Finance-Skills/skills/mathfin-topic-selection .claude/skills/mathfin-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
mathfin-topic-selection
GitHub stars
223
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~717 tokens
SKILL.md length
284 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,616
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when choosing or sharpening a problem for Mathematical Finance (Wiley) — tests whether the question is a methodologically novel, rigorously tractable contribution to…

  • Works in 4 steps: New tractable models — e.g., a… → New structural results —… → New methods — a transform,… → …
  • Sharpening a problem for Mathematical Finance (Wiley) — tests whether the question is a methodologically novel
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The Mathematical Finance fit bar, Disqualifiers (off-fit) and Sharpening questions, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Mathfin Topic Selection is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when choosing or sharpening a problem for Mathematical Finance (Wiley) — tests whether the question is a methodologically novel, rigorously tractable contribution to financial modelling (stochastic analysis, pricing, risk, portfolio, microstructure) rather than a routine computational application to data.

Its SKILL.md is about 720 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 Writing & Content, covering Creative writing and fiction. 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

  • Sharpening a problem for Mathematical Finance (Wiley) — tests whether the question is a methodologically novel
  • Rigorously tractable contribution to financial modelling (stochastic analysis
  • Microstructure) rather than a routine computational application to data

Example prompts

  • “/mathfin-topic-selection”

Workflow steps

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

  1. New tractable models — e.g., a jump/rough/Lévy or stochastic-volatility model with a
  2. New structural results — existence/uniqueness, FTAP-type equivalences, duality,
  3. New methods — a transform, free-boundary, mean-field, or stochastic-control technique
  4. New mathematical objects with financial meaning — risk measures, time-consistency

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

Mathfin Topic Selection loads about 717 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 84 tokens; SKILL.md has 284 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~84
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~717

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 284 words (~717 tokens).

“Mathematical Finance evaluates submissions on methodological novelty and contribution to financial modelling, presented with full mathematical rigor. The litmus test is not "is this about finance" but "does it advance the mathematics of a financial-modelling problem with a result that…”

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

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Mathematical-Finance-Skills/skills/mathfin-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 Mathfin Topic Selection

What does Mathfin Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when choosing or sharpening a problem for Mathematical Finance (Wiley) — tests whether the question is a methodologically novel, rigorously tractable contribution to…. Mathfin Topic Selection is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when choosing or sharpening a problem for Mathematical Finance (Wiley) — tests whether the question is a methodologically novel, rigorously tractable contribution to financial modelling (stochastic analysis, pricing, risk, portfolio, microstructure) rather than a routine computational application to data.

When should I use Mathfin Topic Selection?

Mathfin Topic Selection fits situations like: sharpening a problem for Mathematical Finance (Wiley) — tests whether the question is a methodologically novel; rigorously tractable contribution to financial modelling (stochastic analysis; microstructure) rather than a routine computational application to data.

How do I install Mathfin Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Mathfin Topic Selection in Codex?

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

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

What does Mathfin Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Mathfin 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 Mathfin 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 Mathfin Topic Selection use?

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

How many tokens does Mathfin Topic Selection use?

About 717 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Mathfin 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.