Agent skill

Ors Topic Selection

by franklee16 in franklee16/academic-research-skills

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a problem is a fit for Operations Research (OR) and which of its editorial areas it belongs to — testing for a genuine OR/MS methodological contribution…

No licenceAuto-check passedMarketing & SEO

Install Ors Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills ors-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/Operations-Research-Skills/skills/ors-topic-selection .claude/skills/ors-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
ors-topic-selection
GitHub stars
223
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~870 tokens
SKILL.md length
352 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 a problem is a fit for Operations Research (OR) and which of its editorial areas it belongs to — testing for a genuine OR/MS methodological contribution…

  • Marketing & SEO work in your project
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The OR fit test, Pick the editorial area (route… and Sibling-venue triage, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Ors Topic Selection is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when deciding whether a problem is a fit for Operations Research (OR) and which of its editorial areas it belongs to — testing for a genuine OR/MS methodological contribution and picking the correct area before formulating. Scopes and routes the problem; it does not build the model (ors-theory-development) or position it in the literature (ors-literature-positioning).

Its SKILL.md is about 870 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 Marketing & SEO. 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

  • Marketing & SEO work in your project

Example prompts

  • “/ors-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

Ors Topic Selection loads about 870 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 99 tokens; SKILL.md has 352 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~99
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~870

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 352 words (~870 tokens).

“Operations Research (INFORMS) publishes mathematically rigorous OR/MS methodology — optimization, stochastic/probabilistic models, simulation, decision analysis — favoring provable results and methodological novelty over purely empirical work. Ask:”

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

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Operations-Research-Skills/skills/ors-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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Categories

Questions about Ors Topic Selection

What does Ors Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a problem is a fit for Operations Research (OR) and which of its editorial areas it belongs to — testing for a genuine OR/MS methodological contribution…. Ors Topic Selection is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when deciding whether a problem is a fit for Operations Research (OR) and which of its editorial areas it belongs to — testing for a genuine OR/MS methodological contribution and picking the correct area before formulating.

When should I use Ors Topic Selection?

Ors Topic Selection fits situations like: marketing & SEO work in your project.

How do I install Ors Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Ors Topic Selection in Codex?

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

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

What does Ors Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Ors 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 Ors 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 Ors Topic Selection use?

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

How many tokens does Ors Topic Selection use?

About 870 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 Ors Topic Selection?

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Who maintains Ors 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.