Agent skill

Qje Referee Strategy

by franklee16 in franklee16/academic-research-skills

A skill your agent uses when war-gaming likely referee objections for a Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) manuscript before submitting, to close gaps pre-emptively given QJE's ~2-week desk screen…

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Install Qje Referee Strategy

skills CLI
$ npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill qje-referee-strategy -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills qje-referee-strategy --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/Quarterly-Journal-of-Economics-Skills/skills/qje-referee-strategy .claude/skills/qje-referee-strategy && 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
qje-referee-strategy
GitHub stars
223
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
594 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,617
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when war-gaming likely referee objections for a Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) manuscript before submitting, to close gaps pre-emptively given QJE's ~2-week desk screen…

  • Works in 5 steps: Pass the desk screen first. Before… → Write the hostile report. In 5–8… → Triage. For each: is it a fundamental… → …
  • War-gaming likely referee objections for a Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) manuscript before submitting
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The QJE refereeing reality, Map the three referee archetypes and War-gaming protocol, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Qje Referee Strategy is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when war-gaming likely referee objections for a Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) manuscript before submitting, to close gaps pre-emptively given QJE's ~2-week desk screen and ~1-4% acceptance. Anticipates referee reports; it does not write the post-decision response letter (see qje-rebuttal).

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k 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

  • War-gaming likely referee objections for a Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) manuscript before submitting
  • Close gaps pre-emptively given QJEs ~2-week desk screen and ~1-4% acceptance

Example prompts

  • “/qje-referee-strategy”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Pass the desk screen first. Before refereeing even starts, ask: in two pages, is the big question and the clean source of variation…
  2. Write the hostile report. In 5–8 bullets, list the strongest objections a top expert would raise. Be ruthless; this is cheaper now than…
  3. Triage. For each: is it a fundamental threat (kills the claim) or a robustness request (adds a table)? Fundamentals must be resolved…
  4. Locate the answer. For each objection, point to where in the paper it is already answered. If nowhere, add it (body for fundamentals…
  5. Decide the framing. Pre-empt the biggest objection explicitly in the text ("A natural concern is X; we address it in three ways ...")…

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

Qje Referee Strategy loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 81 tokens; SKILL.md has 594 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~81
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

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 594 words (~1,265 tokens).

“QJE is the fastest top-5 journal at desk — its five Harvard-based Editors desk-decide in roughly two weeks and desk-reject a clear majority (commonly cited around 60%+), with an unconditional acceptance rate of only ~1-4%. Review is double-blind, so you…”

— opening of SKILL.md by franklee16
name
qje-referee-strategy

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Quarterly-Journal-of-Economics-Skills/skills/qje-referee-strategy 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 Qje Referee Strategy

What does Qje Referee Strategy do?

A skill your agent uses when war-gaming likely referee objections for a Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) manuscript before submitting, to close gaps pre-emptively given QJE's ~2-week desk screen…. Qje Referee Strategy is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when war-gaming likely referee objections for a Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) manuscript before submitting, to close gaps pre-emptively given QJE's ~2-week desk screen and ~1-4% acceptance.

When should I use Qje Referee Strategy?

Qje Referee Strategy fits situations like: war-gaming likely referee objections for a Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) manuscript before submitting; close gaps pre-emptively given QJEs ~2-week desk screen and ~1-4% acceptance.

How do I install Qje Referee Strategy in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Qje Referee Strategy in Codex?

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

Can I use Qje Referee Strategy 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 qje-referee-strategy -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/qje-referee-strategy, .gemini/skills/qje-referee-strategy, .github/skills/qje-referee-strategy and .opencode/skills/qje-referee-strategy in your project.

What does Qje Referee Strategy need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Qje Referee Strategy is instructions for the agent only.

Does Qje Referee Strategy 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 Qje Referee Strategy 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 Qje Referee Strategy use?

No licence was found for Qje Referee Strategy or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Qje Referee Strategy use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.1k 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 Qje Referee Strategy?

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.