Agent skill

Rje Topic Selection

by franklee16 in franklee16/academic-research-skills

A skill your agent uses to test whether a research question fits The RAND Journal of Economics (RJE) — the flagship industrial-organization journal with a deliberately narrow applied-microeconomics…

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Install Rje Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills rje-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/RAND-Journal-of-Economics-Skills/skills/rje-topic-selection .claude/skills/rje-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
rje-topic-selection
GitHub stars
223
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~792 tokens
SKILL.md length
318 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,617
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

A skill your agent uses to test whether a research question fits The RAND Journal of Economics (RJE) — the flagship industrial-organization journal with a deliberately narrow applied-microeconomics…

  • Antitrust/competition
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The RJE scope (verified…, On-scope topics (strong fit) and Off-scope (route elsewhere), plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Market structure

What it does

Rje Topic Selection is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use to test whether a research question fits The RAND Journal of Economics (RJE) — the flagship industrial-organization journal with a deliberately narrow applied-microeconomics scope (regulated industries, antitrust/competition, market structure, firm strategy, the economics of organizations). Screens fit before you invest in a full draft.

Its SKILL.md is about 790 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 Legal & Compliance, covering Healthcare and finance regulation and 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

  • Antitrust/competition
  • Market structure
  • The economics of organizations)

Example prompts

  • “/rje-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

Rje Topic Selection loads about 792 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 91 tokens; SKILL.md has 318 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~91
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~792

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 318 words (~792 tokens).

“RJE exists, per its own statement of purpose, "to support and encourage research in the behavior of regulated industries, the economic analysis of organizations, and more generally, applied microeconomics" (rje.org). Formerly the Bell Journal of Economics and sponsored by the…”

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

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/RAND-Journal-of-Economics-Skills/skills/rje-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 Rje Topic Selection

What does Rje Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses to test whether a research question fits The RAND Journal of Economics (RJE) — the flagship industrial-organization journal with a deliberately narrow applied-microeconomics…. Rje Topic Selection is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use to test whether a research question fits The RAND Journal of Economics (RJE) — the flagship industrial-organization journal with a deliberately narrow applied-microeconomics scope (regulated industries, antitrust/competition, market structure, firm strategy, the economics of organizations).

When should I use Rje Topic Selection?

Rje Topic Selection fits situations like: antitrust/competition; market structure; the economics of organizations).

How do I install Rje Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Rje Topic Selection in Codex?

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

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

What does Rje Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Rje 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 Rje 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 Rje Topic Selection use?

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

How many tokens does Rje Topic Selection use?

About 792 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.2k 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 Rje Topic Selection?

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Who maintains Rje 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.