Agent skill

Wp Topic Selection

by franklee16 in franklee16/academic-research-skills

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project fits World Politics and whether it should be a research article or a review article.

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Install Wp Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills wp-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/World-Politics-Skills/skills/wp-topic-selection .claude/skills/wp-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
wp-topic-selection
GitHub stars
223
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
423 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 project fits World Politics and whether it should be a research article or a review article.

  • Works in 4 steps: Comparative or IR substance. The… → It travels. The argument or mechanism… → Theory + original empirics. It "poses… → …
  • Deciding whether a project fits World Politics and whether it should be a research article
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The World Politics fit test, Research article vs. review… and Differentiation (so you target…, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Wp Topic Selection is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when deciding whether a project fits World Politics and whether it should be a research article or a review article. World Politics is a comparative-politics + international-relations specialist, so the test is a substantive question that travels across cases or systems — not subfield novelty, and not a single-case description. Helps frame the question; it does not collect data.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k 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

  • Deciding whether a project fits World Politics and whether it should be a research article
  • A review article

Example prompts

  • “/wp-topic-selection”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Comparative or IR substance. The question concerns the central problems of **comparative
  2. It travels. The argument or mechanism applies beyond a single case: cross-national,
  3. Theory + original empirics. It "poses important substantive questions, significantly advances
  4. In scope. Not an opinion or policy piece, not stand-alone political theory, not a historical

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

Wp Topic Selection loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 101 tokens; SKILL.md has 423 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~101
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k

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 423 words (~1,056 tokens).

“World Politics is a leading specialist in comparative politics and international relations. The bar is not "new to my country case" and not "of general interest to all of political science" — it is a substantive political question that travels…”

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

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/World-Politics-Skills/skills/wp-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 Wp Topic Selection

What does Wp Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project fits World Politics and whether it should be a research article or a review article. Wp Topic Selection is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when deciding whether a project fits World Politics and whether it should be a research article or a review article.

When should I use Wp Topic Selection?

Wp Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a project fits World Politics and whether it should be a research article; A review article.

How do I install Wp Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Wp Topic Selection in Codex?

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

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

What does Wp Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Wp 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 Wp 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 Wp Topic Selection use?

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

How many tokens does Wp Topic Selection use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.2k 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 Wp Topic Selection?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Wp Topic Selection: Threejs World Generation (calesthio/OpenMontage, 65k stars), Table Fit (asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks, 69k stars), Furniture Fit Check (pascalorg/editor, 25k stars) and Topics (ZimoLiao/scholaraio, 576 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Wp 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.