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research-ideation

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from meleantonio/awesome-econ-ai-stuff

What it does

Generates novel, data-driven research questions by analyzing economic phenomena and identifying potential research opportunities.

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Installation

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Quick InstallInstall with npx

npx skills add meleantonio/awesome-econ-ai-stuff --skill research-ideation

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Skill Details

SKILL.md

Overview

# Awesome Econ AI Stuff

> A curated collection of AI skills for economists. Skills follow the open [SKILL.md](https://agentskills.io/home) standard and work with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, and other AI-native coding tools.

🌐 Website •

🚀 Quick Start •

📚 Skills •

🤝 Contribute

---

Why AI Skills for Economists?

Economic research involves complex, repetitive workflows—from data cleaning in Stata to writing LaTeX papers. AI skills automate these workflows while preserving methodological rigor.

Skills help you:

📊 Clean and transform data faster (Stata, R, Python)
📐 Write mathematical models in LaTeX
🔬 Run econometric analyses with proper diagnostics
📝 Draft papers following journal conventions
🎯 Create publication-quality visualizations

---

Quick Start

1. Choose Your AI Tool

Skills work with multiple AI coding assistants:

| Tool | Skill Location | Setup |

|------|---------------|-------|

| Claude Code | ~/.claude/skills/ | [Docs](https://docs.anthropic.com/claude-code) |

| Cursor | ~/.cursor/skills/ | [Docs](https://cursor.com/docs) |

| Gemini CLI | ~/.gemini/skills/ | [Docs](https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli) |

| Codex | Project AGENTS.md | [Docs](https://agents.md) |

2. Install a Skill

```bash

# Clone a skill to your tools directory

# Example for Claude Code:

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills

cp -r skills/analysis/r-econometrics ~/.claude/skills/

```

3. Use the Skill

Invoke skills via slash commands or natural language:

```

/r-econometrics Run a DiD analysis on my treatment data

```

---

Skills Catalog

Skills are organized by research workflow stage:

💡 Ideation

[research-ideation](skills/ideation/research-ideation/) - Generate research questions from economic phenomena

📚 Literature Review

[lit-review-assistant](skills/literature/lit-review-assistant/) - Search, summarize, and synthesize papers

📐 Theory & Modeling

[latex-econ-model](skills/theory/latex-econ-model/) - Write economic models in LaTeX
[general-equilibrium-model-builder](skills/theory/general-equilibrium-model-builder/) - Build and solve Walrasian GE models in Julia
[game-theory-solver](skills/theory/game-theory-solver/) - Solve and visualize game theory problems

📊 Data Management

[stata-data-cleaning](skills/data/stata-data-cleaning/) - Clean and transform data in Stata
[api-data-fetcher](skills/data/api-data-fetcher/) - Fetch data from economic APIs (FRED, World Bank)

🔬 Econometric Analysis

[r-econometrics](skills/analysis/r-econometrics/) - Run IV, DiD, RDD in R
[python-panel-data](skills/analysis/python-panel-data/) - Panel data analysis with Python
[stata-regression](skills/analysis/stata-regression/) - Regression analysis in Stata

📝 Academic Writing

[academic-paper-writer](skills/writing/academic-paper-writer/) - Draft papers with proper structure
[latex-tables](skills/writing/latex-tables/) - Generate publication-ready LaTeX tables
[referee-response](skills/writing/referee-response/) - Draft referee report responses

🎯 Communication

[beamer-presentation](skills/communication/beamer-presentation/) - Create Beamer slides
[econ-visualization](skills/communication/econ-visualization/) - Publication-quality charts
[research-website](skills/communication/research-website/) - Build academic project websites

---

Creating Skills

See our [Skill Template](skills/SKILL_TEMPLATE.md) and [Contributing Guide](CONTRIBUTING.md).

Basic structure:

```yaml

---

name: my-skill-name

description: What the skill does (shown in skill discovery)

workflow_stage: analysis

compatibility: [claude-code, cursor, codex, gemini-cli]

---

# My Skill Name

[Detailed instructions for the AI agent...]

```

🆕 Propose a New Skill

[Submit via Web Form →](https://meleantonio.github.io/awesome-econ-ai-stuff/submit)

Or open an [Issue](https://github.com/meleantonio/awesome-econ-ai-stuff/issues/new?template=skill-proposal.md).

---

Compatible Tools

| Tool | Status | Notes |

|------|--------|-------|

| Claude Code | ✅ Full | Native SKILL.md support |

| Cursor | ✅ Full | Native SKILL.md support |

| Gemini CLI | ✅ Full | Native SKILL.md support |

| GitHub Copilot | ⚠️ Partial | Use AGENTS.md format |

| Windsurf | ✅ Full | SKILL.md compatible |

| Aider | ⚠️ Partial | Use .aider.conf.yml |

---

Resources

[Agent Skills Standard](https://agentskills.io/home) - The open SKILL.md specification
[Anthropic Claude Code Docs](https://docs.anthropic.com/claude-code)
[Cursor Skills Documentation](https://cursor.com/docs/skills)
[QuantEcon](https://quantecon.org) - Python/Julia for economists

---

Contributing

We welcome contributions! See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for guidelines.

Ways to contribute:

🆕 Submit new skills via the [web form](https://meleantonio.github.io/awesome-econ-ai-stuff/submit)
🐛 Report issues or suggest improvements
📖 Improve documentation
⭐ Star this repo to show support

---

License

[![CC0](https://licensebuttons.net/p/zero/1.0/88x31.png)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

This work is dedicated to the public domain under [CC0 1.0](LICENSE).

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