aeri-robustness
Use when deciding which robustness checks belong in the few in-text words of an American Economic Review: Insights (AER: Insights) short-format manuscript versus the online Supplemental Appendix. Triages checks against the length cap; it does not design the identification (see aeri-identification).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aeri-robustness --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Robustness — Triage Against the Cap (aeri-robustness) ## When to trigger - The robustness section is sprawling and competing with the result for word budget - You have ten checks and at most one or two can appear in-text - A referee will ask for a check the short paper has no room to add in full - Unsure what is load-bearing robustness vs. reassurance that can go online ## The short-format robustness problem A standard paper answers every threat in-text; AER: Insights **cannot**. With **≤7,000 words (minus 200 per exhibit, ≤5 exhibits)**, robustness must be **triaged**: keep in-text only the **one or two checks that, if they failed, would kill the headline result**, and move everything else to the Supplemental Appendix (which has no length cap but is read only by skeptics and the data editor). The skill is deciding the *minimum credible set* of in-text checks and signposting the rest in a single sentence. ## The triage rule For each candidate check, ask: **"If a referee saw only the main text, would the absence of this check make them disbelieve the headline result?"** | Answer | Placement | |--------|-----------| | Yes — it defends the core identifying assumption | **In-text** (
- When to trigger
- The short-format robustness problem
- The triage rule
- What usually earns an in-text slot
- What goes to the Supplemental Appendix
- Signposting economically
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the aeri-robustness skill do?
Use when deciding which robustness checks belong in the few in-text words of an American Economic Review: Insights (AER: Insights) short-format manuscript versus the online Supplemental Appendix. Triages checks against the length cap; it does not design the identification (see aeri-identification).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aeri-robustness --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.