ectheory-contribution-framing
Use to frame the central result of an Econometric Theory (ET) paper so its generality and importance are legible — stating the theorem and its scope up front, choosing Article vs Miscellanea framing, and matching the new editorial program's themed directions.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ectheory-contribution-framing --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.
# Contribution Framing (ectheory-contribution-framing) ## When to trigger - The result is proved but the introduction buries what is actually new and general - You cannot state the main theorem and its scope in two or three sentences - Deciding how to frame for a full **Article** (multiple contributions) vs a **Miscellanea** (one or two) - You want to align with ET's Jan-2026 themed directions or the discussion-paper format ## How to frame a theory contribution for ET ET readers reward **a clearly stated, general result whose importance is obvious from the statement**. Frame the contribution in this order: 1. **The problem in econometrics** the result speaks to (an inference problem, a limit gap, a robustness failure), stated for a theorist who will recognize it instantly. 2. **The theorem in words**, then the scope: under what assumptions, in what environment (stationary/nonstationary, fixed/growing dimension), with what limiting behavior. 3. **The generality delta** — what special cases collapse to known results, and what is genuinely new. 4. **Consequences** — what becomes provable, computable, or robust because of this result; how it changes practice or further theory. For an *
- When to trigger
- How to frame a theory contribution for ET
- Aligning with the current editorial program
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- What an ET editor weighs in the first reading pass
- Worked vignette and the framing fixes
- Output format
What does the ectheory-contribution-framing skill do?
Use to frame the central result of an Econometric Theory (ET) paper so its generality and importance are legible — stating the theorem and its scope up front, choosing Article vs Miscellanea framing, and matching the new editorial program's themed directions.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ectheory-contribution-framing --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.