EconTools¶
license: MIT · 6 skills · last update: 2026-09
Source: https://github.com/johanfourieza/econtools
Maintainers: Johan Fourie (Stellenbosch University, Economic History)
Related project entry: econtools
Compatibility: claude-code codex
Six personal Claude Code skills for economic-history and economics research, each named after a real person who shaped the author's career (Claude Diebolt, Jan Luiten van Zanden, Kris Inwood, Di Kilpert, Tyler Cowen). Diebolt and Kris both optionally recruit Codex (GPT-5.4) as a second, independent model family. Kris explicitly credits two upstream projects (PHY041/claude-skill-citation-checker and Imbad0202/academic-research-skills, the latter already in this catalog) for parts of its design.
Source YAML: skills/econtools.yml
Skills¶
audit (1)¶
| Skill | Field | Stages | Description | Full text | Source | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
/kris |
economics | revision-editing |
Catches hallucinated and chimeric .bib entries by running Claude and Codex (GPT-5.4) as two genuinely independent verification methods (API-cascade cross-checking vs. DOI/landing-page/Retraction-Watch/ORCID/Internet-Archive checks), randomly assigning references so no fixed pair shares a batch, then staging an adversarial challenge round on disagreements before producing an evidence-backed scorecard. | view | origin | 2026-09 |
editing (1)¶
| Skill | Field | Stages | Description | Full text | Source | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
/tanniedi |
economics | revision-editing |
Round-trips a LaTeX paper to Word for human copy-editing (pack) and applies the editor's tracked changes back into the original .tex files (unpack), preserving LaTeX formatting, equations, and cross-references. | view | origin | 2026-09 |
ideation (1)¶
| Skill | Field | Stages | Description | Full text | Source | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
/janluiten |
economics | rq-formulation |
A research-idea sounding board modelled on a real doctoral mentor; listens first, then stress-tests the idea against the long view of research-program cycles, cultural-evolution pressures on field prestige, and behavioural misreading of one's own motives, to help decide what to work on, with whom, and why. | view | origin | 2026-09 |
literature (1)¶
| Skill | Field | Stages | Description | Full text | Source | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
/tyler |
economics | literature-synthesis |
Converts a folder of academic PDFs into a token-efficient markdown wiki (one .md per paper plus a summary.txt index) so Claude Code can read literature cheaply without re-parsing raw PDFs each time. | view | origin | 2026-09 |
review (1)¶
| Skill | Field | Stages | Description | Full text | Source | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
/diebolt |
economics | referee-simulation |
Simulated peer review for economics working papers — a panel of independent referee agents, each with a distinct subspecialisation, personality and fictitious affiliation, reviewing in isolation under strict information barriers; an editor synthesises a prioritised briefing, and accepted revisions are applied to the LaTeX source. Adds a second-model-family (Codex/GPT-5.4) audit when available. | view | origin | 2026-09 |
submission (1)¶
| Skill | Field | Stages | Description | Full text | Source | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
/ehrstyle |
economics | dissemination |
Applies the Economic History Review house style (Feb 2026 Notes for Contributors) to a LaTeX manuscript, bibliography, title page, and cover letter, with a bespoke biblatex style (echr.bbx/echr.cbx) for EHR-specific footnote and bibliography conventions. | view | origin | 2026-09 |