Awesome Econ AI Stuff

A curated collection of AI skills for economists. Skills follow the open SKILL.md standard and work with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, and other AI-native coding tools.

🌐 Website • 🚀 Quick Start • 📚 Skills • 🤝 Contribute

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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

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Quick Start

1. Choose Your AI Tool

Skills work with multiple AI coding assistants:

Tool	Skill Location	Setup
Claude Code	~/.claude/skills/	Docs
Cursor	~/.cursor/skills/	Docs
Gemini CLI	~/.gemini/skills/	Docs
Codex	Project AGENTS.md	Docs

2. Install a Skill

# 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

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Skills Catalog

Skills are organized by research workflow stage:

💡 Ideation

• research-ideation - Generate research questions from economic phenomena

📚 Literature Review

• lit-review-assistant - Search, summarize, and synthesize papers

📐 Theory & Modeling

• latex-econ-model - Write economic models in LaTeX
• general-equilibrium-model-builder - Build and solve Walrasian GE models in Julia

📊 Data Management

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

🔬 Econometric Analysis

• r-econometrics - Run IV, DiD, RDD in R
• python-panel-data - Panel data analysis with Python
• stata-regression - Regression analysis in Stata

📝 Academic Writing

• academic-paper-writer - Draft papers with proper structure
• latex-tables - Generate publication-ready LaTeX tables

🎯 Communication

• beamer-presentation - Create Beamer slides
• econ-visualization - Publication-quality charts

⚙️ Engineering

• sdd - Spec-Driven Development lifecycle (requirements, design, tasks)
• techdebt - Find and fix technical debt
• commit-push-pr - Commit, push, and open a pull request
• code-simplifier - Simplify and clean up code after changes

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Creating Skills

See our Skill Template and Contributing Guide.

Basic structure:

---
name: my-skill-name
description: What the skill does (shown in skill discovery)
workflow_stage: analysis
compatibility: [claude-code, cursor, codex, gemini-cli]
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# My Skill Name

[Detailed instructions for the AI agent...]

🆕 Propose a New Skill

Submit via Web Form →

Or open an Issue.

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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

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Resources

• Agent Skills Standard - The open SKILL.md specification
• Anthropic Claude Code Docs
• Cursor Skills Documentation
• QuantEcon - Python/Julia for economists

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Contributing

We welcome contributions! See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

Ways to contribute:

• 🆕 Submit new skills via the web form
• 🐛 Report issues or suggest improvements
• 📖 Improve documentation
• ⭐ Star this repo to show support

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License

This work is dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0.