EconTools
Custom skills for Claude Code designed for economics research workflows.
This folder is the development home for six skills (diebolt, ehrstyle, janluiten, kris, tanniedi, tyler) that have subfolders below.
Skills in this folder
Each of these has a subfolder here that mirrors the installed copy in ~/.claude/skills/. Edits made here are the source of truth.
Diebolt — diebolt/
A simulated peer review system for economics working papers, named in honour of Claude Diebolt — Research Professor at CNRS, Director of BETA, and founding Managing Editor of Cliometrica — whose editorial generosity gave Johan Fourie and Dieter von Fintel their first chance with their 2010 Cliometrica paper on inequality in the Cape Colony, and who has been a steadfast supporter of work at Stellenbosch ever since.
Diebolt creates a panel of independent referee agents — each with a distinct subspecialisation, personality, and fictitious university affiliation — who review your paper in isolation, with strict information barriers mirroring real peer review. An editor synthesises their feedback into a prioritised briefing. You choose which changes to implement, and the tool revises your LaTeX files accordingly. Accepted papers are signed off with Claude Diebolt's own Que la force.
The diebolt/ folder is both source and runtime state:
skill.md — the skill definition (mirrored to ~/.claude/skills/diebolt/)gurus/ — individual referee persona filesguru_registry.json — registry of all reviewer personasreview_log.json — history of reviews performed
Usage: /diebolt
EHRstyle — ehrstyle/
A Claude Code skill that applies the Economic History Review house style (Notes for Contributors, Feb 2026 v1) to a LaTeX manuscript prepared for submission to the Review. Encodes the full style guide — anonymity, double-spacing, ≤10,000 word budget, UK -ize spelling, Oxford commas, EHR-specific capitalisation (e.g. lower-case global financial crisis), number and date conventions — and ships a bespoke biblatex style (echr.bbx + echr.cbx) that produces EHR footnote references with short-title form, ibid./idem handling, surname-first bibliography, "2nd ser." and roman-volume treatment for pre-1992 Economic History Review citations, and automatic exclusion of working papers from the consolidated bibliography.
The ehrstyle/ folder contains:
SKILL.md — the skill definition, with sub-command dispatch (paper, bib, titlepage, coverletter, check)assets/echr.bbx + assets/echr.cbx — bespoke biblatex style filesassets/preamble-snippet.tex — drop-in LaTeX preambleassets/title-page-template.tex — anonymous-submission title pageassets/cover-letter-template.tex — cover letter for Research Exchangereferences/style-rules.md — verbatim §2 of the EHR Notes (spelling, punctuation, capitalisation)references/bibliography-rules.md — verbatim §3 (consolidated list + footnote form)references/submission-checklist.md — §1 and §A (anonymity, length, layout, file uploads)
Usage:
/ehrstyle paper [file]
/ehrstyle bib [file]
/ehrstyle titlepage
/ehrstyle coverletter
/ehrstyle check [file]
Janluiten — janluiten/
A lifelong sounding board for research ideas, named in honour of Jan Luiten van Zanden — Professor of Global Economic History at Utrecht University, mentor to a generation of economic historians, and Johan Fourie's own PhD advisor (Utrecht, 2012). At his Utrecht valedictory dinner, van Zanden was described as a scholar of unusual intuition — always a few years ahead of the field on the topics he chose, from environmental economics to gender to inequality. The skill is built in that image.
Janluiten helps you decide whether the idea on your desk is the right one to spend your next year on. He listens first, then asks — drawing on three things: the long view of how research programs rise and fall, cultural evolution (how prestige and conformity quietly steer what fields work on), and behavioural science (how researchers misread their own motives). The deliverable is mentorship on three questions: what to work on, with whom, and why. The axiom underneath all of it is that interest is the best predictor of success.
The janluiten/ folder contains:
skill.md — the skill definitionreferences/ — reading material the skill draws on at runtime (van Zanden's writings and related sources)
Use whenever you have a research idea — at any career stage, from a first paper to a senior pivot — and want help distilling whether it is the right one for you.
Usage: /janluiten
Kris — kris/
