Nine-skill stack for top-5 economics manuscripts (AER / AER: Insights / AEJ): topic selection, modern causal identification (DiD / IV / RDD / SCM / Bartik), referee-anticipating robustness, Keith-Head-style introductions, AER booktabs tables, AEA Data and Code Availability deposits (openICPSR-ready), submission preflight, and R&R rebuttal letters. Ships Stata / R / Python templates and classic-AER

Portable core of Sam's Claude Code setup: native pre-commit hook enforcement (sentinel gate retired 2026-08-14), on-demand /validate, generic review agents, cross-model Codex review skills, and a /bootstrap-cc-setup skill that writes the always-loaded rules layer plugins cannot ship. For repos NOT bootstrapped by the Loam Copier template - a Loam-rendered project already carries most of this in .c