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A skill your agent uses when building the conceptual contribution of an Annals of the American Association of Geographers manuscript — turning a finding into a geographic argument grounded in…
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Install Aaag Theory Building
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aaag-theory-building -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills aaag-theory-building --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/Annals-of-the-American-Association-of-Geographers-Skills/skills/aaag-theory-building .claude/skills/aaag-theory-building && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "aaag-theory-building" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Annals-of-the-American-Association-of-Geographers-Skills/skills/aaag-theory-building into .claude/skills/aaag-theory-building/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "aaag-theory-building", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Annals-of-the-American-Association-of-Geographers-Skills/skills/aaag-theory-buildingType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aaag-theory-building -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills aaag-theory-building --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/Annals-of-the-American-Association-of-Geographers-Skills/skills/aaag-theory-building .agents/skills/aaag-theory-building && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "aaag-theory-building" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Annals-of-the-American-Association-of-Geographers-Skills/skills/aaag-theory-building into .agents/skills/aaag-theory-building/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "aaag-theory-building", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aaag-theory-building -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills aaag-theory-building --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/Annals-of-the-American-Association-of-Geographers-Skills/skills/aaag-theory-building .cursor/skills/aaag-theory-building && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "aaag-theory-building" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Annals-of-the-American-Association-of-Geographers-Skills/skills/aaag-theory-building into .cursor/skills/aaag-theory-building/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "aaag-theory-building", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git --path Annals-of-the-American-Association-of-Geographers-Skills/skills/aaag-theory-building--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aaag-theory-building -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills aaag-theory-building --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/Annals-of-the-American-Association-of-Geographers-Skills/skills/aaag-theory-building .gemini/skills/aaag-theory-building && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "aaag-theory-building" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Annals-of-the-American-Association-of-Geographers-Skills/skills/aaag-theory-building into .gemini/skills/aaag-theory-building/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "aaag-theory-building", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills aaag-theory-buildingInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aaag-theory-building -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/Annals-of-the-American-Association-of-Geographers-Skills/skills/aaag-theory-building .github/skills/aaag-theory-building && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "aaag-theory-building" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Annals-of-the-American-Association-of-Geographers-Skills/skills/aaag-theory-building into .github/skills/aaag-theory-building/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "aaag-theory-building", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aaag-theory-building -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills aaag-theory-building --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/Annals-of-the-American-Association-of-Geographers-Skills/skills/aaag-theory-building .opencode/skills/aaag-theory-building && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "aaag-theory-building" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Annals-of-the-American-Association-of-Geographers-Skills/skills/aaag-theory-building into .opencode/skills/aaag-theory-building/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "aaag-theory-building", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
aaag-theory-building- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1.3k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 503 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 2,387
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
A skill your agent uses when building the conceptual contribution of an Annals of the American Association of Geographers manuscript — turning a finding into a geographic argument grounded in…
- Environment-society
- SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Build the argument with a…, Theory across the four areas… and The portability test…, plus 6 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
- Spatial process)
What it does
Aaag Theory Building is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when building the conceptual contribution of an Annals of the American Association of Geographers manuscript — turning a finding into a geographic argument grounded in geographic theory (place, scale, space-time, environment-society, spatial process). Sharpens the argument; it does not run analyses.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. ｜ 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- Environment-society
- Spatial process)
Example prompts
- “/aaag-theory-building”
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Aaag Theory Building loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 81 tokens; SKILL.md has 503 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 503 words, ~1,291 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/aaag-theory-building/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- aaag-theory-building
- description
- Use when building the conceptual contribution of an Annals of the American Association of Geographers manuscript — turning a finding into a geographic argument grounded in geographic theory (place, scale, space-time, environment-society, spatial process). Sharpens the argument; it does not run analyses.
Theory Building (aaag-theory-building)
An Annals paper is judged on the geographic argument, not only the result. The contribution must do conceptual work with geography's own apparatus — space, place, scale, region, territory, landscape, environment-society relations, spatial process — and be portable enough that other geographers can use it.
When to trigger
- Moving from "we found X" to "X means Y for how geographers understand Z"
- A reviewer said the paper is "descriptive," "atheoretical," or "a case study without a concept"
- Deciding which geographic concept the argument advances or revises
Build the argument with a geographic concept
Pick the concept the paper actually moves and make it load-bearing:
- Scale — the result holds/changes across scales; the argument is about cross-scale processes or the MAUP, not a single resolution.
- Place / region — what is specific vs. generalizable about the setting; what the case is a case of.
- Space-time / spatial process — diffusion, dependence, clustering, mobility as the mechanism, not a backdrop.
- Environment-society — the coupling itself is the object; neither side is mere context.
- Spatial data / representation — for Methods, the conceptual stakes of how space is measured and modeled.
Theory across the four areas (judged on its own terms)
| Area | What "theory" looks like | The bar |
|---|---|---|
| Methods | a formal/computational claim about geographic inference | generalizes beyond one dataset; states assumptions |
| Human | a social-spatial mechanism or relational concept | engages social theory as geography |
| Nature-Society | a mechanism coupling biophysical and social process | both sides theorized; feedbacks named |
| Physical | a process model / hypothesis about earth-surface behavior | testable, scale-aware, mechanism-explicit |
| General | a cross-area conceptual move | reorders how multiple areas see the topic |
The portability test (Annals-specific)
State the contribution as a sentence another geographer could import: "___ is best understood as ___ rather than ___, which means [a different subfield] should expect ___." If the contribution cannot be lifted out of your case, it is a finding, not yet a geographic argument.
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From observation to claim
- Name the mechanism / concept, not just the pattern ("clustering" is a pattern; "why and at what scale the process clusters" is the argument).
- State scope conditions: where the argument holds and where it should break — geography rewards explicit scale and place boundaries.
- Distinguish your claim from the nearest rival concept (link to
aaag-literature-positioning).
Worked micro-example (illustrative)
A finding: "flood-relief funds reached richer neighborhoods faster in City X."
Pattern only: "relief was spatially unequal" (a map, not a concept)
Geographic argument: relief speed is governed by administrative SCALE mismatch — funds routed through
units that do not match the geography of need, so the same policy produces uneven relief by design
Mechanism: scalar mismatch between funding units and exposure units
Scope conditions: holds where exposure crosses administrative boundaries; breaks where they coincide
Portability: any geographer studying service delivery can ask whether the governing unit matches the
geography of the problem — the concept lifts out of floodsThe pattern becomes a portable claim about scalar mismatch, not a description of one city's floods.
Checklist
- The argument names a geographic concept and does conceptual work with it
- Mechanism stated, not just pattern; scope conditions explicit
- Portability sentence written (another subfield could import it)
- Theory matched to the area's tradition and judged on its own terms
- The strongest rival concept is named and distinguished
Anti-patterns
- Descriptive mapping with no concept ("here is the spatial distribution of X")
- Borrowing a non-geographic theory wholesale with no spatial/place/scale work
- A Nature-Society argument that theorizes only the social or only the biophysical side
- Claiming generality from one case with no scope conditions
Output format
【Geographic concept】scale / place / space-time / environment-society / representation
【Mechanism】the process the argument turns on
【Scope conditions】where it holds / breaks
【Portability】the import sentence
【Next】aaag-research-designSupplementary resources
../../resources/exemplars/library.md— papers whose contribution is a portable geographic concept../../resources/official-source-map.md— area definitions and scope
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Files
Just SKILL.md in Annals-of-the-American-Association-of-Geographers-Skills/skills/aaag-theory-building of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aaag Theory Building this skillbrycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills | 1.2k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Contributemindfold-ai/Trellis | 15k | — | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | |
| Contributesuperset-sh/superset | 15k | — | ~624 | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Contributingkortix-ai/suna | 20k | — | ~3k | Automated safety check: Warn | Custom licence | |
| OpenDesign Contribution Flownexu-io/open-design | 100k | — | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | |
| Contributejeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace | 2.8k | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Aaag Theory Building
What does Aaag Theory Building do?
A skill your agent uses when building the conceptual contribution of an Annals of the American Association of Geographers manuscript — turning a finding into a geographic argument grounded in…. Aaag Theory Building is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when building the conceptual contribution of an Annals of the American Association of Geographers manuscript — turning a finding into a geographic argument grounded in geographic theory (place, scale, space-time, environment-society, spatial process).
When should I use Aaag Theory Building?
Aaag Theory Building fits situations like: environment-society; spatial process).
How do I install Aaag Theory Building in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aaag-theory-building -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Annals-of-the-American-Association-of-Geographers-Skills/skills/aaag-theory-building in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/aaag-theory-building in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Aaag Theory Building in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aaag-theory-building -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Annals-of-the-American-Association-of-Geographers-Skills/skills/aaag-theory-building in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/aaag-theory-building in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Aaag Theory Building in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aaag-theory-building -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/aaag-theory-building, .gemini/skills/aaag-theory-building, .github/skills/aaag-theory-building and .opencode/skills/aaag-theory-building in your project.
What does Aaag Theory Building need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Aaag Theory Building is instructions for the agent only.
Does Aaag Theory Building access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Aaag Theory Building safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Aaag Theory Building use?
Aaag Theory Building is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Aaag Theory Building use?
About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
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Who maintains Aaag Theory Building?
brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,231 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.
Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.