Jmf Theory And Conceptual Framework
franklee16/academic-research-skills
A skill your agent uses when building the theoretical and conceptual framework of a Journal of Marriage and Family (JMF) manuscript.
Agent skill
Amanthro Theory Building
by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills
A skill your agent uses when building the conceptual/theoretical argument of an American Anthropologist (AA) manuscript into a four-field contribution — whether the work is ethnographic…
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Install Amanthro Theory Building
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill amanthro-theory-building -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills amanthro-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/American-Anthropologist-Skills/skills/amanthro-theory-building .claude/skills/amanthro-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 "amanthro-theory-building" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/American-Anthropologist-Skills/skills/amanthro-theory-building into .claude/skills/amanthro-theory-building/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "amanthro-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/American-Anthropologist-Skills/skills/amanthro-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 amanthro-theory-building -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills amanthro-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/American-Anthropologist-Skills/skills/amanthro-theory-building .agents/skills/amanthro-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 "amanthro-theory-building" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/American-Anthropologist-Skills/skills/amanthro-theory-building into .agents/skills/amanthro-theory-building/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "amanthro-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 amanthro-theory-building -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills amanthro-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/American-Anthropologist-Skills/skills/amanthro-theory-building .cursor/skills/amanthro-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 "amanthro-theory-building" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/American-Anthropologist-Skills/skills/amanthro-theory-building into .cursor/skills/amanthro-theory-building/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "amanthro-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 American-Anthropologist-Skills/skills/amanthro-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 amanthro-theory-building -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills amanthro-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/American-Anthropologist-Skills/skills/amanthro-theory-building .gemini/skills/amanthro-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 "amanthro-theory-building" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/American-Anthropologist-Skills/skills/amanthro-theory-building into .gemini/skills/amanthro-theory-building/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "amanthro-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 amanthro-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 amanthro-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/American-Anthropologist-Skills/skills/amanthro-theory-building .github/skills/amanthro-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 "amanthro-theory-building" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/American-Anthropologist-Skills/skills/amanthro-theory-building into .github/skills/amanthro-theory-building/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "amanthro-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 amanthro-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 amanthro-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/American-Anthropologist-Skills/skills/amanthro-theory-building .opencode/skills/amanthro-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 "amanthro-theory-building" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/American-Anthropologist-Skills/skills/amanthro-theory-building into .opencode/skills/amanthro-theory-building/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "amanthro-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
amanthro-theory-building- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1.1k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 453 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/theoretical argument of an American Anthropologist (AA) manuscript into a four-field contribution — whether the work is ethnographic…
- Works in 4 steps: Concept — define the key analytic… → Interpretive logic / mechanism — the… → Evidence-to-claim link — show which… → …
- SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Build the argument (by mode of…, Reflexivity & positionality… and The "portability" test…, plus 3 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Amanthro Theory Building is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when building the conceptual/theoretical argument of an American Anthropologist (AA) manuscript into a four-field contribution — whether the work is ethnographic, archaeological, biological, or linguistic. AA rewards a portable concept and reflexive argument over a bare finding or thick description alone. Structures the argument; it does not run analyses or write fieldnotes.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k 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.
Example prompts
- “/amanthro-theory-building”
Workflow steps
4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Concept — define the key analytic precisely; distinguish it from neighbors and from the
- Interpretive logic / mechanism — the social process: who does what, with what meaning, under
- Evidence-to-claim link — show which fieldwork moments, utterances, or materials ground each
- Scope conditions & portability — where the argument holds and where it does not. Portability ≠
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
Amanthro Theory Building loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 102 tokens; SKILL.md has 453 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). 453 words, ~1,087 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/amanthro-theory-building/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- amanthro-theory-building
- description
- Use when building the conceptual/theoretical argument of an American Anthropologist (AA) manuscript into a four-field contribution — whether the work is ethnographic, archaeological, biological, or linguistic. AA rewards a portable concept and reflexive argument over a bare finding or thick description alone. Structures the argument; it does not run analyses or write fieldnotes.
Theory & Argument Building (amanthro-theory-building)
At AA, evidence is not a contribution until it is attached to an argument other anthropologists can use elsewhere. This skill turns fieldwork, material, or measurements into theory: explicit concepts, mechanisms or interpretive logics, scope conditions, and positionality, in the idiom appropriate to your subfield. Thick description is necessary at AA but not sufficient — the "so what" must travel.
When to trigger
- The ethnography/data are rich but the conceptual payoff is thin
- A reviewer said the paper is "descriptive," "undertheorized," or "just a case"
- You need to state concepts, mechanisms, and scope conditions explicitly
- You must make your positionality and relationship to the field part of the argument
Build the argument (by mode of work)
Ethnographic / interpretive paper
- Concept — define the key analytic precisely; distinguish it from neighbors and from the interlocutors' own terms (and say where you keep their term and why).
- Interpretive logic / mechanism — the social process: who does what, with what meaning, under what constraints. Make it legible without flattening complexity.
- Evidence-to-claim link — show which fieldwork moments, utterances, or materials ground each claim, and what would have disconfirmed your reading.
- Scope conditions & portability — where the argument holds and where it does not. Portability ≠ universalizing the particular.
Archaeological / biological paper
- State the substantive question the material/biological evidence addresses before the methods.
- Keep inferential assumptions transparent (taphonomy, dating, sampling, comparative frames).
- Translate findings into a claim about social life or human variation that anthropologists can use, not only a site- or specimen-specific result.
Linguistic-anthropology paper
- Show what the language practice indexes (identity, power, ideology, cognition) beyond its form.
- Connect the discourse/grammar analysis to a cultural or social argument readers in other fields share.
Show full SKILL.md (171 more words)Show less
Reflexivity & positionality (an AA hallmark)
- Make explicit who you are in this field — your relationship to interlocutors, how access shaped what you saw, and how your position bears on the interpretation. AA practices an ethics of care; reflexivity is part of the argument's credibility, not a confessional aside.
The "portability" test (AA-specific)
Ask: Could an anthropologist in another subfield import this concept/mechanism to their own problem?
If yes, you have a four-field contribution. If the argument only works for your exact case, tighten it
into a general logic or reframe (back to amanthro-topic-selection).
Anti-patterns
- Thick description with no portable concept (rich case, thin theory)
- Universalizing a single ethnographic particular with no scope conditions
- Concepts named but never grounded in specific evidence
- Erasing positionality / writing a "view from nowhere" in an interpretive field
- Importing a deficit framing of communities rather than their own analytics
- Burying the argument under the material — the contribution must be stated plainly
Output format
【Core claim】one sentence
【Concept】the key analytic, defined
【Mechanism / interpretive logic】the social process
【Evidence link】what grounds it / what would disconfirm it
【Positionality】how the author's relation to the field bears on the reading
【Scope + portability】where it holds / who else can use it
【Next】amanthro-research-designSupplementary resources
../../resources/external_tools.md— concept-mapping, qualitative-analysis, and comparative tooling../../resources/official-source-map.md— AA scope and contribution expectations
© brycewang-stanford, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
Files
Just SKILL.md in American-Anthropologist-Skills/skills/amanthro-theory-building of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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| Amanthro Theory Building this skillbrycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills | 1.2k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Jmf Theory And Conceptual Frameworkfranklee16/academic-research-skills | 223 | 1 repos | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Integration Theoryparcadei/Continuous-Claude-v3 | 3.9k | 1 repos | ~929 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | |
| Statistical Theory Analysisaiming-lab/AutoResearchClaw | 15k | — | ~375 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Game Theorybrycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills | 4.6k | — | ~3.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Asymptotic Theorybrycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills | 4.6k | — | ~4.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence |
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Questions about Amanthro Theory Building
What does Amanthro Theory Building do?
A skill your agent uses when building the conceptual/theoretical argument of an American Anthropologist (AA) manuscript into a four-field contribution — whether the work is ethnographic…. Amanthro Theory Building is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when building the conceptual/theoretical argument of an American Anthropologist (AA) manuscript into a four-field contribution — whether the work is ethnographic, archaeological, biological, or linguistic.
How do I install Amanthro Theory Building in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill amanthro-theory-building -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (American-Anthropologist-Skills/skills/amanthro-theory-building in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/amanthro-theory-building in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Amanthro Theory Building in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill amanthro-theory-building -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (American-Anthropologist-Skills/skills/amanthro-theory-building in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/amanthro-theory-building in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Amanthro 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 amanthro-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/amanthro-theory-building, .gemini/skills/amanthro-theory-building, .github/skills/amanthro-theory-building and .opencode/skills/amanthro-theory-building in your project.
What does Amanthro Theory Building need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Amanthro Theory Building is instructions for the agent only.
Does Amanthro 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 Amanthro 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 Amanthro Theory Building use?
Amanthro 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 Amanthro Theory Building use?
About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.3k 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 Amanthro 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.