Agent skill

Aos Theory Development

by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

A skill your agent uses when building the theoretical engine of an Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript — choosing a social/organizational theory tradition (institutional theory…

MITAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Aos Theory Development

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aos-theory-development -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills aos-theory-development --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/Accounting-Organizations-and-Society-Skills/skills/aos-theory-development .claude/skills/aos-theory-development && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.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/

Facts

Skill name
aos-theory-development
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
703 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 theoretical engine of an Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript — choosing a social/organizational theory tradition (institutional theory…

  • Building the theoretical engine of an Accounting
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, AOS is theory-first, The working traditions of the… and Make the lens generate, not…, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript — choosing a social/organizational theory tradition (institutional theory

What it does

Aos Theory Development is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when building the theoretical engine of an Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript — choosing a social/organizational theory tradition (institutional theory, governmentality, Bourdieu, actor-network theory, practice theory, psychological process theory) and making it generate the analysis rather than decorate it. Builds the lens; it does not collect data (aos-methods) or frame the contribution (aos-contribution-framing).

Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Business, Finance & HR, covering Accounting and bookkeeping. 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

  • Building the theoretical engine of an Accounting
  • Organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript — choosing a social/organizational theory tradition (institutional theory
  • Governmentality
  • Actor-network theory

Example prompts

  • “/aos-theory-development”

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

Aos Theory Development loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 117 tokens; SKILL.md has 703 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~117
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.5k

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). 703 words, ~1,515 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/aos-theory-development/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
aos-theory-development
description
Use when building the theoretical engine of an Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript — choosing a social/organizational theory tradition (institutional theory, governmentality, Bourdieu, actor-network theory, practice theory, psychological process theory) and making it generate the analysis rather than decorate it. Builds the lens; it does not collect data (aos-methods) or frame the contribution (aos-contribution-framing).

Theoretical Lens & Theorizing (aos-theory-development)

When to trigger

  • Field material is rich but the paper currently "describes what happened at Site X"
  • A theory is cited in the front end yet never reappears in the findings
  • An experiment predicts an effect without specifying the psychological process behind it
  • A reviewer writes "the theoretical framing is underdeveloped" or "the theory does no work"

AOS is theory-first

At AOS the theory is not a motivation ritual — it is the product. Empirics earn publication by extending, complicating, or overturning a way of understanding accounting's social operation. Before drafting anything else, answer: which conversation about how accounting works in organizations and society will this paper change, and through which conceptual apparatus?

The working traditions of the AOS canon

Choose one tradition and inhabit it; AOS referees can tell a user of a theory from a citer of one.

  • Institutional theory. Accounting as a carrier of legitimacy, myth, and isomorphic pressure; loose coupling between formal systems and practice. Entry point: Covaleski & Dirsmith (1986) on budgeting as power and politics. Theorize which institutional logics collide and what the accounting does in the collision.
  • Governmentality (Foucault). Accounting as a technology that renders people and domains calculable and governable — Miller & O'Leary's (1987) "governable person." Theorize the programmes (ideals) and technologies (calculative instruments) and their interplay.
  • Bourdieu. Fields, capital, habitus: accounting as a stake and weapon in struggles over position — used in AOS work on the profession, elites, and expertise. Theorize what forms of capital accounting converts and consecrates.
  • Actor-network theory. Accounting numbers as inscriptions that act at a distance (Robson 1992); expertise fabricated through networks (Chua 1995). Theorize how the inscription travels and enrolls allies, not just that it exists.
  • Structuration / practice theory. Accounting as both medium and outcome of everyday organizational routines — Roberts & Scapens (1985) on accountability systems; Ahrens & Chapman on practice. Theorize the recursive loop between system and situated use.
  • Psychological process theory (experiments). Motivated reasoning, mental models, accountability pressure, affect. Build the Libby-style predictive chain: conceptual cause → operational manipulation → process evidence → operational measure. The process claim, not the main effect, is the theory.

Make the lens generate, not decorate

  • Derive from the tradition what you expect to observe and what would surprise you — surprise is where theorizing starts.
  • For interpretive work, plan the abductive loop: theory guides fieldwork, anomalies push back on theory, iterate until the conceptual claim stabilizes (the discipline Ahrens & Chapman 2006 call positioning data to contribute to theory).
  • For experiments, write the process prediction (mediator, moderator, boundary condition) before the design, so the manipulation isolates the theorized construct.
  • Name the paper's conceptual innovation in one sentence: a new concept, a mechanism, a boundary condition on an existing account, or a demonstrated failure of a received view.
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Discipline checks by tradition

  • Interpretive/critical: Can a skeptic trace each conceptual claim to specific field or archival evidence? Does the theory section set up exactly the concepts the findings use — no orphan concepts, no unannounced ones?
  • Experimental: Does theory fix the direction and the condition of the effect? Would a different process theory predict the same pattern (if so, design to discriminate)?
  • Historical: Is the account genealogical (how the present became possible) rather than a chronicle?

Reading depth test

Before committing to a tradition, you should be able to (a) summarize its two or three primary sources from memory, (b) name one AOS paper that used it well and one that used it thinly, and (c) say what the tradition cannot explain. Failing (c) is the tell of a citer rather than a user.

Checklist

  • One tradition chosen and named; its key sources actually read, not name-checked
  • The conceptual innovation is stated in a single sentence
  • Every concept in the framing reappears, working, in the findings
  • (Interpretive) abductive loop planned: theory ↔ anomaly ↔ revision
  • (Experimental) process prediction with mediator/moderator specified pre-design
  • What-would-surprise-us is written down before data collection

Anti-patterns

  • Theory as wallpaper: Bourdieu in the introduction, thick description ever after.
  • Lens mixing: governmentality, institutional logics and ANT stapled together because each explains one finding.
  • Effects without process (experimental): predicting that X moves Y with no account of why in the mind of the decision-maker.
  • Post-hoc lens shopping: choosing whichever theory retroactively "fits" completed fieldwork and presenting it as prospective.

Output format

【Tradition】institutional / governmentality / Bourdieu / ANT / practice / psychological-process
【Conceptual innovation】one sentence ...
【Core concepts】each concept → where it will work in the findings ...
【Expectations & surprises】what the lens predicts; what would count as an anomaly ...
【Process (if experimental)】mediator / moderator / boundary condition ...
【Next step】aos-literature-positioning

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Accounting-Organizations-and-Society-Skills/skills/aos-theory-development of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Aos Theory Development

What does Aos Theory Development do?

A skill your agent uses when building the theoretical engine of an Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript — choosing a social/organizational theory tradition (institutional theory…. Aos Theory Development is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when building the theoretical engine of an Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript — choosing a social/organizational theory tradition (institutional theory, governmentality, Bourdieu, actor-network theory, practice theory, psychological process theory) and making it generate the analysis rather than decorate it.

When should I use Aos Theory Development?

Aos Theory Development fits situations like: building the theoretical engine of an Accounting; organizations and Society (AOS) manuscript — choosing a social/organizational theory tradition (institutional theory; governmentality; actor-network theory.

How do I install Aos Theory Development in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aos-theory-development -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Accounting-Organizations-and-Society-Skills/skills/aos-theory-development in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/aos-theory-development in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Aos Theory Development in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aos-theory-development -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Accounting-Organizations-and-Society-Skills/skills/aos-theory-development in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/aos-theory-development in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Aos Theory Development 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 aos-theory-development -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/aos-theory-development, .gemini/skills/aos-theory-development, .github/skills/aos-theory-development and .opencode/skills/aos-theory-development in your project.

What does Aos Theory Development need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Aos Theory Development is instructions for the agent only.

Does Aos Theory Development 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 Aos Theory Development 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 Aos Theory Development use?

Aos Theory Development 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 Aos Theory Development use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.1k 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 Aos Theory Development?

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.

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