Agent skill

Curranthro Research Design

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

A skill your agent uses when defending the research design of a Current Anthropology (CA) manuscript — fieldwork and participant observation, interview and archival design for…

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Install Curranthro Research Design

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill curranthro-research-design -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills curranthro-research-design --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/Current-Anthropology-Skills/skills/curranthro-research-design .claude/skills/curranthro-research-design && 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
curranthro-research-design
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
613 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when defending the research design of a Current Anthropology (CA) manuscript — fieldwork and participant observation, interview and archival design for…

  • Defending the research design of a Current Anthropology (CA) manuscript — fieldwork and participant observation
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Ethnographic / qualitative…, Archival / material analysis and Biological / physical…, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Interview and archival design for ethnographic/qualitative work

What it does

Curranthro Research Design is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when defending the research design of a Current Anthropology (CA) manuscript — fieldwork and participant observation, interview and archival design for ethnographic/qualitative work, material/contextual analysis for archaeology, and appropriate lab/quantitative design for biological anthropology. CA judges each mode on its own terms with reflexivity, and the design must survive published CA✩ Comments. Strengthens the design; it does not write code or run fieldwork.

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.

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

  • Defending the research design of a Current Anthropology (CA) manuscript — fieldwork and participant observation
  • Interview and archival design for ethnographic/qualitative work
  • Material/contextual analysis for archaeology
  • Appropriate lab/quantitative design for biological anthropology

Example prompts

  • “/curranthro-research-design”

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

Curranthro Research Design loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 125 tokens; SKILL.md has 613 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~125
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). 613 words, ~1,509 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/curranthro-research-design/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
curranthro-research-design
description
Use when defending the research design of a Current Anthropology (CA) manuscript — fieldwork and participant observation, interview and archival design for ethnographic/qualitative work, material/contextual analysis for archaeology, and appropriate lab/quantitative design for biological anthropology. CA judges each mode on its own terms with reflexivity, and the design must survive published CA✩ Comments. Strengthens the design; it does not write code or run fieldwork.

Research Design (curranthro-research-design)

CA accepts many methodologies but is demanding about each, and the design of a Major Article will be scrutinized in print by invited commentators under the CA✩ Treatment. The design must credibly connect the argument (curranthro-theory-building) to evidence — and at CA, ethnographic and qualitative inference is first-class, not a soft substitute for statistics. This skill is mode-aware: pick the section that matches your work and defend it against the strongest alternative reading, reflexively and ethically, as if a commentator were already writing the objection.

When to trigger

  • Specifying fieldwork, sampling of sites/interlocutors, archive or material selection, or lab design
  • A reviewer (or anticipated commentator) questioned your evidence, generalization, confound, or interpretive leap
  • Planning consent, anonymization, and community accountability into the design
  • Justifying why your evidence adjudicates the rival reading from curranthro-literature-positioning

Ethnographic / qualitative (first-class at CA)

  • Fieldwork design. State the site(s), duration, language(s) of work, and your access — and how each shaped what was observable. Participant observation is a method with a logic, not just "being there."
  • Sampling of cases/interlocutors justified by design logic (typical, deviant, contrastive, theoretically driven), not convenience. Say what the case is a case of.
  • Triangulation & disconfirmation. Corroborate across observation, interviews, documents, and material; state what evidence would have disconfirmed the reading.
  • Reflexivity. Your positionality is part of the design's validity (see curranthro-theory-building).

Archival / material analysis

  • Justify the archive or assemblage selected, its silences and biases, and how you read against the grain. For archaeology: provenience, sampling, dating logic, comparative frames, and taphonomic caveats.

Biological / physical anthropology (quantitative/lab)

  • State the estimand or comparison, sampling frame, measurement protocol, and replication.
  • Report power/sample adequacy; pre-register where appropriate; address batch/lab effects, ancestry vs. social-race conflation, and ethical sourcing of skeletal/genetic/biological samples (see curranthro-transparency-and-data for repatriation and consent).

The adjudication test (CA-specific)

For the single strongest rival reading, write one sentence: "If the rival account were right rather than mine, the evidence would look like ___; instead it looks like ___." For a Major Article, assume a commentator will name this rival in print — your Reply will be far stronger if the design already rules it out. If you cannot write the sentence, the design does not yet identify the contribution, regardless of how rich the material is.

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Anti-patterns

  • "Being there" treated as self-justifying — participant observation without a stated evidentiary logic
  • Convenience site/interlocutor selection dressed up as theory-driven
  • Causal or generalizing language an ethnographic design cannot support (and vice versa: dismissing qualitative evidence as merely anecdotal)
  • Biological "race" treated as a natural kind; ancestry conflated with social race
  • Consent, anonymization, or heritage obligations left out of the design (see curranthro-transparency-and-data)
  • A design that cannot distinguish your reading from the leading alternative a commentator will raise

What CA reviewers and commentators probe, by mode

ModeThe design question a referee/commentator presses firstThe fix that earns trust
Ethnographic / interpretiveIs the evidentiary logic of "being there" stated, or assumed?Name what participant observation generated; justify case/interlocutor selection
Archival / materialAre the archive's silences read, or treated as neutral data?Read against the grain; state provenience, sampling, and what it cannot show
Biological / quantitativeIs the estimand clear and "race" handled with care?State sample frame + power; ancestry ≠ social race; ethical sourcing
Multimodal / participatoryWas media consent and community authority designed in from the start?Plan capture/consent up front; name how partners shaped the questions

Because a Major Article's design is dissected in the published Comments, write the design section so a commentator's objection has already been anticipated and answered in the text — that is what makes a strong CA✩ Reply possible later (see curranthro-rebuttal).

Output format

【Mode】ethnographic / archival-material / biological-quant / multimodal-participatory
【Evidence base】sites/interlocutors/assemblage/sample + how selected
【Key assumption(s)】and how each is defended (incl. reflexivity)
【Rival ruled out】the adjudication sentence (the one a commentator will press)
【Disconfirmation】what would have shown you wrong
【Ethics designed in】consent / anonymization / accountability flagged? [Y/N]
【Next】curranthro-data-analysis

Supplementary resources

© 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 Current-Anthropology-Skills/skills/curranthro-research-design of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Curranthro Research Design

What does Curranthro Research Design do?

A skill your agent uses when defending the research design of a Current Anthropology (CA) manuscript — fieldwork and participant observation, interview and archival design for…. Curranthro Research Design is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when defending the research design of a Current Anthropology (CA) manuscript — fieldwork and participant observation, interview and archival design for ethnographic/qualitative work, material/contextual analysis for archaeology, and appropriate lab/quantitative design for biological anthropology.

When should I use Curranthro Research Design?

Curranthro Research Design fits situations like: defending the research design of a Current Anthropology (CA) manuscript — fieldwork and participant observation; interview and archival design for ethnographic/qualitative work; material/contextual analysis for archaeology; appropriate lab/quantitative design for biological anthropology.

How do I install Curranthro Research Design in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill curranthro-research-design -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Current-Anthropology-Skills/skills/curranthro-research-design in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/curranthro-research-design in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Curranthro Research Design in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill curranthro-research-design -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Current-Anthropology-Skills/skills/curranthro-research-design in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/curranthro-research-design in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Curranthro Research Design 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 curranthro-research-design -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/curranthro-research-design, .gemini/skills/curranthro-research-design, .github/skills/curranthro-research-design and .opencode/skills/curranthro-research-design in your project.

What does Curranthro Research Design need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Curranthro Research Design is instructions for the agent only.

Does Curranthro Research Design 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 Curranthro Research Design 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 Curranthro Research Design use?

Curranthro Research Design 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 Curranthro Research Design use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6k 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 Curranthro Research Design?

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.