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Install Govern Theory Building
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill govern-theory-building -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills govern-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/Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-theory-building .claude/skills/govern-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 "govern-theory-building" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-theory-building into .claude/skills/govern-theory-building/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "govern-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/Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-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 govern-theory-building -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills govern-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/Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-theory-building .agents/skills/govern-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 "govern-theory-building" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-theory-building into .agents/skills/govern-theory-building/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "govern-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 govern-theory-building -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills govern-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/Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-theory-building .cursor/skills/govern-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 "govern-theory-building" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-theory-building into .cursor/skills/govern-theory-building/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "govern-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 Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-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 govern-theory-building -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills govern-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/Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-theory-building .gemini/skills/govern-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 "govern-theory-building" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-theory-building into .gemini/skills/govern-theory-building/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "govern-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 govern-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 govern-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/Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-theory-building .github/skills/govern-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 "govern-theory-building" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-theory-building into .github/skills/govern-theory-building/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "govern-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 govern-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 govern-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/Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-theory-building .opencode/skills/govern-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 "govern-theory-building" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-theory-building into .opencode/skills/govern-theory-building/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "govern-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
govern-theory-building- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1.2k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 549 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 argument and theoretical contribution of a Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions manuscript — to theories of the…
- Works in 4 steps: Name the mechanism, not just the… → State scope conditions explicitly. Where… → Specify observable implications in… → …
- Building the argument and theoretical contribution of a Governance: An International Journal of Policy
- SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Build a portable argument, Concept formation for… and Contribution types that land…, plus 4 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Govern Theory Building is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when building the argument and theoretical contribution of a Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions manuscript — to theories of the state, institutions, the policy process, bureaucracy, governance networks, and accountability, with portability across cases and disciplined concept formation. Builds the argument; it does not test it.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k 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
- Building the argument and theoretical contribution of a Governance: An International Journal of Policy
- Institutions manuscript — to theories of the state
- The policy process
- Governance networks
Example prompts
- “/govern-theory-building”
Workflow steps
4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Name the mechanism, not just the correlation. State why governing produces the outcome — the
- State scope conditions explicitly. Where does the argument hold — which regime types, levels of
- Specify observable implications in advance. What should we see in the cases/countries if the
- Connect to a theory others can use. Tie the contribution to an existing family (historical
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
Govern Theory Building loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 101 tokens; SKILL.md has 549 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). 549 words, ~1,234 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/govern-theory-building/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- govern-theory-building
- description
- Use when building the argument and theoretical contribution of a Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions manuscript — to theories of the state, institutions, the policy process, bureaucracy, governance networks, and accountability, with portability across cases and disciplined concept formation. Builds the argument; it does not test it.
Theory Building (govern-theory-building)
A Governance contribution is judged by what it adds to how we understand governing — the state,
institutions, the policy process, bureaucracy, governance networks, accountability. The argument must be
sharp enough to test (govern-research-design) and portable enough to matter beyond one case. This
skill builds the argument and its concepts; it does not run the empirics.
When to trigger
- Stating the core argument, mechanism, and scope conditions
- A reviewer said the theory is "ad hoc," "just a description," or "won't travel"
- Defining or refining a concept for comparative use
- Specifying what the theory predicts that rivals do not
Build a portable argument
- Name the mechanism, not just the correlation. State why governing produces the outcome — the causal logic (delegation incentives, blame avoidance, institutional layering, policy feedback, network coordination). A mechanism is what lets the claim travel.
- State scope conditions explicitly. Where does the argument hold — which regime types, levels of government, policy domains, capacity levels? Scope conditions are a feature, not a hedge; they make portability honest.
- Specify observable implications in advance. What should we see in the cases/countries if the argument is right — and what would we see instead if a rival institutional account were right?
- Connect to a theory others can use. Tie the contribution to an existing family (historical institutionalism, principal-agent, the regulatory state, multilevel governance) so the field can build on it — even when you revise that family.
Concept formation for comparative work (avoid concept stretching)
Comparative governance lives or dies on concepts. Apply Sartori-style discipline:
- Define by attributes, then by cases. Fix the defining attributes (intension) before deciding which cases fall under the concept (extension); do not stretch a concept to fit a convenient case.
- Mind the ladder of abstraction. To travel to more cases, drop attributes (move up); to gain precision, add them (move down). State where on the ladder your concept sits.
- Establish equivalence across cases. "Accountability," "agency," "reform," "capacity" do not mean the same thing in every system — show functional/contextual equivalence before you compare.
- Avoid the degreeism / dichotomy trap. Be explicit about whether the concept is categorical or graded, and justify the choice for the comparison at hand.
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Contribution types that land at Governance
- A new or revised mechanism for a governing phenomenon, with scope conditions.
- A reconceptualization that resolves a measurement or classification problem comparatively.
- A theory portability claim — an account known in one context shown to (not) travel, and why.
- A scope-condition correction — a leading theory holds only under conditions the field missed.
The strongest-rival test (Governance-specific)
For the single strongest rival institutional explanation, write one sentence: "If the rival account of governing were right rather than mine, we would observe ___ across cases; my argument instead implies ___." If you cannot write it, the theory is not yet a testable contribution — it is a description waiting for a mechanism.
Anti-patterns
- A "framework" that organizes cases but predicts nothing
- Concept stretching: relabeling a familiar concept to claim novelty, or applying it where attributes don't hold
- Scope conditions left implicit, so the claim silently over-generalizes
- A mechanism that cannot distinguish your argument from the leading institutional rival
- Theory and case so fused that the argument cannot travel to a second country
Output format
【Core claim】one sentence
【Mechanism】why governing produces the outcome
【Scope conditions】where it holds (regimes / levels / domains / capacity)
【Key concept(s)】definition + position on ladder of abstraction + equivalence note
【Rival ruled out】the strongest-rival sentence
【Observable implications】what we should/should not see across cases
【Next】govern-research-designSupplementary resources
../../resources/external_tools.md— concept-formation and theory-mapping references../../resources/official-source-map.md— Governance scope and contribution expectations
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Files
Just SKILL.md in Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-theory-building of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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| Docs Governanceaffaan-m/ECC | 277k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Contributesuperset-sh/superset | 15k | — | ~624 | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
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Questions about Govern Theory Building
What does Govern Theory Building do?
A skill your agent uses when building the argument and theoretical contribution of a Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions manuscript — to theories of the…. Govern Theory Building is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when building the argument and theoretical contribution of a Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions manuscript — to theories of the state, institutions, the policy process, bureaucracy, governance networks, and accountability, with portability across cases and disciplined concept formation.
When should I use Govern Theory Building?
Govern Theory Building fits situations like: building the argument and theoretical contribution of a Governance: An International Journal of Policy; institutions manuscript — to theories of the state; the policy process; governance networks.
How do I install Govern Theory Building in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill govern-theory-building -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-theory-building in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/govern-theory-building in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Govern Theory Building in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill govern-theory-building -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-theory-building in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/govern-theory-building in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Govern 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 govern-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/govern-theory-building, .gemini/skills/govern-theory-building, .github/skills/govern-theory-building and .opencode/skills/govern-theory-building in your project.
What does Govern Theory Building need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Govern Theory Building is instructions for the agent only.
Does Govern 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 Govern 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 Govern Theory Building use?
Govern 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 Govern Theory Building use?
About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Govern Theory Building?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Govern Theory Building: Contribute (mindfold-ai/Trellis, 15k stars), Docs Governance (affaan-m/ECC, 277k stars), Contribute (superset-sh/superset, 15k stars) and Contributing (kortix-ai/suna, 20k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Govern 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.