Agent skill

Humrel Contribution Framing

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

A skill your agent uses when sharpening the theoretical contribution and the "so what" for a Human Relations (HR) manuscript once results exist.

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Install Humrel Contribution Framing

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill humrel-contribution-framing -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills humrel-contribution-framing --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/Human-Relations-Skills/skills/humrel-contribution-framing .claude/skills/humrel-contribution-framing && 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
humrel-contribution-framing
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
591 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when sharpening the theoretical contribution and the "so what" for a Human Relations (HR) manuscript once results exist.

  • Sharpening the theoretical contribution and the so what for a Human Relations (HR) manuscript once results exist
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The HR deliverable: a…, Name your contribution type and The contribution paragraph, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Humrel Contribution Framing is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when sharpening the theoretical contribution and the "so what" for a Human Relations (HR) manuscript once results exist. Frames the contribution; it does not develop the underlying theory or run analysis.

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

  • Sharpening the theoretical contribution and the so what for a Human Relations (HR) manuscript once results exist

Example prompts

  • “so what”
  • “/humrel-contribution-framing”

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

Humrel Contribution Framing loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 59 tokens; SKILL.md has 591 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~59
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

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). 591 words, ~1,262 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/humrel-contribution-framing/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
humrel-contribution-framing
description
Use when sharpening the theoretical contribution and the "so what" for a Human Relations (HR) manuscript once results exist. Frames the contribution; it does not develop the underlying theory or run analysis.

Contribution Framing (humrel-contribution-framing)

When to trigger

  • Results exist but you cannot state the contribution in one crisp sentence
  • The intro/discussion reads as "we found X" rather than "we change how the field understands work"
  • A reviewer says "interesting findings, but what is the theoretical contribution?"
  • The paper risks reading as a vivid case, a method demonstration, or a managerial how-to

The HR deliverable: a substantive theoretical contribution

HR's explicit gate is "a unique and substantive theoretical contribution" to understanding work and organizations as social phenomena. A finding answers a question; a contribution reframes the question or overturns a prior in a way readers across organization studies, sociology, and psychology can use. Frame around the surprise from humrel-topic-selection and the mechanism from humrel-theory-development. What is not the HR deliverable: a firm-performance improvement (a JMS register), a well-powered confirmation of a moderated hypothesis (an AMJ profile), a pure critique with no constructive claim (closer to Organization), or a rich description that never theorizes (closer to Work, Employment and Society).

Name your contribution type

  • Reframing: you reconceptualize a construct or relation (the field was looking at it wrong)
  • Mechanism: you reveal how/why a relational process happens that was a black box
  • Boundary/contingency: you show when an established effect reverses or breaks at work
  • Integration: you reconcile two conversations that appeared to conflict
  • New construct/process model: you name and theorize something the field lacked language for
  • Critical reframing: you show how power/ideology constitutes a phenomenon previously taken for granted — and offer a constructive alternative understanding

Avoid the weakest "contributions" HR rejects: "we replicate prior work in a new setting," "we add a moderator," "we study an under-studied population."

The contribution paragraph

Place a sharp statement early (intro) and revisit it in the discussion:

"We contribute to [conversation] by showing [surprising insight about social relations at work]. Whereas prior work assumed [prior], we demonstrate [reframing/mechanism/boundary], driven by [social mechanism]. This implies [non-obvious consequence for working life] and reopens [new question]."

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Discussion that earns HR acceptance

  • Lead with the theoretical contribution, not a findings recap.
  • Generativity: spell out the new questions and directions the insight opens; HR values ideas that travel across the social sciences of work.
  • Scope and reflexivity: state boundary conditions and what the study cannot claim; for qualitative/critical work, acknowledge the situatedness of the account — this strengthens the contribution.
  • Practical/societal relevance, if included, is brief and genuine — HR is socially relevant but theory-led; do not pad with a managerial implications list to mask a thin contribution.
  • Connect back to the surprise: remind the reader why the prior was wrong.

Calibrate the claim

  • Too modest → "so what?" rejection at the scoping screen. Too grand → "overclaiming" rejection.
  • The claim must be exactly as large as the evidence supports — and a single case or critical reading should claim analytical generalization (to theory), not statistical generalization.

Checklist

  • Contribution stated in one sentence a non-specialist work scholar would grasp
  • Contribution type named (reframing / mechanism / boundary / integration / new model / critical)
  • It is a change in understanding, not just a new finding or a managerial tip
  • Discussion leads with theory; generativity is explicit
  • Boundary conditions / situatedness stated honestly
  • Claim size matches evidence; qualitative claims are analytical not statistical
  • Societal relevance, if present, is brief and genuine

Anti-patterns

  • "We found X" framing with no reframing of the conversation
  • Listing 4–5 weak contributions instead of one strong one
  • Contribution = "new setting / added moderator / new sample"
  • A managerial implications section padded to substitute for thin theory
  • Critique with no constructive theoretical alternative
  • Claiming statistical generalization from a single case or interpretive study

Output format

text
【Journal】Human Relations
【Skill】humrel-contribution-framing
【Contribution (one sentence)】...
【Type】reframing / mechanism / boundary / integration / new model / critical
【Prior overturned】what the field assumed
【Generativity】new questions opened
【Claim calibration】matches evidence? analytical vs. statistical?
【Next skill】humrel-tables-figures

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Human-Relations-Skills/skills/humrel-contribution-framing of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Humrel Contribution Framing

What does Humrel Contribution Framing do?

A skill your agent uses when sharpening the theoretical contribution and the "so what" for a Human Relations (HR) manuscript once results exist. Humrel Contribution Framing is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when sharpening the theoretical contribution and the "so what" for a Human Relations (HR) manuscript once results exist.

When should I use Humrel Contribution Framing?

Humrel Contribution Framing fits situations like: sharpening the theoretical contribution and the so what for a Human Relations (HR) manuscript once results exist.

How do I install Humrel Contribution Framing in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill humrel-contribution-framing -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Human-Relations-Skills/skills/humrel-contribution-framing in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/humrel-contribution-framing in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Humrel Contribution Framing in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill humrel-contribution-framing -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Human-Relations-Skills/skills/humrel-contribution-framing in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/humrel-contribution-framing in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Humrel Contribution Framing 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 humrel-contribution-framing -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/humrel-contribution-framing, .gemini/skills/humrel-contribution-framing, .github/skills/humrel-contribution-framing and .opencode/skills/humrel-contribution-framing in your project.

What does Humrel Contribution Framing need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Humrel Contribution Framing is instructions for the agent only.

Does Humrel Contribution Framing 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 Humrel Contribution Framing 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 Humrel Contribution Framing use?

Humrel Contribution Framing 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 Humrel Contribution Framing use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5k 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 Humrel Contribution Framing?

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Who maintains Humrel Contribution Framing?

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.