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Humrel Methods

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

A skill your agent uses when choosing and justifying the research design for a Human Relations (HR) manuscript — qualitative/ethnographic, critical, quantitative, or mixed — and setting the rigor bar.

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Install Humrel Methods

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills humrel-methods --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-methods .claude/skills/humrel-methods && 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-methods
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
711 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when choosing and justifying the research design for a Human Relations (HR) manuscript — qualitative/ethnographic, critical, quantitative, or mixed — and setting the rigor bar.

  • Choosing and justifying the research design for a Human Relations (HR) manuscript — qualitative/ethnographic
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Principle: method follows the…, Branch A — Qualitative /… and Branch B — Critical design, plus 7 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Mixed — and setting the rigor bar

What it does

Humrel Methods is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when choosing and justifying the research design for a Human Relations (HR) manuscript — qualitative/ethnographic, critical, quantitative, or mixed — and setting the rigor bar. Designs the study; it does not run the analysis (see humrel-data-analysis).

Its SKILL.md is about 1.7k 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 Data & Analytics, covering Data analysis. 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

  • Choosing and justifying the research design for a Human Relations (HR) manuscript — qualitative/ethnographic
  • Mixed — and setting the rigor bar

Example prompts

  • “/humrel-methods”

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 Methods loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 68 tokens; SKILL.md has 711 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~68
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.7k

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). 711 words, ~1,656 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/humrel-methods/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
humrel-methods
description
Use when choosing and justifying the research design for a Human Relations (HR) manuscript — qualitative/ethnographic, critical, quantitative, or mixed — and setting the rigor bar. Designs the study; it does not run the analysis (see humrel-data-analysis).

Methods & Research Design (humrel-methods)

When to trigger

  • You are choosing among a qualitative/ethnographic, critical, quantitative, or mixed-methods design
  • The design is chosen but its rigor and transparency are not yet defensible
  • A qualitative study lacks a sampling logic or trustworthiness safeguards
  • A quantitative study lacks construct validity or theorizes only the coefficient
  • A mixed-methods study cannot say why both strands and what each adds

Principle: method follows the theoretical question — and HR privileges none

HR treats qualitative, critical, quantitative, and mixed-methods work as equally first-class, in the Tavistock human-relations tradition. There is no house preference for an estimator or a paradigm; what is non-negotiable is that the design fits the social-theoretical question (from humrel-theory-development) and is executed with rigor, transparency, and reflexivity. A sophisticated method cannot rescue a thin theory, and a single immersive ethnography can carry an HR paper if the insight is deep and the craft is high. Note also the double-anonymous review: write methods so they establish credibility without revealing the authors' institution, field site identity, or grant.

Branch A — Qualitative / ethnographic design

For how/why process, meaning, identity, and contested dynamics at work.

  • Theoretical (not convenience) sampling. Sites/cases/informants chosen to illuminate the mechanism; state the logic (polar types, extreme/critical case, longitudinal, theoretical replication).
  • Access and immersion. Specify duration, depth, and your role (participant vs. non-participant); for ethnography, time in the field; for historical work, the archive.
  • Triangulated data. Interviews (count, who, when, guide), observation, documents — and how they corroborate.
  • Trustworthiness. Credibility, transferability, dependability, confirmability: member checks, prolonged engagement, audit trail, negative-case analysis.
  • Reflexivity. State your standpoint and how it shaped access, interpretation, and the relations you studied — HR expects this, not as confession but as method.

Branch B — Critical design

For research interrogating power, ideology, discourse, and taken-for-granted arrangements.

  • Make the critical-theoretical lens explicit (labour process, Foucauldian, feminist, postcolonial, CDA) and tie analytic choices to it.
  • Treat reflexivity and positionality as central, not optional.
  • Ensure the critique is generative: the design must surface a constructive theoretical claim, not only an unmasking.

Branch C — Quantitative design

For whether/how much/under what conditions across many cases.

  • Sample and unit of analysis justified relative to the theory (individuals nested in teams/organizations; dyads; events).
  • Construct validity. Operationalizations defended; multi-item measures with reliability; address common-method bias if same-source/cross-sectional.
  • Multilevel structure. If theory is cross-level, use HLM/mixed models and justify aggregation.
  • Identification in service of theory. Where causal claims are made, state the threat and the strategy (panel FE, longitudinal lags, quasi-experiment) — but identification is a means to a theoretical end at HR, not the contribution itself.
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Branch D — Mixed methods

  • State the integration logic: sequential, concurrent, or nested, and what each strand adds that the other cannot. Avoid bolting a few interviews onto a survey for decoration.

Either branch

  • The design must let you see the mechanism, not just endpoints.
  • Pre-empt obvious alternative explanations at the design stage.
  • Plan the data-to-theory link now (feeds humrel-data-analysis and humrel-tables-figures).

Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)

For the empirical / causal lane, estimate and audit rather than only specify. Full map: execution-with-mcp. Human Relations blends critical/qualitative and quantitative work; apply the chain below to its survey / experimental quantitative papers.

  • detect_design → recommend → fit with as_handle=true → audit_result to enumerate the checks the design owes.
  • Panel / staggered DiD: callaway_santanna / sun_abraham + bacon_decomposition
    • honest_did_from_result. IV: effective_f_test + anderson_rubin_ci. RDD: rdrobust + mccrary_test.
  • Experiments: randomization-based inference and romano_wolf for the many-outcome family-wise correction reviewers expect.

Match the toolchain to the reviewer pool, and report the effect size the venue wants. A run end-to-end (synthetic data, real returns) is in the JF execution walkthrough.

Checklist

  • Design matches the theoretical form (process → qual/critical; variance → quant)
  • Qual: theoretical sampling stated; access/immersion specified; trustworthiness named
  • Critical: lens explicit; reflexivity central; critique is generative
  • Quant: construct validity and (if needed) multilevel structure addressed
  • Mixed: integration logic and the added value of each strand stated
  • Obvious alternatives are designed against, not just discussed later
  • Methods text is anonymized (no institution/site/grant tells)

Anti-patterns

  • Convenience sampling dressed up as theoretical sampling
  • Qualitative work with no transparency about coding, sources, or fieldwork depth
  • A fancy estimator chosen to signal rigor when the question doesn't need it
  • Critical work that is reflexive in tone but methodologically opaque
  • "Mixed methods" that is a survey with ornamental quotes
  • Methods that reveal author/site identity in a double-anonymous submission

Output format

text
【Journal】Human Relations
【Skill】humrel-methods
【Design】qualitative / critical / quantitative / mixed (type)
【Why it fits】link to the social-theoretical question
【Sampling/identification】logic + key threat addressed
【Rigor safeguards】trustworthiness / construct validity / integration logic
【Anonymization】no site/institution/grant tells (yes/no)
【Next skill】humrel-data-analysis

© 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 Human-Relations-Skills/skills/humrel-methods of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Humrel Methods

What does Humrel Methods do?

A skill your agent uses when choosing and justifying the research design for a Human Relations (HR) manuscript — qualitative/ethnographic, critical, quantitative, or mixed — and setting the rigor bar. Humrel Methods is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when choosing and justifying the research design for a Human Relations (HR) manuscript — qualitative/ethnographic, critical, quantitative, or mixed — and setting the rigor bar.

When should I use Humrel Methods?

Humrel Methods fits situations like: choosing and justifying the research design for a Human Relations (HR) manuscript — qualitative/ethnographic; mixed — and setting the rigor bar.

How do I install Humrel Methods in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Humrel Methods in Codex?

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

Can I use Humrel Methods 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-methods -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-methods, .gemini/skills/humrel-methods, .github/skills/humrel-methods and .opencode/skills/humrel-methods in your project.

What does Humrel Methods need to run?

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

Does Humrel Methods 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 Methods 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 Methods use?

Humrel Methods 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 Methods use?

About 1.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.6k 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 Humrel Methods?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,228 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

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