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Agent skill
Humrel Theory Development
by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills
A skill your agent uses when building the theoretical engine for a Human Relations (HR) manuscript — mechanisms grounded in social theory, process vs.
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Install Humrel Theory Development
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill humrel-theory-development -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills humrel-theory-development --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/Human-Relations-Skills/skills/humrel-theory-development .claude/skills/humrel-theory-development && 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 "humrel-theory-development" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Human-Relations-Skills/skills/humrel-theory-development into .claude/skills/humrel-theory-development/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "humrel-theory-development", 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/Human-Relations-Skills/skills/humrel-theory-developmentType 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 humrel-theory-development -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills humrel-theory-development --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/Human-Relations-Skills/skills/humrel-theory-development .agents/skills/humrel-theory-development && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "humrel-theory-development" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Human-Relations-Skills/skills/humrel-theory-development into .agents/skills/humrel-theory-development/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "humrel-theory-development", 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 humrel-theory-development -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills humrel-theory-development --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/Human-Relations-Skills/skills/humrel-theory-development .cursor/skills/humrel-theory-development && 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 "humrel-theory-development" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Human-Relations-Skills/skills/humrel-theory-development into .cursor/skills/humrel-theory-development/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "humrel-theory-development", 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 Human-Relations-Skills/skills/humrel-theory-development--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 humrel-theory-development -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills humrel-theory-development --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/Human-Relations-Skills/skills/humrel-theory-development .gemini/skills/humrel-theory-development && 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 "humrel-theory-development" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Human-Relations-Skills/skills/humrel-theory-development into .gemini/skills/humrel-theory-development/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "humrel-theory-development", 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 humrel-theory-developmentInstalls 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 humrel-theory-development -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/Human-Relations-Skills/skills/humrel-theory-development .github/skills/humrel-theory-development && 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 "humrel-theory-development" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Human-Relations-Skills/skills/humrel-theory-development into .github/skills/humrel-theory-development/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "humrel-theory-development", 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 humrel-theory-development -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 humrel-theory-development --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/Human-Relations-Skills/skills/humrel-theory-development .opencode/skills/humrel-theory-development && 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 "humrel-theory-development" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Human-Relations-Skills/skills/humrel-theory-development into .opencode/skills/humrel-theory-development/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "humrel-theory-development", 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
humrel-theory-development- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1.4k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 618 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 for a Human Relations (HR) manuscript — mechanisms grounded in social theory, process vs.
- Building the theoretical engine for a Human Relations (HR) manuscript — mechanisms grounded in social theory
- SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The HR standard: a substantive…, Mechanism first, grounded in a… and Process theory vs. variance…, plus 5 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Humrel Theory Development is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when building the theoretical engine for a Human Relations (HR) manuscript — mechanisms grounded in social theory, process vs. variance logic, constructs, and boundary conditions. Builds the argument; it does not choose methods or run analysis.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k 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 theoretical engine for a Human Relations (HR) manuscript — mechanisms grounded in social theory
Example prompts
- “/humrel-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
Humrel Theory Development loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 69 tokens; SKILL.md has 618 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). 618 words, ~1,365 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/humrel-theory-development/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- humrel-theory-development
- description
- Use when building the theoretical engine for a Human Relations (HR) manuscript — mechanisms grounded in social theory, process vs. variance logic, constructs, and boundary conditions. Builds the argument; it does not choose methods or run analysis.
Theory Development (humrel-theory-development)
When to trigger
- You have a work-and-society puzzle (from
humrel-topic-selection) but no theoretical machinery to explain it - Your "theory" is a box-and-arrow diagram with labelled constructs but no social mechanism
- A reviewer says the theory is "thin," "post hoc," "atheoretical," or "a relabelling of the finding"
- You borrowed a fashionable construct (resilience, agility, the algorithmic) as a veneer over an under-theorized result
The HR standard: a substantive theoretical contribution drawing on social theory
HR's gatekeeping criterion is "a unique and substantive theoretical contribution" to understanding work and organizations as social phenomena. Unlike a hypothesis-confirmation register, HR rewards theory that engages social theory — power, identity, institutions, practice, sensemaking, emotion, discourse, the labour process — and uses it to illuminate the relational dynamics of work. The deliverable is a change in how readers across organization studies, sociology, and psychology understand something, not a coefficient or a managerial recommendation.
Mechanism first, grounded in a social process
A construct is not a mechanism. State the generative social mechanism — the relational/organizational process that produces the pattern or sequence:
- Name the actors and what they are doing relationally (negotiating identity, exercising or resisting power, making sense, categorizing, controlling, caring, contesting).
- Name the social structure in which they act (occupation, hierarchy, field, institution, network, gender/class/race order, technological regime).
- Specify the processual or causal logic: why does this actor, in this structure, produce this outcome or this next move?
- Specify boundary conditions: where does the mechanism hold, weaken, or reverse? HR readers expect scope, not universal laws.
A good test: can a reader predict a new, non-obvious implication for working life from your mechanism? If not, you have a label, not a theory.
Process theory vs. variance theory — match the form to the phenomenon
- Process theory explains how and why something unfolds over time: sequences, events, becoming, contestation, feedback. Natural for ethnographic, historical, and critical HR papers.
- Variance theory explains how much an outcome co-varies with antecedents, with moderators/mediators. Natural for survey/quantitative HR papers.
HR accommodates both, but punishes a mismatch — variance framing forced onto a processual phenomenon ("control increased resistance") flattens exactly the relational dynamics HR exists to study. Let the form of the theory match the form of the phenomenon (this decision feeds humrel-methods).
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Critical and reflexive theorizing
HR's Tavistock lineage makes critical theorizing first-class: theory that problematizes power, ideology, and taken-for-granted arrangements is welcome — but it must be generative as well as deconstructive. A critique that only unmasks, without offering a new way to understand or a constructive reframing, reads as polemic. Pair the critical move with a positive theoretical claim that other scholars can build on.
Inductive vs. deductive
- Inductive/grounded: theory is the output, presented after the data structure (see
humrel-data-analysis). A grounded process model can be the entire HR contribution. Avoid "theory by adjective" (calling a pattern "dynamic" without specifying the process). - Deductive: hypotheses must be derived with an explicit causal-logic paragraph each, tied to one core mechanism — not a bag of hypotheses. Moderators must be theoretically motivated, not data-mined.
Checklist
- A named generative social mechanism (actors + structure + logic), not just constructs
- Theory engages a recognizable social-theoretical conversation, not a borrowed buzzword
- Process vs. variance form matches the phenomenon
- Boundary conditions stated (where it holds / weakens / reverses)
- Mechanism yields at least one non-obvious implication for working life
- Critical papers are generative, not only deconstructive
- Deductive: each hypothesis derived from the core mechanism; inductive: a process model planned
Anti-patterns
- Box-and-arrow models with no mechanism ("constructs in search of a story")
- Variance framing imposed on a processual/relational phenomenon
- A fashionable construct used as a veneer over a thin finding
- Critique that only unmasks, with no constructive theoretical payoff
- "Theory by adjective"; hypotheses asserted rather than derived; a moderator zoo
Output format
【Journal】Human Relations
【Skill】humrel-theory-development
【Theory form】process / variance + why it matches the phenomenon
【Core mechanism】actors + social structure + processual/causal logic
【Social-theory anchor】the conversation it engages (power/identity/institutions/…)
【Boundary conditions】where it holds / weakens / reverses
【Non-obvious implication】the surprise for working life
【Next skill】humrel-literature-positioning© 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-theory-development of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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Questions about Humrel Theory Development
What does Humrel Theory Development do?
A skill your agent uses when building the theoretical engine for a Human Relations (HR) manuscript — mechanisms grounded in social theory, process vs. Humrel Theory Development is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when building the theoretical engine for a Human Relations (HR) manuscript — mechanisms grounded in social theory, process vs.
When should I use Humrel Theory Development?
Humrel Theory Development fits situations like: building the theoretical engine for a Human Relations (HR) manuscript — mechanisms grounded in social theory.
How do I install Humrel Theory Development in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill humrel-theory-development -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Human-Relations-Skills/skills/humrel-theory-development in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/humrel-theory-development in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Humrel Theory Development in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill humrel-theory-development -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Human-Relations-Skills/skills/humrel-theory-development in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/humrel-theory-development in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Humrel 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 humrel-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/humrel-theory-development, .gemini/skills/humrel-theory-development, .github/skills/humrel-theory-development and .opencode/skills/humrel-theory-development in your project.
What does Humrel Theory Development need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Humrel Theory Development is instructions for the agent only.
Does Humrel 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 Humrel 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 Humrel Theory Development use?
Humrel 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 Humrel Theory Development use?
About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.5k 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 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.
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.