Hypothesis Generation
spacering-net/codeg
Structured hypothesis formulation from observations. An agent skill from spacering-net/codeg.
Agent skill
Orgstud Topic Selection
by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills
A skill your agent uses when choosing or sharpening the phenomenon and research question for an Organization Studies (OS) manuscript — testing whether it is theoretically generative for OS's…
Install Orgstud Topic Selection
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill orgstud-topic-selection -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills orgstud-topic-selection --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/Organization-Studies-Skills/skills/orgstud-topic-selection .claude/skills/orgstud-topic-selection && 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 "orgstud-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Organization-Studies-Skills/skills/orgstud-topic-selection into .claude/skills/orgstud-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "orgstud-topic-selection", 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/Organization-Studies-Skills/skills/orgstud-topic-selectionType 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 orgstud-topic-selection -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills orgstud-topic-selection --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/Organization-Studies-Skills/skills/orgstud-topic-selection .agents/skills/orgstud-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "orgstud-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Organization-Studies-Skills/skills/orgstud-topic-selection into .agents/skills/orgstud-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "orgstud-topic-selection", 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 orgstud-topic-selection -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills orgstud-topic-selection --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/Organization-Studies-Skills/skills/orgstud-topic-selection .cursor/skills/orgstud-topic-selection && 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 "orgstud-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Organization-Studies-Skills/skills/orgstud-topic-selection into .cursor/skills/orgstud-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "orgstud-topic-selection", 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 Organization-Studies-Skills/skills/orgstud-topic-selection--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 orgstud-topic-selection -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills orgstud-topic-selection --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/Organization-Studies-Skills/skills/orgstud-topic-selection .gemini/skills/orgstud-topic-selection && 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 "orgstud-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Organization-Studies-Skills/skills/orgstud-topic-selection into .gemini/skills/orgstud-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "orgstud-topic-selection", 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 orgstud-topic-selectionInstalls 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 orgstud-topic-selection -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/Organization-Studies-Skills/skills/orgstud-topic-selection .github/skills/orgstud-topic-selection && 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 "orgstud-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Organization-Studies-Skills/skills/orgstud-topic-selection into .github/skills/orgstud-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "orgstud-topic-selection", 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 orgstud-topic-selection -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 orgstud-topic-selection --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/Organization-Studies-Skills/skills/orgstud-topic-selection .opencode/skills/orgstud-topic-selection && 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 "orgstud-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Organization-Studies-Skills/skills/orgstud-topic-selection into .opencode/skills/orgstud-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "orgstud-topic-selection", 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
orgstud-topic-selection- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1.3k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 629 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 2,387
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
A skill your agent uses when choosing or sharpening the phenomenon and research question for an Organization Studies (OS) manuscript — testing whether it is theoretically generative for OS's…
- Works in 4 steps: State the phenomenon in one sentence,… → Name the conversation you are entering… → Decide whether the question is how/why… → …
- Tasks that involve Hypothesis generation
- SKILL.md covers When to trigger, What OS actually rewards, Choosing the conversation (and… and From phenomenon to question, plus 3 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Orgstud Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when choosing or sharpening the phenomenon and research question for an Organization Studies (OS) manuscript — testing whether it is theoretically generative for OS's European organization-theory audience. Diagnoses fit and scope; it does not build the 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.
It sits in Research & Science, covering Hypothesis generation. 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
- Tasks that involve Hypothesis generation
Example prompts
- “/orgstud-topic-selection”
Workflow steps
4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- State the phenomenon in one sentence, then the theoretical puzzle it surfaces in a second — the gap or anomaly in existing organization…
- Name the conversation you are entering (institutional, process, sensemaking, practice, critical) and one or two anchor works in it.
- Decide whether the question is how/why it unfolds (process → likely qualitative) or whether/under what conditions (variance →…
- Identify which OS reader would champion it — and which would desk-reject it as "interesting but not a theoretical contribution."
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
Orgstud Topic Selection loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 76 tokens; SKILL.md has 629 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). 629 words, ~1,316 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/orgstud-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- orgstud-topic-selection
- description
- Use when choosing or sharpening the phenomenon and research question for an Organization Studies (OS) manuscript — testing whether it is theoretically generative for OS's European organization-theory audience. Diagnoses fit and scope; it does not build the theory or run analysis.
Topic Selection (orgstud-topic-selection)
When to trigger
- You have a phenomenon (a merger, a profession, an institutional disruption, a digital practice) but are unsure it can yield an OS-grade theoretical contribution
- The question is interesting empirically but reads as "describing a case" rather than advancing organization theory
- The paper could plausibly go to ASQ, Organization Science, JMS, or AMR and you need to decide which conversation it joins
- A coauthor wants a managerial-implications paper; OS wants a theory paper
What OS actually rewards
OS is a theory-first European journal: the unit of contribution is a move in an ongoing theoretical conversation about organizing, not a clean effect or a managerial fix. The strongest OS topics share three properties. (1) They are theoretically generative — the phenomenon is a window onto a mechanism, process, or tension that organization theory has not yet seen clearly (e.g., how institutional logics are reconciled in practice; how sensemaking breaks down; how power is reproduced through routines). (2) They are processual or relational — OS leans toward how organizing unfolds, becomes, is contested, which is why ethnographic, longitudinal, and historical designs thrive here. (3) They engage social theory — institutional theory, practice theory, Foucauldian power, Bourdieu, narrative/discourse, Weick — as a live interlocutor, not decoration.
A useful litmus test: write the sentence "This paper changes how we think about ____ in organizations." If the blank is a phenomenon ("AI adoption") rather than a theoretical object ("how organizations sustain control when expertise becomes machine-readable"), the topic is not yet OS-shaped.
Choosing the conversation (and the right venue)
| If the paper's core is... | Right home | Why not OS |
|---|---|---|
| a clean causal effect of an org practice on an outcome | AMJ / Org Science | OS treats identification as a means to theory, not the contribution |
| a deductive hypothesis test in US sociology-of-orgs tradition | ASQ | OS is European, more process/critical, less variance-template |
| pure theory with no empirical material | AMR | OS publishes empirical and conceptual, but conceptual papers still need a usable new move |
| organizing as process / institution / practice / power, theorized | OS | this is OS's center of gravity |
| a model or design-science artifact | Org Science | OS is sociological/interpretive, not modeling-led |
OS does publish quantitative work, but the bar is the same: the numbers must illuminate an organizational mechanism, and the framing must read as organization theory, not applied econometrics.
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From phenomenon to question
- State the phenomenon in one sentence, then the theoretical puzzle it surfaces in a second — the gap or anomaly in existing organization theory.
- Name the conversation you are entering (institutional, process, sensemaking, practice, critical) and one or two anchor works in it.
- Decide whether the question is how/why it unfolds (process → likely qualitative) or whether/under what conditions (variance → quantitative); flag this for
orgstud-methods. - Identify which OS reader would champion it — and which would desk-reject it as "interesting but not a theoretical contribution."
Checklist
- The contribution is a theoretical move in an OS conversation, not a description or a managerial recommendation
- The phenomenon is a window onto a mechanism/process/tension organization theory has not seen clearly
- You can name the specific conversation (institutional / process / practice / sensemaking / critical) and an anchor or two
- The venue choice vs. ASQ / Org Science / JMS / AMR is deliberate and defensible
- The how/why vs. whether/how-much form of the question is decided (feeds
orgstud-methods) - Process facts cited are in
resources/official-source-map.mdor marked 检索于 2026-06；以官网为准
Anti-patterns
- A phenomenon-driven paper ("a study of X") with no theoretical puzzle — the most common OS desk-reject
- Pitching managerial implications as the contribution; OS is not a practitioner outlet
- Borrowing a fashionable construct (resilience, ecosystem) as a label over an under-theorized observation
- Choosing OS to dodge the identification bar of an econ/AMJ venue — OS replaces it with a harder theory bar
- Naming "the literature" generically instead of the specific conversation the paper advances
Output format
【Phenomenon】one sentence
【Theoretical puzzle】the anomaly/gap in organization theory
【Conversation】institutional / process / practice / sensemaking / critical + anchor(s)
【Question form】how-why (process) / whether-how-much (variance)
【Venue check】why OS and not ASQ / Org Science / JMS / AMR
【Next skill】orgstud-theory-development© 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 Organization-Studies-Skills/skills/orgstud-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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What does Orgstud Topic Selection do?
A skill your agent uses when choosing or sharpening the phenomenon and research question for an Organization Studies (OS) manuscript — testing whether it is theoretically generative for OS's…. Orgstud Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when choosing or sharpening the phenomenon and research question for an Organization Studies (OS) manuscript — testing whether it is theoretically generative for OS's European organization-theory audience.
When should I use Orgstud Topic Selection?
Orgstud Topic Selection fits situations like: tasks that involve Hypothesis generation.
How do I install Orgstud Topic Selection in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill orgstud-topic-selection -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Organization-Studies-Skills/skills/orgstud-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/orgstud-topic-selection in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Orgstud Topic Selection in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill orgstud-topic-selection -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Organization-Studies-Skills/skills/orgstud-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/orgstud-topic-selection in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Orgstud Topic Selection 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 orgstud-topic-selection -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/orgstud-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/orgstud-topic-selection, .github/skills/orgstud-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/orgstud-topic-selection in your project.
What does Orgstud Topic Selection need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Orgstud Topic Selection is instructions for the agent only.
Does Orgstud Topic Selection 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 Orgstud Topic Selection 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 Orgstud Topic Selection use?
Orgstud Topic Selection 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 Orgstud Topic Selection use?
About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.3k 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 Orgstud Topic Selection?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Orgstud Topic Selection: Hypothesis Generation (spacering-net/codeg, 3.8k stars), Nature Paper Card (Yuan1z0825/nature-skills, 46k stars), Hypothesis Generation (K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer, 2.4k stars) and Good Question (Rimagination/good-question, 305 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Orgstud Topic Selection?
brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,219 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.