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Smr Method Contribution
by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills
A skill your agent uses when sharpening the core methodological claim of a Sociological Methods & Research (SMR) paper — the new estimator/design/diagnostic and exactly what it fixes versus existing…
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Install Smr Method Contribution
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill smr-method-contribution -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills smr-method-contribution --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/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-method-contribution .claude/skills/smr-method-contribution && 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 "smr-method-contribution" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-method-contribution into .claude/skills/smr-method-contribution/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "smr-method-contribution", 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/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-method-contributionType 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 smr-method-contribution -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills smr-method-contribution --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/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-method-contribution .agents/skills/smr-method-contribution && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "smr-method-contribution" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-method-contribution into .agents/skills/smr-method-contribution/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "smr-method-contribution", 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 smr-method-contribution -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills smr-method-contribution --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/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-method-contribution .cursor/skills/smr-method-contribution && 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 "smr-method-contribution" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-method-contribution into .cursor/skills/smr-method-contribution/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "smr-method-contribution", 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 Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-method-contribution--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 smr-method-contribution -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills smr-method-contribution --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/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-method-contribution .gemini/skills/smr-method-contribution && 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 "smr-method-contribution" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-method-contribution into .gemini/skills/smr-method-contribution/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "smr-method-contribution", 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 smr-method-contributionInstalls 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 smr-method-contribution -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/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-method-contribution .github/skills/smr-method-contribution && 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 "smr-method-contribution" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-method-contribution into .github/skills/smr-method-contribution/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "smr-method-contribution", 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 smr-method-contribution -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 smr-method-contribution --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/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-method-contribution .opencode/skills/smr-method-contribution && 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 "smr-method-contribution" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-method-contribution into .opencode/skills/smr-method-contribution/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "smr-method-contribution", 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
smr-method-contribution- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1.1k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 522 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 core methodological claim of a Sociological Methods & Research (SMR) paper — the new estimator/design/diagnostic and exactly what it fixes versus existing…
- SKILL.md covers The contribution sentence…, Position against the…, Contribution-type templates and Proportionality guardrails, plus 3 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Smr Method Contribution is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when sharpening the core methodological claim of a Sociological Methods & Research (SMR) paper — the new estimator/design/diagnostic and exactly what it fixes versus existing methods. Frames and bounds the contribution; does not derive its properties or run simulations.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k 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.
Example prompts
- “/smr-method-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
Smr Method Contribution loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 75 tokens; SKILL.md has 522 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). 522 words, ~1,117 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/smr-method-contribution/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- smr-method-contribution
- description
- Use when sharpening the core methodological claim of a Sociological Methods & Research (SMR) paper — the new estimator/design/diagnostic and exactly what it fixes versus existing methods. Frames and bounds the contribution; does not derive its properties or run simulations.
SMR Method Contribution
Use this to make the contribution explicit, proportional, and adoptable. SMR reviewers reward a method that a working researcher can pick up and run; they punish vague "we propose a framework" claims and overreaching generality.
The contribution sentence (write this before anything else)
Fill both brackets, no hedging:
Researchers who study [problem/setting] can now [do X they could not do, or stop doing Y that misled them], because we [develop / evaluate / correct] [the method] under [the conditions].
If the second bracket is "get a slightly different number," the contribution is too thin. If it is "do everything," it is overclaimed. The right size is one named problem, one named method, one named condition set.
Position against the incumbent, not the void
Every SMR method displaces or repairs something. State the incumbent and its failure precisely:
- What practitioners do now (the default method, named).
- Where it breaks (a concrete regime: few clusters, weak instruments, non-invariance, MAR failure, short panels, sparse networks, small df) — with the symptom a user would observe.
- Why your method fixes it (the mechanism: orthogonalization, bias correction, a weaker assumption, a better small-sample approximation, a new estimand).
- What it costs (extra assumptions, computation, data requirements) — honest costs build trust.
A contribution framed only against "the literature" reads as throat-clearing; one framed against a named default that fails in a named regime reads as a methods paper.
Contribution-type templates
| Type | The claim must specify | The reviewer will check |
|---|---|---|
| New estimator | estimand, consistency conditions, efficiency vs. incumbent | does it beat the incumbent where the incumbent is valid? |
| New diagnostic/test | null, alternative, size, power region | size control under the null; power where it matters |
| Evaluation paper | methods compared, DGP space, decision rule | are the realistic regimes covered, not a strawman? |
| Critique + fix | the hidden assumption, the misuse, the correction | is the corrected procedure actually usable? |
| Computational tool | what it makes feasible, accuracy/scaling | does it match the exact method or approximate it? |
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Proportionality guardrails
- Claim a leading case, then say what does not extend. Reviewers trust authors who bound their own claims.
- Distinguish "we prove" from "we show by simulation" from "we conjecture." Never let a simulated result wear the language of a theorem.
- Resist the "general framework" frame unless you genuinely deliver generality with proofs; a sharp special case beats a vague general one at SMR.
Checklist
- The contribution sentence is written with both brackets filled and no hedging.
- The named incumbent method and its concrete failure regime are stated.
- The fix mechanism is named (not just "performs better").
- The honest cost of the method (assumptions/computation/data) is stated.
- Proof-backed claims are separated from simulation-backed and conjectured claims.
- The claim is bounded: what does not extend is stated.
Anti-patterns
- Framework inflation: "we develop a general framework" with no estimand, no theorem, no usable procedure.
- Strawman incumbent: beating a method no one uses, or using it outside its stated domain.
- Mislabelled evidence: presenting Monte Carlo regularities as proven properties.
- Cost concealment: hiding the extra assumption or the computational burden the method requires.
- Undifferentiated novelty: a variant whose advantage over the closest existing method is never pinned to a specific regime.
Output format
[Contribution sentence] <filled template>
[Incumbent + failure regime] <named method -> where it breaks>
[Fix mechanism] <orthogonalization / bias correction / weaker assumption / new estimand / ...>
[Honest cost] <assumptions / computation / data>
[Evidence type per claim] proved / simulated / conjectured
[Next SMR skill] smr-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 Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-method-contribution of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smr Method Contribution this skillbrycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills | 1.2k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Claimsruvnet/ruflo | 74k | 2 repos | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Contributemindfold-ai/Trellis | 15k | — | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | |
| Contributesuperset-sh/superset | 15k | — | ~624 | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Contributingkortix-ai/suna | 20k | 1 repos | ~3k | Automated safety check: Warn | Custom licence | |
| Voyager Contributevoyager-crew/voyager | 20k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 |
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Questions about Smr Method Contribution
What does Smr Method Contribution do?
A skill your agent uses when sharpening the core methodological claim of a Sociological Methods & Research (SMR) paper — the new estimator/design/diagnostic and exactly what it fixes versus existing…. Smr Method Contribution is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when sharpening the core methodological claim of a Sociological Methods & Research (SMR) paper — the new estimator/design/diagnostic and exactly what it fixes versus existing methods.
How do I install Smr Method Contribution in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill smr-method-contribution -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-method-contribution in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/smr-method-contribution in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Smr Method Contribution in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill smr-method-contribution -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-method-contribution in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/smr-method-contribution in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Smr Method Contribution 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 smr-method-contribution -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/smr-method-contribution, .gemini/skills/smr-method-contribution, .github/skills/smr-method-contribution and .opencode/skills/smr-method-contribution in your project.
What does Smr Method Contribution need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Smr Method Contribution is instructions for the agent only.
Does Smr Method Contribution 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 Smr Method Contribution 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 Smr Method Contribution use?
Smr Method Contribution 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 Smr Method Contribution use?
About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.5k 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 Smr Method Contribution?
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Who maintains Smr Method Contribution?
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.