Agent skill

Soctheory Conceptual Exhibits

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

A skill your agent uses when building the figures and typologies of a Sociological Theory (ST) manuscript — mechanism diagrams, process models, 2x2 typologies, and concept maps that carry…

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Install Soctheory Conceptual Exhibits

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill soctheory-conceptual-exhibits -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills soctheory-conceptual-exhibits --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/Sociological-Theory-Skills/skills/soctheory-conceptual-exhibits .claude/skills/soctheory-conceptual-exhibits && 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
soctheory-conceptual-exhibits
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
613 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 figures and typologies of a Sociological Theory (ST) manuscript — mechanism diagrams, process models, 2x2 typologies, and concept maps that carry…

  • Works in 3 steps: Readability test. Can a reader… → Concept test. Is every box/cell/node a… → Mechanism test. Does every arrow /…
  • Building the figures and typologies of a Sociological Theory (ST) manuscript — mechanism diagrams
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The exhibit types ST uses, Design discipline (the "earn… and Typology construction, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Soctheory Conceptual Exhibits is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when building the figures and typologies of a Sociological Theory (ST) manuscript — mechanism diagrams, process models, 2x2 typologies, and concept maps that carry theoretical work (never regression tables or data plots). Designs conceptual exhibits; it does NOT build the underlying theory (soctheory-theory-construction) or write the prose (soctheory-writing-style).

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 Development, covering Diagrams, Knowledge graphs and Brand voice and tone. 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 figures and typologies of a Sociological Theory (ST) manuscript — mechanism diagrams
  • Concept maps that carry theoretical work (never regression tables

Example prompts

  • “/soctheory-conceptual-exhibits”

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Readability test. Can a reader reconstruct the core argument from the figure plus its
  2. Concept test. Is every box/cell/node a concept that is defined in the text and labeled
  3. Mechanism test. Does every arrow / transition name the mechanism it represents? "A → B"

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

Soctheory Conceptual Exhibits loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 101 tokens; SKILL.md has 613 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~101
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). 613 words, ~1,318 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/soctheory-conceptual-exhibits/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
soctheory-conceptual-exhibits
description
Use when building the figures and typologies of a Sociological Theory (ST) manuscript — mechanism diagrams, process models, 2x2 typologies, and concept maps that carry theoretical work (never regression tables or data plots). Designs conceptual exhibits; it does NOT build the underlying theory (soctheory-theory-construction) or write the prose (soctheory-writing-style).

Conceptual Exhibits: Typologies, Mechanism Diagrams, Process Models (soctheory-conceptual-exhibits)

When to trigger

  • The theory is built and you need a figure or typology to make it legible
  • Your figure is "boxes and arrows" with no readable mechanism
  • A typology's cells are not all distinct, defined concepts
  • You are tempted to include a data plot or a results table (ST has neither)

Every exhibit at ST is conceptual. There are no regression tables, no scatterplots, no coefficient figures — ST does not test, so it has nothing to plot. The exhibit must carry theoretical work: it shows a mechanism, a process, or a classification that the prose alone conveys less clearly.

The exhibit types ST uses

ExhibitCarriesDesign rule
Mechanism diagramthe social process linking conceptsevery arrow is a stated mechanism, not a vague "influences"
Process modelsequence/feedback over timeeach stage is a defined concept; loops are theorized, not decorative
Typology (2x2 / nxm)a classification along dimensionsdimensions are clearly named; every cell is a distinct, defined type
Concept mapthe relations among a concept familyhierarchy/overlap shown deliberately; no orphan nodes
Comparison tablethis theory vs. rivals, conceptuallyrows are theoretical properties, never empirical results

Design discipline (the "earn its keep" test)

A conceptual exhibit must do work the prose cannot do as efficiently. Before including it, pass all three tests:

  1. Readability test. Can a reader reconstruct the core argument from the figure plus its caption alone? If not, it is decoration.
  2. Concept test. Is every box/cell/node a concept that is defined in the text and labeled identically? A box with an undefined label is a hole in the theory.
  3. Mechanism test. Does every arrow / transition name the mechanism it represents? "A → B" with no mechanism is exactly the failure soctheory-theory-construction warns against, reproduced graphically.

Typology construction

A good ST typology is a theoretical claim, not a filing system:

  • The dimensions must be conceptually motivated (why these two axes?), not convenient.
  • Every cell must be a real, distinct type — name it and define it; an empty or forced cell signals the dimensions are wrong.
  • The typology should generate propositions (e.g., types in cell 3 behave differently because of mechanism M), tying back to soctheory-theory-construction.
  • Watch scope: a typology that implies coverage beyond the stated domain over-claims (see soctheory-boundary-conditions).
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Propositions table (optional, for proposition-heavy papers)

If the paper has many propositions, a compact table listing P1…Pn with their one-line mechanisms helps reviewers track the theory. It is a theoretical table — propositions and mechanisms only, never coefficients or significance.

Format notes

  • Figures should meet the publisher's resolution/format requirements; confirm exact specs on the SAGE/ST author page (检索于 2026-06;以官网为准).
  • Figures and tables count toward ST's overall length limit (all material is inclusive of the word cap; see soctheory-writing-style / soctheory-submission), so an exhibit must earn its space against the cap, not just against the page.

Checklist

  • Every exhibit is conceptual (mechanism / process / typology / concept map / theory-comparison)
  • No data plot, scatterplot, coefficient figure, or results table anywhere
  • Each box/cell/node is a concept defined in the text with an identical label
  • Each arrow/transition names its mechanism
  • The figure passes the readability test (argument recoverable from figure + caption)
  • Typology dimensions are motivated and every cell is a distinct, defined type
  • Exhibits respect the stated boundary conditions and the word/length cap

Anti-patterns

  • Boxes-and-arrows with undefined labels or unlabeled arrows
  • A data plot or regression table imported from an empirical template (impossible at ST)
  • A 2x2 with a forced or empty cell, revealing mis-chosen dimensions
  • A figure that merely restates a sentence, adding nothing
  • Labels in the figure that differ from the concept names in the text
  • A typology that implies coverage outside the theory's domain

Output format

【Exhibit type】mechanism diagram / process model / typology / concept map / theory-comparison
【Concepts in exhibit】all defined in text + identically labeled: yes / fix [...]
【Arrows】each names a mechanism: yes / fix [...]
【Readability test】argument recoverable from figure+caption: yes / no
【Typology】dimensions motivated; every cell distinct: yes / n/a
【Next step】soctheory-contribution-framing

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Sociological-Theory-Skills/skills/soctheory-conceptual-exhibits of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Soctheory Conceptual Exhibits

What does Soctheory Conceptual Exhibits do?

A skill your agent uses when building the figures and typologies of a Sociological Theory (ST) manuscript — mechanism diagrams, process models, 2x2 typologies, and concept maps that carry…. Soctheory Conceptual Exhibits is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when building the figures and typologies of a Sociological Theory (ST) manuscript — mechanism diagrams, process models, 2x2 typologies, and concept maps that carry theoretical work (never regression tables or data plots).

When should I use Soctheory Conceptual Exhibits?

Soctheory Conceptual Exhibits fits situations like: building the figures and typologies of a Sociological Theory (ST) manuscript — mechanism diagrams; concept maps that carry theoretical work (never regression tables.

How do I install Soctheory Conceptual Exhibits in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Soctheory Conceptual Exhibits in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill soctheory-conceptual-exhibits -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Sociological-Theory-Skills/skills/soctheory-conceptual-exhibits in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/soctheory-conceptual-exhibits in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Soctheory Conceptual Exhibits 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 soctheory-conceptual-exhibits -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/soctheory-conceptual-exhibits, .gemini/skills/soctheory-conceptual-exhibits, .github/skills/soctheory-conceptual-exhibits and .opencode/skills/soctheory-conceptual-exhibits in your project.

What does Soctheory Conceptual Exhibits need to run?

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

Does Soctheory Conceptual Exhibits 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 Soctheory Conceptual Exhibits 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 Soctheory Conceptual Exhibits use?

Soctheory Conceptual Exhibits 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 Soctheory Conceptual Exhibits 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.

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