Agent skill

Ajps Theory Building

by franklee16 in franklee16/academic-research-skills

A skill your agent uses when building the theoretical argument of an American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) manuscript — whether empirical with explicit mechanisms, formal/game-theoretic, or…

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Install Ajps Theory Building

skills CLI
$ npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill ajps-theory-building -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills ajps-theory-building --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/franklee16/academic-research-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/American-Journal-of-Political-Science-Skills/skills/ajps-theory-building .claude/skills/ajps-theory-building && 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
ajps-theory-building
GitHub stars
223
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~932 tokens
SKILL.md length
399 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,617
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when building the theoretical argument of an American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) manuscript — whether empirical with explicit mechanisms, formal/game-theoretic, or…

  • Works in 4 steps: Concept — define key constructs… → Mechanism — the causal story: who acts,… → Hypotheses — state the directional,… → …
  • Building the theoretical argument of an American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) manuscript — whether empirical with explicit mechanisms
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Build the argument (by mode of…, The "testability" gate… and Anti-patterns, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Ajps Theory Building is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when building the theoretical argument of an American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) manuscript — whether empirical with explicit mechanisms, formal/game-theoretic, or measurement-driven. AJPS rewards testable theory tightly linked to the empirical strategy, with hypotheses stated before the results. Structures the argument; it does not run analyses.

Its SKILL.md is about 930 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: Comprehensive collection of Claude Code skills for academic research in economics, finance, and social sciences.

When your agent uses it

  • Building the theoretical argument of an American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) manuscript — whether empirical with explicit mechanisms
  • Formal/game-theoretic
  • Measurement-driven

Example prompts

  • “/ajps-theory-building”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Concept — define key constructs precisely; distinguish from neighbors and from how they will be
  2. Mechanism — the causal story: who acts, why, under what incentives/constraints.
  3. Hypotheses — state the directional, testable expectations before the results, and what
  4. Scope conditions — where the argument holds and where it does not.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9a4b2db. 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

Ajps Theory Building loads about 932 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 96 tokens; SKILL.md has 399 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~96
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~932

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

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 399 words (~932 tokens).

“At AJPS the theory exists to generate testable expectations that the design and data then adjudicate. The journal's empirical bar means a model or argument earns its place only if it yields observable, falsifiable implications that the analysis can confront…”

— opening of SKILL.md by franklee16
name
ajps-theory-building

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/American-Journal-of-Political-Science-Skills/skills/ajps-theory-building of franklee16/academic-research-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9a4b2db

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in franklee16/academic-research-skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Ajps Theory Building

What does Ajps Theory Building do?

A skill your agent uses when building the theoretical argument of an American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) manuscript — whether empirical with explicit mechanisms, formal/game-theoretic, or…. Ajps Theory Building is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when building the theoretical argument of an American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) manuscript — whether empirical with explicit mechanisms, formal/game-theoretic, or measurement-driven.

When should I use Ajps Theory Building?

Ajps Theory Building fits situations like: building the theoretical argument of an American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) manuscript — whether empirical with explicit mechanisms; formal/game-theoretic; measurement-driven.

How do I install Ajps Theory Building in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill ajps-theory-building -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/American-Journal-of-Political-Science-Skills/skills/ajps-theory-building in franklee16/academic-research-skills) into .claude/skills/ajps-theory-building in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Ajps Theory Building in Codex?

Run `npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill ajps-theory-building -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/American-Journal-of-Political-Science-Skills/skills/ajps-theory-building in franklee16/academic-research-skills) into .agents/skills/ajps-theory-building in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Ajps Theory Building 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 franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill ajps-theory-building -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/ajps-theory-building, .gemini/skills/ajps-theory-building, .github/skills/ajps-theory-building and .opencode/skills/ajps-theory-building in your project.

What does Ajps Theory Building need to run?

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

Does Ajps Theory Building 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 Ajps Theory Building 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 Ajps Theory Building use?

No licence was found for Ajps Theory Building or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Ajps Theory Building use?

About 932 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.7k 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 Ajps Theory Building?

franklee16 (a GitHub user) maintains it in franklee16/academic-research-skills, which has 223 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,617 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 18, 2026.

Source: franklee16/academic-research-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.