Agent skill

Demog Theory Building

by franklee16 in franklee16/academic-research-skills

A skill your agent uses when building the argument of a Demography (PAA / Duke University Press) manuscript into a population-science contribution — whether the work is formal/mathematical…

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Install Demog Theory Building

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills demog-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/Demography-Skills/skills/demog-theory-building .claude/skills/demog-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
demog-theory-building
GitHub stars
223
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
429 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 argument of a Demography (PAA / Duke University Press) manuscript into a population-science contribution — whether the work is formal/mathematical…

  • Works in 4 steps: Concept & measure — define the… → Mechanism — the population story: which… → Observable implications — what we should… → …
  • An explanatory account of fertility/mortality/migration
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Build the argument (by mode of…, The "portability" test… and Anti-patterns, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Demog Theory Building is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when building the argument of a Demography (PAA / Duke University Press) manuscript into a population-science contribution — whether the work is formal/mathematical demography, an explanatory account of fertility/mortality/migration, or a measurement/decomposition advance. Demography rewards a clear mechanism or a sharpened estimate over a bare correlation. Structures the argument; it does not run analyses.

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: Comprehensive collection of Claude Code skills for academic research in economics, finance, and social sciences.

When your agent uses it

  • An explanatory account of fertility/mortality/migration
  • A measurement/decomposition advance

Example prompts

  • “/demog-theory-building”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Concept & measure — define the demographic construct (e.g., parity progression, lifespan
  2. Mechanism — the population story: which behaviors, exposures, or compositional shifts move the
  3. Observable implications — what we should see if the mechanism operates (age pattern, cohort
  4. Scope conditions — which populations, periods, and regimes the argument covers.

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

Demog Theory Building loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 109 tokens; SKILL.md has 429 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~109
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k

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 429 words (~1,069 tokens).

“At Demography a result is not a contribution until it is attached to a claim population science can use — a mechanism that explains a demographic process, a sharper estimate that revises the record, or a formal result that unifies…”

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

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Demography-Skills/skills/demog-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 Demog Theory Building

What does Demog Theory Building do?

A skill your agent uses when building the argument of a Demography (PAA / Duke University Press) manuscript into a population-science contribution — whether the work is formal/mathematical…. Demog Theory Building is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when building the argument of a Demography (PAA / Duke University Press) manuscript into a population-science contribution — whether the work is formal/mathematical demography, an explanatory account of fertility/mortality/migration, or a measurement/decomposition advance.

When should I use Demog Theory Building?

Demog Theory Building fits situations like: an explanatory account of fertility/mortality/migration; A measurement/decomposition advance.

How do I install Demog Theory Building in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Demog Theory Building in Codex?

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

Can I use Demog 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 demog-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/demog-theory-building, .gemini/skills/demog-theory-building, .github/skills/demog-theory-building and .opencode/skills/demog-theory-building in your project.

What does Demog Theory Building need to run?

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

Does Demog 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 Demog 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 Demog Theory Building use?

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

How many tokens does Demog Theory Building use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.3k 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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Who maintains Demog 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.