Agent skill

Jop Theory Building

by franklee16 in franklee16/academic-research-skills

A skill your agent uses when turning a The Journal of Politics (JOP) idea into a theoretically innovative argument — formal/game-theoretic, empirical, or normative.

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Install Jop Theory Building

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills jop-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/Journal-of-Politics-Skills/skills/jop-theory-building .claude/skills/jop-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
jop-theory-building
GitHub stars
223
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~875 tokens
SKILL.md length
369 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,617
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when turning a The Journal of Politics (JOP) idea into a theoretically innovative argument — formal/game-theoretic, empirical, or normative.

  • Turning a The Journal of Politics (JOP) idea into a theoretically innovative argument — formal/game-theoretic
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Build the argument (mode-aware), The JOP innovation test and Keep it economical (page budget), plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Jop Theory Building is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when turning a The Journal of Politics (JOP) idea into a theoretically innovative argument — formal/game-theoretic, empirical, or normative. JOP explicitly prizes theoretical innovation across all subfields and counts pages, so the argument must be sharp, general, and economical. Builds the argument; it does not run analyses.

Its SKILL.md is about 880 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

  • Turning a The Journal of Politics (JOP) idea into a theoretically innovative argument — formal/game-theoretic

Example prompts

  • “/jop-theory-building”

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

Jop Theory Building loads about 875 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 88 tokens; SKILL.md has 369 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~88
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~875

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 369 words (~875 tokens).

“JOP advertises that it publishes theoretically innovative work and treats theory broadly — formal, empirical, interpretive, and normative all qualify. This skill turns your idea into an argument a general reader recognizes as new, and tight enough to fit the…”

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

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Journal-of-Politics-Skills/skills/jop-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 Jop Theory Building

What does Jop Theory Building do?

A skill your agent uses when turning a The Journal of Politics (JOP) idea into a theoretically innovative argument — formal/game-theoretic, empirical, or normative. Jop Theory Building is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when turning a The Journal of Politics (JOP) idea into a theoretically innovative argument — formal/game-theoretic, empirical, or normative.

When should I use Jop Theory Building?

Jop Theory Building fits situations like: turning a The Journal of Politics (JOP) idea into a theoretically innovative argument — formal/game-theoretic.

How do I install Jop Theory Building in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Jop Theory Building in Codex?

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

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

What does Jop Theory Building need to run?

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

Does Jop 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 Jop 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 Jop Theory Building use?

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

How many tokens does Jop Theory Building use?

About 875 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.5k 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 Jop 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.