Agent skill

Sf Theory Building

by franklee16 in franklee16/academic-research-skills

A skill your agent uses when building the theoretical argument of a Social Forces (SF) manuscript into a portable, general-audience contribution — whether the work is quantitative, demographic…

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Install Sf Theory Building

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills sf-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/Social-Forces-Skills/skills/sf-theory-building .claude/skills/sf-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
sf-theory-building
GitHub stars
223
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~908 tokens
SKILL.md length
380 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 a Social Forces (SF) manuscript into a portable, general-audience contribution — whether the work is quantitative, demographic…

  • Works in 4 steps: Concept — define the key constructs… → Mechanism — the social process: who does… → Observable implications — what we should… → …
  • Building the theoretical argument of a Social Forces (SF) manuscript into a portable
  • 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

Sf Theory Building is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when building the theoretical argument of a Social Forces (SF) manuscript into a portable, general-audience contribution — whether the work is quantitative, demographic, comparative-historical, ethnographic, network, or computational. SF prizes a theoretically grounded result over a bare finding. Structures the argument; it does not run analyses.

Its SKILL.md is about 910 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 a Social Forces (SF) manuscript into a portable
  • General-audience contribution — whether the work is quantitative
  • Comparative-historical

Example prompts

  • “/sf-theory-building”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Concept — define the key constructs precisely; distinguish from neighbors and from the measures.
  2. Mechanism — the social process: who does what, why, under what structural conditions.
  3. Observable implications — what we should see if the mechanism operates (and what we should
  4. Scope conditions — where the argument holds and where it does not. Portability ≠ universality.

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

Sf Theory Building loads about 908 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 93 tokens; SKILL.md has 380 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~93
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~908

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 380 words (~908 tokens).

“At Social Forces a result is not a contribution until it is attached to an argument a general social-science reader can carry elsewhere. SF's reputation rests on rigor and on findings that mean something theoretically. This skill turns results into…”

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

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Social-Forces-Skills/skills/sf-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 Sf Theory Building

What does Sf Theory Building do?

A skill your agent uses when building the theoretical argument of a Social Forces (SF) manuscript into a portable, general-audience contribution — whether the work is quantitative, demographic…. Sf Theory Building is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when building the theoretical argument of a Social Forces (SF) manuscript into a portable, general-audience contribution — whether the work is quantitative, demographic, comparative-historical, ethnographic, network, or computational.

When should I use Sf Theory Building?

Sf Theory Building fits situations like: building the theoretical argument of a Social Forces (SF) manuscript into a portable; general-audience contribution — whether the work is quantitative; comparative-historical.

How do I install Sf Theory Building in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Sf Theory Building in Codex?

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

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

What does Sf Theory Building need to run?

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

Does Sf 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 Sf 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 Sf Theory Building use?

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

How many tokens does Sf Theory Building use?

About 908 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.6k 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 Sf Theory Building?

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Who maintains Sf 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.