Agent skill

Spq Theory Building

by franklee16 in franklee16/academic-research-skills

A skill your agent uses when building the theoretical argument of a Social Psychology Quarterly (SPQ) manuscript into a contribution to sociological social psychology — whether the work is in the…

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Install Spq Theory Building

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills spq-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-Psychology-Quarterly-Skills/skills/spq-theory-building .claude/skills/spq-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
spq-theory-building
GitHub stars
223
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
428 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 Psychology Quarterly (SPQ) manuscript into a contribution to sociological social psychology — whether the work is in the…

  • Works in 4 steps: Concept — define the… → Mechanism — the social process: how… → Observable implications — what we should… → …
  • Social-structure-and-personality
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Build the argument (by…, The "structure–individual"… and Anti-patterns, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Spq Theory Building is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when building the theoretical argument of a Social Psychology Quarterly (SPQ) manuscript into a contribution to sociological social psychology — whether the work is in the symbolic-interaction, social-structure-and-personality, group-processes, identity, or affect tradition. SPQ rewards an explicit social-psychological mechanism linking structure to the individual, not a bare finding. 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

  • Social-structure-and-personality
  • Group-processes
  • Affect tradition

Example prompts

  • “/spq-theory-building”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Concept — define the social-psychological constructs precisely (status, identity salience,
  2. Mechanism — the social process: how structural position or interaction produces the individual
  3. Observable implications — what we should see if the mechanism operates (and what we should not
  4. Scope conditions — the settings, populations, and structural contexts where the argument holds.

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

Spq Theory Building loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 116 tokens; SKILL.md has 428 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~116
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 428 words (~1,086 tokens).

“At SPQ a result is not a contribution until it is attached to a social-psychological mechanism that connects social structure or process to the individual — the self, identity, emotion, cognition, or interaction. This skill turns findings into theory in…”

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

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Social-Psychology-Quarterly-Skills/skills/spq-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 Spq Theory Building

What does Spq Theory Building do?

A skill your agent uses when building the theoretical argument of a Social Psychology Quarterly (SPQ) manuscript into a contribution to sociological social psychology — whether the work is in the…. Spq Theory Building is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when building the theoretical argument of a Social Psychology Quarterly (SPQ) manuscript into a contribution to sociological social psychology — whether the work is in the symbolic-interaction, social-structure-and-personality, group-processes, identity, or affect tradition.

When should I use Spq Theory Building?

Spq Theory Building fits situations like: social-structure-and-personality; group-processes; affect tradition.

How do I install Spq Theory Building in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Spq Theory Building in Codex?

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

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

What does Spq Theory Building need to run?

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

Does Spq 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 Spq 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 Spq Theory Building use?

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

How many tokens does Spq 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 Spq 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.