At CR a result is not a contribution until it is attached to a testable communication mechanism. This skill turns an idea into theory: precise constructs, an explicit process, and numbered hypotheses that the design will test. CR is a hypothetico-deductive journal — a paper that documents an effect without a tested mechanism rarely clears the bar.
Commres Theory Building is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the science-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/commres-theory-building/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when building the theoretical argument and hypotheses of a Communication Research (CR) manuscript into a testable, mechanism-level contribution. CR rewards explicit constructs, a stated communication process, and numbered hypotheses with mediation/moderation, not a bare effect.
The Commres Theory Building Claude Code skill is built for researchers, data scientists, academics, and analysts working with complex data and scientific literature. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 168,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/commres-theory-building curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/commres-theory-building/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/commres-theory-building/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/commres-theory-building/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/commres-theory-building/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\commres-theory-building\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/commres-theory-building/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Commres Theory Building is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Science & Research category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{commres-theory-building-2026,
author = {brycewang-stanford},
title = {Commres Theory Building [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/commres-theory-building/}
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