At JoC a result is not a contribution until it is attached to an argument communication researchers can use elsewhere. This skill turns findings into theory: explicit mechanisms, scope conditions, and observable implications, in the idiom appropriate to your kind of work. Communication theory is the journal's core — a paper that only documents an effect on one platform rarely clears the bar.
Joc Theory Building is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the general-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/joc-theory-building/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when building the theoretical argument of a Journal of Communication (JoC) manuscript into a field-level contribution — whether the work is mechanistic-empirical, computational, interpretive, or critical. JoC rewards a clear, portable communication-theory argument over a bare finding.
The Joc Theory Building Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 146,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/joc-theory-building curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/joc-theory-building/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/joc-theory-building/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/joc-theory-building/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/joc-theory-building/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\joc-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/joc-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. Joc Theory Building is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the General 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{joc-theory-building-2026,
author = {brycewang-stanford},
title = {Joc Theory Building [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/joc-theory-building/}
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