A PiHG essay lives or dies on its organizing concept — the idea through which a scattered literature is re-read into one argument. Unlike an empirical paper, where theory frames a study, here the concept is the instrument of synthesis: it decides what counts, how the sources relate, and what the field should see differently. Build it before you draft.
Phg 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/phg-theory-building/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when building the conceptual apparatus that organizes a Progress in Human Geography (PiHG) review essay — the load-bearing concept that carries the argument and re-orders a literature. Sharpens the concept; it does not gather sources or run analyses (PiHG publishes no empirical work).
The Phg 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 174,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/phg-theory-building curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/phg-theory-building/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/phg-theory-building/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/phg-theory-building/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/phg-theory-building/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\phg-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/phg-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. Phg 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{phg-theory-building-2026,
author = {brycewang-stanford},
title = {Phg Theory Building [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/phg-theory-building/}
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