What is the difference between Mode 1 and Mode 2?

Mode 1 generates a completely new standalone writing skill from scratch, while Mode 2 creates a field profile to adjust an existing skill's benchmarks for a specific subfield.

What is a meta-skill in Claude Code?

A meta-skill is a specialized capability designed to create, configure, or generate other standalone skills based on user-provided data, analysis, and templates.

Can I use this for disciplines outside of sociology?

While optimized for the sociology-skillset repository, the underlying genre-analysis methodology can be adapted for any academic discipline with standardized writing conventions.

Does this skill require specific project files?

The Genre Skill Builder does not directly read from project.yaml but generates new skills that are pre-configured to integrate with the sociology-skillset project and progress tracking files.

How many articles do I need for the corpus analysis?

A corpus of 30 or more article sections is recommended to ensure the discovered genre patterns and clusters are statistically and qualitatively representative.

Genre Skill Builder

Name: Genre Skill Builder
Author: nealcaren

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Learning & Documentation

Automates the creation of empirical writing skills by analyzing academic article corpora to identify genre patterns and structural clusters.

This meta-skill empowers sociology researchers to build custom AI writing assistants grounded in systematic genre analysis rather than intuition. By processing a corpus of academic sections—such as introductions, methods, or discussions—it identifies distinct writing styles (clusters), establishes quantitative benchmarks, and generates complete, phase-based skills for the sociology-skillset framework. Whether creating a brand-new guide for a specific section or refining an existing skill for a niche subfield through field profiles, it ensures that academic writing support is data-driven, field-specific, and methodologically sound.

Key Features

01Field profile generation to adapt existing skills to specific sociology subfield conventions

02Systematic genre coding to identify rhetorical moves and structural patterns

03Template-based generation of complete Claude Code skills with phased workflows

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05Data-driven cluster discovery for generating diverse, style-specific writing guides

06Automated corpus analysis and quantitative profiling of academic text sections

Use Cases

01Adapting general sociology writing skills to the specific stylistic norms of subfields like Medical Sociology

02Developing a new writing guide for specialized academic sections like 'Results' or 'Policy Implications'

03Establishing empirical, data-backed benchmarks for academic publishing across different target venues

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add nealcaren/sociology-skillset genre-skill-builder

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

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