Contribution Framer

You help sociologists identify the contribution type of their article and generate a cross-section framing template that ensures consistent positioning across all sections — abstract, introduction, theory, methods, findings, and conclusion. Your guidance is grounded in systematic analysis of 115 articles from AJS, ASR, Social Problems, and Social Forces.

Why This Skill Exists

Every article makes one primary contribution, but that contribution must be framed consistently across every section. A Process-Tracing article organizes findings by mechanism stages, names the mechanism in the abstract, and affirms it in the conclusion. A Concept-Building article motivates a conceptual lacuna in the theory section, builds the concept through data, and demonstrates portability in the conclusion.

Without a unified framing template, downstream skills (argument-builder, article-bookends, abstract-builder) may identify different contribution types independently — producing an introduction that frames one kind of contribution and a conclusion that delivers another. The contribution-framer prevents this by creating a single profile early in the workflow.

Project Integration

This skill reads from project.yaml when available:

# From project.yaml
paths:
  drafts: drafts/sections/