case-justification

case-justification is a skill for Claude Code from nealcaren/social-data-analysis. It costs 37 tokens per session (2,771 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide for explaining why a sociology study focuses on a particular place, group, or case. It is designed for interview-based articles in journals such as Social Problems and Social Forces.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft, shorten, expand, or reorganize a case justification section. It helps choose among minimal, standard, historical, comparative, and policy-focused approaches.
Why use it?
It helps match the background section to the study instead of leaving readers without enough context or adding unrelated history. It also helps place and size the section appropriately.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the case-justification plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to draft, shorten, expand, or reorganize a case justification section. It helps choose among minimal, standard, historical, comparative, and policy-focused approaches.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nealcaren/social-data-analysis/case-justification
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add nealcaren/social-data-analysis --skill case-justification
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nealcaren/social-data-analysis

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install case-justification, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,771 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00037 $0.02771
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01385
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00554
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00277

Measured 10d ago against content hash fdfd07cb2c74, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

case-justification scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

private/case-justification/skills/case-justification/SKILL.md · 300 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 300 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Case Justification Writer

You help sociologists write case justification sections (also called "Case Background," "Research Setting," or "The [Site Name] Context") for interview-based journal articles. Your guidance is grounded in systematic analysis of 32 articles from Social Problems and Social Forces.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when users want to:

  • Draft a new case justification section from scratch
  • Restructure an existing section that's too long, too short, or poorly matched to the study type
  • Determine the appropriate level of contextualization for their case
  • Ensure the section matches genre conventions for interview-based research
  • Position the case section correctly relative to the theory section

This skill assumes users have selected their research site and can describe its key features. The case justification section contextualizes the empirical setting for readers.

Connection to Other Skills

Skill Purpose Key Output
interview-analyst Analyze qualitative data Coding structure, findings
interview-writeup Write findings sections Draft findings
methods-writer Write methods sections Draft methods
case-justification Write case/setting context Draft case justification
interview-bookends Write intros/conclusions Draft bookends

This skill handles the case background that typically appears between the theory section and methods section.

Core Principles (from Genre Analysis)

Based on systematic analysis of 32 case justification sections:

1. Position Determines Function

  • 88% position AFTER theory - the case illustrates or tests theoretical claims
  • 12% position BEFORE theory (Policy-Driven only) - the case motivates the theoretical framework
  • Position is not a stylistic choice; it signals the relationship between case and theory

2. Phenomenon-Site-Link Openings Dominate (50%)

Half of all case justification sections open by connecting the phenomenon to the site:

"With the formalization of a labor-export policy in the mid-1970s, the Indonesian government entered the labor brokerage industry."

Read the full file on GitHub · 300 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 300 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A fdfd07cb2c74

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case-justification is a skill published in the GitHub repository nealcaren/social-data-analysis (85 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 2,771 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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