problematization

problematization is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yipng05-max/-skills. It costs 159 tokens per session (2,435 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research-question development tool that turns a broad interest or observed situation into a question with theoretical importance. It checks the question's academic relevance, significance, and practical feasibility.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess research topics, narrow or broaden questions, identify relevant theoretical debates, and clarify the study's contribution.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish a question that merely describes events from one that investigates an explanatory mechanism or challenges existing theory.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yipng05-max/-skills/problematization
Any agent
npx skills add yipng05-max/-skills --skill problematization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yipng05-max/-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 159 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,435 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00159 $0.02435
Opus 5 $0.00079 $0.01218
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00487
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00244

Measured 6d ago against content hash 5f8cc81d77c3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

problematization 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 6d 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.

problematization/SKILL.md · 214 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 214 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

研究问题化工具(Problematization)

本 skill 基于 Alvesson & Sandberg(2011)的问题化方法论及 Swedberg(2012)的理论想象力框架, 协助研究者完成从"经验现象"到"研究问题"的关键跃迁,并定位该问题在学术对话中的位置。

核心立场:一个好的研究问题不是"这个现象很重要"的断言, 而是"这个现象向某个理论对话提出了某个具体挑战或扩展"的论证。


启动:获取必要信息

触发后,收集以下信息:

必填 1:原始现象或兴趣描述

用户最初的表述,哪怕非常笼统,例如:

"我想研究外卖骑手的工作体验" "AI 替代劳动这个问题很有意思" "基层政府在执行政策时总是有变形,我想搞清楚为什么"

选填 2:已有的初步想法

  • 用户已经想过的研究问题表述(哪怕粗糙)
  • 初步考虑的理论视角(如果有的话)
  • 已经读过的相关文献(如果有)

选填 3:研究约束条件

  • 可用的数据来源或田野入口
  • 时间周期限制
  • 目标期刊类型(C 刊/SSCI)

如果以上信息用户没有提供,在问题诊断阶段基于用户的原始描述推断,并在输出时标注"基于推断"。


执行流程

收到信息后,自动连续执行以下四个阶段,无需每步等待用户确认。


第一阶段:经验问题 vs 研究问题的区分

首先判断用户当前的表述属于哪种类型:

经验问题(描述现象,不指向理论机制)

  • 典型形式:"XX 是什么情况""XX 怎么发展的""XX 有哪些影响"
  • 问题:可以通过调查/报告/记者采访回答,不需要社会学研究
  • 识别信号:问题的答案是"描述性事实",而非"解释性机制"

研究问题(指向理论机制,对学科知识有贡献)

  • 典型形式:"在什么条件下 A 导致 B""XX 现象如何修正/挑战/扩展了理论 Y"
  • 问题:需要系统的方法论和理论分析才能回答
  • 识别信号:问题的答案会让读者"哦,原来如此,我之前以为是另一回事"

输出格式

【当前表述类型诊断】
类型:经验问题 / 研究问题(初步)/ 研究问题(较成熟)
诊断依据:当前表述能通过什么方式回答?答案是描述性的还是解释性的?
主要问题:当前表述缺少什么才能成为真正的研究问题?

第二阶段:理论对话定位

无论当前处于哪个阶段,帮助用户识别这个现象与哪些理论对话相关:

2.1 识别候选理论对话

列出 2-4 个与该现象相关的理论脉络,每个脉络说明:

  • 核心问题:这个理论脉络在争论什么?
  • 现有共识:学界目前对什么基本达成一致?
  • 未解问题:这个脉络中还有什么重要问题悬而未决?
  • 与当前现象的关联:这个现象如何与该理论对话产生交集?
2.2 定位研究问题的介入点

针对每个候选理论对话,分析该研究可能的介入方式:

介入类型 含义 你的研究能做到吗?
验证型 在新经验场景中检验已有理论的适用性 贡献较小,但对特殊情境有意义
修正型 发现已有理论的边界条件或例外,提出修正 贡献中等,需要清晰的理论对话
扩展型 将理论延伸至新的现象域或概念层 贡献较大,需要扎实的理论基础
挑战型 提出与主流理论相悖的机制,要求理论重构 贡献最大,风险也最高

输出格式

【理论对话定位】
候选对话 1:[理论脉络名称]
  - 核心争论:
  - 当前研究与之的关联:
  - 可能的介入类型:
  - 如果介入,研究问题可以是:

候选对话 2:[理论脉络名称]
  (同上结构)

推荐优先进入的理论对话:[说明推荐理由]

第三阶段:三重检验

针对最具潜力的 1-2 个研究问题方向,执行三重检验:

检验一:理论贡献检验

如果这项研究得出预期结论,它具体向哪个理论对话贡献了什么?

判断标准(必须能回答以下问题):

  • 这个贡献改变了我们对某个概念/机制/关系的理解吗?(否则只是"填补空白")
  • 有没有人(理论上)会因为看到这个研究而需要修正自己的理论立场?

❌ 不合格的回答:"丰富了 XX 领域的研究""为 XX 研究提供了中国经验" ✅ 合格的回答:"挑战了 XX 理论关于 A→B 机制的假设,在数字劳动情境下 A→C 才是主要路径"

检验二:So What 检验

假设研究结论完全如预期,这对学科知识意味着什么?

Read the full file on GitHub · 214 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. 6d ago First seen · 214 lines · 159 tokens per session scan A 5f8cc81d77c3

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problematization is a skill published in the GitHub repository yipng05-max/-skills (283 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 159 tokens to every session and 2,435 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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