Claude Skills by asgard-ai-platform

Apply panel data analysis with fixed effects, random effects, and dynamic GMM to exploit longitudinal variation and control for unobserved heterogeneity. Use this skill when the user has repeated observations over time for multiple entities, needs to choose between FE and RE via Hausman test, or when they ask 'how do I control for firm-specific effects', 'fixed or random effects', or 'how to handle endogeneity in panels'.

Apply Kuhn's paradigm theory to analyze scientific progress through the cycle of normal science, anomalies, crisis, and revolution. Use this skill when the user needs to understand why a field resists change, trace paradigm shifts in a discipline, analyze incommensurability between competing frameworks, or when they ask 'why do scientists ignore contradictory evidence', 'how do scientific revolutions happen', or 'why can't proponents of different paradigms agree'.

Apply Smith and Lewis's paradox theory to identify and manage organizational tensions across performing, organizing, belonging, and learning dimensions. Use this skill when the user needs to diagnose persistent either/or tensions, design dynamic equilibrium strategies that embrace both poles, or when they ask 'why does solving this problem make it worse', 'how do we pursue exploration AND exploitation simultaneously', or 'why do our strategic tensions keep recurring despite resolution attempts'.

Apply pecking order theory (Myers and Majluf, 1984) to analyze how information asymmetry drives financing hierarchy decisions. Use this skill when the user needs to explain why firms prefer internal over external financing, interpret equity issuance as a negative signal, evaluate capital raising decisions, or when they ask 'why did the stock drop on the equity offering', 'should we use debt or equity', or 'why do firms hoard cash'.

Apply phenomenological methods including bracketing (epoche), lived experience inquiry, and Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to uncover the essence of human experience. Use this skill when the user needs to study how people experience a phenomenon from the first-person perspective, apply Husserlian descriptive or Heideggerian interpretive phenomenology, conduct IPA with idiographic focus, or when they ask 'what is the lived experience of X', 'how do I bracket my assumptions', or '...

Apply platform economics to analyze network effects, solve chicken-and-egg problems, and design multi-sided platform pricing strategies. Use this skill when the user needs to evaluate a platform business model, diagnose why a platform is failing to scale, or choose a subsidy strategy for bootstrapping a two-sided market.

Apply Partial Least Squares SEM (PLS-SEM) with reflective and formative measurement models to maximize explained variance in endogenous constructs. Use this skill when the user has small samples, formative indicators, or exploratory models, needs to assess AVE/CR/HTMT, or when they ask 'should I use PLS or CB-SEM', 'how do I handle formative constructs', or 'what is the path coefficient significance'.

Apply Kingdon's multiple streams framework to analyze how problems, policies, and politics converge to open policy windows. Use this skill when the user needs to explain why certain policies get adopted while others don't, identify policy windows and entrepreneurial opportunities, or analyze the agenda-setting process in public policy — even if they say 'why did this policy pass now', 'policy window', or 'how do issues get on the agenda'.

Apply pragmatist philosophy (Peirce, James, Dewey) to frame knowledge as instrumental for action, evaluate ideas by their practical consequences, and conduct inquiry as problem-solving. Use this skill when the user needs to bridge theory and practice, evaluate competing theories by their usefulness, employ abductive reasoning to generate hypotheses, or when they ask 'which theory is more useful here', 'how do I move from abstract ideas to actionable knowledge', or 'what practical difference d...

Apply public choice theory to analyze political decision-making as rational self-interested behavior. Use this skill when the user needs to evaluate government policy failures, rent-seeking costs, voting outcomes, or bureaucratic incentives, especially when the assumption of benevolent government is questionable.

Apply real options analysis to value managerial flexibility embedded in investment decisions. Use this skill when the user needs to evaluate projects with significant uncertainty and flexibility, assess the value of deferring or expanding investments, compare traditional NPV with expanded NPV, or when they ask 'should we wait to invest', 'what is the option to abandon worth', or 'why does NPV undervalue this project'.

Apply Service-Dominant Logic (Vargo and Lusch, 2004) and value co-creation principles to reframe exchange and value creation. Use this skill when the user needs to redesign value propositions around service exchange, analyze co-creation dynamics between firms and customers, shift from goods-dominant to service-dominant thinking, or when they ask 'how is value created with customers', 'what is our service logic', or 'how do we enable co-creation'.

Apply Self-Determination Theory to analyze motivation quality along the autonomy continuum and design interventions that satisfy basic psychological needs. Use this skill when the user needs to diagnose why intrinsic motivation is declining, evaluate incentive structures for motivational crowding, design need-supportive environments, or when they ask 'why did rewards backfire', 'how to foster intrinsic motivation', or 'what needs drive engagement'.

Apply Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to test hypothesized causal structures by combining measurement models (CFA) and structural models (path analysis). Use this skill when the user needs to validate latent constructs, test mediation or moderation paths, assess model fit with CFI/TLI/RMSEA/SRMR, or when they ask 'do these variables form a causal chain', 'how do I test my theoretical model', or 'is my measurement model valid'.

Apply Weick's sensemaking theory to analyze how individuals and organizations construct meaning from ambiguous situations. Use this skill when the user needs to analyze organizational responses to crises, understand how interpretive frames shape action, diagnose breakdowns in collective understanding, or when they ask 'how did they interpret this situation', 'why did the organization fail to see the warning signs', or 'how do people make sense of disruption'.

Apply the SERVQUAL model (Parasuraman, Zeithaml, and Berry, 1988) to measure service quality gaps across five dimensions. Use this skill when the user needs to diagnose service quality shortfalls, benchmark customer expectations against perceptions, design service improvement programs, or when they ask 'where is our service failing', 'what do customers expect vs experience', or 'how do we measure service quality'.

Apply signaling theory (Spence, 1973) to analyze how agents communicate private information through costly, credible signals under information asymmetry. Use this skill when the user needs to evaluate whether a corporate action serves as a credible signal, analyze dividend or IPO signaling, assess separating vs pooling equilibria, or when they ask 'why do firms pay dividends', 'is this signal credible', or 'how does underpricing signal quality'.

Apply social capital theory (Putnam, Coleman, Bourdieu, Burt) to analyze how network structures and trust generate value or impose constraints. Use this skill when the user needs to evaluate bridging vs bonding capital, identify structural holes or network closure benefits, assess community or organizational trust dynamics, or when they ask 'how does our network create value', 'are we too insular', or 'where are the structural holes we can exploit'.

Apply Social Identity Theory to analyze how group categorization, identification, and intergroup comparison drive behavior, bias, and conflict. Use this skill when the user needs to explain in-group favoritism or out-group hostility, diagnose organizational silo dynamics, design inclusive team structures, or when they ask 'why do groups polarize', 'how does team identity affect collaboration', or 'what drives us-vs-them thinking'.

Apply Sociotechnical Systems Theory to analyze and design work systems through joint optimization of social and technical subsystems. Use this skill when the user needs to diagnose why a technology implementation disrupted work practices, design IT-enabled work systems that balance human and technical needs, or when they ask 'why did this system hurt productivity despite being technically sound', 'how do we design work around new technology', or 'why are people resisting this technically supe...

Apply spiral of silence theory (Noelle-Neumann) to analyze how perceived opinion climate suppresses minority expression. Use this skill when the user needs to understand why certain viewpoints disappear from public discourse, evaluate the role of fear of isolation in opinion expression, or assess opinion climate dynamics — even if they say 'why are people afraid to speak up', 'silent majority', or 'social pressure on opinions'.

Apply Agency Theory (Jensen and Meckling, 1976) to diagnose principal-agent problems — moral hazard, adverse selection — and design governance mechanisms to align interests. Use this skill when the user needs to analyze conflicts of interest between owners and managers, design incentive or monitoring structures, evaluate corporate governance effectiveness, or when they ask 'how do we ensure managers act in shareholders interest', 'why is this incentive plan failing', or 'what governance mecha...

Apply the Dynamic Capabilities framework (Teece et al., 1997) — sensing, seizing, and transforming — to analyze how firms adapt, integrate, and reconfigure competences in rapidly changing environments. Use this skill when the user needs to explain why some firms sustain advantage while others decline, evaluate organizational agility, distinguish operational from strategic capabilities, or when they ask 'how do we stay competitive as the market shifts', 'why did this firm fail to adapt', or 'w...

Apply Institutional Theory (DiMaggio and Powell, 1983) to analyze how coercive, mimetic, and normative isomorphic pressures shape organizational structures and practices. Use this skill when the user needs to explain why organizations in the same field look alike, evaluate whether a practice was adopted for legitimacy vs efficiency, analyze regulatory or social pressures on strategy, or when they ask 'why do all firms in this industry do the same thing', 'is this best practice or just conform...

Apply the Knowledge-Based View (Grant, 1996) and Nonaka and Takeuchi's SECI model to analyze how organizations create, transfer, and integrate knowledge for competitive advantage. Use this skill when the user needs to design knowledge management systems, understand why knowledge transfer fails across teams, evaluate knowledge creation processes, or when they ask 'how do we capture tacit knowledge', 'why does knowledge stay siloed', or 'how can we turn individual expertise into organizational ...

Apply the Resource-Based View (Barney, 1991) and VRIO framework to evaluate whether a firm's resources and capabilities confer sustained competitive advantage. Use this skill when the user needs to assess internal resources for strategic value, determine if a competitive edge is sustainable, audit resource portfolios for VRIO criteria, or when they ask 'what makes our advantage sustainable', 'which resources matter most', or 'can competitors replicate this'.

Apply Stakeholder Theory (Freeman, 1984) and the Mitchell et al. (1997) salience model to identify, classify, and prioritize stakeholders based on power, legitimacy, and urgency. Use this skill when the user needs to map stakeholders for a project or strategy, determine which stakeholders demand immediate attention, balance competing stakeholder interests, or when they ask 'who are our key stakeholders', 'how do we prioritize conflicting demands', or 'which stakeholders can block this initiat...

Apply Transaction Cost Economics (Williamson, 1975, 1985) to analyze governance structure choices — market, hybrid, or hierarchy — based on transaction characteristics. Use this skill when the user needs to decide make-or-buy, evaluate outsourcing vs vertical integration, design governance mechanisms for inter-firm relationships, or when they ask 'should we build this in-house or outsource', 'why do firms vertically integrate', or 'how should we structure this partnership'.

Apply Upper Echelons Theory (Hambrick and Mason, 1984) to analyze how top management team characteristics — demographics, experiences, values — shape strategic choices and organizational outcomes. Use this skill when the user needs to evaluate TMT composition effects on strategy, predict strategic direction from leadership profiles, assess whether managerial discretion enables or constrains executive influence, or when they ask 'does leadership background matter for strategy', 'how does TMT c...

Apply Giddens' structuration theory to analyze the duality of structure — how social structures are both the medium and outcome of the practices they organize. Use this skill when the user needs to bridge agency and structure in organizational or social analysis, explain how routines reproduce or transform institutional patterns, analyze the recursive relationship between action and structure, or when they ask 'do people shape institutions or do institutions shape people', 'how are these rout...

Apply rigorous survey design principles including construct operationalization, Likert scale development, reliability and validity assessment, and common method variance control. Use this skill when the user designs questionnaires, develops measurement items, needs to evaluate Cronbach's alpha or AVE, or when they ask 'how do I operationalize this construct', 'is my scale reliable', or 'how do I control for CMV'.

Apply sustainability frameworks (triple bottom line, SDGs, ESG, circular economy) to evaluate whether strategies balance economic, social, and environmental dimensions. Use this skill when the user needs to assess ESG performance, design circular economy strategies, align business models with SDGs, or when they ask 'is this strategy truly sustainable', 'how do we measure ESG impact', 'what does a circular business model look like', or 'how do we avoid greenwashing'.

Conduct a systematic literature review following the PRISMA framework with explicit search strategy, inclusion and exclusion criteria, quality assessment, and transparent synthesis. Use this skill when the user needs to design a reproducible literature search, apply PRISMA flow documentation, develop inclusion and exclusion criteria, assess study quality, or when they ask 'how do I do a systematic review', 'what is PRISMA', or 'how do I make my literature review reproducible'.

Apply the Technology Acceptance Model (Davis, 1989) and Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (Venkatesh et al., 2003) to predict technology adoption. Use this skill when the user needs to evaluate user acceptance of a new system, diagnose adoption barriers, design interventions to improve technology uptake, or when they ask 'why aren't users adopting this', 'what drives technology acceptance', or 'how do we increase adoption rates'.

Apply the TPACK framework to evaluate and design technology-integrated instruction at the intersection of technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge. Use this skill when the user needs to assess teacher readiness for technology integration, design professional development for ed-tech, or evaluate whether technology use is pedagogically grounded — even if they say 'how to integrate technology in teaching', 'ed-tech evaluation', or 'teacher technology competency'.

Apply the Theory of Planned Behavior to predict behavioral intentions from attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control, and identify intervention leverage points. Use this skill when the user needs to predict adoption of a new behavior, diagnose why an intended behavior does not occur, design behavior change campaigns, or when they ask 'why do people not follow through', 'what predicts behavior change', or 'how to increase adoption rates'.

Apply the Uppsala Internationalization Model to analyze gradual foreign market entry based on psychic distance and experiential learning. Use this skill when the user needs to plan a staged internationalization sequence, understand why firms enter culturally similar markets first, or evaluate whether a firm's international expansion follows the establishment chain from export to subsidiary.

Apply structured critical thinking — identifying claims, evidence, reasoning chains, hidden assumptions, and logical fallacies — to evaluate or construct specific written arguments rigorously. Use this skill when the user presents a concrete argument, claim, op-ed, research finding, or piece of reasoning to be analyzed for logical validity or flaws, even if they say 'is this argument valid', 'what logical fallacies are in this', or 'what assumptions am I making in this thesis'. Do NOT use for...

Apply Hegelian dialectics (thesis-antithesis-synthesis) to analyze contradictions and generate higher-order understanding. Use this skill when the user needs to resolve opposing viewpoints, find creative synthesis between conflicting positions, or move past binary thinking — even if they say 'both sides have valid points', 'how do we reconcile these views', or 'is there a third option'.

Apply discourse analysis to examine how language constructs meaning, power relationships, and social reality in texts and communications. Use this skill when the user needs to analyze how a text frames an issue, uncover hidden assumptions in language, examine power dynamics in communication, or deconstruct media/corporate/political messaging — even if they say 'what's really being said here', 'how is this framing the issue', or 'analyze the language in this document'.

Apply ethical frameworks — deontology, utilitarianism, virtue ethics, and justice theory — to analyze moral dilemmas and make principled decisions. Use this skill when the user presents a concrete moral dilemma, a decision with ethical implications, or needs a structured multi-framework ethical analysis, even if they say 'is this the right thing to do', 'what are the ethical implications of this decision', or 'evaluate this dilemma through different ethical lenses'.

Use historical analogies to inform strategic decisions by identifying structural similarities and differences between past and present situations. Use this skill when the user draws on historical precedent to justify a strategy, needs to evaluate whether a historical comparison is valid, or wants to learn from past events — even if they say 'this is like the dotcom bubble', 'history repeats itself', or 'what can we learn from how X handled this'.

Apply narrative structure and storytelling techniques for brand, business, and communication contexts. Use this skill when the user needs to craft a compelling story, build a brand narrative, structure a presentation around a story arc, or use storytelling to communicate data or strategy — even if they say 'tell a better story', 'make this presentation more engaging', or 'how do we build our brand story'.

Apply classical rhetoric — Ethos, Pathos, Logos — to analyze persuasive communication and craft effective arguments. Use this skill when the user needs to make a speech more persuasive, analyze why a piece of communication is effective, write a compelling proposal, or evaluate rhetorical strategies — even if they say 'make this more convincing', 'why is this speech so powerful', or 'how do I persuade the board'.

Apply Socratic questioning — systematic inquiry via clarification, assumption-probing, evidence-testing, perspective-shifting, implication-tracing, and meta-questions — to coach learning or surface hidden assumptions in a person's reasoning. Use this skill when the user is explicitly facilitating learning, coaching a person through their own thinking, or needs a structured questioning sequence to probe a held belief, even if they say 'play devil's advocate on this claim' or 'how should I coac...

Evaluate source credibility using primary/secondary classification, internal/external criticism, triangulation, and misinformation detection. Use this skill when the user needs to assess whether information is trustworthy, evaluate research sources, fact-check claims, or detect misinformation — even if they say 'can I trust this source', 'is this real', 'how reliable is this data', or 'fact-check this for me'.

Analyze contract fundamentals including formation requirements (offer, acceptance, consideration), essential clauses, and common risk areas. Use this skill when the user needs to review a contract, understand contract terms, identify risky clauses, or draft contract provisions — even if they say 'review this agreement', 'what should I watch out for in this contract', or 'is this clause standard'.

Analyze data privacy compliance requirements under GDPR, Taiwan's Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA), and related regulations. Use this skill when the user needs to assess data privacy obligations, design compliant data handling processes, evaluate cross-border data transfer risks, or understand data subject rights — even if they say 'do we comply with GDPR', 'can we collect this data', 'what are our privacy obligations', or 'how do we handle user data in Taiwan'.

Analyze intellectual property rights across patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. Use this skill when the user needs to understand IP protection options, evaluate whether their work is protectable, assess infringement risk, or design an IP strategy — even if they say 'can I patent this', 'someone copied our design', 'how do we protect our brand name', or 'what IP do we have'.

Apply IRAC (Issue, Rule, Application, Conclusion) method for structured legal analysis. Use this skill when the user needs to analyze a legal question systematically, write a legal memo, evaluate whether a law applies to a situation, or structure a legal argument — even if they say 'does this law apply', 'analyze this legal issue', or 'write a legal analysis'.