A skill your agent uses when revising a COLT (Conference on Learning Theory) paper for theorem-first exposition — formal setup before results, informal-then-formal theorem statements, proof…
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill colt-writing-style -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills colt-writing-style --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/COLT-Skills/skills/colt-writing-style .claude/skills/colt-writing-style && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "colt-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/COLT-Skills/skills/colt-writing-style into .claude/skills/colt-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "colt-writing-style", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/COLT-Skills/skills/colt-writing-styleType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill colt-writing-style -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills colt-writing-style --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/COLT-Skills/skills/colt-writing-style .agents/skills/colt-writing-style && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "colt-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/COLT-Skills/skills/colt-writing-style into .agents/skills/colt-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "colt-writing-style", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill colt-writing-style -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills colt-writing-style --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/COLT-Skills/skills/colt-writing-style .cursor/skills/colt-writing-style && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "colt-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/COLT-Skills/skills/colt-writing-style into .cursor/skills/colt-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "colt-writing-style", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git --path COLT-Skills/skills/colt-writing-style--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill colt-writing-style -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills colt-writing-style --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/COLT-Skills/skills/colt-writing-style .gemini/skills/colt-writing-style && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "colt-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/COLT-Skills/skills/colt-writing-style into .gemini/skills/colt-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "colt-writing-style", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills colt-writing-styleInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill colt-writing-style -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/COLT-Skills/skills/colt-writing-style .github/skills/colt-writing-style && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "colt-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/COLT-Skills/skills/colt-writing-style into .github/skills/colt-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "colt-writing-style", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill colt-writing-style -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills colt-writing-style --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/COLT-Skills/skills/colt-writing-style .opencode/skills/colt-writing-style && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "colt-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/COLT-Skills/skills/colt-writing-style into .opencode/skills/colt-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "colt-writing-style", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
colt-writing-styleA skill your agent uses when revising a COLT (Conference on Learning Theory) paper for theorem-first exposition — formal setup before results, informal-then-formal theorem statements, proof…
Colt Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when revising a COLT (Conference on Learning Theory) paper for theorem-first exposition — formal setup before results, informal-then-formal theorem statements, proof overviews that sell the technique, quantifier and constant hygiene, and fitting the argument's spine into 12 PMLR-formatted pages.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
It sits in Writing & Content, covering Brand voice and tone. The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. ｜ 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.
5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are latex).
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Colt Writing Style loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 80 tokens; SKILL.md has 742 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 742 words, ~1,597 tokens.
.claude/skills/colt-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).Use this when revising prose and mathematics for COLT. The style target is a paper a learning theorist can referee efficiently: the model is unambiguous by page 3, the main theorem is quotable in one breath, and the proof overview convinces the reader the technique is new before the appendix is opened.
State important results twice — an informal version in the introduction and the formal version after the setup — and keep them visibly consistent:
% Introduction:
\begin{theorem}[informal; see Theorem~\ref{thm:main}]
Any proper learner needs $\Omega(d/\epsilon)$ samples in this model,
and an improper learner achieves $O(\log(d)/\epsilon)$.
\end{theorem}
% After the setup:
\begin{theorem}\label{thm:main}
Let $\mathcal{H}$ satisfy Assumption~\ref{ass:vc}. For every proper learner $A$
there is a distribution $D$ with ... . Moreover, Algorithm~\ref{alg:improper}
outputs $h$ with $\mathrm{err}_D(h) \le \epsilon$ using
$m = O(\epsilon^{-1}\log d)$ samples, with probability $1-\delta$.
\end{theorem}The informal statement is a promise; reviewers check that the formal statement redeems it without weasel adjustments (an extra assumption appearing only in the formal version is a credibility leak).
| Draft habit | COLT-grade replacement |
|---|---|
| "It is easy to see that..." | "By Jensen's inequality applied to (7)," — name the tool |
| "For simplicity assume..." (silently binding) | "Assumption 3 (stated formally in Section 2); we discuss removing it in Remark 4" |
| "significantly improves prior work" | "improves the dependence on $d$ from $d^2$ to $d\log d$ (Table 1)" |
| "standard concentration arguments give" | "Bernstein's inequality with variance bound (12) gives" |
| "we believe the bound is tight" | "we conjecture the $\log$ factor is necessary; Section 5 gives partial evidence" |
| "our novel technique" | Describe the technique; let the reviewer call it novel |
The 2026 CFP allowed 12 PMLR-formatted body pages (references and appendix free, checked 2026-07-08). A working allocation for a two-theorem paper:
If the spine does not fit, cut a secondary theorem to the appendix wholesale rather than thinning every proof overview into mush.
Five sentences carry a COLT abstract: (1) the model and the question, in field vocabulary; (2) the best known bounds; (3) your result with explicit rates or the separation named; (4) the technique in one clause; (5) an optional consequence or open question. Numbers belong in the abstract at this venue — an abstract without a rate reads as an abstract without a result. Delete from drafts: application motivation beyond one clause, "extensive experiments," and any sentence beginning "Recently, there has been growing interest."
Write self-references in third person ("extending the reduction of [14]") and strip
acknowledgements for review — the 2026 template's anon option handles the author
block, but prose leaks are on you. See colt-submission for the full sweep.
[Style verdict] referee-efficient / setup-deficient / overclaimed / disorganized
[First-pages arc] <which of the five steps is missing or out of order>
[Statement hygiene] <quantifier / constant / probability-mode fixes>
[Technique paragraph] present and honest / absent / vague
[12-page plan] <sections over budget and the cut>© brycewang-stanford, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
Just SKILL.md in COLT-Skills/skills/colt-writing-style of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
Colt Writing Style next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colt Writing Style this skillbrycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills | 1.2k | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Crim Writing Stylefranklee16/academic-research-skills | 223 | 1 repos | ~975 | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Est Writing Stylefranklee16/academic-research-skills | 223 | 1 repos | ~798 | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Jaar Writing Stylefranklee16/academic-research-skills | 223 | 1 repos | ~760 | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Jcf Writing Stylefranklee16/academic-research-skills | 223 | 1 repos | ~669 | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Joc Writing Stylefranklee16/academic-research-skills | 223 | 1 repos | ~873 | Automated safety check: Pass | None |
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A skill your agent uses when revising a COLT (Conference on Learning Theory) paper for theorem-first exposition — formal setup before results, informal-then-formal theorem statements, proof…. Colt Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when revising a COLT (Conference on Learning Theory) paper for theorem-first exposition — formal setup before results, informal-then-formal theorem statements, proof overviews that sell the technique, quantifier and constant hygiene, and fitting the argument's spine into 12 PMLR-formatted pages.
Colt Writing Style fits situations like: revising a COLT (Conference on Learning Theory) paper for theorem-first exposition — formal setup before results; informal-then-formal theorem statements; proof overviews that sell the technique; quantifier and constant hygiene.
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill colt-writing-style -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (COLT-Skills/skills/colt-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/colt-writing-style in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill colt-writing-style -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (COLT-Skills/skills/colt-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/colt-writing-style in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill colt-writing-style -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/colt-writing-style, .gemini/skills/colt-writing-style, .github/skills/colt-writing-style and .opencode/skills/colt-writing-style in your project.
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Colt Writing Style is instructions for the agent only.
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
Colt Writing Style is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Colt Writing Style: Crim Writing Style (franklee16/academic-research-skills, 223 stars), Est Writing Style (franklee16/academic-research-skills, 223 stars), Jaar Writing Style (franklee16/academic-research-skills, 223 stars) and Jcf Writing Style (franklee16/academic-research-skills, 223 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,231 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.
Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.
