Avoid AI Writing
conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing
Audit and rewrite content to remove AI writing patterns ("AI-isms").
A skill your agent uses when revising an EDBT paper for a data-management contribution on the first page, a reproducibly described mechanism, an evaluation that survives a database-systems reviewer…
Install Edbt Writing Style
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill edbt-writing-style -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills edbt-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/EDBT-Skills/skills/edbt-writing-style .claude/skills/edbt-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 "edbt-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/EDBT-Skills/skills/edbt-writing-style into .claude/skills/edbt-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "edbt-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/EDBT-Skills/skills/edbt-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 edbt-writing-style -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills edbt-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/EDBT-Skills/skills/edbt-writing-style .agents/skills/edbt-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 "edbt-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/EDBT-Skills/skills/edbt-writing-style into .agents/skills/edbt-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "edbt-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 edbt-writing-style -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills edbt-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/EDBT-Skills/skills/edbt-writing-style .cursor/skills/edbt-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 "edbt-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/EDBT-Skills/skills/edbt-writing-style into .cursor/skills/edbt-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "edbt-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 EDBT-Skills/skills/edbt-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 edbt-writing-style -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills edbt-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/EDBT-Skills/skills/edbt-writing-style .gemini/skills/edbt-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 "edbt-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/EDBT-Skills/skills/edbt-writing-style into .gemini/skills/edbt-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "edbt-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 edbt-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 edbt-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/EDBT-Skills/skills/edbt-writing-style .github/skills/edbt-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 "edbt-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/EDBT-Skills/skills/edbt-writing-style into .github/skills/edbt-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "edbt-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 edbt-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 edbt-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/EDBT-Skills/skills/edbt-writing-style .opencode/skills/edbt-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 "edbt-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/EDBT-Skills/skills/edbt-writing-style into .opencode/skills/edbt-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "edbt-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.
Facts
- Skill name
edbt-writing-style- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1.4k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 595 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 2,387
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
A skill your agent uses when revising an EDBT paper for a data-management contribution on the first page, a reproducibly described mechanism, an evaluation that survives a database-systems reviewer…
- Revising an EDBT paper for a data-management contribution on the first page
- SKILL.md covers Revision rules, Paper-shape skeletons, Sentence-level rewrites and Scope discipline, plus 2 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
- A reproducibly described mechanism
What it does
Edbt Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when revising an EDBT paper for a data-management contribution on the first page, a reproducibly described mechanism, an evaluation that survives a database-systems reviewer, honest scope, and disciplined use of the per-shape page budget (Regular / Experiments-&-Analysis / Vision) in the OpenProceedings template.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k 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.
When your agent uses it
- Revising an EDBT paper for a data-management contribution on the first page
- A reproducibly described mechanism
- An evaluation that survives a database-systems reviewer
- Disciplined use of the per-shape page budget (Regular / Experiments-&-Analysis / Vision) in the OpenProceedings template
Example prompts
- “/edbt-writing-style”
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
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.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Edbt Writing Style loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 84 tokens; SKILL.md has 595 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.
Safety
Auto-check passed
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.
SKILL.md
The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 595 words, ~1,397 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/edbt-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- edbt-writing-style
- description
- Use when revising an EDBT paper for a data-management contribution on the first page, a reproducibly described mechanism, an evaluation that survives a database-systems reviewer, honest scope, and disciplined use of the per-shape page budget (Regular / Experiments-&-Analysis / Vision) in the OpenProceedings template.
EDBT Writing Style
Use this when revising the main paper. EDBT papers are read by database-systems reviewers and published open access on OpenProceedings, so they need a data-management contribution stated on the first page and an evaluation a skeptic trusts. The failure this skill prevents is a technically fine paper that reads like a vague performance claim or a re-skinned ML result with a database title.
Revision rules
- Lead with the data-management contribution: the concrete problem (a storage, query-processing, indexing, transaction, integration, or data-quality problem), why current systems fall short, the contribution (mechanism and/or study), the evidence on real workloads, and what it enables.
- Make the mechanism reproducible in prose. Describe the algorithm, data structures, parameters, and system integration precisely enough that a competent reader could reimplement it — vagueness here is the "I cannot tell how it works" revise.
- Pair every claim with proportional evidence — a real workload, a tuned baseline, a measurement at realistic scale with reported variance — not adjectives like "significantly faster."
- State scope honestly, in the body. Name where the technique helps, where it is neutral, and its overhead or failure cases; quantify them rather than hiding them. A database reviewer's first two objections are usually "unfair baseline" and "unrealistic scale" — pre-empt both.
- Respect the per-shape page budget as a design constraint (Regular / Experiments-&-Analysis ≤12 pages; Vision ≤6; references unlimited — reverify per cycle). References do not count, but figures, tables, and appendices in the body do.
- Use the OpenProceedings/host template, not
acmartorIEEEtrancarried from a US venue.
Paper-shape skeletons
Regular / applied-systems paper
| Section | Job it must do | Common failure |
|---|---|---|
| Intro | Problem, inadequacy, contribution, evidence preview, what it enables — first page | Leads with "data is growing," not a concrete problem |
| Background / Motivation | Why current systems fall short, grounded | Motivation by assertion |
| Approach / System | The mechanism + integration, reproducibly | Described too thinly to reimplement |
| Evaluation | Each claim answered on real workloads vs. tuned baselines | Unnamed dataset, untuned baseline, toy scale |
| Scope / Discussion | Where it helps, is neutral, or costs; quantified | Limits hidden or hand-waved |
| Related work | Delta-first positioning against DB venues | Citation catalog with no contrast |
Experiments & Analysis paper — the study is the contribution: foreground the methodology (subjects, metrics, fairness, coverage, repeatability) and treat the findings as the deliverable, not a new system.
Vision paper — a tight argument for a new direction: the problem, why now, the sketch of an approach, and the research agenda, within the short budget; no need for a full evaluation, but the argument must be disciplined.
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Sentence-level rewrites
| Draft pattern | EDBT-safe rewrite |
|---|---|
| "Our system is significantly faster." | "reduces median query latency by X% (variance over N runs) vs. <tuned baseline> on <workload>" |
| "We evaluate on a large dataset." | "We evaluate on <named workload/logs>, sizes ..., cluster of ... workers; config in the artifact" |
| "Results show our approach works well." | "Under skew, straggler time drops by ...; on uniform keys, overhead is ...% (Table 2)" |
| "State-of-the-art performance." | Claim scoped to the workloads, metrics, and scale actually tested |
| "Our method scales." | "throughput holds from 8 to 128 workers (Fig. 2); beyond that is untested" |
Scope discipline
[Where it helps] name the regime (e.g. concentrated, detectable skew) and show it
[Where it is neutral] show the no-op case (e.g. uniform keys) so the reviewer trusts you
[What it costs] quantify overhead / memory / setup, not "negligible"
[Where it fails] state the boundary (e.g. very short queries) and measure it
-> put each of these next to the affected result, not in a deferred paragraphVignette: compressing an over-scoped systems paper
A draft with a sprawling background, five contributions, and nine plots: keep the two contributions the evaluation actually supports, the plots that carry the headline result and the overhead case, and a tight scope subsection; move parameter sweeps and secondary configurations to the artifact with explicit forward references. The test of a good cut: a reviewer should be able to answer "what does it do, on what workloads, versus what baseline, and what does it cost?" from the body alone.
Output format
[Writing diagnosis] clear / under-motivated / over-claimed / evidence-mismatched / over-scoped
[Shape] Regular / Experiments-&-Analysis / Vision — budget respected?
[First-page fix] <new framing leading with the data-management contribution>
[Claim audit] <claim -> workload/baseline/scale -> where answered -> proportional? yes/no>
[Scope fix] <where-it-helps / neutral / cost / failure, placed by the result>
[Template] host/OpenProceedings template in use? yes/no© 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
Files
Just SKILL.md in EDBT-Skills/skills/edbt-writing-style of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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What does Edbt Writing Style do?
A skill your agent uses when revising an EDBT paper for a data-management contribution on the first page, a reproducibly described mechanism, an evaluation that survives a database-systems reviewer…. Edbt Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when revising an EDBT paper for a data-management contribution on the first page, a reproducibly described mechanism, an evaluation that survives a database-systems reviewer, honest scope, and disciplined use of the per-shape page budget (Regular / Experiments-&-Analysis / Vision) in the OpenProceedings template.
When should I use Edbt Writing Style?
Edbt Writing Style fits situations like: revising an EDBT paper for a data-management contribution on the first page; A reproducibly described mechanism; an evaluation that survives a database-systems reviewer; disciplined use of the per-shape page budget (Regular / Experiments-&-Analysis / Vision) in the OpenProceedings template.
How do I install Edbt Writing Style in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill edbt-writing-style -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (EDBT-Skills/skills/edbt-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/edbt-writing-style in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Edbt Writing Style in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill edbt-writing-style -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (EDBT-Skills/skills/edbt-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/edbt-writing-style in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Edbt Writing Style in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
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 edbt-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/edbt-writing-style, .gemini/skills/edbt-writing-style, .github/skills/edbt-writing-style and .opencode/skills/edbt-writing-style in your project.
What does Edbt Writing Style need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Edbt Writing Style is instructions for the agent only.
Does Edbt Writing Style access the network?
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.
Is Edbt Writing Style safe to install?
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.
What licence does Edbt Writing Style use?
Edbt 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.
How many tokens does Edbt Writing Style use?
About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Edbt Writing Style?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Edbt Writing Style: Avoid AI Writing (conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing, 4.9k stars), Brand (Ohh-889/skyroc, 795 stars), Khazix WeChat Article Writer (KKKKhazix/khazix-skills, 21k stars) and Writing Guidelines (vercel-labs/agent-skills, 32k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Edbt Writing Style?
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.