A skill your agent uses when revising an ESEC/FSE paper for a practitioner-grounded software-engineering contribution on the first page, research-question contracts, a threats-to-validity section…

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Install Fse Writing Style

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill fse-writing-style -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills fse-writing-style --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/FSE-Skills/skills/fse-writing-style .claude/skills/fse-writing-style && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.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/

Facts

Skill name
fse-writing-style
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
519 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 ESEC/FSE paper for a practitioner-grounded software-engineering contribution on the first page, research-question contracts, a threats-to-validity section…

  • Revising an ESEC/FSE paper for a practitioner-grounded software-engineering contribution on the first page
  • SKILL.md covers Revision rules, Empirical-SE paper skeleton, Sentence-level rewrites and Threats-to-validity discipline, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Research-question contracts

What it does

Fse Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when revising an ESEC/FSE paper for a practitioner-grounded software-engineering contribution on the first page, research-question contracts, a threats-to-validity section that argues rather than recites, evidence proportional to the claim, double-anonymous wording, and disciplined use of the ACM-template page budget.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k 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, Hypothesis generation and Programmatic SEO. 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 ESEC/FSE paper for a practitioner-grounded software-engineering contribution on the first page
  • Research-question contracts
  • A threats-to-validity section that argues rather than recites
  • Evidence proportional to the claim

Example prompts

  • “/fse-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

Fse Writing Style loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 85 tokens; SKILL.md has 519 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~85
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.2k

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). 519 words, ~1,204 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/fse-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
fse-writing-style
description
Use when revising an ESEC/FSE paper for a practitioner-grounded software-engineering contribution on the first page, research-question contracts, a threats-to-validity section that argues rather than recites, evidence proportional to the claim, double-anonymous wording, and disciplined use of the ACM-template page budget.

FSE Writing Style

Use this when revising the main paper. FSE papers are PACMSE journal articles read by SE empiricists, so they need a software-engineering contribution stated in the first page and evidence a reviewer trusts. The failure this skill prevents is a technically fine paper that reads like a systems demo or an ML result with an SE title glued on.

Revision rules

  • Lead with the SE contribution: the problem a practitioner recognizes, why the current state is inadequate, the contribution (technique and/or finding), the evidence, and what changes for software engineering.
  • State research questions as contracts. Each RQ should name what is measured and how it will be judged; every RQ must be answered explicitly in the results, and no result should exist without an RQ it serves.
  • Pair every claim with proportional evidence — real subjects, a fair baseline, a statistic with an effect size, or a qualitative code with agreement — not adjectives.
  • Argue threats to validity; do not recite them. Name the construct, internal, external, and conclusion threats that actually bite this study, and say what you did to bound each. A boilerplate threats paragraph is a tell that the author has not stressed their own claims.
  • Respect the page budget as a design constraint, not a formatting afterthought — the ACM template is generous but finite, and a study that only fits by shrinking threats or method is over-scoped.
  • Maintain heavy double-anonymity in self-citations, tool names, acknowledgements, funding, and the data-availability wording.

Empirical-SE paper skeleton

SectionJob it must doCommon failure
IntroProblem, inadequacy, contribution, evidence preview, SE payoff — first pageLeads with a technology trend, not a problem
Background/MotivationWhy a practitioner or the field needs this nowMotivation by assertion, no grounding
Approach / Study designThe technique or the RQs + protocol, reproduciblyMethod described too thinly to re-run
EvaluationEach RQ answered with proportional evidenceMetrics that proxy for the claim rather than test it
Threats to validityThe threats that bite, each boundedGeneric list untethered from this study
Related workDelta-first positioning against SE literatureCatalog of citations with no contrast
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Sentence-level rewrites

Draft patternFSE-safe rewrite
"Our tool significantly improves...""detects X% more defects (95% CI ...) than <baseline> on <N real projects>"
"We evaluate on a large dataset.""We evaluate on <N> projects sampled by <criterion>, listed in the artifact"
"Results show our approach works well.""RQ2: developers acted on <fraction> of comments (effect size ...); threats in §5.2"
"State-of-the-art performance."Claim scoped to the subjects, metrics, and regime actually tested
"The LLM understands the code.""the model's output matched <criterion> in <fraction> of cases"

Threats-to-validity discipline

text
[Construct]   does the metric measure the SE outcome you claim? (e.g. proxy for causation)
[Internal]    could something other than your technique explain the effect? (confounds, tuning)
[External]    to which projects/languages/teams does the finding generalize?
[Conclusion]  are the statistics appropriate; multiple comparisons corrected; variance reported?
-> for each that bites: state it, then state the mitigation, next to the affected result

Vignette: compressing a three-RQ study

A draft with three RQs, nine figures, and a sprawling background: keep all three RQ answers, the two figures that carry the headline findings, and a threats subsection per RQ; move secondary plots and full protocol tables to the artifact with explicit forward references; cut background to what the argument needs. The test of a good cut: a reviewer should be able to answer "what did each RQ find, and what threatens it?" from the body alone.

Output format

text
[Writing diagnosis] clear / under-motivated / over-claimed / evidence-mismatched / over-scoped
[First-page fix] <new framing leading with the SE contribution>
[RQ audit] <RQ -> metric -> where answered -> proportional? yes/no>
[Threats fix] <threat that bites -> mitigation to add, placed by the result>
[Anonymity edits] <tool names / self-citations / links to rewrite>

© 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 FSE-Skills/skills/fse-writing-style of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Fse Writing Style

What does Fse Writing Style do?

A skill your agent uses when revising an ESEC/FSE paper for a practitioner-grounded software-engineering contribution on the first page, research-question contracts, a threats-to-validity section…. Fse Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when revising an ESEC/FSE paper for a practitioner-grounded software-engineering contribution on the first page, research-question contracts, a threats-to-validity section that argues rather than recites, evidence proportional to the claim, double-anonymous wording, and disciplined use of the ACM-template page budget.

When should I use Fse Writing Style?

Fse Writing Style fits situations like: revising an ESEC/FSE paper for a practitioner-grounded software-engineering contribution on the first page; research-question contracts; A threats-to-validity section that argues rather than recites; evidence proportional to the claim.

How do I install Fse Writing Style in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill fse-writing-style -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (FSE-Skills/skills/fse-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/fse-writing-style in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Fse Writing Style in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill fse-writing-style -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (FSE-Skills/skills/fse-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/fse-writing-style in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Fse 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 fse-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/fse-writing-style, .gemini/skills/fse-writing-style, .github/skills/fse-writing-style and .opencode/skills/fse-writing-style in your project.

What does Fse Writing Style need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Fse Writing Style is instructions for the agent only.

Does Fse 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 Fse 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 Fse Writing Style use?

Fse 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 Fse Writing Style use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Fse 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.