A skill your agent uses when building or auditing the related-work section of an ICRA paper — covering the conference's own recent proceedings plus IROS, RSS, CoRL, RA-L, and T-RO lanes, handling…

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Install Icra Related Work

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill icra-related-work -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills icra-related-work --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/ICRA-Skills/skills/icra-related-work .claude/skills/icra-related-work && 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
icra-related-work
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
755 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when building or auditing the related-work section of an ICRA paper — covering the conference's own recent proceedings plus IROS, RSS, CoRL, RA-L, and T-RO lanes, handling…

  • Works in 6 steps: Keyword-sweep the last three years of… → Check RA-L for newer journal versions of… → Sweep arXiv cs.RO for the last six… → …
  • Auditing the related-work section of an ICRA paper — covering the conferences own recent proceedings plus IROS
  • SKILL.md covers The five lanes an ICRA…, Concurrent and arXiv-only work, Self-citation under… and Positioning against commercial…, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Icra Related Work is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when building or auditing the related-work section of an ICRA paper — covering the conference's own recent proceedings plus IROS, RSS, CoRL, RA-L, and T-RO lanes, handling arXiv-only robotics work, citing your own platform papers under ICRA's double-anonymous rules, and positioning against commercial systems.

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 Research & Science, covering Literature review, Academic paper search and Positioning and messaging. It works with arXiv. 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

  • Auditing the related-work section of an ICRA paper — covering the conferences own recent proceedings plus IROS
  • Handling arXiv-only robotics work
  • Citing your own platform papers under ICRAs double-anonymous rules
  • Positioning against commercial systems

Example prompts

  • “/icra-related-work”

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Keyword-sweep the last three years of ICRA and IROS proceedings for the task.
  2. Check RA-L for newer journal versions of every conference paper cited.
  3. Sweep arXiv cs.RO for the last six months; classify hits as prior vs concurrent.
  4. Rewrite all self-references into third person; strip possessives and links.
  5. Compress into family-structured paragraphs ending in the narrow first-to claim.
  6. Ask: which single missing citation would most anger which likely reviewer?

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

Icra Related Work loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 83 tokens; SKILL.md has 755 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~83
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k

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). 755 words, ~1,611 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/icra-related-work/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
icra-related-work
description
Use when building or auditing the related-work section of an ICRA paper — covering the conference's own recent proceedings plus IROS, RSS, CoRL, RA-L, and T-RO lanes, handling arXiv-only robotics work, citing your own platform papers under ICRA's double-anonymous rules, and positioning against commercial systems.

Related work at ICRA is a positioning argument compressed into roughly half a page: which line of robotics research the paper extends, which competing approaches exist, and what precisely is new. Reviewers are drawn from the same community that wrote the competing papers — coverage gaps are noticed personally.

The five lanes an ICRA reviewer checks

LaneWhat to coverWhere it lives
ICRA/IROS proceedings, last 3 yearsdirect competitors on the same taskIEEE Xplore
RSS + CoRLalgorithmic and learning-forward rivalsRSS proceedings site, PMLR
RA-Lfast-moving journal siblings — often the same groups' newer resultsIEEE Xplore
Archival journals (T-RO, IJRR, AURO)the mature line the task descends frompublisher sites
Recent arXiv roboticsconcurrent work reviewers will have seen tweetedarXiv cs.RO

A robotics-specific trap: many results appear twice — an RA-L paper presented at an ICRA — and are cited inconsistently. Cite the archival journal version (RA-L/T-RO) when one exists; do not cite the same work twice under both labels.

Concurrent and arXiv-only work

Robotics moves partly on arXiv now. Practical policy for a September submission:

  • Anything on arXiv more than ~2-3 months before the deadline: reviewers may treat it as known art; cite it and differentiate technically.
  • Preprints appearing within weeks of the deadline: cite as concurrent ("developed independently; appeared after our system was built") — reviewers reward the honesty and it defuses the "you missed X" review line.
  • Never build the novelty claim solely against published venues while ignoring a widely-known preprint that solves the same task; the review will quote it.

Self-citation under double-anonymous review

Since the 2026 cycle ICRA reviews are double-anonymous, which changes the robotics habit of writing "in our prior work [7] we developed this platform":

  • Third person, always: "the platform introduced in [7]" — even when [7] is the team's own hardware paper and everyone in the subfield knows it.
  • Do not cite an unpublished internal report or "anonymous technical report" for load-bearing details; if the detail matters, it must be in the paper.
  • Platform lineage may still be described factually (sensor suite, DOF, payload) without possessives; anonymity is about grammar and links, not omitting specs.
  • Verify the anonymity policy each cycle — it is one year old and could be tuned.

Positioning against commercial and closed systems

Unique to robotics venues: the strongest competitor may be a product (a commercial gripper, a proprietary planner) with no paper. Handle it explicitly:

  • Cite the product documentation or whitepaper with an access date if the comparison is quantitative.
  • Say what cannot be known ("the vendor controller is closed; we compare end-task metrics only") rather than guessing internals.
  • Never let "beats a 2019 open-source baseline" stand in for "beats what practitioners actually deploy" without acknowledging the gap.
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Building the positioning paragraph

The half-page should end in one paragraph that does the actual work. Template logic (not template prose):

text
Prior approaches to <task> fall into <k> families:
  <family A> [refs] achieves <strength-A> but <named failure mode>,
  <family B> [refs] handles <strength-B> yet requires <cost/assumption>.
Closest to this paper, <specific system> [ref] <what it does>;
it differs in <mechanism-level difference, not adjectives>.
This paper is, to the authors' knowledge, the first to <precise claim
narrow enough to be checkable against the five lanes above>.

The final claim must be narrow. "First learning-based grasping system" is falsifiable in seconds; "first to close the loop on slip detection using only joint-torque sensing on a collaborative arm" is a defensible novelty statement.

Mechanics: IEEE numeric citations under a 2-page cap

The 2026 geometry gave references their own 2-page allowance at submission but folded them into the 8-page total at camera-ready — so bibliography discipline pays twice:

  • IEEE numeric style, abbreviated venue strings ("Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Robot. Autom. (ICRA)"), no URLs except for artifacts and standards.
  • Cite the DOI-bearing archival version; arXiv IDs only for genuinely arXiv-only work.
  • Deduplicate conference/journal twins now (one entry, the archival one) — it is the cheapest camera-ready page recovery available later.

Common review complaints this section triggers

  • "Missing comparison to [reviewer's own paper]" — mitigate by sweeping the last three ICRA/IROS proceedings for the task keywords, not just Google Scholar's top hits.
  • "Related work is a list, not an argument" — every cited cluster needs a stated failure mode that the present paper fixes.
  • "Novelty over [X] unclear" — the difference must be mechanism-level (different sensing modality, different guarantee, different assumption), not "better results."
  • "Cites 40 papers, engages 3" — at ICRA's length, 20-30 well-chosen references engaged honestly beat exhaustive padding.

Audit sequence

  1. Keyword-sweep the last three years of ICRA and IROS proceedings for the task.
  2. Check RA-L for newer journal versions of every conference paper cited.
  3. Sweep arXiv cs.RO for the last six months; classify hits as prior vs concurrent.
  4. Rewrite all self-references into third person; strip possessives and links.
  5. Compress into family-structured paragraphs ending in the narrow first-to claim.
  6. Ask: which single missing citation would most anger which likely reviewer?

Output format

text
[Lane coverage] ICRA/IROS <y/n> RSS/CoRL <y/n> RA-L <y/n> journals <y/n> arXiv <y/n>
[Concurrent work] <list + handling>
[Self-citation anonymity] clean / violations: <lines>
[Duplicate RA-L/ICRA citations] <found or none>
[First-to claim] "<exact sentence>" — falsifiability check: <pass/risk>
[Most dangerous omission] <paper + which reviewer it summons>

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Files

Just SKILL.md in ICRA-Skills/skills/icra-related-work of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Icra Related Work

What does Icra Related Work do?

A skill your agent uses when building or auditing the related-work section of an ICRA paper — covering the conference's own recent proceedings plus IROS, RSS, CoRL, RA-L, and T-RO lanes, handling…. Icra Related Work is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when building or auditing the related-work section of an ICRA paper — covering the conference's own recent proceedings plus IROS, RSS, CoRL, RA-L, and T-RO lanes, handling arXiv-only robotics work, citing your own platform papers under ICRA's double-anonymous rules, and positioning against commercial systems.

When should I use Icra Related Work?

Icra Related Work fits situations like: auditing the related-work section of an ICRA paper — covering the conferences own recent proceedings plus IROS; handling arXiv-only robotics work; citing your own platform papers under ICRAs double-anonymous rules; positioning against commercial systems.

How do I install Icra Related Work in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Icra Related Work in Codex?

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

Can I use Icra Related Work 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 icra-related-work -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/icra-related-work, .gemini/skills/icra-related-work, .github/skills/icra-related-work and .opencode/skills/icra-related-work in your project.

What does Icra Related Work need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Icra Related Work is instructions for the agent only.

Does Icra Related Work 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 Icra Related Work 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 Icra Related Work use?

Icra Related Work 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 Icra Related Work use?

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.

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Who maintains Icra Related Work?

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.

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