A skill your agent uses when drafting or tightening an ICRA manuscript — leading with the robot task and physical constraint, compressing a systems story into 6 IEEE two-column pages, writing…

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Install Icra Writing Style

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

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

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

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when drafting or tightening an ICRA manuscript — leading with the robot task and physical constraint, compressing a systems story into 6 IEEE two-column pages, writing…

  • Works in 6 steps: Task-first opening rewritten; headline… → Figure chain self-sufficient; captions… → Demo-speak sweep (table above) across… → …
  • Tightening an ICRA manuscript — leading with the robot task and physical constraint
  • SKILL.md covers Lead with the task, not the…, The six-page budget, Figure-first discipline and Quantify or delete, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Icra Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when drafting or tightening an ICRA manuscript — leading with the robot task and physical constraint, compressing a systems story into 6 IEEE two-column pages, writing figure-first for skimming reviewers, quantifying instead of demo-speak, and keeping notation consistent across kinematics, control, and learning sections.

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.

When your agent uses it

  • Tightening an ICRA manuscript — leading with the robot task and physical constraint
  • Compressing a systems story into 6 IEEE two-column pages
  • Writing figure-first for skimming reviewers
  • Quantifying instead of demo-speak

Example prompts

  • “/icra-writing-style”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Task-first opening rewritten; headline numbers in the abstract.
  2. Figure chain self-sufficient; captions carry trial counts and units.
  3. Demo-speak sweep (table above) across every section.
  4. Notation table built privately; collisions resolved.
  5. Page budget enforced; derivations exported; body at 6.0 pages with
  6. Limitations paragraph pre-answering the top predicted objection.

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 Writing Style loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 86 tokens; SKILL.md has 739 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~86
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). 739 words, ~1,607 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/icra-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
icra-writing-style
description
Use when drafting or tightening an ICRA manuscript — leading with the robot task and physical constraint, compressing a systems story into 6 IEEE two-column pages, writing figure-first for skimming reviewers, quantifying instead of demo-speak, and keeping notation consistent across kinematics, control, and learning sections.

ICRA Writing Style

An ICRA paper is read by a tired Associate Editor and two or three reviewers who between them skim hundreds of robotics PDFs each autumn. The style that survives this is figure-first, task-first, and ruthlessly quantitative. This skill rewrites drafts toward that shape inside the 6-content-page envelope.

Lead with the task, not the technique

The strongest ICRA openings establish, within the first column: what the robot must do, why physics or uncertainty makes that hard, what the paper contributes, and what the headline number is.

  • Weak: "Deep reinforcement learning has shown impressive results in recent years..." (parent-field throat-clearing; tells a robotics reviewer nothing).
  • Strong: "Regrasping a tool that slips mid-task takes a torque-controlled arm out of its planned contact state; we present a reflex layer that detects slip onset from joint-torque residuals within 12 ms and recovers 87% of failed grasps that the nominal planner abandons."

The second version names the task, the physical difficulty, the mechanism, and two measured numbers — before the reader decides whether to keep reading.

The six-page budget

SectionTarget shareNotes
Title/abstract/intro~1.0 pagecontribution bullets end the intro
Related work~0.5 pagepositioning, not survey; see icra-related-work
Method / system~1.75 pagesone architecture figure carries the load
Experimental setup~0.75 pageplatform, task, protocol, metrics
Results + analysis~1.5 pagestables and failure analysis
Conclusion + limitations~0.5 pagehonest limits read as strength

Two structural rules follow from the budget. First, there is no appendix escape valve: unlike ML venues, the 2026 rules give no unlimited supplementary PDF, so anything reviewers need must fit the body (the video can show but not state essential content — see icra-supplementary). Second, derivations longer than half a column belong in a cited technical report or the eventual journal version, with only the result and assumptions in the paper.

Figure-first discipline

Robotics reviewers reconstruct papers from figures before reading prose. Audit the figure chain alone: does Fig. 1 (task + platform), Fig. 2 (system/method), Fig. 3+ (results, failure cases) tell the whole story with captions only?

  • Fig. 1 should show the actual robot in the actual task, not a block diagram.
  • Every plot needs units, and success-rate plots need trial counts in the caption ("n = 25 trials per condition").
  • Prefer one dense, well-designed results figure over four thin ones; column width in the IEEE template punishes small multiples with unreadable fonts.
  • Frame-strip figures (time-lapse of one execution) buy more reviewer goodwill per square centimeter than any other robotics figure type.

Quantify or delete

Demo-speak is the house style of press releases, not ICRA papers. Rewrite every qualitative claim into a measurement or remove it:

text
"robust"            -> success rate + condition range it held over
"real-time"         -> control/inference latency in ms + rate in Hz
"generalizes"       -> performance on N held-out objects/terrains, listed
"significantly
 outperforms"       -> absolute + relative delta, trials, dispersion
"lightweight"       -> parameters / FLOPs / on-board compute used
"safe"              -> constraint-violation count over all trials, or cut it
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Notation across the stack

ICRA papers routinely span kinematics, dynamics, estimation, and learning in six pages; notation collisions between these subcultures confuse reviewers fast.

  • Reserve q for configuration; do not reuse it as a Q-function five lines later — rename one of them and say so.
  • State frames explicitly on first use ({W}, {B}, {E}) and superscript transforms consistently; frame ambiguity in equations is a classic review complaint.
  • Define every symbol at first use even if "standard in your subfield"; the assigned reviewers may come from an adjacent RAS keyword.
  • SI units, comma-free equations, and bolded vectors per IEEE convention.

Anonymity-safe prose (2026-cycle rule)

Style intersects the double-anonymous policy in three recurring spots:

  • Platform descriptions: specs yes ("a 7-DOF torque-controlled arm"), possessives no ("our custom arm developed over five years").
  • Prior-work continuity: "extending [7]" in third person, even when [7] is transparently the same group's paper.
  • Site references: "an industrial partner's facility" instead of the named factory; generalize any detail that uniquely identifies the lab.

Limitations paragraph that helps you

Since the classic pipeline offers no rebuttal (see icra-review-process), the limitations paragraph is the one place to pre-answer the objection every reviewer will otherwise raise unassisted. Name the strongest weakness precisely ("all objects were rigid; deformables defeat the contact model"), say why the contribution stands anyway, and point to the future-work line that addresses it. A reviewer who sees their objection already acknowledged writes "authors are aware" instead of "authors overclaim."

Revision pass order

  1. Task-first opening rewritten; headline numbers in the abstract.
  2. Figure chain self-sufficient; captions carry trial counts and units.
  3. Demo-speak sweep (table above) across every section.
  4. Notation table built privately; collisions resolved.
  5. Page budget enforced; derivations exported; body at 6.0 pages with references isolated on pages 7-8.
  6. Limitations paragraph pre-answering the top predicted objection.

Output format

text
[Opening] task-first? headline numbers present? <rewrite if not>
[Figure chain] self-sufficient y/n — weakest figure: <which>
[Demo-speak] <count> unquantified claims, worst three listed
[Notation] collisions found: <list or none>
[Budget] content pages <n>/6 — overflow plan: <what moves/dies>
[Pre-answered objection] <the one the limitations ¶ now covers>

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Files

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

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Icra Writing Style

What does Icra Writing Style do?

A skill your agent uses when drafting or tightening an ICRA manuscript — leading with the robot task and physical constraint, compressing a systems story into 6 IEEE two-column pages, writing…. Icra Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when drafting or tightening an ICRA manuscript — leading with the robot task and physical constraint, compressing a systems story into 6 IEEE two-column pages, writing figure-first for skimming reviewers, quantifying instead of demo-speak, and keeping notation consistent across kinematics, control, and learning sections.

When should I use Icra Writing Style?

Icra Writing Style fits situations like: tightening an ICRA manuscript — leading with the robot task and physical constraint; compressing a systems story into 6 IEEE two-column pages; writing figure-first for skimming reviewers; quantifying instead of demo-speak.

How do I install Icra Writing Style in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Icra Writing Style in Codex?

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

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

What does Icra Writing Style need to run?

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

Does Icra 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 Icra 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 Icra Writing Style use?

Icra 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 Icra Writing Style 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 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.