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A skill your agent uses when drafting or revising the prose of an ACM IMC measurement paper, covering the first-page measurement finding, making vantage points and methodology auditable…
Install Imc Writing Style
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill imc-writing-style -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills imc-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/IMC-Skills/skills/imc-writing-style .claude/skills/imc-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 "imc-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/IMC-Skills/skills/imc-writing-style into .claude/skills/imc-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "imc-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/IMC-Skills/skills/imc-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 imc-writing-style -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills imc-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/IMC-Skills/skills/imc-writing-style .agents/skills/imc-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 "imc-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/IMC-Skills/skills/imc-writing-style into .agents/skills/imc-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "imc-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 imc-writing-style -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills imc-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/IMC-Skills/skills/imc-writing-style .cursor/skills/imc-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 "imc-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/IMC-Skills/skills/imc-writing-style into .cursor/skills/imc-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "imc-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 IMC-Skills/skills/imc-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 imc-writing-style -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills imc-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/IMC-Skills/skills/imc-writing-style .gemini/skills/imc-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 "imc-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/IMC-Skills/skills/imc-writing-style into .gemini/skills/imc-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "imc-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 imc-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 imc-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/IMC-Skills/skills/imc-writing-style .github/skills/imc-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 "imc-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/IMC-Skills/skills/imc-writing-style into .github/skills/imc-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "imc-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 imc-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 imc-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/IMC-Skills/skills/imc-writing-style .opencode/skills/imc-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 "imc-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/IMC-Skills/skills/imc-writing-style into .opencode/skills/imc-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "imc-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
imc-writing-style- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1.3k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 628 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 revising the prose of an ACM IMC measurement paper, covering the first-page measurement finding, making vantage points and methodology auditable…
- Works in 5 steps: A question about the real Internet a… → Why current knowledge is inadequate —… → The measurement and its vantage points —… → …
- Revising the prose of an ACM IMC measurement paper
- SKILL.md covers The first-page arc, Make vantage points and method…, Longitudinal and confound… and Limitations that argue, not…, plus 4 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Imc Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when drafting or revising the prose of an ACM IMC measurement paper, covering the first-page measurement finding, making vantage points and methodology auditable, longitudinal framing for a moving Internet, arguing limitations rather than reciting them, writing the Ethics section early, and acmart page-budget discipline.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k 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 the prose of an ACM IMC measurement paper
- Covering the first-page measurement finding
- Making vantage points and methodology auditable
- Longitudinal framing for a moving Internet
Example prompts
- “/imc-writing-style”
Workflow steps
5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- A question about the real Internet a practitioner or researcher recognizes ("how reachable
- Why current knowledge is inadequate — prior work measured too few vantage points, a single
- The measurement and its vantage points — what you measured, from where, over what period.
- What the data show — the headline finding, stated as a measured result with uncertainty.
- What it means — for operators, protocol designers, or the community, plus what you release.
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
Imc Writing Style loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 86 tokens; SKILL.md has 628 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). 628 words, ~1,269 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/imc-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- imc-writing-style
- description
- Use when drafting or revising the prose of an ACM IMC measurement paper, covering the first-page measurement finding, making vantage points and methodology auditable, longitudinal framing for a moving Internet, arguing limitations rather than reciting them, writing the Ethics section early, and acmart page-budget discipline.
IMC Writing Style
Use this while drafting the body. IMC reviewers are measurement experts who read for what you learned about the real Internet and whether the data support it. The organizing principle is that the paper is a measurement contribution: the finding leads, the vantage points and method are auditable, and the limitations and ethics are visible from the start — not appended.
The first-page arc
Put the measurement finding on the first page, in this shape:
- A question about the real Internet a practitioner or researcher recognizes ("how reachable / how deployed / how secure / how does X behave in the wild?").
- Why current knowledge is inadequate — prior work measured too few vantage points, a single snapshot, a testbed instead of deployment, or a biased input.
- The measurement and its vantage points — what you measured, from where, over what period.
- What the data show — the headline finding, stated as a measured result with uncertainty.
- What it means — for operators, protocol designers, or the community, plus what you release.
Do not lead with a system you built or a tool's speed. If the first page is a systems win, the
paper reads as a re-routed NSDI/SIGCOMM submission (imc-topic-selection).
Make vantage points and method auditable
A measurement claim is only as good as the reader's ability to judge the measurement:
- Name the vantage points: locations, ASes, probe types, and how many. Summarize in the body, detail in the appendix.
- Argue representativeness explicitly: why these vantage points support the claim, and where they do not. Quantify coverage bias rather than hoping no one asks.
- Date everything: measurement windows, cadence, and target-list capture dates. The Internet moves; undated results are unfalsifiable.
- Show the method, not just the tool name: enough that a reader could re-measure and judge soundness.
Longitudinal and confound awareness
- Distinguish a snapshot from a trend. If you claim behavior over time, show the window and its stability; if you have a snapshot, scope the claim to it.
- Name confounds a moving Internet introduces — diurnal patterns, churn, load-balancing, CDN effects, measurement-vantage bias — and instrument to bound them.
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Limitations that argue, not recite
A good IMC limitations discussion is an argument about validity, engaged where the results live:
- For each headline result, state the threat to its validity (coverage, ground truth, temporal, measurement bias) and how you bounded it.
- Prefer "we observed X from these vantage points; it may not hold for networks unlike them, which we quantify in §Y" over a generic "our study has limitations."
- Do not quarantine all caveats into one closing paragraph.
Write the Ethics section early
The Ethics section is a required gate, not a closing courtesy (imc-submission). Drafting it
early forces you to design safe active measurement, obtain IRB determinations, and plan disclosure
before collecting data — none of which can be retrofitted. Reference it from the introduction so
the reviewer sees the posture immediately.
Page-budget discipline (acmart)
IMC's acmart budget (IMC 2025: up to 13 pages full / 6 pages short of text+figures, plus an
unlimited appendix) is generous but finite for the body. Recover space by cutting redundancy,
not by exiling decision-critical evidence to the appendix (imc-supplementary). Every figure earns
its space by supporting a claim; a vantage-point map that clarifies coverage is worth more than a
decorative architecture diagram.
Common prose failures at IMC
| Failure | Why it hurts | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| System/tool leads the first page | Reads as a systems re-route | Lead with the measurement finding |
| Vantage points unnamed or unjustified | Reader cannot judge validity | Name them; argue representativeness |
| Undated, single-snapshot claims | Unfalsifiable on a moving Internet | Date everything; scope or extend temporally |
| Limitations recited generically | No validity argument | Tie each threat to a result and bound it |
| Ethics as an afterthought | Fails the gate | Write and reference it early |
Output format
[First-page arc] question -> inadequacy -> measurement/vantage points -> finding -> meaning? present/gaps
[Vantage points] named, dated, representativeness argued? yes/no
[Temporal framing] snapshot vs. trend stated correctly? yes/no
[Limitations] argued per-result and bounded? yes/no
[Ethics] section drafted early and referenced up front? yes/no
[Body edits] <ordered list to strengthen the measurement narrative>© 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 IMC-Skills/skills/imc-writing-style of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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Questions about Imc Writing Style
What does Imc Writing Style do?
A skill your agent uses when drafting or revising the prose of an ACM IMC measurement paper, covering the first-page measurement finding, making vantage points and methodology auditable…. Imc Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when drafting or revising the prose of an ACM IMC measurement paper, covering the first-page measurement finding, making vantage points and methodology auditable, longitudinal framing for a moving Internet, arguing limitations rather than reciting them, writing the Ethics section early, and acmart page-budget discipline.
When should I use Imc Writing Style?
Imc Writing Style fits situations like: revising the prose of an ACM IMC measurement paper; covering the first-page measurement finding; making vantage points and methodology auditable; longitudinal framing for a moving Internet.
How do I install Imc Writing Style in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill imc-writing-style -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (IMC-Skills/skills/imc-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/imc-writing-style in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Imc Writing Style in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill imc-writing-style -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (IMC-Skills/skills/imc-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/imc-writing-style in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Imc 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 imc-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/imc-writing-style, .gemini/skills/imc-writing-style, .github/skills/imc-writing-style and .opencode/skills/imc-writing-style in your project.
What does Imc Writing Style need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Imc Writing Style is instructions for the agent only.
Does Imc 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 Imc 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 Imc Writing Style use?
Imc 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 Imc Writing Style use?
About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.1k 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 Imc Writing Style?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Imc 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 Imc 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.