A skill your agent uses when revising an IEEE INFOCOM paper for a networking problem and system model stated up front, theorems or protocol design that pay off, evaluation proportional to the claim…

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Install Infocom Writing Style

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills infocom-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/INFOCOM-Skills/skills/infocom-writing-style .claude/skills/infocom-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
infocom-writing-style
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
601 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 IEEE INFOCOM paper for a networking problem and system model stated up front, theorems or protocol design that pay off, evaluation proportional to the claim…

  • Revising an IEEE INFOCOM paper for a networking problem and system model stated up front
  • SKILL.md covers Revision rules, Networking-paper skeleton, Sentence-level rewrites and Defensive-writing discipline…, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Protocol design that pay off

What it does

Infocom Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when revising an IEEE INFOCOM paper for a networking problem and system model stated up front, theorems or protocol design that pay off, evaluation proportional to the claim, defensive writing that pre-empts objections (because there is no rebuttal), double-blind wording, and disciplined use of the tight IEEEtran two-column page budget.

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 IEEE INFOCOM paper for a networking problem and system model stated up front
  • Protocol design that pay off
  • Evaluation proportional to the claim
  • Defensive writing that pre-empts objections (because there is no rebuttal)

Example prompts

  • “/infocom-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

Infocom Writing Style loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 91 tokens; SKILL.md has 601 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~91
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.4k

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). 601 words, ~1,388 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/infocom-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
infocom-writing-style
description
Use when revising an IEEE INFOCOM paper for a networking problem and system model stated up front, theorems or protocol design that pay off, evaluation proportional to the claim, defensive writing that pre-empts objections (because there is no rebuttal), double-blind wording, and disciplined use of the tight IEEEtran two-column page budget.

INFOCOM Writing Style

Use this when revising the main paper. INFOCOM papers are read by a broad networking TPC that spans theory and systems, inside a nine-page IEEEtran budget and (traditionally) with no rebuttal. Two constraints follow: the paper must be legible to both an analyst and a systems reader, and it must pre-empt the reviewer's objection in the text, because you will not get to answer it later.

Revision rules

  • State the networking problem and the system model first. By the end of the introduction a reader should know the setting (topology, traffic, constraints), the gap, the contribution (analysis and/or design), and what improves. Do not open with a technology-trend paragraph.
  • Make the model do work. If you formulate an optimization or a Markov/queueing model, its assumptions must be stated plainly and its results must yield insight or an algorithm — not a formalism that the evaluation ignores. Reviewers reward a model whose theorem changes what you build or bound.
  • Pair every claim with proportional evidence — a proof for an analytical claim, a simulation/testbed number with the setup named, or a measurement with its methodology — not adjectives like "significantly improves."
  • Write defensively. Name the assumption a theory reviewer will question and justify it; name the baseline a systems reviewer will call unfair and tune it; state the regime where your result does not hold. Because there is no rebuttal, an unaddressed objection becomes a reject.
  • Respect the page budget as a design constraint. Nine pages of text (appendices included) is tight; a proof sketch in the body with the full proof compressed, and a focused evaluation, beat an over-scoped paper that only fits by cutting the model.
  • Maintain double-blind wording in self-citations (third person), tool names, testbed/cluster identifiers, acknowledgements, and funding.

Networking-paper skeleton

SectionJob it must doCommon failure
IntroProblem, setting, gap, contribution, what improves — by the first column or twoLeads with a trend, not a networking problem
System modelTopology, traffic, constraints, assumptions, notation, stated plainlyAssumptions hidden or introduced only in the evaluation
Analysis / designTheorems + proof sketches, or the protocol/algorithm, reproduciblyA model no result uses; a design too thin to re-implement
EvaluationEach claim answered with proportional evidence, honest baselinesToy topology; untuned baseline; metric that proxies the claim
Discussion / limitsThe regime where the result holds; deployment caveatsNo limits stated (invites the objection you cannot rebut)
Related workDelta-first positioning against the networking literatureCitation catalog with no contrast
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Sentence-level rewrites

Draft patternINFOCOM-safe rewrite
"Our scheme significantly improves throughput.""improves median throughput by X% (95% CI ...) over <tuned baseline> in <topology/scale>"
"We prove our algorithm is optimal.""We prove a (1-1/e) approximation under <stated assumptions>; §V bounds the gap empirically"
"We evaluate on a large simulation.""We simulate <N nodes> in <ns-3/custom>, <traffic model>, <M seeds>; setup in §V-A"
"The model captures the system.""Under assumptions A1-A3 (stated and justified in §III), the model yields Theorem 1"
"State-of-the-art performance."Claim scoped to the topology, traffic, and regime actually tested

Defensive-writing discipline (no rebuttal)

text
[Assumption]  which modeling assumption will a theory reviewer challenge? -> justify it in §III
[Baseline]    which comparison will a systems reviewer call unfair? -> tune it, document the budget
[Scale]       does the evaluation reach a realistic size? -> if not, scope the claim and say so
[Regime]      where does the result break? -> state it before a reviewer finds it
-> each objection answered in the PDF, because there is no turn to answer it in a reply

Vignette: compressing an over-scoped analytical paper

A draft with two models, five theorems, and a sprawling evaluation: keep the one model the design uses, the two theorems that carry the insight (full proofs compressed or sketched), and the two evaluation figures that test the headline claim; move notation-heavy derivations into a tight in-budget appendix (remember it counts toward the nine pages); cut the second model to a remark. The test of a good cut: a reviewer should be able to state your assumptions, your main result, and why your baseline is fair — from the body alone.

Output format

text
[Writing diagnosis] clear / under-modeled / over-claimed / evidence-mismatched / over-scoped
[First-page fix] <new framing leading with the networking problem + system model>
[Claim audit] <claim -> proof or simulation/measurement -> proportional? yes/no>
[Defensive gaps] <assumption/baseline/scale/regime objection -> where to pre-empt it>
[Anonymity edits] <self-citations / tool / testbed names / acks 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 INFOCOM-Skills/skills/infocom-writing-style of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Infocom Writing Style

What does Infocom Writing Style do?

A skill your agent uses when revising an IEEE INFOCOM paper for a networking problem and system model stated up front, theorems or protocol design that pay off, evaluation proportional to the claim…. Infocom Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when revising an IEEE INFOCOM paper for a networking problem and system model stated up front, theorems or protocol design that pay off, evaluation proportional to the claim, defensive writing that pre-empts objections (because there is no rebuttal), double-blind wording, and disciplined use of the tight IEEEtran two-column page budget.

When should I use Infocom Writing Style?

Infocom Writing Style fits situations like: revising an IEEE INFOCOM paper for a networking problem and system model stated up front; protocol design that pay off; evaluation proportional to the claim; defensive writing that pre-empts objections (because there is no rebuttal).

How do I install Infocom Writing Style in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Infocom Writing Style in Codex?

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

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

What does Infocom Writing Style need to run?

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

Does Infocom 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 Infocom 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 Infocom Writing Style use?

Infocom 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 Infocom 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.

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Who maintains Infocom 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.

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