A skill your agent uses when revising an ISSTA paper for a clear testing/analysis contribution, covering the threat-model-then-technique structure, the evaluation contract, a threats-to-validity…
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill issta-writing-style -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills issta-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/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-writing-style .claude/skills/issta-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 "issta-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-writing-style into .claude/skills/issta-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "issta-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/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-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 issta-writing-style -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills issta-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/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-writing-style .agents/skills/issta-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 "issta-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-writing-style into .agents/skills/issta-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "issta-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 issta-writing-style -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills issta-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/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-writing-style .cursor/skills/issta-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 "issta-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-writing-style into .cursor/skills/issta-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "issta-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 ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-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 issta-writing-style -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills issta-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/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-writing-style .gemini/skills/issta-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 "issta-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-writing-style into .gemini/skills/issta-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "issta-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 issta-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 issta-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/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-writing-style .github/skills/issta-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 "issta-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-writing-style into .github/skills/issta-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "issta-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 issta-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 issta-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/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-writing-style .opencode/skills/issta-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 "issta-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-writing-style into .opencode/skills/issta-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "issta-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.
issta-writing-styleA skill your agent uses when revising an ISSTA paper for a clear testing/analysis contribution, covering the threat-model-then-technique structure, the evaluation contract, a threats-to-validity…
Issta Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when revising an ISSTA paper for a clear testing/analysis contribution, covering the threat-model-then-technique structure, the evaluation contract, a threats-to-validity section that is not boilerplate, claims scoped to the subjects tested, double-anonymous phrasing, and 18-page ACM sigconf discipline that survives specialist reviewers.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k 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, Project scaffolding and Threat modeling. 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.
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
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.
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.
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Issta Writing Style loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 91 tokens; SKILL.md has 465 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.
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.
The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 465 words, ~1,064 tokens.
.claude/skills/issta-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).Use this when revising the main paper. An ISSTA paper has to state, early and precisely, what software behaviour it finds or reasons about, on what it was evaluated, and what the evidence showed — to a reviewer who already knows the nearest tool and benchmark.
| Draft pattern | ISSTA-safe rewrite |
|---|---|
| "Our tool significantly outperforms prior work" | "finds X% more true bugs than <baseline> at an equal time budget (paired test, effect size Y)" |
| "We detect flaky tests" | "We detect the order-dependent subclass of flaky tests" |
| "Evaluated on real-world programs" | "Evaluated on <benchmark vN> across N subjects (SHAs in the artifact)" |
| "Our analysis is sound" | "Sound under Assumptions 1-2; native calls are out of scope" |
A draft with a formal analysis, six subjects' worth of tables, and a sprawling related-work section: keep the analysis rules, one soundness sketch, the evaluation protocol, and the two decision-critical tables in the body; compress related work into delta-first contrasts; push complete per-subject tables and extra configurations into the artifact. The test of a good cut: a specialist reviewer can judge soundness and evaluation without opening the artifact — the artifact deepens the paper, it does not complete it.
1. names the concrete testing/analysis problem and its cost
2. bounds the scope (which subclass, which language, which assumption)
3. names the technique and its one key idea
4. states the evaluation contract: subjects, baseline, metric, statistic
5. reports the finding, honestly scoped[Writing diagnosis] clear / under-scoped / overclaimed / contract-missing
[First-page fix] <new framing>
[Scope statement] <threat model / analysis scope>
[Claim discipline] <claim -> table/artifact/limitation>
[Compression cuts] <move to artifact / delete / merge>
[Anonymity edits] <phrases 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
Just SKILL.md in ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-writing-style of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
Issta Writing Style next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Issta Writing Style this skillbrycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills | 1.2k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Narrative Enablement Kitaaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills | 2.9k | — | ~3.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Press Kitericrisco/rsc-harness | 180 | — | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Prose Styleavelikiy/great_cto | 102 | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Threat Modelruvnet/metaharness | 696 | — | ~637 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | |
| Good Docs AuditComposioHQ/composio | 30k | — | ~293 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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A skill your agent uses when revising an ISSTA paper for a clear testing/analysis contribution, covering the threat-model-then-technique structure, the evaluation contract, a threats-to-validity…. Issta Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when revising an ISSTA paper for a clear testing/analysis contribution, covering the threat-model-then-technique structure, the evaluation contract, a threats-to-validity section that is not boilerplate, claims scoped to the subjects tested, double-anonymous phrasing, and 18-page ACM sigconf discipline that survives specialist reviewers.
Issta Writing Style fits situations like: revising an ISSTA paper for a clear testing/analysis contribution; covering the threat-model-then-technique structure; the evaluation contract; A threats-to-validity section that is not boilerplate.
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill issta-writing-style -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/issta-writing-style in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill issta-writing-style -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/issta-writing-style in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
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 issta-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/issta-writing-style, .gemini/skills/issta-writing-style, .github/skills/issta-writing-style and .opencode/skills/issta-writing-style in your project.
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Issta Writing Style is instructions for the agent only.
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.
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.
Issta 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.
About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Issta Writing Style: Narrative Enablement Kit (aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills, 2.9k stars), Press Kit (ericrisco/rsc-harness, 180 stars), Prose Style (avelikiy/great_cto, 102 stars) and Threat Model (ruvnet/metaharness, 696 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
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.
