Avoid AI Writing
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Audit and rewrite content to remove AI writing patterns ("AI-isms").
A skill your agent uses when polishing the prose and house style of a Language (LSA) manuscript so it reads for a general linguistics audience and conforms to the Language Style Sheet / Unified…
Install Lang Writing Style
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill lang-writing-style -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills lang-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/Language-Linguistic-Society-Skills/skills/lang-writing-style .claude/skills/lang-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 "lang-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Language-Linguistic-Society-Skills/skills/lang-writing-style into .claude/skills/lang-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "lang-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/Language-Linguistic-Society-Skills/skills/lang-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 lang-writing-style -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills lang-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/Language-Linguistic-Society-Skills/skills/lang-writing-style .agents/skills/lang-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 "lang-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Language-Linguistic-Society-Skills/skills/lang-writing-style into .agents/skills/lang-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "lang-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 lang-writing-style -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills lang-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/Language-Linguistic-Society-Skills/skills/lang-writing-style .cursor/skills/lang-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 "lang-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Language-Linguistic-Society-Skills/skills/lang-writing-style into .cursor/skills/lang-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "lang-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 Language-Linguistic-Society-Skills/skills/lang-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 lang-writing-style -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills lang-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/Language-Linguistic-Society-Skills/skills/lang-writing-style .gemini/skills/lang-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 "lang-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Language-Linguistic-Society-Skills/skills/lang-writing-style into .gemini/skills/lang-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "lang-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 lang-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 lang-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/Language-Linguistic-Society-Skills/skills/lang-writing-style .github/skills/lang-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 "lang-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Language-Linguistic-Society-Skills/skills/lang-writing-style into .github/skills/lang-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "lang-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 lang-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 lang-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/Language-Linguistic-Society-Skills/skills/lang-writing-style .opencode/skills/lang-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 "lang-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Language-Linguistic-Society-Skills/skills/lang-writing-style into .opencode/skills/lang-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "lang-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
lang-writing-style- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1.4k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 608 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 2,387
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
A skill your agent uses when polishing the prose and house style of a Language (LSA) manuscript so it reads for a general linguistics audience and conforms to the Language Style Sheet / Unified…
- Tasks that involve Brand voice and tone
- SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Write for the whole discipline, Language house style (verify… and Conform the mechanics…, plus 5 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Lang Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when polishing the prose and house style of a Language (LSA) manuscript so it reads for a general linguistics audience and conforms to the Language Style Sheet / Unified Style Sheet for Linguistics. Language prizes analysis legible across frameworks and subfields; jargon and single-formalism prose lose readers. Polishes and conforms; it does not build the argument.
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
- Tasks that involve Brand voice and tone
Example prompts
- “/lang-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
Lang Writing Style loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 98 tokens; SKILL.md has 608 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). 608 words, ~1,366 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/lang-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- lang-writing-style
- description
- Use when polishing the prose and house style of a Language (LSA) manuscript so it reads for a general linguistics audience and conforms to the Language Style Sheet / Unified Style Sheet for Linguistics. Language prizes analysis legible across frameworks and subfields; jargon and single-formalism prose lose readers. Polishes and conforms; it does not build the argument.
Writing Style & House Style (lang-writing-style)
Language is read across the whole discipline, so its prose bar is legibility across subfields and
frameworks: a syntactician should follow a phonology paper's argument, and vice versa. The journal
also has a specific citation and formatting house style — the Language Style Sheet, closely tied to
the Unified Style Sheet for Linguistics Journals — that differs from APA, Chicago, or a subfield's
local habits. This skill polishes the writing and conforms the mechanics; it does not build the argument
(that is lang-theory-building).
When to trigger
- Polishing a draft before submission
- A reader said the paper is "only readable by [framework] people" or "buried the claim"
- Converting citations/references to Language house style
- Tightening a General Research Article toward or under the length bar
Write for the whole discipline
- Front-load the claim. By the end of the introduction the reader should know the generalization, the analysis, its key prediction, and why a linguist outside the subfield should care.
- Gloss your jargon. Define framework-specific terms on first use; give the theory-neutral statement of the pattern before the formal one, so the data are legible without the formalism.
- Let the numbered example carry the point. Prose should set up and interpret examples, not restate them; refer to data by example number.
- Earn the length. A General Research Article is capped at 18,000 words and held to a stricter bar past 12,000; cut throat-clearing, redundant derivations, and literature-for-coverage.
Language house style (verify on the Style Sheet)
- Citations: author-date, in the Unified/Language Style Sheet form — e.g., in-text
(Author 2020:145), and a reference list with the Style Sheet's punctuation and capitalization (sentence-style article titles, full journal names, page ranges). - Examples and glosses: numbered, Leipzig-glossed (see
lang-tables-figures). - Terminology and symbols: consistent IPA; grammatical labels in small caps; language names and ISO 639-3 codes where helpful.
- Notes: footnotes for substantive asides, kept lean; do not offload the argument into notes.
Conform the mechanics (checklist)
- In-text citations and reference list in Unified/Language Style Sheet form (not APA/Chicago)
- Numbered examples with aligned Leipzig glosses; abbreviations listed
- Jargon defined on first use; theory-neutral statement precedes the formal one
- Claim and prediction stated in the introduction, not deferred to the conclusion
- Consistent IPA and small-caps labels; language names/codes correct
- Within the section's word limit; length earned
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Referee-pushback patterns on prose (Language fixes)
| Referee writes… | The Language-specific fix |
|---|---|
| "Impenetrable to non-[framework] readers." | give the theory-neutral generalization first; gloss terms |
| "The contribution is buried." | front-load the claim and prediction in the intro |
| "References not in journal style." | convert to the Unified/Language Style Sheet form |
| "Padded / over the bar." | cut coverage citations and redundant derivations |
Calibration (Language voice, hedged)
Reflects Language's house and readership, not universal rules; confirm wording on the Style Sheet. The most common avoidable style failure is prose that assumes the reader already lives inside your formalism — a general reader bounces off undefined notation. The second is mis-applied citation style (APA/Chicago instead of the Unified/Language Style Sheet). Illustrative: a Minimalist syntax paper opens with three pages of framework machinery before any data; the fix leads with the descriptive generalization and a glossed example, defers the formal derivation, and reformats 60 references from APA into Style Sheet form — the same analysis, now legible to a semanticist or a typologist.
Anti-patterns
- Prose readable only by insiders of one framework (undefined notation, no theory-neutral statement)
- Burying the claim until the discussion section
- APA/Chicago/subfield-local citation style instead of the Unified/Language Style Sheet
- Offloading the real argument into dense footnotes
- Padding to look comprehensive, pushing a General Research Article past the earned length
Output format
【Reads across subfields】claim + example legible to an outsider? [Y/N]
【Front-loaded】claim + prediction in the intro? [Y/N]
【House style】Unified/Language Style Sheet citations + refs? [Y/N]
【Glossing/IPA】examples and symbols conform? [Y/N]
【Length】within the section cap, earned? [Y/N]
【Next】lang-submissionSupplementary resources
../../resources/external_tools.md— reference managers, CSL styles, glossing tools../../resources/official-source-map.md— Language Style Sheet / Unified Style Sheet source
© 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 Language-Linguistic-Society-Skills/skills/lang-writing-style of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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Questions about Lang Writing Style
What does Lang Writing Style do?
A skill your agent uses when polishing the prose and house style of a Language (LSA) manuscript so it reads for a general linguistics audience and conforms to the Language Style Sheet / Unified…. Lang Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when polishing the prose and house style of a Language (LSA) manuscript so it reads for a general linguistics audience and conforms to the Language Style Sheet / Unified Style Sheet for Linguistics.
When should I use Lang Writing Style?
Lang Writing Style fits situations like: tasks that involve Brand voice and tone.
How do I install Lang Writing Style in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill lang-writing-style -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Language-Linguistic-Society-Skills/skills/lang-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/lang-writing-style in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Lang Writing Style in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill lang-writing-style -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Language-Linguistic-Society-Skills/skills/lang-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/lang-writing-style in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Lang 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 lang-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/lang-writing-style, .gemini/skills/lang-writing-style, .github/skills/lang-writing-style and .opencode/skills/lang-writing-style in your project.
What does Lang Writing Style need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Lang Writing Style is instructions for the agent only.
Does Lang 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 Lang 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 Lang Writing Style use?
Lang 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 Lang Writing Style use?
About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.5k 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 Lang Writing Style?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Lang 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 Lang 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.