Avoid AI Writing
conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing
Audit and rewrite content to remove AI writing patterns ("AI-isms").
A skill your agent uses when drafting or revising an NDSS paper's prose — building the first page around a capability-bounded networked adversary, sizing claims to evidence, weaving the ethics…
Install Ndss Writing Style
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ndss-writing-style -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ndss-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/NDSS-Skills/skills/ndss-writing-style .claude/skills/ndss-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 "ndss-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/NDSS-Skills/skills/ndss-writing-style into .claude/skills/ndss-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ndss-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/NDSS-Skills/skills/ndss-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 ndss-writing-style -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ndss-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/NDSS-Skills/skills/ndss-writing-style .agents/skills/ndss-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 "ndss-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/NDSS-Skills/skills/ndss-writing-style into .agents/skills/ndss-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ndss-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 ndss-writing-style -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ndss-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/NDSS-Skills/skills/ndss-writing-style .cursor/skills/ndss-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 "ndss-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/NDSS-Skills/skills/ndss-writing-style into .cursor/skills/ndss-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ndss-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 NDSS-Skills/skills/ndss-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 ndss-writing-style -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ndss-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/NDSS-Skills/skills/ndss-writing-style .gemini/skills/ndss-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 "ndss-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/NDSS-Skills/skills/ndss-writing-style into .gemini/skills/ndss-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ndss-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 ndss-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 ndss-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/NDSS-Skills/skills/ndss-writing-style .github/skills/ndss-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 "ndss-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/NDSS-Skills/skills/ndss-writing-style into .github/skills/ndss-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ndss-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 ndss-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 ndss-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/NDSS-Skills/skills/ndss-writing-style .opencode/skills/ndss-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 "ndss-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/NDSS-Skills/skills/ndss-writing-style into .opencode/skills/ndss-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ndss-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
ndss-writing-style- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1.3k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 558 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 an NDSS paper's prose — building the first page around a capability-bounded networked adversary, sizing claims to evidence, weaving the ethics…
- Revising an NDSS papers prose — building the first page around a capability-bounded networked adversary
- SKILL.md covers The first-page contract, Sizing claims, The ethics thread and Fitting 13 pages, plus 3 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
- Sizing claims to evidence
What it does
Ndss Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when drafting or revising an NDSS paper's prose — building the first page around a capability-bounded networked adversary, sizing claims to evidence, weaving the ethics signal into the narrative, and fitting the argument into NDSS's 13-page body ahead of a two-round read.
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 an NDSS papers prose — building the first page around a capability-bounded networked adversary
- Sizing claims to evidence
- Weaving the ethics signal into the narrative
- Fitting the argument into NDSSs 13-page body ahead of a two-round read
Example prompts
- “/ndss-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
Ndss Writing Style loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 74 tokens; SKILL.md has 558 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). 558 words, ~1,338 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/ndss-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- ndss-writing-style
- description
- Use when drafting or revising an NDSS paper's prose — building the first page around a capability-bounded networked adversary, sizing claims to evidence, weaving the ethics signal into the narrative, and fitting the argument into NDSS's 13-page body ahead of a two-round read.
NDSS Writing Style
An NDSS paper is read twice under different pressure. Round 1 decides, from a fast read, whether the paper continues at all — the early reject arrives with no rebuttal for the cut. Round 2 reads closely with your rebuttal in hand. Write the first page for the fast read and the rest for the close one.
The first-page contract
By the end of page one, a Round-1 reviewer should be able to fill in this table from memory:
| Question | Your first page must answer it as... |
|---|---|
| Who attacks? | A capability-bounded adversary: vantage (on/off-path, insider, tenant), budget, access |
| What breaks / what holds? | The precise property violated or guaranteed, in protocol/system terms |
| Against what? | Real systems named at the right granularity (protocol version, deployment class) |
| Why now? | The deployment shift, protocol change, or measurement gap that opens the question |
| How proven? | The evidence type: end-to-end exploit, testbed defense evaluation, population measurement |
| Is it handled responsibly? | One sentence signaling disclosure/harm posture, expanded later |
The single most common Round-1 kill is an adversary described by adjective ("powerful", "realistic") instead of by capability. Write attackers the way you would write an API contract: what they can call, what they cannot.
Sizing claims
- Bind every claim to the tested envelope: "defeats resolver-side validation as deployed in versions X-Y", never "defeats DNS validation."
- Quantify with populations, not superlatives. "Widespread" is an argument you have not made; "present in N of M sampled deployments, sampled by ⟨method⟩" is one you have.
- Negative space is credibility: a visible limitations paragraph that names the adversary who does beat your defense reads as competence, not weakness, to this PC.
- Never promise what evaluation cannot show — "completely prevents", "provably secure" (without a proof and a model), "first ever" (without a search you can defend).
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The ethics thread
NDSS expects ethics to be woven through, not appended: a signal on page one, method-level handling where the risky procedure is described, and the optional Ethics Considerations section immediately before the references (excluded from the 13-page count, per the 2027 CFP, checked 2026-07-08) carrying the full protocol — disclosure timeline, harm analysis, Menlo-style reasoning, review-board interaction. Prose that describes live scanning or user data with no ethical acknowledgment reads to reviewers as a paper that has not understood the venue.
Fitting 13 pages
The 2027 limit is 13 pages excluding the ethics section, references, and appendices, in the NDSS template. Discipline that works:
- Budget pages at outline time: ~1 intro, ~1 background+threat model, ~4-5 design/attack, ~4 evaluation, ~1 related work, ~1 discussion+limitations. Adjust, but on purpose.
- One figure that explains the attack path or architecture is worth a page of prose; a figure that decorates costs a fifth of your evaluation budget.
- Compress with structure, not font tricks — template tampering is a desk-reject class offense at every security flagship, this one included.
- Move proofs, extra configurations, and protocol message details to appendices, but keep
every result the acceptance decision depends on inside the body (see
ndss-supplementaryfor the split rules).
Revision drill for an existing draft
PASS 1 (adversary): highlight every sentence that grants or assumes attacker
capability. They must all appear in the threat model — no capability
may debut inside the evaluation.
PASS 2 (claims): list every claim sentence; append its evidence pointer
(§/Fig/Table). Claims with no pointer get weakened or cut.
PASS 3 (vocabulary): replace "secure", "practical", "realistic", "large-scale"
with the number, version, or bound that justified the word.
PASS 4 (fast read): read only title, abstract, section heads, figure captions,
and the conclusion in 4 minutes — the Round-1 experience. Does the
contribution survive? If not, restructure headings, not sentences.
PASS 5 (ethics thread): page-one signal present? method-level handling present?
ethics section consistent with both?Tone
Third person or first-person plural, past tense for what was measured, present for what the
system does. No exclamation of severity — the exploit speaks for itself or it does not.
Double-blind: strip names, funders, internal system codenames, and self-identifying phrases
like "our previous work" (cite yourself in third person; details in ndss-submission).
Output format
[First-page contract] 6/6 answered? list the misses
[Claim ledger] N claims, M without evidence pointers → actions
[Adversary discipline] capabilities that debut outside the threat model
[Ethics thread] page-1 signal / method handling / section — present or missing
[Page budget] planned vs actual per section© 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 NDSS-Skills/skills/ndss-writing-style of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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Questions about Ndss Writing Style
What does Ndss Writing Style do?
A skill your agent uses when drafting or revising an NDSS paper's prose — building the first page around a capability-bounded networked adversary, sizing claims to evidence, weaving the ethics…. Ndss Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when drafting or revising an NDSS paper's prose — building the first page around a capability-bounded networked adversary, sizing claims to evidence, weaving the ethics signal into the narrative, and fitting the argument into NDSS's 13-page body ahead of a two-round read.
When should I use Ndss Writing Style?
Ndss Writing Style fits situations like: revising an NDSS papers prose — building the first page around a capability-bounded networked adversary; sizing claims to evidence; weaving the ethics signal into the narrative; fitting the argument into NDSSs 13-page body ahead of a two-round read.
How do I install Ndss Writing Style in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ndss-writing-style -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (NDSS-Skills/skills/ndss-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/ndss-writing-style in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Ndss Writing Style in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ndss-writing-style -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (NDSS-Skills/skills/ndss-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/ndss-writing-style in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Ndss 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 ndss-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/ndss-writing-style, .gemini/skills/ndss-writing-style, .github/skills/ndss-writing-style and .opencode/skills/ndss-writing-style in your project.
What does Ndss Writing Style need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Ndss Writing Style is instructions for the agent only.
Does Ndss 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 Ndss 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 Ndss Writing Style use?
Ndss 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 Ndss Writing Style use?
About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.4k 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 Ndss Writing Style?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Ndss 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 Ndss 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.