A skill your agent uses when rewriting a machine-learning paper for NeurIPS-style contribution framing, calibrated claims, contribution-type alignment, limitations, broader-impact prose, and…

MITAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Neurips Writing Style

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills neurips-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/NeurIPS-Skills/skills/neurips-writing-style .claude/skills/neurips-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
neurips-writing-style
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
518 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when rewriting a machine-learning paper for NeurIPS-style contribution framing, calibrated claims, contribution-type alignment, limitations, broader-impact prose, and…

  • Works in 5 steps: Name the problem and why current ML… → Identify the specific gap in method,… → State the contribution type and why it… → …
  • Rewriting a machine-learning paper for NeurIPS-style contribution framing
  • SKILL.md covers Introduction pattern, Style rules, Write so the prose pre-answers… and Reviewer-pushback rewrites, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Neurips Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when rewriting a machine-learning paper for NeurIPS-style contribution framing, calibrated claims, contribution-type alignment, limitations, broader-impact prose, and language that pre-fills the mandatory NeurIPS Paper Checklist, for either the main track or the Datasets & Benchmarks track.

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 and Machine learning. 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

  • Rewriting a machine-learning paper for NeurIPS-style contribution framing
  • Calibrated claims
  • Contribution-type alignment
  • Broader-impact prose

Example prompts

  • “/neurips-writing-style”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Name the problem and why current ML practice cannot solve it.
  2. Identify the specific gap in method, theory, data, evaluation, system, or understanding.
  3. State the contribution type and why it fits NeurIPS.
  4. Preview the evidence that supports the claim.
  5. Bound the claim with limitations, assumptions, or failure modes.

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

Neurips Writing Style loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 79 tokens; SKILL.md has 518 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~79
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k

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). 518 words, ~1,079 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/neurips-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
neurips-writing-style
description
Use when rewriting a machine-learning paper for NeurIPS-style contribution framing, calibrated claims, contribution-type alignment, limitations, broader-impact prose, and language that pre-fills the mandatory NeurIPS Paper Checklist, for either the main track or the Datasets & Benchmarks track.

NeurIPS Writing Style

NeurIPS writing must make a technical contribution legible to reviewers outside the authors' exact subfield. Good style is precise, evidence-calibrated, and checklist-aware.

Introduction pattern

  1. Name the problem and why current ML practice cannot solve it.
  2. Identify the specific gap in method, theory, data, evaluation, system, or understanding.
  3. State the contribution type and why it fits NeurIPS.
  4. Preview the evidence that supports the claim.
  5. Bound the claim with limitations, assumptions, or failure modes.

Style rules

  • Prefer falsifiable claims over broad adjectives.
  • Tie every headline result to a baseline, dataset, theorem, ablation, or user/deployment context.
  • Use "we show" only when the paper actually proves or demonstrates the claim.
  • Do not bury limitations; NeurIPS reviewers are instructed to reward honest limitation reporting.
  • Avoid "state of the art" unless the comparison set, metric, and time boundary are explicit.
  • Document non-standard agent or LLM use in the method when it is part of the research procedure.

Write so the prose pre-answers the checklist

The mandatory NeurIPS Paper Checklist asks each "yes" answer to point at where the paper supports it. Treat checklist items as a prose target, not a postscript: every "yes" should already have a sentence reviewers can find. Drafting against these anchors removes most "claim broader than evidence" comments before review.

Checklist themeSentence the body should already contain
Claims match results"We show X under assumptions A; we do not claim X holds when B."
Limitationsa labeled limitations paragraph naming failure modes and unscaled regimes
Theory assumptionseach theorem states its assumptions and forward-references the proof
Reproducibilityone sentence pointing at code, configs, seeds, and compute
Broader impactconcrete, non-boilerplate discussion of misuse or societal effect, not "no impact"
Datasets & Benchmarksprovenance, license, consent, and intended-use sentences for any released data

The broader-impact statement is a NeurIPS norm, not a generic ethics paragraph: hedge to the current year's checklist for exact wording and required placement.

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Reviewer-pushback rewrites

Reviewer commentRoot cause in proseNeurIPS-specific fix
"Claims exceed evidence"adjectives where a baseline should bescope the claim to the tested regime; cite the table
"Where is the limitation?"limitations hidden or absenta visible labeled paragraph reviewers can reward
"Impact statement is boilerplate"generic "no societal impact"a specific misuse/benefit tied to this method or dataset
"Contribution type unclear"intro reads as generic MLname the declared type and what evidence it demands
"Novelty over a topic, not a mechanism"abstract sells a labelstate the technical delta against the closest method

Worked vignette: a new optimizer paper

A paper proposes a curvature-aware optimizer and writes "our method achieves state-of-the-art on language modeling." A NeurIPS reviewer reads this as an unbounded claim. Rewrite as: "On three autoregressive benchmarks at the 1B-parameter scale, our optimizer reaches the validation loss of tuned AdamW in 30% fewer steps; we do not test beyond 1B or on vision, and the gain narrows under aggressive learning-rate schedules (Appendix C)." The rewrite names the comparison set, the scale boundary, the failure regime, and forward-references evidence, pre-answering the claims-match-results and limitations checklist items in one move.

Rewrite output

text
[Claim before] <original claim>
[Claim after] <NeurIPS-calibrated claim>
[Evidence anchor] <experiment/proof/ablation/dataset/checklist>
[Limitation sentence] <plain limitation text>
[Reviewer concern reduced] <novelty/clarity/significance/reproducibility/ethics>

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Files

Just SKILL.md in NeurIPS-Skills/skills/neurips-writing-style of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Neurips Writing Style

What does Neurips Writing Style do?

A skill your agent uses when rewriting a machine-learning paper for NeurIPS-style contribution framing, calibrated claims, contribution-type alignment, limitations, broader-impact prose, and…. Neurips Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when rewriting a machine-learning paper for NeurIPS-style contribution framing, calibrated claims, contribution-type alignment, limitations, broader-impact prose, and language that pre-fills the mandatory NeurIPS Paper Checklist, for either the main track or the Datasets & Benchmarks track.

When should I use Neurips Writing Style?

Neurips Writing Style fits situations like: rewriting a machine-learning paper for NeurIPS-style contribution framing; calibrated claims; contribution-type alignment; broader-impact prose.

How do I install Neurips Writing Style in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Neurips Writing Style in Codex?

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

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

What does Neurips Writing Style need to run?

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

Does Neurips 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 Neurips 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 Neurips Writing Style use?

Neurips 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 Neurips Writing Style use?

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.

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Who maintains Neurips 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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