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 tightening a PPoPP paper's prose and structure, covering the two-column acmart sigplan layout, the 10-page text+figures budget, stating the…
Install Ppopp Writing Style
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ppopp-writing-style -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ppopp-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/PPoPP-Skills/skills/ppopp-writing-style .claude/skills/ppopp-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 "ppopp-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/PPoPP-Skills/skills/ppopp-writing-style into .claude/skills/ppopp-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ppopp-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/PPoPP-Skills/skills/ppopp-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 ppopp-writing-style -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ppopp-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/PPoPP-Skills/skills/ppopp-writing-style .agents/skills/ppopp-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 "ppopp-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/PPoPP-Skills/skills/ppopp-writing-style into .agents/skills/ppopp-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ppopp-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 ppopp-writing-style -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ppopp-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/PPoPP-Skills/skills/ppopp-writing-style .cursor/skills/ppopp-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 "ppopp-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/PPoPP-Skills/skills/ppopp-writing-style into .cursor/skills/ppopp-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ppopp-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 PPoPP-Skills/skills/ppopp-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 ppopp-writing-style -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ppopp-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/PPoPP-Skills/skills/ppopp-writing-style .gemini/skills/ppopp-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 "ppopp-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/PPoPP-Skills/skills/ppopp-writing-style into .gemini/skills/ppopp-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ppopp-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 ppopp-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 ppopp-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/PPoPP-Skills/skills/ppopp-writing-style .github/skills/ppopp-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 "ppopp-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/PPoPP-Skills/skills/ppopp-writing-style into .github/skills/ppopp-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ppopp-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 ppopp-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 ppopp-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/PPoPP-Skills/skills/ppopp-writing-style .opencode/skills/ppopp-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 "ppopp-writing-style" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/PPoPP-Skills/skills/ppopp-writing-style into .opencode/skills/ppopp-writing-style/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ppopp-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
ppopp-writing-style- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1.3k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 547 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 tightening a PPoPP paper's prose and structure, covering the two-column acmart sigplan layout, the 10-page text+figures budget, stating the…
- Works in 4 steps: The parallel-programming problem — what… → The contribution — the structure,… → The twin claim — that it is correct… → …
- Tightening a PPoPP papers prose and structure
- SKILL.md covers The first-page contract, Two-column, 10-page discipline, Structure that fits the venue and Presenting parallel performance, plus 3 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Ppopp Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when drafting or tightening a PPoPP paper's prose and structure, covering the two-column acmart sigplan layout, the 10-page text+figures budget, stating the concurrency-correctness and scalability claim up front, presenting speedup curves and core sweeps, and the parallel-programming conventions PPoPP reviewers expect.
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
- Tightening a PPoPP papers prose and structure
- Covering the two-column acmart sigplan layout
- The 10-page text+figures budget
- Stating the concurrency-correctness and scalability claim up front
Example prompts
- “/ppopp-writing-style”
Workflow steps
4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- The parallel-programming problem — what breaks or stalls when you go parallel (contention, a
- The contribution — the structure, runtime, algorithm, or technique, in one sentence, framed
- The twin claim — that it is correct under concurrency and how much it scales, with the
- The evidence shape — the hardware, the workloads, and the baseline you beat.
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
Ppopp Writing Style loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 86 tokens; SKILL.md has 547 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). 547 words, ~1,339 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/ppopp-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- ppopp-writing-style
- description
- Use when drafting or tightening a PPoPP paper's prose and structure, covering the two-column acmart sigplan layout, the 10-page text+figures budget, stating the concurrency-correctness and scalability claim up front, presenting speedup curves and core sweeps, and the parallel-programming conventions PPoPP reviewers expect.
PPoPP Writing Style
Write to the PPoPP bar: a parallel-programming contribution that is correct under concurrency and
measurably scalable, presented in two-column acmart sigplan within 10 pages of text
and figures (references unlimited). The reader is a parallel-systems expert who will look for the
speedup curve, the baseline, and the correctness argument before they finish the introduction.
The first-page contract
By the end of page 1 a PPoPP reviewer should know:
- The parallel-programming problem — what breaks or stalls when you go parallel (contention, a sequential bottleneck, poor locality, divergence, a memory-model hazard).
- The contribution — the structure, runtime, algorithm, or technique, in one sentence, framed so parallelism is clearly the point (not a compiler pass or a proof in disguise).
- The twin claim — that it is correct under concurrency and how much it scales, with the headline number ("linear to 96 cores," "1.8× over the state-of-the-art lock-free map at 64 threads").
- The evidence shape — the hardware, the workloads, and the baseline you beat.
A PPoPP introduction that describes a mechanism but never states a scaling number, or that promises correctness without naming the concurrency hazard it handles, reads as unfinished.
Two-column, 10-page discipline
- The two-column
acmartlayout is unforgiving of wide figures. Speedup plots, roofline charts, and code listings must fit one column or span both deliberately — plan figure placement early. - 10 pages of text and figures; references are free, so cite fully (all authors, no "et al.").
Do not pad the body with material that belongs in the artifact (
ppopp-supplementary). - Recover space by cutting prose, merging plots (small multiples of a core sweep beat five separate charts), and pushing full sweeps to the artifact — never by shrinking the template.
Structure that fits the venue
1 Introduction problem -> contribution -> twin claim (correctness + scaling) -> evidence
2 Background/Model the concurrency model, memory model, and hardware assumptions you rely on
3 Design the structure/runtime/algorithm; where parallelism is exposed and bounded
4 Correctness the argument: linearizability/progress, race-freedom, or a checked property
5 Implementation what a reader needs to reproduce: pinning, allocation, topology awareness
6 Evaluation speedup curves, core/GPU sweeps, NUMA effects, variance, baselines
7 Related work delta-first against the nearest parallel-programming competitor
8 ConclusionSections 4 and 6 are the twin load-bearing walls: skip the correctness argument and a reviewer distrusts the speedups; skip the sweep and they distrust the correctness claim's relevance.
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Presenting parallel performance
- Show the curve, not one point. Report throughput/speedup as a function of thread or core count; a single configuration hides where you saturate or collapse.
- Name the baseline and the machine in the caption. "Speedup over
<named competitor>on a 2-socket 96-core node" — an unlabeled y-axis or an unnamed baseline invites a reject. - Show variance. Repeated runs with error bars; a bar chart of single runs reads as noise.
- Be honest about where it stops scaling. A paper that explains its saturation point is stronger than one that hides it behind a truncated x-axis.
Language conventions
- Prefer precise concurrency vocabulary: linearizable, lock-free vs. wait-free, quiescent consistency, false sharing, memory-order (acquire/release/seq_cst), work-span, strong vs. weak scaling. Reviewers read imprecision here as inexperience.
- Distinguish strong scaling (fixed problem, more cores) from weak scaling (problem grows with cores) explicitly; conflating them is a classic PPoPP tell.
- State the memory model you assume (C/C++11, the GPU model, hardware TSO) rather than leaving it implicit.
Common PPoPP writing failures
- A mechanism with no number — design described lovingly, scaling never quantified.
- A number with no machine — speedups whose hardware and baseline are unstated.
- Correctness by testing — "no data race observed" without an argument over interleavings.
- Strawman baselines — beating your own unoptimized code instead of the real competitor.
- Wide figures that overflow the column — a two-column layout problem, caught at compile time.
Output format
[First-page contract] problem / contribution / twin claim (correctness+scaling) / evidence — all present?
[Format] two-column acmart sigplan, <=10 pages text+figs, refs full (no et al.)?
[Correctness] hazard named + argument (linearizability/progress/race-freedom)? yes/no
[Scaling] curve over cores/GPU, named baseline, named machine, variance shown? yes/no
[Cut list] prose/figures to trim or move to the artifact to hit 10 pages© 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 PPoPP-Skills/skills/ppopp-writing-style of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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Questions about Ppopp Writing Style
What does Ppopp Writing Style do?
A skill your agent uses when drafting or tightening a PPoPP paper's prose and structure, covering the two-column acmart sigplan layout, the 10-page text+figures budget, stating the…. Ppopp Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when drafting or tightening a PPoPP paper's prose and structure, covering the two-column acmart sigplan layout, the 10-page text+figures budget, stating the concurrency-correctness and scalability claim up front, presenting speedup curves and core sweeps, and the parallel-programming conventions PPoPP reviewers expect.
When should I use Ppopp Writing Style?
Ppopp Writing Style fits situations like: tightening a PPoPP papers prose and structure; covering the two-column acmart sigplan layout; the 10-page text+figures budget; stating the concurrency-correctness and scalability claim up front.
How do I install Ppopp Writing Style in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ppopp-writing-style -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (PPoPP-Skills/skills/ppopp-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/ppopp-writing-style in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Ppopp Writing Style in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ppopp-writing-style -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (PPoPP-Skills/skills/ppopp-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/ppopp-writing-style in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Ppopp 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 ppopp-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/ppopp-writing-style, .gemini/skills/ppopp-writing-style, .github/skills/ppopp-writing-style and .opencode/skills/ppopp-writing-style in your project.
What does Ppopp Writing Style need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Ppopp Writing Style is instructions for the agent only.
Does Ppopp 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 Ppopp 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 Ppopp Writing Style use?
Ppopp 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 Ppopp 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 Ppopp Writing Style?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Ppopp 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 Ppopp 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.