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Revacc Writing Style

by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

A skill your agent uses when the prose is the bottleneck for a Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) manuscript — front-loading the contribution, writing an abstract and introduction that land, and…

MITAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Revacc Writing Style

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

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

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

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when the prose is the bottleneck for a Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) manuscript — front-loading the contribution, writing an abstract and introduction that land, and…

  • Works in 5 steps: The accounting question in one or two… → What you do — the setting, design or… → What you find — the headline result with… → …
  • The prose is the bottleneck for a Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) manuscript — front-loading the contribution
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Write the contribution first,…, The abstract has to do real work and The accounting house voice, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Revacc Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when the prose is the bottleneck for a Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) manuscript — front-loading the contribution, writing an abstract and introduction that land, and adopting the accounting house voice. Polishes the manuscript; it does not sharpen the contribution claim (revacc-contribution-framing) or build exhibits (revacc-tables-figures).

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k 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 Business, Finance & HR, covering Accounting and bookkeeping and 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

  • The prose is the bottleneck for a Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) manuscript — front-loading the contribution
  • Writing an abstract and introduction that land
  • Adopting the accounting house voice

Example prompts

  • “/revacc-writing-style”

Workflow steps

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

  1. The accounting question in one or two sentences, with why it matters for reporting/markets.
  2. What you do — the setting, design or model, in one paragraph.
  3. What you find — the headline result with its economic magnitude (or the proposition with its accounting reading).
  4. Why it is credible — the identification or the modeling move, briefly.
  5. The contribution — what the field learns and the conversation it joins (one paragraph, not a list).

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

Revacc Writing Style loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 94 tokens; SKILL.md has 545 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~94
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.2k

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). 545 words, ~1,162 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/revacc-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
revacc-writing-style
description
Use when the prose is the bottleneck for a Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) manuscript — front-loading the contribution, writing an abstract and introduction that land, and adopting the accounting house voice. Polishes the manuscript; it does not sharpen the contribution claim (revacc-contribution-framing) or build exhibits (revacc-tables-figures).

Writing Style (revacc-writing-style)

When to trigger

  • The introduction buries the result under setup and literature
  • The abstract describes the topic but not the finding or its implication
  • The prose is passive, jargon-heavy, or reads like a finance paper that forgot the accounting
  • An analytical paper drowns the intuition in notation before the reader sees the payoff
  • You are doing the final pass and the manuscript voice does not match RAST's

Write the contribution first, everywhere

RAST's first-round-decision culture rewards a manuscript whose contribution is unmissable on page one. The intro should reach the result and its accounting implication within the first page — not after three pages of institutional background. Use the canonical accounting-paper intro arc, compressed:

  1. The accounting question in one or two sentences, with why it matters for reporting/markets.
  2. What you do — the setting, design or model, in one paragraph.
  3. What you find — the headline result with its economic magnitude (or the proposition with its accounting reading).
  4. Why it is credible — the identification or the modeling move, briefly.
  5. The contribution — what the field learns and the conversation it joins (one paragraph, not a list).

The abstract has to do real work

Within the journal's limit (~150–250 words, 待核实; 检索于 2026-06), the abstract must state the question, the design/data or the model, the finding with direction, and the implication. Cut "this paper examines"; lead with what is true. A topic-only abstract that withholds the result reads as thin to a journal that often decides in one round.

The accounting house voice

  • Active and direct: "We find that mandatory disclosure reduces…" not "It is found that…".
  • Construct discipline: define the accounting construct on first use and use it consistently; do not let "disclosure quality" drift between proxies mid-paper.
  • Mechanism in the verbs: "tightens monitoring," "relaxes the covenant," "disciplines investment" — the channel should live in the prose, not only the hypotheses.
  • Institutional precision without overload: give exactly the reporting/regulatory detail the result needs; relegate the rest.
  • For analytical papers: intuition before algebra. State the result in words, then formalize; keep proofs in the appendix.
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Sequence and scope

Polish prose last, after identification/model, exhibits, and contribution are settled — rewriting the intro around a result you may still rebuild wastes effort. On a near-final pass: read the intro aloud, ensure each results paragraph maps to a numbered exhibit, and confirm the abstract and intro tell the same story as the conclusion.

Checklist

  • The result and its accounting implication appear on the first page of the intro
  • The abstract states question, design/model, finding-with-direction, and implication within the limit
  • Prose is active; "this paper examines" and empty hedges are cut
  • The focal accounting construct is defined once and used consistently
  • The channel/mechanism lives in the verbs, not just the hypothesis list
  • Analytical sections give intuition before notation; proofs are in the appendix
  • Abstract, intro, and conclusion tell one consistent story

Anti-patterns

  • Buried lede: the finding arrives on page four after exhaustive background.
  • Topic-only abstract: describes the area, withholds the result.
  • Passive-voice fog: "it is documented that…" draining agency from the claim.
  • Construct drift: the key term silently changes meaning across sections.
  • Notation wall: an analytical paper that formalizes before the reader sees the point.
  • Finance-in-disguise prose: the accounting payoff never surfaces in the writing.

Output format

text
【Intro arc】question → what we do → finding → credibility → contribution (all on p.1?)
【Abstract】question + design/model + finding-with-direction + implication; within limit (待核实)
【Voice】active? construct defined once? channel in the verbs?
【Analytical】intuition-before-notation? proofs in appendix?
【Consistency】abstract = intro = conclusion story
【Next skill】revacc-submission

© 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 Review-of-Accounting-Studies-Skills/skills/revacc-writing-style of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Revacc Writing Style

What does Revacc Writing Style do?

A skill your agent uses when the prose is the bottleneck for a Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) manuscript — front-loading the contribution, writing an abstract and introduction that land, and…. Revacc Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when the prose is the bottleneck for a Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) manuscript — front-loading the contribution, writing an abstract and introduction that land, and adopting the accounting house voice.

When should I use Revacc Writing Style?

Revacc Writing Style fits situations like: the prose is the bottleneck for a Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) manuscript — front-loading the contribution; writing an abstract and introduction that land; adopting the accounting house voice.

How do I install Revacc Writing Style in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Revacc Writing Style in Codex?

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

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

What does Revacc Writing Style need to run?

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

Does Revacc 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 Revacc 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 Revacc Writing Style use?

Revacc 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 Revacc Writing Style use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.6k 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 Revacc Writing Style?

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Who maintains Revacc 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.