A skill your agent uses when revising an ACM SIGCOMM paper for its house style — leading with measured operational pain, stating a design principle rather than a behavior, pairing every claim with…

MITAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Sigcomm Writing Style

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

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

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

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when revising an ACM SIGCOMM paper for its house style — leading with measured operational pain, stating a design principle rather than a behavior, pairing every claim with…

  • Revising an ACM SIGCOMM paper for its house style — leading with measured operational pain
  • SKILL.md covers Revision rules, Sentence-level rewrites, Structure discipline and Vignette: compressing into 12…, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Stating a design principle rather than a behavior

What it does

Sigcomm Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when revising an ACM SIGCOMM paper for its house style — leading with measured operational pain, stating a design principle rather than a behavior, pairing every claim with testbed/trace/deployment evidence, reporting tails instead of superlatives, and fitting the argument into 12 figure-inclusive pages while keeping blinding clean.

Its SKILL.md is about 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. 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 ACM SIGCOMM paper for its house style — leading with measured operational pain
  • Stating a design principle rather than a behavior
  • Pairing every claim with testbed/trace/deployment evidence
  • Reporting tails instead of superlatives

Example prompts

  • “/sigcomm-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

Sigcomm Writing Style loads about 1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 90 tokens; SKILL.md has 486 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~90
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~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). 486 words, ~1,034 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/sigcomm-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
sigcomm-writing-style
description
Use when revising an ACM SIGCOMM paper for its house style — leading with measured operational pain, stating a design principle rather than a behavior, pairing every claim with testbed/trace/deployment evidence, reporting tails instead of superlatives, and fitting the argument into 12 figure-inclusive pages while keeping blinding clean.

SIGCOMM Writing Style

Use this when revising the main paper. A SIGCOMM paper has to make a networking mechanism feel inevitable: the reader should see the measured problem, the principle that solves it, and the evidence that it works under real conditions — inside 12 pages where figures count. Reopen the current CFP for format specifics.

Revision rules

  • Lead with measured pain. Put the operational cost in numbers on the first page — which percentile, how bad, under what traffic — not "congestion is a well-known problem." An asserted motivation is the first thing a SIGCOMM reviewer discounts.
  • Name the design principle. State the invariant your mechanism defends, not just what it does. "Steer at the timescale congestion forms" is a principle; "avoids hotspots" is a behavior.
  • Pair every claim with evidence. Each performance claim maps to a table, a figure, a sweep, or a documented break point — and the evidence lives on a testbed, trace, or deployment, not in simulation alone for a fabric claim.
  • Report the distribution. Tails are usually the point in networking; give percentiles and variance over repeated trials, and hold the fair variable (throughput, load) fixed.
  • Spend the 12 pages on the spine. Figures count against the cap, so every figure must earn its space; push depth to appendix and artifact without making the body incomplete.
  • Keep blinding clean. Anonymize authorship and deployment identity — a named backbone plus a topology detail can deanonymize as surely as a byline.

Sentence-level rewrites

Draft patternSIGCOMM-safe rewrite
"significantly improves performance""cuts 99th-percentile FCT by 2.4x at matched throughput"
"congestion is a serious problem""incast inflates P99 short-flow FCT by 3.1x on our testbed"
"our system avoids hotspots""reroutes flowlets on instantaneous backlog, so response tracks queue buildup"
"outperforms in most cases"claim scoped to the workloads and topologies actually tested
"we evaluate in simulation""we measure on a 128-server testbed replaying a production trace"
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Structure discipline

  • The first page carries problem, principle, mechanism, and headline evidence; a reviewer should be able to accept-or-reject on the first page and have the rest confirm it.
  • Every declarative claim near a number is something a reviewer may try to reproduce; do not write a sentence you cannot back with a run.
  • Separate what you measured from what you designed from what you conjecture; mixing an unproven stability claim into a measured-result paragraph is a credibility leak.
  • Motivate with measurement, then build the mechanism; the "measurement motivates mechanism" arc (as in VL2) reads as native SIGCOMM.

Vignette: compressing into 12 figure-inclusive pages

A draft with eight figures and a sprawling background section: keep the measured-motivation figure and the two decision-critical tail plots in the body, fold three micro-benchmarks into one multi-panel figure, move two sweeps to an appendix with forward references, and compress background into contribution contrasts. The test of a good cut: a reviewer reconstructs the whole argument from the body alone, and no surviving figure is decorative.

Output format

text
[Writing diagnosis] clear / under-motivated / behavior-not-principle / mean-only / overloaded
[First-page fix] <measured pain + principle + headline evidence>
[Claim discipline] <claim -> table / figure / sweep / break point>
[Tail reporting] <percentiles + variance + fixed fair variable>
[Compression cuts] <merge / move / delete>
[Anonymity edits] <authorship + deployment phrases to neutralize>

© 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 SIGCOMM-Skills/skills/sigcomm-writing-style of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Sigcomm Writing Style

What does Sigcomm Writing Style do?

A skill your agent uses when revising an ACM SIGCOMM paper for its house style — leading with measured operational pain, stating a design principle rather than a behavior, pairing every claim with…. Sigcomm Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when revising an ACM SIGCOMM paper for its house style — leading with measured operational pain, stating a design principle rather than a behavior, pairing every claim with testbed/trace/deployment evidence, reporting tails instead of superlatives, and fitting the argument into 12 figure-inclusive pages while keeping blinding clean.

When should I use Sigcomm Writing Style?

Sigcomm Writing Style fits situations like: revising an ACM SIGCOMM paper for its house style — leading with measured operational pain; stating a design principle rather than a behavior; pairing every claim with testbed/trace/deployment evidence; reporting tails instead of superlatives.

How do I install Sigcomm Writing Style in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Sigcomm Writing Style in Codex?

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

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

What does Sigcomm Writing Style need to run?

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

Does Sigcomm 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 Sigcomm 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 Sigcomm Writing Style use?

Sigcomm 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 Sigcomm Writing Style use?

About 1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.1k 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 Sigcomm Writing Style?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Sigcomm Writing Style: Narrative Enablement Kit (aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills, 2.9k stars), Avoid AI Writing (conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing, 4.9k stars), Brand (Ohh-889/skyroc, 795 stars) and Khazix WeChat Article Writer (KKKKhazix/khazix-skills, 21k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Sigcomm 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.