A skill your agent uses when drafting or revising prose for a SIGIR paper — the IR register that leads with task, collection, and metric; claim sentences calibrated to significance results…

MITAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Sigir Writing Style

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills sigir-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/SIGIR-Skills/skills/sigir-writing-style .claude/skills/sigir-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
sigir-writing-style
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
665 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 prose for a SIGIR paper — the IR register that leads with task, collection, and metric; claim sentences calibrated to significance results…

  • Works in 5 steps: Task + regime: which retrieval problem,… → The specific failure of current… → The move: your method/finding in one… → …
  • Revising prose for a SIGIR paper — the IR register that leads with task
  • SKILL.md covers The first-page arc for a…, Vocabulary calibration, Tables carry the argument and Sectioning that survives the…, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Sigir Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when drafting or revising prose for a SIGIR paper — the IR register that leads with task, collection, and metric; claim sentences calibrated to significance results; first-page architecture for retrieval contributions; table-centric argumentation; and compressing into the 9-page budget without cutting soundness.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k 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 prose for a SIGIR paper — the IR register that leads with task
  • Claim sentences calibrated to significance results
  • First-page architecture for retrieval contributions
  • Table-centric argumentation

Example prompts

  • “/sigir-writing-style”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Task + regime: which retrieval problem, under which constraints (first-stage
  2. The specific failure of current practice: not "existing methods have
  3. The move: your method/finding in one sentence, mechanism visible.
  4. Calibrated evidence preview: collections, headline metric deltas, and the
  5. Contribution bullets that are checkable promises ("a re-ranking model that

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

Sigir Writing Style loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 84 tokens; SKILL.md has 665 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~84
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k

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). 665 words, ~1,565 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/sigir-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
sigir-writing-style
description
Use when drafting or revising prose for a SIGIR paper — the IR register that leads with task, collection, and metric; claim sentences calibrated to significance results; first-page architecture for retrieval contributions; table-centric argumentation; and compressing into the 9-page budget without cutting soundness.

SIGIR Writing Style

SIGIR prose has a recognizable register: it names the retrieval task before the model, quantifies on named collections with named metrics, and calibrates every adjective to a statistical test. Papers written in general-ML register ("we achieve state-of-the-art performance across diverse benchmarks") read as tourists. This skill converts drafts into the native register.

The first-page arc for a retrieval paper

Reviewers form the accept/reject prior on page one. The arc that works:

  1. Task + regime: which retrieval problem, under which constraints (first-stage vs re-ranking, latency budget, corpus scale, low-resource language, ...).
  2. The specific failure of current practice: not "existing methods have limitations" but "late-interaction models pay a storage cost that grows with document length" — a mechanism, not a mood.
  3. The move: your method/finding in one sentence, mechanism visible.
  4. Calibrated evidence preview: collections, headline metric deltas, and the significance qualifier, all in one breath.
  5. Contribution bullets that are checkable promises ("a re-ranking model that ...; an analysis showing ...; run files and code at ..."), not virtues.
text
Register conversion (before -> after)
-------------------------------------
"Our novel framework significantly outperforms strong baselines."
->
"On MS MARCO dev and TREC DL 2019/2020, OURS improves nDCG@10 over a
 tuned BM25+monoT5 pipeline by 2.1-3.4 points (paired t-test, p<0.05,
 Bonferroni-corrected across collections), at equal re-ranking depth."

"Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our approach."
->
"OURS matches ColBERT-style quality within 0.4 nDCG@10 while storing
 12x fewer vectors per document (Table 4); §5.3 isolates the pruning
 step as the source of the storage saving."

Vocabulary calibration

SayOnly ifOtherwise say
"significantly better"A named test with correction passed"better" / "numerically higher"
"state of the art"Verified against the current published best on that collection + setup"competitive with recent systems"
"generalizes"≥2 materially different collections/tasks tested"transfers to <named setting>"
"efficient"A cost table exists (latency/memory/index size)Drop the word
"robust"A stress condition was varied and reported"stable across <the thing varied>"

"Significant" is a reserved word in IR writing. Using it decoratively — while the community's own methodology papers police exactly this — is the fastest credibility leak available.

Tables carry the argument

SIGIR argumentation is table-centric; prose narrates tables rather than replacing them. Conventions reviewers expect:

  • Metrics with explicit cutoffs (nDCG@10, R@1000, RR@10), collections as columns or blocks, systems as rows grouped by family (sparse / dense / hybrid / ours).
  • Significance markers defined in the caption (†/‡ vs which baseline, which test, which correction) — an unmarked table triggers the standing objection.
  • Bold for best only if best is statistically distinguishable; otherwise bold the statistically-tied set or none.
  • Every table answers one named question; the narrating paragraph states the answer in its first sentence, then points at the supporting cells.
Show full SKILL.md (304 more words)Show less

Sectioning that survives the 9-page budget

A load-bearing skeleton for a full paper (adjust, don't worship): intro (1), related work (0.75), method (2), experimental setup (1.25), results + ablations (2.5), analysis (1), limitations + conclusion (0.5). Appendices count inside the budget at SIGIR, so this skeleton has no "we'll appendix it" release valve — the repository is the release valve (see sigir-supplementary).

Short papers invert the proportions: setup and the single result table dominate; related work compresses to positioning sentences with dense citations.

Sentence-level habits of accepted IR papers

  • Present tense for the method, past tense for what was run.
  • One idea per sentence in §Method; retrieval pipelines have too many moving parts for nested clauses.
  • Name systems consistently — the review alias, table row label, and repo config name should be the same string.
  • Limitations stated with scope, not apology: "results are offline; click-based validation is future work" beats a defensive paragraph.
  • No roadmap paragraph ("Section 2 discusses...") in a 9-page paper; headers do that.

Abstract length and shape

SIGIR abstracts run dense and factual: task, failure, move, lineup, deltas, qualifier — typically 150-220 words with at least one number. If your abstract has no collection name and no metric by word 100, it is still in ML register. The final sentence belongs to availability ("code and run files at ...") or to the scope qualifier, not to a vision statement.

Revision protocol

  1. Pass 1 — claims: highlight every evaluative adjective; check each against the vocabulary table; fix or delete.
  2. Pass 2 — tables: caption completeness (test, correction, seeds), marker definitions, bold policy.
  3. Pass 3 — first page: does the arc above survive a 60-second read by a tired AC?
  4. Pass 4 — register: excise ML-venue boilerplate ("remarkable", "paradigm", "extensive experiments demonstrate").
  5. Pass 5 — budget: compress by demotion to the repository, never by deleting protocol details.

Output format

text
[Register diagnosis] native-IR / mixed / ML-tourist
[First-page arc] task-regime / failure / move / calibrated-evidence / bullets: present-missing each
[Reserved-word violations] "significant(ly)" uses without a test: <n>, lines <...>
[Table conventions] cutoffs / markers / bold-policy / caption-tests: pass-fail each
[Compression debt] <pages over budget> and the demotion plan
[Three worst sentences] <quoted, with rewrites>

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Files

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

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Sigir Writing Style

What does Sigir Writing Style do?

A skill your agent uses when drafting or revising prose for a SIGIR paper — the IR register that leads with task, collection, and metric; claim sentences calibrated to significance results…. Sigir Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when drafting or revising prose for a SIGIR paper — the IR register that leads with task, collection, and metric; claim sentences calibrated to significance results; first-page architecture for retrieval contributions; table-centric argumentation; and compressing into the 9-page budget without cutting soundness.

When should I use Sigir Writing Style?

Sigir Writing Style fits situations like: revising prose for a SIGIR paper — the IR register that leads with task; claim sentences calibrated to significance results; first-page architecture for retrieval contributions; table-centric argumentation.

How do I install Sigir Writing Style in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Sigir Writing Style in Codex?

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

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

What does Sigir Writing Style need to run?

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

Does Sigir 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 Sigir 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 Sigir Writing Style use?

Sigir 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 Sigir Writing Style use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.3k 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 Sigir 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.