Agent skill

Sigmetrics Writing Style

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

A skill your agent uses when revising an ACM SIGMETRICS paper for a rigorously stated performance contribution on the first page, explicit modeling assumptions and their validity, theorems paired…

MITAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Sigmetrics Writing Style

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills sigmetrics-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/SIGMETRICS-Skills/skills/sigmetrics-writing-style .claude/skills/sigmetrics-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
sigmetrics-writing-style
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
590 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 SIGMETRICS paper for a rigorously stated performance contribution on the first page, explicit modeling assumptions and their validity, theorems paired…

  • Revising an ACM SIGMETRICS paper for a rigorously stated performance contribution on the first page
  • SKILL.md covers Revision rules, Performance-evaluation paper…, Sentence-level rewrites and Assumption-and-validation…, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Explicit modeling assumptions and their validity

What it does

Sigmetrics Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when revising an ACM SIGMETRICS paper for a rigorously stated performance contribution on the first page, explicit modeling assumptions and their validity, theorems paired with numerical/empirical validation, evidence proportional to the claim, double-anonymous wording, and disciplined use of the 20-page single-column acmsmall budget.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k 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 SIGMETRICS paper for a rigorously stated performance contribution on the first page
  • Explicit modeling assumptions and their validity
  • Theorems paired with numerical/empirical validation
  • Evidence proportional to the claim

Example prompts

  • “/sigmetrics-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

Sigmetrics Writing Style loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 91 tokens; SKILL.md has 590 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~91
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.4k

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). 590 words, ~1,419 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/sigmetrics-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
sigmetrics-writing-style
description
Use when revising an ACM SIGMETRICS paper for a rigorously stated performance contribution on the first page, explicit modeling assumptions and their validity, theorems paired with numerical/empirical validation, evidence proportional to the claim, double-anonymous wording, and disciplined use of the 20-page single-column acmsmall budget.

SIGMETRICS Writing Style

Use this when revising the main paper. SIGMETRICS papers are POMACS journal articles read by performance-evaluation specialists, so they need a precise performance contribution stated on the first page and claims a reviewer can check. The failure this skill prevents is a paper that reads like a systems demo (numbers, no model) or a theory paper with no systems relevance (theorems, no validation).

Revision rules

  • Lead with the performance contribution, stated rigorously: the systems-performance problem, a precise metric (mean vs. tail latency, throughput, regret, energy), why current models/policies fall short, the contribution (a model, policy, methodology — ideally with a proven bound), the validation, and what changes for real systems.
  • State assumptions where the result uses them. A theorem is only as strong as its assumptions; name the arrival process, service distribution, independence, and stationarity your result needs, and show they are plausible for the target system. Hidden assumptions are the fastest reject.
  • Pair every quantitative claim with proportional evidence — a proof for an analytic claim, a simulation whose curve matches the analysis, confidence intervals over repeated runs, effect sizes for a comparison — not adjectives.
  • Validate the model against measurement. The SIGMETRICS signature move is showing that the analytic prediction and the measured/simulated data agree; a theorem with no validation, or a measurement with no model, is half a paper.
  • Respect the 20-page acmsmall budget as a design constraint. References are unlimited, but body text, figures, and in-body appendices are not. A paper that only fits by shrinking the assumptions or the validation is over-scoped.
  • Maintain double-anonymity in self-citations, system names, trace provenance, and acknowledgements (except in the Operational Systems Track).

Performance-evaluation paper skeleton

SectionJob it must doCommon failure
IntroProblem, precise metric, inadequacy, contribution, validation preview, systems payoff — first pageLeads with a trend and "improves performance," no metric or model
Model / SystemThe model and its assumptions, stated precisely and justifiedAssumptions hidden or unjustified against the real workload
AnalysisTheorems/bounds with proofs (full proofs in an appendix)A claimed bound with a hand-waved or incomplete proof
ValidationAnalysis-vs-simulation agreement; measurement of the real systemA plot with no analytic comparison, or no confidence intervals
EvaluationBaselines, fairly tuned; the systems payoff on real workloadsUntuned baseline; toy inputs; benchmark score as the whole result
Assumption validity / threatsWhere assumptions hold and where they are stressedDeferred or absent; no estimation-error / robustness discussion
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Sentence-level rewrites

Draft patternSIGMETRICS-safe rewrite
"Our policy significantly improves performance.""reduces p99 latency by X% (95% CI ...) over <tuned baseline> on <workload>, matching Thm. 1"
"We assume the standard queueing model.""We assume M/G/1 with service-time distribution fit to the trace (§5.1, QQ-plot Fig. 6)"
"The bound holds in general.""Thm. 1 holds under assumptions A1-A3; §6 quantifies degradation when A2 is violated"
"Simulation confirms our approach.""the analytic p99 curve lies within the simulated confidence intervals across three distributions (Fig. 4)"
"State-of-the-art results."Claim scoped to the metric, workload, and regime actually analyzed and measured

Assumption-and-validation discipline

text
[Assumptions] list each (arrival, service, independence, stationarity); justify against the target
[Analysis]    prove the bound; put full derivations in an appendix within the reviewed pages
[Validation]  overlay analysis on simulation/measurement; report CIs and number of runs
[Robustness]  quantify what happens when an assumption is stressed (estimation error, heavy tails)
-> a theorem, its assumptions, and its validation are one unit -- present them together

Vignette: compressing a proof-plus-measurement paper

A draft with three theorems, a long simulator description, and a sprawling measurement section: keep all three theorem statements and their assumptions in the body, move full proofs to an appendix with forward references, keep the one figure showing analysis-vs-simulation agreement and the table with the trace-driven payoff, and cut redundant simulator detail to the artifact. The test of a good cut: a reviewer should be able to answer "what is claimed, under what assumptions, and does the measurement back it?" from the body alone.

Output format

text
[Writing diagnosis] clear / under-specified-assumptions / unvalidated / over-claimed / over-scoped
[First-page fix] <new framing leading with the precise performance contribution>
[Assumption audit] <assumption -> stated? justified against workload? where used?>
[Validation fix] <theorem/claim -> analysis-vs-measurement evidence to add>
[Anonymity edits] <system names / self-citations / trace provenance to rewrite>

© 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 SIGMETRICS-Skills/skills/sigmetrics-writing-style of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Sigmetrics Writing Style

What does Sigmetrics Writing Style do?

A skill your agent uses when revising an ACM SIGMETRICS paper for a rigorously stated performance contribution on the first page, explicit modeling assumptions and their validity, theorems paired…. Sigmetrics Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when revising an ACM SIGMETRICS paper for a rigorously stated performance contribution on the first page, explicit modeling assumptions and their validity, theorems paired with numerical/empirical validation, evidence proportional to the claim, double-anonymous wording, and disciplined use of the 20-page single-column acmsmall budget.

When should I use Sigmetrics Writing Style?

Sigmetrics Writing Style fits situations like: revising an ACM SIGMETRICS paper for a rigorously stated performance contribution on the first page; explicit modeling assumptions and their validity; theorems paired with numerical/empirical validation; evidence proportional to the claim.

How do I install Sigmetrics Writing Style in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Sigmetrics Writing Style in Codex?

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

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

What does Sigmetrics Writing Style need to run?

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

Does Sigmetrics 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 Sigmetrics 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 Sigmetrics Writing Style use?

Sigmetrics 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 Sigmetrics Writing Style use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.7k 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 Sigmetrics 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.