A skill your agent uses when writing or revising a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper — headline bounds stated exactly, the title-page abstract that wins bidding, a…

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Install Soda Writing Style

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills soda-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/SODA-Skills/skills/soda-writing-style .claude/skills/soda-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
soda-writing-style
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
708 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when writing or revising a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper — headline bounds stated exactly, the title-page abstract that wins bidding, a…

  • Works in 4 steps: Barrier paragraph — what specifically… → Technique narrative with a running… → Proof roadmap — lemma dependency sketch,… → …
  • Revising a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper — headline bounds stated exactly
  • SKILL.md covers The headline bound, The title-page abstract, First ten pages: the overview… and The prior-bound table, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Soda Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when writing or revising a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper — headline bounds stated exactly, the title-page abstract that wins bidding, a first-ten-pages overview for triage readers, prior-bound comparison tables, and prose discipline for an uncapped full-version document.

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 a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper — headline bounds stated exactly
  • The title-page abstract that wins bidding
  • A first-ten-pages overview for triage readers
  • Prior-bound comparison tables

Example prompts

  • “/soda-writing-style”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Barrier paragraph — what specifically stops the previous technique.
  2. Technique narrative with a running example — a small concrete instance
  3. Proof roadmap — lemma dependency sketch, so the back matter reads as
  4. Comparison table — see below.

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

Soda Writing Style loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 80 tokens; SKILL.md has 708 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~80
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). 708 words, ~1,573 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/soda-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
soda-writing-style
description
Use when writing or revising a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper — headline bounds stated exactly, the title-page abstract that wins bidding, a first-ten-pages overview for triage readers, prior-bound comparison tables, and prose discipline for an uncapped full-version document.

SODA Writing Style

SODA prose serves two readers with opposite budgets: a PC member triaging a record-size pool who gives you minutes, and a subreviewer in your exact niche who gives you days. The uncapped format (no page limit, full version encouraged — 2027 CFP, checked 2026-07-08) means you never trade completeness for space; the craft is entirely in layering, so the minutes-reader and the days-reader each get a document built for them.

The headline bound

An algorithms paper is quoted by its bound, so engineer the quotable sentence:

  • State it with exact parameters: "a deterministic O(m log^2 n)-time algorithm for weighted global min-cut," not "a faster deterministic algorithm."
  • Pair it immediately with the displaced bound: "improving the O(m log^4 n) bound of [X, SODA 2019]." New readers calibrate by the delta.
  • If randomization, approximation, or model caveats qualify the bound, they appear in the same sentence — a caveat discovered on page 30 reads as concealment.
  • Resist rounding up: "near-optimal" claims invite the referee to construct the regime where you are not.

The title-page abstract

SODA submissions open with a title page: title plus a one-to-two-paragraph abstract of the contributions (2027 CFP). This abstract is the PC's bidding surface — it decides who reviews you. Structure that has survived contact:

text
Paragraph 1 (the result):
  Problem, model, headline bound, displaced prior bound, and the
  open-problem citation if one exists. Numbers, not adjectives.

Paragraph 2 (the technique):
  The one new idea, named concretely ("a recursive sparsifier that
  tolerates deletions"), plus why known approaches get stuck —
  one sentence each. This paragraph recruits the right expert.

First ten pages: the overview contract

Everything after the overview is verification; the overview itself must let a non-specialist theorist reconstruct why the result is true at cartoon resolution. Ingredients, in order of most common omission:

  1. Barrier paragraph — what specifically stops the previous technique. Papers that skip this get "incremental" reviews from readers who cannot see why the improvement was hard.
  2. Technique narrative with a running example — a small concrete instance walked through the new algorithm beats three pages of notation.
  3. Proof roadmap — lemma dependency sketch, so the back matter reads as planned architecture (soda-supplementary).
  4. Comparison table — see below.

The prior-bound table

Algorithms referees expect the lineage as a table and will reconstruct it if you do not provide it — on their terms, not yours:

ReferenceBoundDeterministic?Model / caveat
[Karger-era result]O(m log^3 n)randomizedMonte Carlo
[previous best]O(m log^4 n)deterministic—
This paperO(m log^2 n)deterministic—

Rules: cite the strongest version of each prior result (journal version if it improved), include the inconvenient rows, and footnote incomparable results rather than omitting them.

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Prose discipline for long documents

  • Uncapped is not unedited. Every page must still earn verification effort; padding multiplies referee fatigue and referee fatigue reads as doubt.
  • One notation system, declared once. Re-derivations of standard facts get a citation, not a subsection.
  • Theorem statements are self-contained: model, input restrictions, and probability regime inside the statement, never "under the assumptions of Section 2" (referees quote theorems out of context; make that safe).
  • Lemmas get names in comments ("the charging lemma") — PC discussion happens in nicknames, and you want yours to have them.
  • Third-person self-citation throughout (lightweight double-blind, soda-submission), but keep the citations present.

Titles that survive PC compression

The title is the unit of memory in deliberation and in citation. Patterns, with fictional examples:

PatternFictional exampleWhen it fits
Bound-carrying"Dynamic Interval Stabbing in Polylogarithmic Worst-Case Time"The bound is the news — the default SODA choice
Barrier-breaking"Breaking the sqrt(n) Barrier for Online Recoloring"A named threshold falls; use only if prior work called it a barrier
Problem-resolving"The Communication Complexity of Threshold Joins"You close the problem (up to stated factors)
Technique-forward"Deletion-Tolerant Sparsifiers and Their Applications"Only when the tool provably outlives the application
Question title"Is Sorting by Prefix Swaps Fixed-Parameter Tractable?"Rare; only if the answer is surprising

Anti-patterns: pun-first titles (unquotable in a review), "Towards..." (admits incompleteness), "A New Approach to..." (contains zero information), and stacked qualifiers that belong in the theorem, not the marquee.

Register calibration

OverclaimCalibrated version
"We settle the complexity of X""We resolve the deterministic time complexity of X up to log log n factors"
"Our technique is completely new""We are not aware of prior uses of deletion-tolerant sparsification in this setting"
"Experiments confirm our algorithm is practical""A preliminary implementation (not part of our claims) suggests the constants are moderate"
"It is easy to see" (×20)Prove it once; "routine calculation, included for completeness, in Appendix D"

Output format

text
[Style verdict] Submission-grade / Needs revision / Needs restructuring
[Headline audit] <bound stated exactly? caveats co-located? displaced bound named?>
[Abstract audit] <bidding-surface quality; expert-recruiting technique sentence present?>
[Overview audit] <barrier, running example, roadmap, table — which are missing>
[Register flags] <overclaims with suggested calibrated rewrites>

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Files

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

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Soda Writing Style

What does Soda Writing Style do?

A skill your agent uses when writing or revising a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper — headline bounds stated exactly, the title-page abstract that wins bidding, a…. Soda Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when writing or revising a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper — headline bounds stated exactly, the title-page abstract that wins bidding, a first-ten-pages overview for triage readers, prior-bound comparison tables, and prose discipline for an uncapped full-version document.

When should I use Soda Writing Style?

Soda Writing Style fits situations like: revising a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper — headline bounds stated exactly; the title-page abstract that wins bidding; A first-ten-pages overview for triage readers; prior-bound comparison tables.

How do I install Soda Writing Style in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Soda Writing Style in Codex?

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

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

What does Soda Writing Style need to run?

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

Does Soda 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 Soda 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 Soda Writing Style use?

Soda 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 Soda 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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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.

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