A skill your agent uses when drafting or revising prose for a WSDM paper - the practical-yet-principled register, user-and-platform-grounded framing, self-containment writing for a no-rebuttal…

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Install Wsdm Writing Style

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills wsdm-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/WSDM-Skills/skills/wsdm-writing-style .claude/skills/wsdm-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
wsdm-writing-style
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
761 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 WSDM paper - the practical-yet-principled register, user-and-platform-grounded framing, self-containment writing for a no-rebuttal…

  • Works in 4 steps: Name the specific population and data… → Name the sharpest realistic harm of your… → State mitigations you actually… → …
  • Revising prose for a WSDM paper - the practical-yet-principled register
  • SKILL.md covers Open with the behavioral…, The self-containment voice, Sentence-level tells, WSDM… and The ethics section as prose,…, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Wsdm Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when drafting or revising prose for a WSDM paper - the practical-yet-principled register, user-and-platform-grounded framing, self-containment writing for a no-rebuttal review, ethical-considerations craft, limitation sentences that protect borderline papers, and compression into the appendix-inclusive page cap.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.7k 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 WSDM paper - the practical-yet-principled register
  • User-and-platform-grounded framing
  • Self-containment writing for a no-rebuttal review
  • Ethical-considerations craft

Example prompts

  • “/wsdm-writing-style”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Name the specific population and data (whose behavior, collected how, under
  2. Name the sharpest realistic harm of your contribution (a better ranker can
  3. State mitigations you actually implemented (aggregation, differential
  4. If the honest answer is "low marginal risk," argue it in two sentences

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

Wsdm Writing Style loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 84 tokens; SKILL.md has 761 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
~1.7k

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). 761 words, ~1,676 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/wsdm-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
wsdm-writing-style
description
Use when drafting or revising prose for a WSDM paper - the practical-yet-principled register, user-and-platform-grounded framing, self-containment writing for a no-rebuttal review, ethical-considerations craft, limitation sentences that protect borderline papers, and compression into the appendix-inclusive page cap.

WSDM Writing Style

Revise a manuscript into the register WSDM's series page announces for itself: "practical yet principled approaches" to search and mining on the Web and the Social Web. That phrase is an editorial instruction. A WSDM paper earns its slot by being simultaneously deployable-sounding and analytically honest - pure benchmark exercises read as under-motivated, pure war stories read as unscientific. The stylistic moves below operationalize that balance.

Open with the behavioral problem, not the model family

WSDM work starts from something users, platforms, or web data actually do: clicks are position-biased, sessions are short, graphs are power-law sparse, feedback loops entrench popularity, adversaries game ranking. The strongest openings name that behavioral fact and make the technical contribution the response to it.

text
Weak (model-first):
  "Transformer-based architectures have shown promise in recommendation.
   We propose a novel attention mechanism..."

WSDM-shaped (behavior-first):
  "Users abandon a search session after roughly one unsatisfying page,
   so a ranker trained on clicks observes almost nothing below rank ten.
   We show this truncated feedback systematically distorts <X>, and give
   an estimator that corrects it using only logged data."

The second version does three venue-calibrated things: it grounds the problem in interaction behavior, it implies the data regime (logs, not labels), and it scopes the contribution ("using only logged data") before a reviewer asks.

The self-containment voice

Because WSDM historically offers no rebuttal, style must do the job dialogue does elsewhere. Concretely:

  • Answer objections in-line, at the moment they arise. After a surprising result, the next sentence should be the control that rules out the boring explanation - not a hope that reviewers won't think of it.
  • Pre-commit scope. Write claim sentences whose quantifiers survive hostile reading: "improves nDCG@10 on three of four public benchmarks under temporal splits" is defensible; "consistently outperforms state of the art" invites a terminal review.
  • Show the failure mode. One honest paragraph on where the method breaks (cold users, head queries, adversarial content) converts a reviewer's discovery into your demonstration of judgment.

Sentence-level tells, WSDM edition

Draft tellWhy it hurts hereRepair
"web-scale" with no numbersIndustry reviewers know what scale looks likeGive corpus/user/query counts, even rounded
"significantly better" without a testRanking metrics are noisy; the pool knows itName the test, unit (query/user), and p-value or CI
"real-world dataset" for MovieLensReads as inflation to log-data veteransCall public benchmarks what they are
"novel framework"Framework-speak hides the mechanismName the one thing that changed and its effect
Unexplained acronym soup in the introSingle-track audience spans IR, graphs, ads, recsysExpand on first use; the reader may be from the adjacent subfield

The last row is genuinely WSDM-specific: a single-track community means your talk - and your reviewers - include people from every corner of the venue's scope. Write the introduction for the intelligent non-specialist in the adjacent chair.

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The ethics section as prose, not boilerplate

WSDM requires an ethical-considerations discussion and excludes it from the page count. Reviewers can smell a template. Write it like a technical section:

  1. Name the specific population and data (whose behavior, collected how, under what terms).
  2. Name the sharpest realistic harm of your contribution (a better ranker can amplify popularity bias; a deanonymization-adjacent mining result can be misused; an ad-targeting improvement has manipulation surface).
  3. State mitigations you actually implemented (aggregation, differential thresholds, release policy), not aspirations.
  4. If the honest answer is "low marginal risk," argue it in two sentences instead of padding.

Compression without loss

The 9-page inclusive budget (2026 anchor; see wsdm-supplementary for the arithmetic) rewards specific habits:

  • One idea per paragraph; delete paragraph-final summary sentences that repeat the paragraph.
  • Kill the second example everywhere: one well-chosen example plus a precise general statement beats two examples.
  • Move mechanics into figures: a pipeline figure with a two-line caption often replaces half a page of process prose.
  • Related work as positioning, not survey - three contrast sentences beat fifteen citation-list sentences (method in wsdm-related-work).
  • Never compress: metric definitions, split protocols, or the limitation paragraph. These are the sentences the SPC quotes when defending the paper.

Abstract anatomy for this venue

Six sentences carry a WSDM abstract: behavioral fact; consequence for search/mining/recommendation; the mechanism, named; evaluation regime (datasets, split type, test) attached to the main number; the online or deployment sentence if one exists, protocol-tagged; the artifact/limitation sentence. The worked rewrite in ../../resources/worked-examples/01-introduction.md executes exactly this skeleton - compare your abstract against it sentence by sentence, and delete anything that is neither one of the six nor evidence for one.

Revision pass order

  1. Claims pass: extract every claim sentence; check each against its evidence and its quantifier.
  2. Objection pass: inject in-line answers from the objection inventory (wsdm-author-response).
  3. Register pass: apply the tells table; ground openings in behavior.
  4. Budget pass: cut to fit using the priority order above.
  5. Cold-reader pass: someone from an adjacent WSDM subfield reads the intro and restates the contribution; if their restatement is wrong, rewrite.

Output format

text
[Register] behavior-first opening: yes / rewritten
[Claim audit] N claims; overquantified: <list with repairs>
[Self-containment] in-line objection answers added at: <locations>
[Tells] instances found -> fixed: <count by type>
[Ethics prose] specific population/harm/mitigation named: yes / boilerplate
[Cold-reader test] contribution restated correctly: yes / no

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Files

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

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Wsdm Writing Style

What does Wsdm Writing Style do?

A skill your agent uses when drafting or revising prose for a WSDM paper - the practical-yet-principled register, user-and-platform-grounded framing, self-containment writing for a no-rebuttal…. Wsdm Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when drafting or revising prose for a WSDM paper - the practical-yet-principled register, user-and-platform-grounded framing, self-containment writing for a no-rebuttal review, ethical-considerations craft, limitation sentences that protect borderline papers, and compression into the appendix-inclusive page cap.

When should I use Wsdm Writing Style?

Wsdm Writing Style fits situations like: revising prose for a WSDM paper - the practical-yet-principled register; user-and-platform-grounded framing; self-containment writing for a no-rebuttal review; ethical-considerations craft.

How do I install Wsdm Writing Style in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Wsdm Writing Style in Codex?

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

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

What does Wsdm Writing Style need to run?

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

Does Wsdm 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 Wsdm 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 Wsdm Writing Style use?

Wsdm 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 Wsdm Writing Style use?

About 1.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.7k 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 Wsdm Writing Style?

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