ecai-writing-style
Use when writing or tightening an ECAI paper body — leading with a general-AI contribution on the first page, matching evidence to claim (a theorem and construction, or a fair empirical comparison), and doing it inside a 7-page body where every paragraph must earn its space.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ecai-writing-style --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# ECAI Writing Style ECAI reviews a **7-page body** across the full breadth of AI (symbolic reasoning, KR, planning, search, multi-agent systems, ML, and applications). Two things follow, and they drive most of the advice here: the contribution must be legible to a **general** AI audience, and the writing must be **dense** — at 7 pages there is no room for a paragraph that does not carry the argument. ## The ECAI first-page arc Land the whole contribution before the fold: 1. **A well-posed AI problem** — stated as a problem, not as "X has become popular." 2. **Why current methods are inadequate** — the specific gap, in one or two sentences. 3. **The contribution** — the mechanism, and where the claim is provable, the **guarantee**. 4. **Evidence proportional to the claim** — a theorem + construction, and/or a fair empirical comparison; named on the first page, delivered in the body. 5. **What it means for AI** — why a general AI audience should care. The worked example ([`../../resources/worked-examples/01-introduction.md`](../../resources/worked-examples/01-introduction.md)) shows this arc rebuilt from a benchmark-first draft. ## Lead with the AI contribution, not the application
- The ECAI first-page arc
- Lead with the AI contribution, not the application of a model
- Match evidence to the claim shape
- Density discipline (the 7-page reality)
- Threats / limitations as argument, not boilerplate
- Language and audience
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the ecai-writing-style skill do?
Use when writing or tightening an ECAI paper body — leading with a general-AI contribution on the first page, matching evidence to claim (a theorem and construction, or a fair empirical comparison), and doing it inside a 7-page body where every paragraph must earn its space.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ecai-writing-style --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.