facct-writing-style
Use when revising an ACM FAccT paper so that a fairness/accountability/transparency contribution is legible on the first page to a mixed CS+law+social-science reviewer pool, claims are scoped to who is affected, limitations and harms are argued rather than recited, the interdisciplinary framing is native, and the acmart page budget and endmatter statements are used well.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill facct-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.
# FAccT Writing Style Use this when revising the main paper. FAccT papers are read by a **deliberately mixed panel** — a computer scientist, a lawyer, and a qualitative social scientist may each land on your paper — so the writing must make a **fairness, accountability, or transparency contribution legible to all three** and must be honest about who is affected and how. The failure this skill prevents is a paper that is excellent inside one discipline and illegible or naive to the others. ## Revision rules - **Lead with the FAccT contribution.** The first page names the socio-technical problem, who bears the harm or holds the accountability, why the current state is inadequate, the contribution (method, audit, framework, critique, study, or legal analysis), and what changes for people — before any model or doctrinal detail. - **Scope claims to a population, not the world.** "Reduces bias" is not a FAccT claim; "reduces the false-positive-rate gap between groups A and B on dataset D, under measure M" is. Name the subgroups, the fairness/transparency construct, and the operationalization. - **Argue limitations and adverse impacts; do not recite them.** State the harms, failure modes,
- Revision rules
- The FAccT paper skeleton
- Sentence-level rewrites
- Limitations-and-harm discipline
- Vignette: compressing an audit paper
- Output format
What does the facct-writing-style skill do?
Use when revising an ACM FAccT paper so that a fairness/accountability/transparency contribution is legible on the first page to a mixed CS+law+social-science reviewer pool, claims are scoped to who is affected, limitations and harms are argued rather than recited, the interdisciplinary framing is native, and the acmart page budget and endmatter statements are used well.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill facct-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.