icra-writing-style
Use when drafting or tightening an ICRA manuscript — leading with the robot task and physical constraint, compressing a systems story into 6 IEEE two-column pages, writing figure-first for skimming reviewers, quantifying instead of demo-speak, and keeping notation consistent across kinematics, control, and learning sections.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill icra-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.
# ICRA Writing Style An ICRA paper is read by a tired Associate Editor and two or three reviewers who between them skim hundreds of robotics PDFs each autumn. The style that survives this is figure-first, task-first, and ruthlessly quantitative. This skill rewrites drafts toward that shape inside the 6-content-page envelope. ## Lead with the task, not the technique The strongest ICRA openings establish, within the first column: what the robot must do, why physics or uncertainty makes that hard, what the paper contributes, and what the headline number is. - Weak: "Deep reinforcement learning has shown impressive results in recent years..." (parent-field throat-clearing; tells a robotics reviewer nothing). - Strong: "Regrasping a tool that slips mid-task takes a torque-controlled arm out of its planned contact state; we present a reflex layer that detects slip onset from joint-torque residuals within 12 ms and recovers 87% of failed grasps that the nominal planner abandons." The second version names the task, the physical difficulty, the mechanism, and two measured numbers — before the reader decides whether to keep reading. ## The six-page budget | Section | Target share | Notes | |
- Lead with the task, not the technique
- The six-page budget
- Figure-first discipline
- Quantify or delete
- Notation across the stack
- Anonymity-safe prose (2026-cycle rule)
- Limitations paragraph that helps you
- Revision pass order
- Output format
What does the icra-writing-style skill do?
Use when drafting or tightening an ICRA manuscript — leading with the robot task and physical constraint, compressing a systems story into 6 IEEE two-column pages, writing figure-first for skimming reviewers, quantifying instead of demo-speak, and keeping notation consistent across kinematics, control, and learning sections.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill icra-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.