ieeesp-writing-style
Use when writing or revising an IEEE S&P (Oakland) paper's prose, including the threat-model-first structure, calibrating security claims to evaluated boundaries, the first-round survival test for introductions, SoK voice, and fitting the argument into 13 compsoc pages.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ieeesp-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.
# IEEE S&P Writing Style Use this for drafting and revision passes. The controlling constraint is S&P's round structure: first-round reviewers cut papers **without a rebuttal** (`ieeesp-review-process`), so the paper's first two pages must survive a professional skeptic reading alone, unaided, and slightly tired. ## The first-round survival test By the end of page 2, a reviewer must be able to answer: 1. **Who is the adversary?** Capabilities, access, and what winning means. 2. **What is the claim?** One sentence, bounded: "we show an attacker with <access> can <effect> on <target class>, demonstrated on <n> systems." 3. **What is the evidence?** The map: which section demonstrates, which measures, which proves. 4. **Why now / why hard?** What made this un-done until this paper. 5. **Was it done responsibly?** One early signal — disclosure initiated, IRB obtained — expanded later. A draft that spends page 1 on the importance of cybersecurity fails this test; Oakland reviewers assume importance and grade specificity. ## Threat model as a load-bearing section The threat model is not scene-setting — every later claim is evaluated against it: - State capabilities **and** non-capabiliti
- The first-round survival test
- Threat model as a load-bearing section
- Claim calibration table
- SoK voice is a different register
- Compression for 13 compsoc pages
- House conventions worth matching
- Output format
What does the ieeesp-writing-style skill do?
Use when writing or revising an IEEE S&P (Oakland) paper's prose, including the threat-model-first structure, calibrating security claims to evaluated boundaries, the first-round survival test for introductions, SoK voice, and fitting the argument into 13 compsoc pages.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ieeesp-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.