imc-writing-style
Use when drafting or revising the prose of an ACM IMC measurement paper, covering the first-page measurement finding, making vantage points and methodology auditable, longitudinal framing for a moving Internet, arguing limitations rather than reciting them, writing the Ethics section early, and acmart page-budget discipline.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill imc-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.
# IMC Writing Style Use this while drafting the body. IMC reviewers are measurement experts who read for **what you learned about the real Internet and whether the data support it**. The organizing principle is that the paper is a *measurement* contribution: the finding leads, the vantage points and method are auditable, and the limitations and ethics are visible from the start — not appended. ## The first-page arc Put the measurement finding on the first page, in this shape: 1. **A question about the real Internet** a practitioner or researcher recognizes ("how reachable / how deployed / how secure / how does X behave in the wild?"). 2. **Why current knowledge is inadequate** — prior work measured too few vantage points, a single snapshot, a testbed instead of deployment, or a biased input. 3. **The measurement and its vantage points** — what you measured, from where, over what period. 4. **What the data show** — the headline finding, stated as a measured result with uncertainty. 5. **What it means** — for operators, protocol designers, or the community, plus what you release. Do **not** lead with a system you built or a tool's speed. If the first page is a systems win, the paper
- The first-page arc
- Make vantage points and method auditable
- Longitudinal and confound awareness
- Limitations that argue, not recite
- Write the Ethics section early
- Page-budget discipline (acmart)
- Common prose failures at IMC
- Output format
What does the imc-writing-style skill do?
Use when drafting or revising the prose of an ACM IMC measurement paper, covering the first-page measurement finding, making vantage points and methodology auditable, longitudinal framing for a moving Internet, arguing limitations rather than reciting them, writing the Ethics section early, and acmart page-budget discipline.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill imc-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.