jru-writing-style
Use when the prose of a Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (JRU) manuscript must convey a decision model and its measurement with precision. Sharpens abstract, intro, and exposition for a risk/uncertainty audience; it does not invent evidence or citations.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jru-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.
# Writing Style (jru-writing-style) ## When to trigger - The abstract says "we study risk preferences" without naming the primitive, the method, or the headline number - The introduction motivates with a policy anecdote but never states the decision-theoretic claim - Notation drifts: the same symbol means utility in one section and value in another, or w(p) is never formally introduced - The paper reads as either pure theory or pure empirics when JRU readers expect the bridge between them ## The JRU voice JRU prose is **precise about the decision model and honest about measurement**. The reader is a risk-and-uncertainty specialist who wants, fast: which primitive the paper moves, how it was elicited or estimated, and how big and how precise the effect is. The house register is technical but not ornamental — the model earns its symbols, and every claim is calibrated to what the identification supports. ### Abstract (treat each sentence as load-bearing) 1. The primitive and the question ("How does ambiguity attitude shape insurance takeup?"). 2. The method in a phrase (incentive-compatible elicitation; hedonic-wage estimation; an axiomatization). 3. The headline result as a *number w
- When to trigger
- The JRU voice
- Abstract (treat each sentence as load-bearing)
- Introduction
- Exposition
- Calibrating claims to the evidence
- Section-by-section register
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Terminology a JRU reader expects you to use precisely
- Output format
What does the jru-writing-style skill do?
Use when the prose of a Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (JRU) manuscript must convey a decision model and its measurement with precision. Sharpens abstract, intro, and exposition for a risk/uncertainty audience; it does not invent evidence or citations.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jru-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.