mobicom-writing-style
Use when drafting or revising a MobiCom paper for house style — putting the wireless/mobile mechanism and its operating regime on the first page, pairing every claim with over-the-air measurement, replacing superlatives with percentiles and intervals, and fitting the argument into the double-column 12-page body.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill mobicom-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.
# MobiCom Writing Style A MobiCom paper reads as a **mechanism justified by measurement**. The first page states a wireless or mobile-networking problem, the mechanism that addresses it, and the measured evidence — before any implementation detail. The double-column 12-page body is for the core argument; derivations, protocols, and extra results go to references and appendices. ## The first-page arc Put this in the abstract and first page, in order: 1. **The wireless/mobile pain** — the concrete condition that breaks existing designs (a fade under mobility, interference, a spectrum constraint, an energy limit). 2. **Why existing mechanisms fall short** — each prior approach gets a *specific, named* failure tied to the condition, not "prior work is limited." 3. **The mechanism** — what is new, stated as a networking/PHY-MAC/routing/sensing mechanism, with its **operating regime** named (distance, mobility, channel, power). 4. **The measured evidence** — the headline result with its condition and its uncertainty, not a bare "up to N×." 5. **Why it matters for mobile networking** — the community-level payoff. See [`../../resources/worked-examples/01-introduction.md`](../../resources/w
- The first-page arc
- Name the operating regime
- Claims are paired with evidence
- Percentiles, not superlatives
- Fitting the double-column 12 pages
- Prose discipline
- Revision checklist
- Output format
What does the mobicom-writing-style skill do?
Use when drafting or revising a MobiCom paper for house style — putting the wireless/mobile mechanism and its operating regime on the first page, pairing every claim with over-the-air measurement, replacing superlatives with percentiles and intervals, and fitting the argument into the double-column 12-page body.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill mobicom-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.