uai-writing-style
Use when revising a UAI manuscript for probabilistic-inference readers, enforcing precise notation for distributions, graphs, and interventions, explicit assumption and identifiability statements, an 8-page main part that carries the whole argument while proofs sit in the appendix, and claims calibrated to what the theory and experiments show.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill uai-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.
# UAI Writing Style Use this during revision. The UAI readership lives on probabilistic reasoning, graphical models, causality, and Bayesian methods, and the posted review criteria end with "clarity of writing" as a first-class axis. At this venue clarity is mostly a formal property: whether every symbol, assumption, and probability statement means exactly one thing. ## Notation is the first review Probabilistic papers die by notation drift more than by grammar. Enforce a single notational regime before polishing sentences: - One symbol per object: if `p` is a density, do not let it moonlight as a probability mass function and a marginal without saying so. - Distinguish conditioning from intervention typographically everywhere: `p(y | x)` versus `p(y | do(x))`; a causality paper that blurs this once loses its causal readers. - Declare graph notation on first use — nodes, parents `pa(V)`, whether graphs are DAGs, MAGs, or CPDAGs — and never switch mid-paper. - Fix measure-theoretic hygiene where it matters (densities exist with respect to what?), and say nothing about it where it does not; ostentatious rigor on trivialities reads as inexperience. ```latex % Preamble discipline: defi
- Notation is the first review
- Assumptions carry the argument
- The 8-page main part as an argument spine
- Calibrated prose
- First-page arc, checkable
- Sentence-level habits for this audience
- Titles that route correctly
- Output format
What does the uai-writing-style skill do?
Use when revising a UAI manuscript for probabilistic-inference readers, enforcing precise notation for distributions, graphs, and interventions, explicit assumption and identifiability statements, an 8-page main part that carries the whole argument while proofs sit in the appendix, and claims calibrated to what the theory and experiments show.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill uai-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.