ICSE prose is judged by empiricists. The reviewer pool's shared training — controlled experiments, mining studies, qualitative methods — produces a house reading style: they locate the research questions, check that the design answers them, and read the threats-to-validity section as a candor test. Write for that reading order, not for a general CS audience.
Icse Writing Style is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the security-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/icse-writing-style/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when writing or revising an ICSE research-track paper, covering empirical-SE paper anatomy, research questions as the load-bearing structure, the threats-to-validity section the community expects, practitioner-grounded motivation, calibrated claims, and fitting a complete study into ten IEEE pages.
The Icse Writing Style Claude Code skill is built for security engineers, penetration testers, DevSecOps practitioners, and development teams hardening codebases and infrastructure. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 174,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/icse-writing-style curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/icse-writing-style/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/icse-writing-style/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/icse-writing-style/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/icse-writing-style/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\icse-writing-style\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/icse-writing-style/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Icse Writing Style is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Security category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{icse-writing-style-2026,
author = {brycewang-stanford},
title = {Icse Writing Style [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/icse-writing-style/}
}Grade A · scanned 2026-08-02 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
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