Use this when revising the main paper. TACAS papers are LNCS articles read by verification experts, so they need the contribution stated precisely on the first page and claims a reviewer can check — a soundness argument for a research paper, a working tool with reproducible numbers for a tool paper. The failure this skill prevents is a paper that gestures at "efficiency" and "novelty" without a crisp algorithmic claim or an honest evaluation.
Tacas Writing Style is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the science-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/tacas-writing-style/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when revising a TACAS (ETAPS) paper for a clear construction-or-analysis contribution on the first page, a stated soundness/completeness claim, honest benchmark evidence, category-appropriate structure (research vs tool vs case-study vs tool-demo), disciplined use of the 16-page (or 6-page) LNCS budget, and correct handling of double-blind wording for research papers.
The Tacas Writing Style Claude Code skill is built for researchers, data scientists, academics, and analysts working with complex data and scientific literature. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 196,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/tacas-writing-style curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/tacas-writing-style/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/tacas-writing-style/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/tacas-writing-style/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/tacas-writing-style/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\tacas-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/tacas-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. Tacas Writing Style is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Science & Research 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{tacas-writing-style-2026,
author = {brycewang-stanford},
title = {Tacas Writing Style [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/tacas-writing-style/}
}Grade A · scanned 2026-09-28 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
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