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| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00066 | $0.03339 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00033 | $0.01670 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00013 | $0.00668 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00334 |
Grade A, and why
systems-paper-writing scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.
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Nothing flagged
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This is a copy
100% identical to systems-paper-writing — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 271 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Systems Paper Writing: Paragraph-Level Structural Blueprint
Fine-grained structural guidance for writing 10–12 page systems papers targeting top systems venues: OSDI, SOSP, ASPLOS, NSDI, and EuroSys. This skill provides page allocation per section, paragraph-level blueprints, and writing patterns distilled from authoritative guides and best-paper analysis.
When to Use This Skill
| Scenario | Use This Skill | Use ml-paper-writing Instead |
|---|---|---|
| Structuring a 12-page OSDI/SOSP paper | ✅ | |
| Page budget and paragraph planning | ✅ | |
| Systems-specific evaluation structure | ✅ | |
| General ML paper writing philosophy | ✅ | |
| Citation verification workflow | ✅ | |
| LaTeX templates and formatting | ✅ | |
| NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR paper structure | ✅ |
Boundary: ml-paper-writing provides general writing philosophy, multi-venue templates, and citation verification. This skill focuses exclusively on paragraph-level structural blueprints for systems conferences.
Authoritative Sources
This blueprint synthesizes guidance from established systems researchers:
- Levin & Redell — "How (and How Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper" (SOSP'83 PC Chairs, USENIX/ACM SIGOPS)
- Irene Zhang (MSR/UW) — "Hints on how to write an SOSP paper" (SOSP/OSDI PC)
- Gernot Heiser (UNSW, seL4) — Style Guide + Paper Writing Talk
- Timothy Roscoe (ETH Zürich) — "Writing reviews for systems conferences"
- Mike Dahlin (UT Austin/Google) — "Giving a Conference Talk"
- Yi Ding — "How to write good systems papers?"
- hzwer & DingXiaoH — WritingAIPaper (GitHub 1.3k+ stars)
Full citations and URLs: see references/section-blueprints.md.
12-Page Systems Paper Blueprint
Overview: Page Allocation
| Section | Pages | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Abstract | ~0.25 | 150–250 words, 5-sentence structure |
| S1 Introduction | 1.5–2 | Problem → Gap → Insight → Contributions |
| S2 Background & Motivation | 1–1.5 | Terms + Production observations |
| S3 Design | 3–4 | Architecture + Module details + Alternatives |
| S4 Implementation | 0.5–1 | Prototype details, LOC, key engineering |
| S5 Evaluation | 3–4 | Setup + End-to-end + Microbenchmarks + Scalability |
| S6 Related Work | 1 | Grouped by methodology, explicit comparison |
| S7 Conclusion | 0.5 | 3-sentence summary |
| Total | ~12 | Submission: 12 pages strict (USENIX) / 11 pages (ACM ASPLOS). Camera-ready: up to 14 pages (USENIX) / 13 pages (ACM). Ranges above span submission through camera-ready. Target 12 pages for initial submission. References unlimited. |
What ships with it
15 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
- references/checklist.md 12 KB
- references/reviewer-guidelines.md 4.5 KB
- references/section-blueprints.md 16 KB
- references/systems-conferences.md 10 KB
- references/writing-patterns.md 9.2 KB
- templates/asplos2027/main.tex 15 KB
- templates/asplos2027/references.bib 5.1 KB
- templates/nsdi2027/main.tex 15 KB
- templates/nsdi2027/references.bib 5.7 KB
- templates/nsdi2027/usenix-2020-09.sty 2.2 KB
- templates/osdi2026/main.tex 14 KB
- templates/osdi2026/references.bib 5.6 KB
- templates/osdi2026/usenix-2020-09.sty 2.2 KB
- templates/sosp2026/main.tex 17 KB
- templates/sosp2026/references.bib 5.3 KB
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 12d ago First seen · 271 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A ee31b50b2519
systems-paper-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository TTAWDTT/elegant-researcher-skill (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 3,339 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to systems-paper-writing, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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