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TL;DR

A set of Codex skills that help researchers draft, polish, and pre-review IEEE-style engineering papers before submission.

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    What it does
      IEEE paper writing help
      Pre submission review
      Evidence checking
    Tech stack
      Codex skills
      PowerShell
      Bash
      Python
    Use cases
      Draft abstracts
      Simulate reviewers
      Build evidence matrix
      Check figures
    Audience
      Researchers
      Engineering authors
      Grad students

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Why would anyone build with this?

REASON 1

Turn rough notes or a Chinese draft into an IEEE-style abstract and introduction.

REASON 2

Run a simulated pre-submission review to find novelty and validity risks before real reviewers do.

REASON 3

Build a claim-evidence matrix to check which experiments a paper still needs.

REASON 4

Check whether figures and tables stay readable in a two-column IEEE layout.

What's in the stack?

Codex skillsPowerShellBashPythonLaTeX/IEEEtran

How it stacks up

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Setup difficultyeasymoderatemoderate
Complexity2/53/5
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How do you spin it up?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min
Use freely for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

Wtf does this do

ieee-skills is a set of nine Codex skills built for people writing, polishing, and reviewing IEEE-style engineering papers, covering conferences, journals, Transactions, and Letters. It is not an official IEEE project. Instead it packages the recurring demands of IEEE review, such as object, operating condition, engineering hazard, method rationale, and experimental evidence, into reusable workflows a writer can call on. The skills split into three stages. The first stage covers drafting and reviewer simulation: ieee-writing helps build titles, abstracts, introductions, related work, methods, and conclusions, ieee-polishing rewrites text into IEEE-style English, including converting from Chinese, ieee-reviewer simulates an IEEE reviewer checking scope, novelty, validity, data, clarity, and compliance. The second stage strengthens evidence: ieee-experiment builds a claim-evidence matrix and flags missing experiments, baselines, or robustness checks, ieee-latex handles IEEEtran compilation, floats, equations, tables, and BibTeX problems, ieee-response drafts point-by-point responses and cover letters for revisions. The third stage covers presentation: ieee-figure-table audits whether charts and captions hold up in a two-column layout, ieee-citation checks whether references actually support the related work claims, and ieee-paper-reader extracts contributions, methods, and limitations from published IEEE papers. The repo ships three zero-dependency SVG example figures generated by a Python script, demonstrating a robustness curve, an accuracy-latency plot, and an ablation results table, aimed at fields like AI, communications, control, signal processing, power electronics, embedded systems, and robotics. Installation is a git clone followed by a PowerShell script on Windows or a bash script on macOS, Linux, or Git Bash, which copies the skills into a Codex skills folder (defaulting to a hidden folder in the user's home directory, with an option to choose another destination). Each skill lives in its own folder under skills/, alongside a shared references folder that the documentation says should not be skipped. The project is MIT licensed and points readers to official IEEE author resources for anything the templates leave uncertain.

Yoink these prompts

Prompt 1
Use $ieee-writing to turn these notes into an IEEE-style abstract with object, method, condition, and evidence.
Prompt 2
Use $ieee-reviewer to give me a harsh pre-submission review and list rejection risks by severity.
Prompt 3
Use $ieee-experiment to build a claim-evidence matrix and tell me which experiments are missing.
Prompt 4
Use $ieee-figure-table to check whether these plots remain readable in a two-column IEEE layout.
Prompt 5
Use $ieee-response to draft a point-by-point response separating evidence-added, text-only-fix, and limitation cases.

Frequently asked questions

wtf is ieee-skills?

A set of Codex skills that help researchers draft, polish, and pre-review IEEE-style engineering papers before submission.

What language is ieee-skills written in?

Mainly PowerShell. The stack also includes Codex skills, PowerShell, Bash.

What license does ieee-skills use?

Use freely for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

How hard is ieee-skills to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is ieee-skills for?

Mainly researcher.

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