ijcai-writing-style — independently scanned and version-tracked by SaferSkills.
SaferSkills independently audited ijcai-writing-style (Agent Skill) and scored it 100/100 (green). The audit ran 55 deterministic rules across Security, Supply Chain, Maintenance, Transparency, and Community; it found 0 high-severity and 0 lower-severity findings. The full rule-by-rule trace and per-finding evidence are below. Free, methodology-open.
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Every scanned point with the score it earned and what moved between them.
First recorded scan — no prior version to compare against.
The primary manifest — the file an agent reads to learn what this artifact does.
Use this when revising the main paper. IJCAI rewards clear, significant, original AI work that a broad program committee can evaluate quickly.
matters beyond a narrow benchmark.
main argument.
algorithm, baselines, ablations, and limitations.
acknowledgements, contribution statements, and identity-revealing phrasing from the review version.
safety, discrimination, privacy, consent, copyright, or societal harm is plausible.
LLM-written manuscript text, fake citations, or unverified claims can trigger rejection.
IJCAI's PC mixes symbolic AI, search, planning, KR, constraint reasoning, multi-agent, game theory, ML, NLP, and vision. Write so a reviewer outside your niche reaches the contribution fast, because the out-of-area reviewer often drives summary-reject risk.
| Reader risk | Symptom in the draft | Page-discipline fix |
|---|---|---|
| Out-of-area reviewer lost early | Contribution buried after a long formal preamble | State problem, gap, and claim on page one |
| Notation overload | New symbols before motivation | Introduce notation only when the claim needs it |
| Niche jargon | Subfield acronyms undefined | Define on first use; assume a broad AI reader |
| Body overflow | Method spills toward the reference pages | Move proofs and grids to the appendix, keep claims in the body |
A knowledge-representation paper opens with three paragraphs of description-logic preliminaries before naming its contribution. A planning or learning reviewer may summary-reject for unclear significance. The fix: open with the reasoning task, why current encodings fall short, and the new tractable fragment, then defer the heavy formalism. The technical depth stays; only the ordering changes so a broad IJCAI reader sees the payoff within two reads.
significance; this is the single highest-leverage IJCAI edit.
third person rather than reproducing it.
not just on the chosen suite.
[Writing diagnosis] clear / overloaded / underspecified / policy-risky
[First-page fix] <new framing>
[Compression cuts] <what to move or delete>
[Anonymity edits] <phrases to rewrite>
[Ethics/reproducibility edits] <specific additions>~30 seconds. Free. No account. Every finding cites a rule and a line of evidence.