Systems Paper Writing

If you're writing for OSDI, SOSP, ASPLOS, NSDI, or EuroSys, this gives you paragraph-by-paragraph blueprints for the standard 12-page systems paper. It breaks down page allocation per section, walks through the five-sentence abstract formula, and maps the introduction's problem-gap-insight-contributions structure. The evaluation section is especially detailed: it enforces the "state every conclusion three times" rule (hypothesis, result, caption) and separates end-to-end comparisons from ablation studies. The guidance comes from Levin & Redell's classic SOSP piece, Irene Zhang's SOSP writing hints, and Gernot Heiser's style guide. Think of it as a structural checklist that keeps you from burying your contributions or skipping design alternatives.

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$ npx -y skills add orchestra-research/ai-research-skills --skill systems-paper-writing --agent claude-code

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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.