A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project is a genuine ACM MM (ACM Multimedia) contribution rather than single-modality work, choosing a thematic area, and routing between ACM MM…

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Install Acmmm Topic Selection

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill acmmm-topic-selection -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills acmmm-topic-selection --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/ACM-MM-Skills/skills/acmmm-topic-selection .claude/skills/acmmm-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
acmmm-topic-selection
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
713 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project is a genuine ACM MM (ACM Multimedia) contribution rather than single-modality work, choosing a thematic area, and routing between ACM MM…

  • Deciding whether a project is a genuine ACM MM (ACM Multimedia) contribution rather than single-modality work
  • SKILL.md covers Fit test, Fit signal table, Picking the thematic area and Vignette: where an…, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Choosing a thematic area

What it does

Acmmm Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a project is a genuine ACM MM (ACM Multimedia) contribution rather than single-modality work, choosing a thematic area, and routing between ACM MM, CVPR/ICCV, ACL/EMNLP, ICMR, MMSys, NeurIPS/ICLR, and the ACM TOMM journal by finding the cross-modal or media-systems core of the contribution.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. | 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Deciding whether a project is a genuine ACM MM (ACM Multimedia) contribution rather than single-modality work
  • Choosing a thematic area
  • Routing between ACM MM
  • The ACM TOMM journal by finding the cross-modal

Example prompts

  • “/acmmm-topic-selection”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Acmmm Topic Selection loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 85 tokens; SKILL.md has 713 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~85
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.4k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 713 words, ~1,413 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/acmmm-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
acmmm-topic-selection
description
Use when deciding whether a project is a genuine ACM MM (ACM Multimedia) contribution rather than single-modality work, choosing a thematic area, and routing between ACM MM, CVPR/ICCV, ACL/EMNLP, ICMR, MMSys, NeurIPS/ICLR, and the ACM TOMM journal by finding the cross-modal or media-systems core of the contribution.

ACM MM Topic Selection

Use this before writing. ACM MM is strongest for work that treats more than one medium at once — vision, audio/speech, language, sensor, interaction — or that advances the systems that transport, index, and render media. The core test is whether the contribution lives at a seam between media.

Fit test

  • Prefer ACM MM when the contribution is cross-modal integration (fusion, alignment, cross-modal retrieval/generation), a media-systems advance (streaming, QoE, transport), or a human-centric media result (emotion, aesthetics, engagement, art).
  • Route to CVPR/ICCV/ECCV if the contribution is a pure computer-vision claim — a better detector, segmenter, or backbone with no essential second modality.
  • Route to ACL/EMNLP if it is a pure language claim, and to NeurIPS/ICLR if it is a general ML method whose multimedia setting is incidental.
  • Route to ICMR for retrieval-centric work that is more IR than multimedia systems, to MMSys for systems/networking-heavy media delivery, and to the ACM TOMM journal when the work needs journal-length treatment.
  • Confirm the argument can be made convincing in a 6–8 page sigconf body.

Fit signal table

Signal in the projectACM MM reading
Two or more modalities that must interact for the result to holdCore fit — the house genre
A reusable media system, framework, or dataset the community adoptsCore fit (Open Source / Dataset tracks)
Subjective quality / emotion / engagement measured with a user studyCore fit (human-centric areas)
A single-modality benchmark win (vision-only, text-only)Better at CVPR/ICCV or ACL
Retrieval accuracy with no systems or cross-modal noveltyICMR or SIGIR
Media delivery / networking with little content modelingMMSys

Picking the thematic area

The main track is split into thematic areas (Multimodal Fusion; Generative and Foundation Models; Search and Recommendation; Emotional and Social Signals; Art and Culture; Systems; Transport and Delivery; Responsible Multimedia; and more). The area is not cosmetic — it selects your reviewers. Name the primary area honestly; if the paper genuinely spans two, pick the one whose reviewers can best judge the contribution, not the application.

Vignette: where an audio-visual model goes

A project fuses lip motion and speech to improve transcription in noise. ACM MM reading: strong fit — the gain exists only because two modalities correct each other, which is the Multimodal-Fusion heartland. Strip the audio and keep a visual speech-recognition benchmark, and the same project reads as a CVPR paper; strip the video and tune a language model on the transcripts, and it becomes an ACL/speech paper. The multimedia contribution is the correction between streams.

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Routing within ACM MM

Deciding it is an ACM MM paper is only half the choice; the track shapes everything after.

The project's center of gravityTrack within ACM MM
A method paper with cross-modal resultsMain track (pick a thematic area)
A bold vision / new direction, evidence lighterBrave New Ideas
A shared task entry with a competitive resultMultimedia Grand Challenge
A reusable, documented software systemOpen Source Software Competition
A new dataset or benchmarkDataset track
A rebuild of prior published resultsReproducibility track

The tracks differ in blinding and in what reviewers reward, so a strong-but-early idea does better in Brave New Ideas than as a thin main-track method paper, and a great system does better in the Open Source competition than buried as a main-track artifact.

The single-modality trap

The most common misroute is a single-modality paper wearing a multimedia costume: audio or text is bolted on but never shown to matter. If a leave-one-modality-out ablation would leave the result essentially unchanged, the paper is not cross-modal, and an ACM MM reviewer will say so. Either make the second modality load-bearing or route the paper to its true home venue before writing — retrofitting multimedia framing onto a vision or NLP result rarely survives review.

Sharpening moves before committing

  • Name the cross-modal or systems primitive: the fusion mechanism, the alignment objective, the delivery scheme, or the perceptual measure. If none exists, the ACM MM framing does not either.
  • Decide the track early — main vs. Brave New Ideas (vision paper), Open Source Software, Dataset, or Reproducibility — because each has a different format and blinding rule.
  • If the payoff is subjective, plan a user study now; ACM MM reviewers expect perceptual claims to be measured, not asserted.
  • Thematic-area lists drift between cycles; scan the current Topics of Interest before final routing.

Output format

text
[Fit] strong ACM MM / possible ACM MM / better elsewhere
[Best venue] ACM MM / CVPR / ICCV / ACL / ICMR / MMSys / NeurIPS / TOMM / other
[Thematic area] <primary area, if ACM MM>
[Cross-modal or systems core] <one sentence>
[Top rejection risk] <single-modality framing / weak fusion / no user study / scope>
[Next action] <method, user study, framing, or venue switch>

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Files

Just SKILL.md in ACM-MM-Skills/skills/acmmm-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Acmmm Topic Selection

What does Acmmm Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project is a genuine ACM MM (ACM Multimedia) contribution rather than single-modality work, choosing a thematic area, and routing between ACM MM…. Acmmm Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a project is a genuine ACM MM (ACM Multimedia) contribution rather than single-modality work, choosing a thematic area, and routing between ACM MM, CVPR/ICCV, ACL/EMNLP, ICMR, MMSys, NeurIPS/ICLR, and the ACM TOMM journal by finding the cross-modal or media-systems core of the contribution.

When should I use Acmmm Topic Selection?

Acmmm Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a project is a genuine ACM MM (ACM Multimedia) contribution rather than single-modality work; choosing a thematic area; routing between ACM MM; the ACM TOMM journal by finding the cross-modal.

How do I install Acmmm Topic Selection in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill acmmm-topic-selection -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (ACM-MM-Skills/skills/acmmm-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/acmmm-topic-selection in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Acmmm Topic Selection in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill acmmm-topic-selection -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (ACM-MM-Skills/skills/acmmm-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/acmmm-topic-selection in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Acmmm Topic Selection in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill acmmm-topic-selection -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/acmmm-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/acmmm-topic-selection, .github/skills/acmmm-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/acmmm-topic-selection in your project.

What does Acmmm Topic Selection need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Acmmm Topic Selection is instructions for the agent only.

Does Acmmm Topic Selection access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Acmmm Topic Selection safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Acmmm Topic Selection use?

Acmmm Topic Selection is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Acmmm Topic Selection use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Acmmm Topic Selection?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,219 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.