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ZimoLiao/scholaraio
A skill your agent uses when the user asks about research themes, topic distribution, BERTopic clustering, topic overview, topic papers, topic merges, or HTML topic visualizations.
A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a software-engineering project belongs at ASE (IEEE/ACM Automated Software Engineering) or should be routed to ICSE, ESEC/FSE, ISSTA, a PL venue, or an…
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ase-topic-selection -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ase-topic-selection --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/ASE-Skills/skills/ase-topic-selection .claude/skills/ase-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "ase-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ASE-Skills/skills/ase-topic-selection into .claude/skills/ase-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ase-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ASE-Skills/skills/ase-topic-selectionType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ase-topic-selection -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ase-topic-selection --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/ASE-Skills/skills/ase-topic-selection .agents/skills/ase-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "ase-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ASE-Skills/skills/ase-topic-selection into .agents/skills/ase-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ase-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ase-topic-selection -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ase-topic-selection --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/ASE-Skills/skills/ase-topic-selection .cursor/skills/ase-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "ase-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ASE-Skills/skills/ase-topic-selection into .cursor/skills/ase-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ase-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git --path ASE-Skills/skills/ase-topic-selection--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ase-topic-selection -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ase-topic-selection --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/ASE-Skills/skills/ase-topic-selection .gemini/skills/ase-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "ase-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ASE-Skills/skills/ase-topic-selection into .gemini/skills/ase-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ase-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ase-topic-selectionInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ase-topic-selection -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/ASE-Skills/skills/ase-topic-selection .github/skills/ase-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "ase-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ASE-Skills/skills/ase-topic-selection into .github/skills/ase-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ase-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ase-topic-selection -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ase-topic-selection --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/ASE-Skills/skills/ase-topic-selection .opencode/skills/ase-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "ase-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ASE-Skills/skills/ase-topic-selection into .opencode/skills/ase-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ase-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
ase-topic-selectionA skill your agent uses when deciding whether a software-engineering project belongs at ASE (IEEE/ACM Automated Software Engineering) or should be routed to ICSE, ESEC/FSE, ISSTA, a PL venue, or an…
Ase Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a software-engineering project belongs at ASE (IEEE/ACM Automated Software Engineering) or should be routed to ICSE, ESEC/FSE, ISSTA, a PL venue, or an SE journal, and when distinguishing ASE by its automation-centric contribution shape, its tool/technique emphasis, and its AI4SE/SE4AI scope.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k 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.
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
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.
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.
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Ase Topic Selection loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 85 tokens; SKILL.md has 695 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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.
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.
The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 695 words, ~1,573 tokens.
.claude/skills/ase-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).Decide the venue before drafting. ASE — the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering — is the home for research that automates software-engineering tasks: the analysis, design, implementation, testing, comprehension, and maintenance of software, and increasingly the two-way street of AI for SE and SE for AI. Its reviewers read for a technique or tool that automates something, evaluated on real subjects. A paper whose real center is a broad empirical observation, a testing-theory result, or a pure ML advance is respected and then rejected as off-center.
The decisive ASE question is not "is this SE?" but "is the contribution an automation — a technique or tool that does an SE task a human or a weaker tool did before?" If the beating heart of the paper is a new automated mechanism (an analysis, a generator, a synthesizer, a repair technique, a learned model applied to an SE task), ASE is a natural home. If the heart is a finding, a theory, or a measurement study, a sibling fits better — even when the topic overlaps.
| Signal in your project | Better home | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Core is a technique/tool that automates an SE task, evaluated on real systems | ASE | Automated software engineering is its named center; dual IEEE/ACM, IEEE-Xplore+ACM-DL proceedings |
| Broad empirical or foundational SE contribution; the lesson is a finding, not a tool | ESEC/FSE | The general-SE flagship; PACMSE journal model, empirical breadth |
| Equally broad SE technique, but ICSE's cycle/stage fits and you want its reach | ICSE | The other general-SE flagship; different calendar and (IEEE-side) format |
| Depth in testing theory, program analysis foundations, or fault detection | ISSTA | Deeper testing/analysis expertise, round-based reviewing |
| The automated mechanism is a program-language/compiler advance | PLDI / OOPSLA / POPL | PL venues own the language-mechanism contribution |
| The contribution is a new model/architecture; the SE task is a benchmark | an ML venue | Model-as-contribution routes out of SE |
| Study too long or too nuanced for the page budget | TSE / TOSEM / EMSE | Journals with no page ceiling; some feed ASE's Journal-First track |
Two quick tests sharpen a borderline verdict:
[Scope] scan the last two ASE programs (dblp conf/kbse, conf.researchr.org) for your subarea
-> 3+ recent papers = a reviewer pool exists; 0 = opening or mismatch
[Shape] is your contribution a runnable automation, or a finding/theory? -> automation => ASE
[Citations] majority SE-automation venues (ASE/ICSE/FSE/ISSTA)? -> majority non-SE => naturalize first
[Calendar] compare the next ASE deadline with ICSE/FSE/ISSTA/journal dates -> nearest honest fit[Audience] who runs your automation if the claim holds? -> SE developers/testers/maintainers/tool-builders?
[Claim type] technique+tool / automated-technique+evaluation / learning-based automation / AI4SE-SE4AI
[Automation test] is a runnable mechanism the contribution? -> yes => ASE; no => FSE/ISSTA/PL/ML
[Track check] full technique -> Research; bold early idea -> NIER; usable tool -> Tools & Datasets
[Verdict] ASE research track / co-located track / sibling venue / journal, with a one-line reasonRun this before the writing skills; a wrong venue decision wastes every later step. When the
verdict is ASE, continue with ase-workflow for the calendar and ase-writing-style for the paper
shape.
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Just SKILL.md in ASE-Skills/skills/ase-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
Ase Topic Selection next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ase Topic Selection this skillbrycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills | 1.2k | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| TopicsZimoLiao/scholaraio | 576 | — | ~294 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Topic Modelingbrycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills | 4.5k | — | ~3.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Bestblogs Topicginobefun/BestBlogs | 4k | — | ~670 | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Zsxq Topicitwanger/toBeBetterJavaer | 18k | — | ~564 | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Aselamm-mit/scienceclaw | 244 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | LGPL-3.0 |
ZimoLiao/scholaraio
A skill your agent uses when the user asks about research themes, topic distribution, BERTopic clustering, topic overview, topic papers, topic merges, or HTML topic visualizations.
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills
Structural topic modeling: STM spec, topic count, coherence-exclusivity.
ginobefun/BestBlogs
A skill your agent uses when the user asks about a specific topic, subject area, or wants to explore curated topic pages on BestBlogs.
itwanger/toBeBetterJavaer
知识星球主题管理:搜索主题、查看主题详情、发布帖子、编辑主题、发表评论、回复某条评论(楼中楼)、回答提问、删除主题;通过 api call 查看主题评论列表、设置精华、设置标签、查看自己提的问题与已回答记录。当用户需要查找内容、发帖、编辑主题、评论、回复评论、回答问题、删除主题、查看主题评论、查看自己的提问记录、或管理主题精华和标签时使用。
lamm-mit/scienceclaw
Atomic Simulation Environment (ASE) for computational materials science.
aipoch/medical-research-skills
Generate ~5 actionable research topic recommendations by querying PubMed E-utilities; use when a user provides a research direction/constraints and needs evidence-backed topic ideas quickly.
brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills
A skill your agent uses when running and reporting the analysis for an Annals of the American Association of Geographers manuscript — spatial statistics and modeling, remote-sensing accuracy, or…
brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills
A skill your agent uses when positioning an Annals of the American Association of Geographers manuscript in the literature — engaging geographic scholarship across the relevant area and the…
brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills
A skill your agent uses when responding to an Annals of the American Association of Geographers decision letter (major/minor revision) — building a point-by-point response to the subject editor and…
brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills
A skill your agent uses when defending the research design of an Annals of the American Association of Geographers manuscript — spatial/quantitative analysis and GIScience, remote-sensing and…
brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills
A skill your agent uses when you need to understand how the Annals of the American Association of Geographers evaluates a manuscript — double-anonymous review routed through a subject editor by…
brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills
A skill your agent uses when running the final pre-submission preflight for the Annals of the American Association of Geographers via ScholarOne Manuscripts — area/article-type selection…
A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a software-engineering project belongs at ASE (IEEE/ACM Automated Software Engineering) or should be routed to ICSE, ESEC/FSE, ISSTA, a PL venue, or an…. Ase Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a software-engineering project belongs at ASE (IEEE/ACM Automated Software Engineering) or should be routed to ICSE, ESEC/FSE, ISSTA, a PL venue, or an SE journal, and when distinguishing ASE by its automation-centric contribution shape, its tool/technique emphasis, and its AI4SE/SE4AI scope.
Ase Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a software-engineering project belongs at ASE (IEEE/ACM Automated Software Engineering); should be routed to ICSE; when distinguishing ASE by its automation-centric contribution shape; its tool/technique emphasis.
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ase-topic-selection -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (ASE-Skills/skills/ase-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/ase-topic-selection in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ase-topic-selection -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (ASE-Skills/skills/ase-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/ase-topic-selection in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
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 ase-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/ase-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/ase-topic-selection, .github/skills/ase-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/ase-topic-selection in your project.
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Ase Topic Selection is instructions for the agent only.
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.
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.
Ase 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.
About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Ase Topic Selection: Topics (ZimoLiao/scholaraio, 576 stars), Topic Modeling (brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, 4.5k stars), Bestblogs Topic (ginobefun/BestBlogs, 4k stars) and Zsxq Topic (itwanger/toBeBetterJavaer, 18k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
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.