A skill your agent uses when reasoning about how an ATC (ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference, formerly USENIX ATC) submission is evaluated — the two-round extended-abstract model, the round-one…

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Install Atc Review Process

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill atc-review-process -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills atc-review-process --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/ATC-Skills/skills/atc-review-process .claude/skills/atc-review-process && 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
atc-review-process
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
711 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when reasoning about how an ATC (ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference, formerly USENIX ATC) submission is evaluated — the two-round extended-abstract model, the round-one…

  • Reasoning about how an ATC (ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference
  • SKILL.md covers Process model, Reading a decision against the…, How ATC differs from its… and Who reads you, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Formerly USENIX ATC) submission is evaluated — the two-round extended-abstract model

What it does

Atc Review Process is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when reasoning about how an ATC (ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference, formerly USENIX ATC) submission is evaluated — the two-round extended-abstract model, the round-one gate by two reviewers, the round-two read by 3-4 reviewers, double-blind reviewing, rebuttal, conditional acceptance with shepherding, and how ATC differs from OSDI/SOSP/NSDI.

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.

When your agent uses it

  • Reasoning about how an ATC (ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference
  • Formerly USENIX ATC) submission is evaluated — the two-round extended-abstract model
  • The round-one gate by two reviewers
  • The round-two read by 3-4 reviewers

Example prompts

  • “/atc-review-process”

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

Atc Review Process loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 93 tokens; SKILL.md has 711 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~93
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k

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

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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). 711 words, ~1,575 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/atc-review-process/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
atc-review-process
description
Use when reasoning about how an ATC (ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference, formerly USENIX ATC) submission is evaluated — the two-round extended-abstract model, the round-one gate by two reviewers, the round-two read by 3-4 reviewers, double-blind reviewing, rebuttal, conditional acceptance with shepherding, and how ATC differs from OSDI/SOSP/NSDI.

ATC Review Process

Model the pipeline before interpreting any single review. ATC's process is unusual among systems venues in 2026 because it runs in two rounds gated by a two-page extended abstract, and because acceptance is conditional on a shepherd. The most consequential mental shift for authors arriving from a single-round conference is that round one can end your submission before anyone reads the full paper — the extended abstract is not a formality.

Process model

  • Submission and review run on HotCRP (atc26.hotcrp.com) with double-blind anonymity: identities are mutually hidden through reviewing.
  • Round one: each two-page extended abstract is read by two experienced reviewers with a broad systems perspective; abstracts below the bar are rejected early. The extended abstract is review-only and not published.
  • Round two: papers that advance are read in full by 3-4 reviewers, who weigh the significance and usefulness of the systems contribution, the soundness of the design, the honesty and completeness of the measurements, reproducibility, and clarity.
  • Rebuttal / description of changes: authors get a short (about one page) window to correct factual misreadings and, where relevant, summarize revisions relative to a prior submission.
  • Decision + shepherding: selected papers are conditionally accepted; final acceptance requires satisfying a shepherd (a PC member) on required revisions. Accepted papers publish in the ACM DL under Open Access.

Reading a decision against the model

OutcomeWhat it meansAuthor move
Early reject (round one)The abstract did not convey a problem, contribution, and result that clear the barReframe the abstract; the paper may be fine but the pitch failed — see atc-writing-style
Full review, then rejectA design or evidence gap survived the full readFix the substance, not the framing; consider a sibling venue
Conditional acceptContribution holds; specific revisions requiredTreat the shepherd's list as binding; make or explicitly justify each item
Reject with encouragementStructural but repairable over a cycleRebuild the evidence and resubmit next cycle or reroute

The strategic reading: because round one judges the abstract, the highest-leverage editing on the whole paper is often the two pages a round-one reviewer sees. Write the submission so its problem and result are legible before the details.

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How ATC differs from its siblings

  • vs. OSDI / SOSP: those flagships are more selective and lean toward larger, novel systems; ATC takes a broader, more practical slice and welcomes solid, useful, well-measured work a flagship might call incremental. A paper bounced from OSDI on "not novel enough" can be a strong ATC paper if the engineering and measurement are real. Neither shares ATC's two-round extended-abstract gate.
  • vs. NSDI: NSDI centers networked systems and runs its own multi-deadline model; ATC's scope is all of systems and its 2026 calendar is a single June deadline. Route a networked-systems design there if the network is the contribution.
  • vs. EuroSys: EuroSys is the other broad, SIGOPS-affiliated systems conference; the choice is often calendar and community pull. Under SIGOPS, ATC and EuroSys now sit in the same family, so check both deadlines.
  • vs. pre-2026 USENIX ATC: the old ATC ran a single-round review on a winter deadline with USENIX-funded open access and no APC. The 2026 SIGOPS edition changed the round structure, the calendar, and the cost model at once — do not carry the old process forward.

Who reads you

Round one: two broad-perspective systems reviewers judging whether the idea and result are worth a full read. Round two: 3-4 reviewers closer to your subarea who open the artifact, check whether the measurements are end-to-end and honest about cost, and probe whether the baselines are fair. Vague design descriptions and average-only results get caught, not skimmed.

Where author leverage actually exists

text
[Before submission]  topic tags -> reviewer pool; a self-standing abstract -> surviving round one
[Round-one gate]     none after upload — the abstract is your only round-one argument
[Rebuttal]           factual corrections, a missing number a reviewer asked for, misread-claim fixes
[Conditional accept] the shepherd round: make every required change or justify declining it, evidenced
[After reject]       no appeal; reroute to a sibling systems venue or strengthen and resubmit

A rebuttal moves borderline papers when it corrects a factual misreading or supplies a measurement a reviewer said was missing; it does not move papers by arguing taste. In the shepherd round, a silently skipped required change is what turns a conditional accept into trouble.

Misreadings to avoid

  • Treating the extended abstract as boilerplate — it is the round-one decision surface.
  • Treating conditional acceptance as unconditional — the shepherd can hold the paper until the required revisions land.
  • Assuming OSDI-style novelty is required — ATC rewards solid, useful, measured systems work.
  • Projecting the old USENIX ATC process — the round structure, calendar, and cost model changed in the SIGOPS transition.

Output format

text
[Process stage] pre-submission / round one / round two / rebuttal / conditional accept / final
[Decision driver] the criterion carrying the outcome (significance | soundness | evidence | clarity | reproducibility)
[Round-one readiness] does the extended abstract stand alone and clear the bar? yes/no
[Leverage plan] the next-stage action that can actually change the outcome
[Forbidden moves] identity leak / unsupported new claims / skipping a shepherd-required change

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Files

Just SKILL.md in ATC-Skills/skills/atc-review-process of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Atc Review Process

What does Atc Review Process do?

A skill your agent uses when reasoning about how an ATC (ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference, formerly USENIX ATC) submission is evaluated — the two-round extended-abstract model, the round-one…. Atc Review Process is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when reasoning about how an ATC (ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference, formerly USENIX ATC) submission is evaluated — the two-round extended-abstract model, the round-one gate by two reviewers, the round-two read by 3-4 reviewers, double-blind reviewing, rebuttal, conditional acceptance with shepherding, and how ATC differs from OSDI/SOSP/NSDI.

When should I use Atc Review Process?

Atc Review Process fits situations like: reasoning about how an ATC (ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference; formerly USENIX ATC) submission is evaluated — the two-round extended-abstract model; the round-one gate by two reviewers; the round-two read by 3-4 reviewers.

How do I install Atc Review Process in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Atc Review Process in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill atc-review-process -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (ATC-Skills/skills/atc-review-process in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/atc-review-process in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Atc Review Process 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 atc-review-process -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/atc-review-process, .gemini/skills/atc-review-process, .github/skills/atc-review-process and .opencode/skills/atc-review-process in your project.

What does Atc Review Process need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Atc Review Process is instructions for the agent only.

Does Atc Review Process 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 Atc Review Process 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 Atc Review Process use?

Atc Review Process 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 Atc Review Process use?

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.

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Who maintains Atc Review Process?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,231 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.