A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a computer-systems project belongs at ATC (ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference, formerly USENIX ATC) or should be routed to OSDI, SOSP, NSDI…

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Install Atc Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills atc-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/ATC-Skills/skills/atc-topic-selection .claude/skills/atc-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
atc-topic-selection
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
575 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 computer-systems project belongs at ATC (ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference, formerly USENIX ATC) or should be routed to OSDI, SOSP, NSDI…

  • Deciding whether a computer-systems project belongs at ATC (ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference
  • SKILL.md covers What ATC rewards, Sibling-venue routing table, The breadth and… and Evidence maturity, without the…, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Formerly USENIX ATC)

What it does

Atc Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a computer-systems project belongs at ATC (ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference, formerly USENIX ATC) or should be routed to OSDI, SOSP, NSDI, EuroSys, FAST, or a workshop like HotOS/HotStorage — distinguishing ATC by its broad practical scope, its Deployed Systems / experience lane, the breadth-vs-selectivity trade, and the November/June calendar.

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 computer-systems project belongs at ATC (ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference
  • Formerly USENIX ATC)
  • Should be routed to OSDI
  • A workshop like HotOS/HotStorage — distinguishing ATC by its broad practical scope

Example prompts

  • “/atc-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

Atc Topic Selection loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 100 tokens; SKILL.md has 575 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~100
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). 575 words, ~1,448 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/atc-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
atc-topic-selection
description
Use when deciding whether a computer-systems project belongs at ATC (ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference, formerly USENIX ATC) or should be routed to OSDI, SOSP, NSDI, EuroSys, FAST, or a workshop like HotOS/HotStorage — distinguishing ATC by its broad practical scope, its Deployed Systems / experience lane, the breadth-vs-selectivity trade, and the November/June calendar.

ATC Topic Selection

Decide the venue before drafting. ATC — the ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference, for about fifty years the USENIX Annual Technical Conference — is the systems community's broad, practical venue. It emphasizes implementations and experimental results across the whole systems stack and takes a wider slice than the more selective OSDI/SOSP flagships. The decisive question is rarely "is this systems?" but "is this a solid, useful, measured systems result — and is ATC's breadth the right home versus a more specialized or more selective venue?"

What ATC rewards

  • Built and measured systems across a broad scope: operating systems, runtime systems, parallel and distributed systems, storage, networking, security and privacy, virtualization, hardware-software interaction, performance and workload characterization, reliability, availability, scalability, energy, and bug-finding / tracing / troubleshooting — "of all scales, from embedded devices to data centers and clouds."
  • Useful over merely novel. A solid, well-engineered, carefully measured system that a flagship might call incremental is squarely in scope if it is real and the evaluation is honest.
  • Deployed-systems / experience papers. ATC has a lane for papers about real-world deployed systems that need not present new ideas — they are judged on practical insight. (Continuity of the named track under SIGOPS is 待核实, but the appetite for experience papers is long-standing.)

Sibling-venue routing table

Signal in your projectBetter homeWhy
Solid, useful, measured systems work of broad interest; usefulness over noveltyATCThe broad practical-systems venue; welcomes strong engineering + honest measurement
A large, novel systems contribution aimed at the flagship barOSDI / SOSPMore selective, novelty-forward; different calendars and no extended-abstract gate
The contribution is a networked-systems design (dataplane, protocols, RDMA, congestion)NSDINetworked-systems center; its own multi-deadline model
Broad systems, but EuroSys's cycle lands sooner or fits the communityEuroSysThe other broad SIGOPS-family systems conference; choose by calendar/pull
The core is file and storage systems depthFASTStorage's specialized home
A provocative idea or early design with argument but no built systemHotOS / HotStorage / workshopPosition/early-work venues; ATC wants a built, measured system
A real deployed system with practical lessons but no new ideaATC (Deployed Systems lane)ATC explicitly values experience papers
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The breadth and deployed-systems tests

Two quick tests sharpen a borderline verdict:

  • Breadth-vs-selectivity test: if the paper's strength is careful engineering and honest measurement of something genuinely useful — rather than a headline-novel mechanism — ATC's broad, practical bar fits better than OSDI/SOSP's selectivity. Do not withhold a solid, useful system from ATC because it is "not flagship-novel."
  • Deployed-systems test: if the contribution is the experience of running a real system at scale — what broke, what you learned, what others should copy — ATC's experience lane is a real home, where "no new idea" is not a rejection reason.

Evidence maturity, without the ladder cliché

Fit is necessary but not sufficient: the same idea sits at different doors depending on how far the system has come. An idea with an argument but no implementation is a HotOS-style position paper; a prototype measured only on inputs you chose needs a real testbed and workloads before the research track; a networked-systems design whose contribution is the network belongs at NSDI. Submitting one step early earns a "promising, but build and measure it" and costs a cycle.

Cheap reconnaissance before committing

text
[Scope]   scan the last two ATC programs (dblp: USENIX ATC; the SIGOPS ATC page) for your subarea
          -> several recent papers = a reviewer pool exists; none = opening or mismatch
[Citations] is your bibliography majority systems venues (ATC/OSDI/SOSP/NSDI/EuroSys/FAST)?
          -> majority elsewhere => reviewers read you as a visitor; naturalize the intro first
[Calendar] compare ATC's June deadline / November conference with OSDI/NSDI/EuroSys/FAST dates
          -> route to the nearest honest fit; ATC 2026 is Hong Kong, Nov 15-18
[Bar]     is the paper "useful and solid" (ATC) or "novel and large" (OSDI/SOSP)? be honest

Decision procedure

text
[Audience]   who acts differently if the system works? -> systems builders/operators/researchers?
[Claim type] built-system / technique+implementation / architecture / experience / measurement study
[ATC vs flagship] solid+useful -> ATC; novel+large -> OSDI/SOSP
[Specialist check] network core -> NSDI; storage core -> FAST; idea-only -> HotOS/workshop
[Verdict]    ATC research track / Deployed Systems lane / sibling venue / workshop, with a one-line reason

Run this before the writing skills; a wrong venue decision wastes every later step. When the verdict is ATC, continue with atc-workflow for the June-anchored calendar and atc-writing-style for the self-standing extended abstract and the systems-paper shape.

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Files

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

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Atc Topic Selection

What does Atc Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a computer-systems project belongs at ATC (ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference, formerly USENIX ATC) or should be routed to OSDI, SOSP, NSDI…. Atc Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a computer-systems project belongs at ATC (ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference, formerly USENIX ATC) or should be routed to OSDI, SOSP, NSDI, EuroSys, FAST, or a workshop like HotOS/HotStorage — distinguishing ATC by its broad practical scope, its Deployed Systems / experience lane, the breadth-vs-selectivity trade, and the November/June calendar.

When should I use Atc Topic Selection?

Atc Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a computer-systems project belongs at ATC (ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference; formerly USENIX ATC); should be routed to OSDI; A workshop like HotOS/HotStorage — distinguishing ATC by its broad practical scope.

How do I install Atc Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Atc Topic Selection in Codex?

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

Can I use Atc 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 atc-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/atc-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/atc-topic-selection, .github/skills/atc-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/atc-topic-selection in your project.

What does Atc Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Atc 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 Atc 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 Atc Topic Selection use?

Atc 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 Atc Topic Selection use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.8k 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 Topic Selection?

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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.