Santa Method
affaan-m/ECC
Multi-agent adversarial verification: two independent reviewers with the same rubric must both pass before output ships, with a fix-and-re-review convergence loop and human escalation cap.
A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a formal-methods project belongs at CAV (Computer Aided Verification) or should be routed to TACAS, FMCAD, VMCAI, LPAR/IJCAR, POPL/PLDI/OOPSLA, or a…
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cav-topic-selection -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills cav-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/CAV-Skills/skills/cav-topic-selection .claude/skills/cav-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 "cav-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/CAV-Skills/skills/cav-topic-selection into .claude/skills/cav-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cav-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/CAV-Skills/skills/cav-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 cav-topic-selection -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills cav-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/CAV-Skills/skills/cav-topic-selection .agents/skills/cav-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 "cav-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/CAV-Skills/skills/cav-topic-selection into .agents/skills/cav-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cav-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 cav-topic-selection -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills cav-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/CAV-Skills/skills/cav-topic-selection .cursor/skills/cav-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 "cav-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/CAV-Skills/skills/cav-topic-selection into .cursor/skills/cav-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cav-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 CAV-Skills/skills/cav-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 cav-topic-selection -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills cav-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/CAV-Skills/skills/cav-topic-selection .gemini/skills/cav-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 "cav-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/CAV-Skills/skills/cav-topic-selection into .gemini/skills/cav-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cav-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 cav-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 cav-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/CAV-Skills/skills/cav-topic-selection .github/skills/cav-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 "cav-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/CAV-Skills/skills/cav-topic-selection into .github/skills/cav-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cav-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 cav-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 cav-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/CAV-Skills/skills/cav-topic-selection .opencode/skills/cav-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 "cav-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/CAV-Skills/skills/cav-topic-selection into .opencode/skills/cav-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cav-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.
cav-topic-selectionA skill your agent uses when deciding whether a formal-methods project belongs at CAV (Computer Aided Verification) or should be routed to TACAS, FMCAD, VMCAI, LPAR/IJCAR, POPL/PLDI/OOPSLA, or a…
Cav Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a formal-methods project belongs at CAV (Computer Aided Verification) or should be routed to TACAS, FMCAD, VMCAI, LPAR/IJCAR, POPL/PLDI/OOPSLA, or a journal (FMSD/JAR/TOCL), and when choosing the right CAV category — Regular, Short Tool, Short Application, or Industrial Experience & Case Study.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k 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.
Cav Topic Selection loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 85 tokens; SKILL.md has 606 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). 606 words, ~1,540 tokens.
.claude/skills/cav-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).Decide the venue and the category before drafting. CAV — the International Conference on Computer Aided Verification — is the flagship venue for computer-aided formal analysis of hardware and software systems: model checking, SMT and theorem proving, program analysis and synthesis, and their tools. Its papers are Springer LNCS chapters read by verification researchers, so reviewers reward a durable verification contribution with a stated guarantee, not a systems demo or an ML result with a verification label attached.
At CAV you choose both a venue (CAV vs. its siblings) and a category (Regular vs. Tool vs. Application vs. Industrial). Get the venue right first, then the category — a strong tool filed as a Regular Paper, or a technique squeezed into a 10-page tool paper, wastes the fit.
| Signal in your project | Better home | Why |
|---|---|---|
| A general verification technique/algorithm with a soundness/completeness result, mature enough for the flagship | CAV | Flagship scope; the Regular-Paper archetype |
| Emphasis on tools, algorithms, and their construction/analysis, or you want the ETAPS calendar | TACAS | Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems; overlaps heavily but is a distinct venue |
| Hardware-oriented or applied model checking, or a formal-methods-in-design focus | FMCAD | Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design |
| Verification, model checking, and abstract interpretation with a foundations flavor, often earlier-stage | VMCAI | Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation |
| Automated/interactive theorem proving or logic-focused | IJCAR / LPAR / ITP / CADE | Reasoning and proof communities |
| The core is a programming-language semantics, type system, or PL analysis | POPL / PLDI / OOPSLA | PL venues; verification is a means, not the contribution |
| The study is too long or too deep for the page limit | FMSD / JAR / TOCL / STTT | Journals with no conference page ceiling |
CAV and TACAS overlap the most; the honest tie-breakers are the calendar (CAV is annual in mid-year, often under FLoC or standalone; TACAS runs at ETAPS in spring) and community pull for your subarea. A strong paper is publishable at either — route to the nearer honest fit.
Two quick tests sharpen a borderline verdict:
[Regular] a technique/algorithm + proof + benchmark evaluation -> 18 pages, anonymized
[Short Tool] a downloadable tool; the contribution is the usable system -> 10 pages, NOT anonymized
[Short App] verification applied to a specific problem, technique-light -> 10 pages, anonymized
[Industrial] a real/industrial deployment experience or case study -> 10 pages, NOT anonymizedIf you have both a technique and a tool, the usual move is a Regular Paper that describes the technique with the tool as its evaluation vehicle — reserve the Tool Paper for when the system itself is the contribution.
[Scope] scan the last two CAV programs (dblp, i-cav.org) for your subarea
-> 3+ recent papers = a reviewer pool exists; 0 = opening or mismatch
[Benchmarks] is there a standard benchmark set (SV-COMP, SMT-COMP, HWMCC, VNN-COMP) reviewers expect?
-> yes and you did not use it => reframe or add it before submitting
[Calendar] compare the next CAV deadline with TACAS/FMCAD/VMCAI dates -> route to the nearest
honest fit rather than idling a cycle[Audience] who acts differently if the claim holds? -> verification-tool builders/users/theorists?
[Claim type] technique-with-guarantee / tool / application / industrial experience
[CAV vs sibling] both fit? -> choose by calendar, community pull, and hardware/PL/logic tilt
[Category] technique+proof -> Regular; usable system -> Tool; applied -> Application/Industrial
[Verdict] CAV <category> / sibling venue / journal, with a one-line reasonRun this before the writing skills; a wrong venue or category decision wastes every later step.
When the verdict is CAV, continue with cav-workflow for the calendar and cav-writing-style for
the paper shape.
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Just SKILL.md in CAV-Skills/skills/cav-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
Cav 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cav Topic Selection this skillbrycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills | 1.2k | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Santa Methodaffaan-m/ECC | 275k | 3 repos | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Santa Methodaffaan-m/ECC | 275k | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Santa Methodaffaan-m/ECC | 275k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Formal Methods Reconcilermizchi/skills | 356 | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Modern Array Methodsthedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist | 74k | — | ~494 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
affaan-m/ECC
Multi-agent adversarial verification: two independent reviewers with the same rubric must both pass before output ships, with a fix-and-re-review convergence loop and human escalation cap.
affaan-m/ECC
収束ループを持つマルチエージェント敵対的検証。2つの独立したレビューエージェントが両方合格して初めて出力を出荷できます。
affaan-m/ECC
具有收敛循环的多智能体对抗验证。两个独立的审查代理必须都通过,输出才能发送。
mizchi/skills
A skill your agent uses when reconciling software specs, docs, tests, configs, code, logs, or incidents with formal methods.
thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist
A skill your agent uses when reviewing scripts, client components, bundles, or runtime behavior related to Use modern array and object methods.
aiming-lab/AutoResearchClaw
Design statistical methods, baselines, diagnostics, variants, and ablations that directly address a formal problem formulation.
brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills
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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
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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 formal-methods project belongs at CAV (Computer Aided Verification) or should be routed to TACAS, FMCAD, VMCAI, LPAR/IJCAR, POPL/PLDI/OOPSLA, or a…. Cav Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a formal-methods project belongs at CAV (Computer Aided Verification) or should be routed to TACAS, FMCAD, VMCAI, LPAR/IJCAR, POPL/PLDI/OOPSLA, or a journal (FMSD/JAR/TOCL), and when choosing the right CAV category — Regular, Short Tool, Short Application, or Industrial Experience & Case Study.
Cav Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a formal-methods project belongs at CAV (Computer Aided Verification); should be routed to TACAS; POPL/PLDI/OOPSLA; A journal (FMSD/JAR/TOCL).
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cav-topic-selection -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (CAV-Skills/skills/cav-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/cav-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 cav-topic-selection -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (CAV-Skills/skills/cav-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/cav-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 cav-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/cav-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/cav-topic-selection, .github/skills/cav-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/cav-topic-selection in your project.
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Cav 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.
Cav 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 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.2k 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 Cav Topic Selection: Santa Method (affaan-m/ECC, 275k stars), Santa Method (affaan-m/ECC, 275k stars), Santa Method (affaan-m/ECC, 275k stars) and Formal Methods Reconciler (mizchi/skills, 356 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.