A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project belongs at ACM CHI, which of CHI's contribution types it makes, and which reviewing subcommittee should judge it — or whether the work is…

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Install Chi Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills chi-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/CHI-Skills/skills/chi-topic-selection .claude/skills/chi-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
chi-topic-selection
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
700 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 belongs at ACM CHI, which of CHI's contribution types it makes, and which reviewing subcommittee should judge it — or whether the work is…

  • Deciding whether a project belongs at ACM CHI
  • SKILL.md covers Start with the human, not the…, Name the contribution type…, The subcommittee decision and When CHI is the wrong room, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Which of CHIs contribution types it makes

What it does

Chi Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a project belongs at ACM CHI, which of CHI's contribution types it makes, and which reviewing subcommittee should judge it — or whether the work is better routed to UIST, CSCW, DIS, IUI, ASSETS, IMWUT, or TOCHI before any drafting starts.

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.

When your agent uses it

  • Deciding whether a project belongs at ACM CHI
  • Which of CHIs contribution types it makes
  • Which reviewing subcommittee should judge it —
  • Whether the work is better routed to UIST

Example prompts

  • “/chi-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

Chi Topic Selection loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 71 tokens; SKILL.md has 700 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~71
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.5k

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). 700 words, ~1,519 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/chi-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
chi-topic-selection
description
Use when deciding whether a project belongs at ACM CHI, which of CHI's contribution types it makes, and which reviewing subcommittee should judge it — or whether the work is better routed to UIST, CSCW, DIS, IUI, ASSETS, IMWUT, or TOCHI before any drafting starts.

CHI Topic Selection

CHI accepts almost every topic that touches people and computing, so "is this in scope?" is rarely the real question. The decisions that actually shape the outcome are: which contribution type is this paper, and which subcommittee should read it. Both are declared at submission time in PCS, and both are strategy, not paperwork — CHI 2026 rejected roughly three quarters of 6,730 completed submissions, and a large share of early rejections trace to papers pitched at the wrong reviewer community inside CHI itself.

Start with the human, not the system

Ask: who changes what they do because this paper exists? A designer picks a different pattern, a researcher runs a study differently, a developer builds an interface differently, a policy team understands a user population differently. If no answer survives scrutiny, the project is an engineering result wearing an HCI costume, and reviewers will say exactly that. A system with no study can still be CHI-worthy — but only when the system itself embodies a claim about interaction that others can build on.

Name the contribution type before the venue

CHI's own guidance enumerates the contribution types the conference publishes. Force the project into exactly one primary type; hybrids are fine but one must lead:

Contribution type (CHI's list)Typical evidenceFailure mode when mismatched
Interface artifacts or techniquesPrototype + comparative or usability studyDemo praised, knowledge contribution doubted
Understanding users (empirical)Interviews, surveys, logs, field data"Interesting but so what for design?"
Systems, tools, architecturesWorking system + evaluation of enabled tasksJudged as engineering, not research
MethodologyNew method + validation against practice"Who has actually used this method?"
TheoryConcepts/models grounded in literatureRead as an essay without operational value
Innovation, creativity, and visionProvocations, envisionmentsDismissed unless framing is explicit
ArgumentWell-supported position essayTorn apart if evidence is thin anywhere
Validation and replicationCareful reproduction of prior findingsUndervalued unless framed as such

Source: the "Contributions to CHI" pages carried across recent cycles (chi2026.acm.org/contributions-to-chi/, checked 2026-07-08).

The subcommittee decision

PCS asks you to designate up to two subcommittees, and the official guidance recommends naming two. In the vast majority of cases one of your two choices reviews the paper; chairs may transfer it only when another subcommittee would clearly review it more thoroughly. Practical consequences:

  • The subcommittee determines your 1AC, 2AC, and reviewer pool — effectively your jury. A quantitative-methods paper sent to a design-led subcommittee gets design criticism, and vice versa.
  • Read the current cycle's "Selecting a Subcommittee" page and match against the posted scope sentences, not the subcommittee titles. The CHI 2027 list was not yet posted at check time (待核实); the CHI 2026 list is the working draft of what to expect.
  • Pick the second subcommittee as a genuine alternative reading of the paper, not a duplicate of the first.
text
Subcommittee fit test (run per candidate subcommittee):
1. Do ≥3 papers you cite belong to this community?        yes / no
2. Would its typical reviewer accept your method as rigorous
   *by that community's standards*?                        yes / no
3. Does your contribution statement use that community's
   vocabulary without translation?                         yes / no
3× yes = designate. 2 = possible second choice. ≤1 = do not list it.
Show full SKILL.md (233 more words)Show less

When CHI is the wrong room

Center of gravityBetter first target
Novel interaction technique, engineering depth, no broad user claimUIST
Collaboration, communities, social platforms as the objectCSCW
The designed artifact and design process as the contributionDIS
Intelligence in the interface (recommenders, adaptive UI)IUI
Disability and accessible technology for a specialist audienceASSETS
Sensing, wearables, continuous field deploymentIMWUT / UbiComp
Contribution needs 15,000+ words or journal-depth theoryTOCHI, IJHCS

CHI remains right when the audience is the broad HCI community: the paper's lesson should matter to people who will never build your exact system. Note the calendar asymmetry: CHI runs one cycle per year (papers due early September), so a missed fit costs twelve months — the sibling venues above fill the gap between cycles.

Anti-signals before you commit a year

  • Your related-work section cites no CHI, CSCW, UIST, or TOCHI work — you are writing for a community you have not read. (Insufficient contextualization, "ADR-Context," was the most-cited assisted desk-reject reason at CHI 2026.)
  • The user study exists to decorate a systems result you would publish anyway.
  • The contribution is real but 5,000 words would carry it — that is not a defect (short papers are welcome), but plan the paper as short instead of inflating it.
  • Every plausible reviewer you can imagine works in one narrow specialty — a specialist venue will review it better and cite it more.

Output format

text
[Human stake] who changes what: <one sentence>
[Contribution type] primary: <type> / secondary: <type or none>
[Subcommittee designations] 1st: <name + fit-test score> / 2nd: <name + score>
[Venue verdict] CHI-first / CHI-viable / route to <UIST|CSCW|DIS|IUI|ASSETS|IMWUT|TOCHI>
[Length plan] short (<5k words) / standard (5-8k) / justify-longer
[Blocking gap] <the one thing to fix before drafting>

© brycewang-stanford, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

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

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Chi Topic Selection

What does Chi Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project belongs at ACM CHI, which of CHI's contribution types it makes, and which reviewing subcommittee should judge it — or whether the work is…. Chi Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a project belongs at ACM CHI, which of CHI's contribution types it makes, and which reviewing subcommittee should judge it — or whether the work is better routed to UIST, CSCW, DIS, IUI, ASSETS, IMWUT, or TOCHI before any drafting starts.

When should I use Chi Topic Selection?

Chi Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a project belongs at ACM CHI; which of CHIs contribution types it makes; which reviewing subcommittee should judge it —; whether the work is better routed to UIST.

How do I install Chi Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Chi Topic Selection in Codex?

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

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

What does Chi Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Chi 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 Chi 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 Chi Topic Selection use?

Chi 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 Chi Topic Selection use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Chi Topic Selection?

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Who maintains Chi 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.