A skill your agent uses when reasoning about how COLM reviews a paper — the OpenReview pipeline from late-March submission through the May review release, the May-June rebuttal window, July…

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Install Colm Review Process

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills colm-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/COLM-Skills/skills/colm-review-process .claude/skills/colm-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
colm-review-process
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
720 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 COLM reviews a paper — the OpenReview pipeline from late-March submission through the May review release, the May-June rebuttal window, July…

  • Works in 4 steps: The reviews' summary and score fields —… → The rebuttal's opening lines per… → Whether reviewers reacted to the… → …
  • Reasoning about how COLM reviews a paper — the OpenReview pipeline from late-March submission through the May review release
  • SKILL.md covers The 2026 pipeline (verified…, Who reviews you, and why it…, Rules that govern the… and Reading a COLM review packet, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Colm Review Process is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when reasoning about how COLM reviews a paper — the OpenReview pipeline from late-March submission through the May review release, the May-June rebuttal window, July decisions, reciprocal-reviewing obligations, the LLM-use rules for reviewers, and how a three-edition-old venue's norms differ from mature conferences.

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 COLM reviews a paper — the OpenReview pipeline from late-March submission through the May review release
  • The May-June rebuttal window
  • Reciprocal-reviewing obligations
  • The LLM-use rules for reviewers

Example prompts

  • “/colm-review-process”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. The reviews' summary and score fields — first impressions form here.
  2. The rebuttal's opening lines per reviewer — which is why conclusion-first
  3. Whether reviewers reacted to the rebuttal — an unanswered strong response
  4. The paper itself, selectively, where reviewers disagree.

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

Colm Review Process loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 85 tokens; SKILL.md has 720 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~85
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

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). 720 words, ~1,585 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/colm-review-process/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
colm-review-process
description
Use when reasoning about how COLM reviews a paper — the OpenReview pipeline from late-March submission through the May review release, the May-June rebuttal window, July decisions, reciprocal-reviewing obligations, the LLM-use rules for reviewers, and how a three-edition-old venue's norms differ from mature conferences.

COLM Review Process

COLM runs a compact, single-cycle-per-year pipeline on OpenReview, and — because the venue is three editions old — its reviewing culture is still visibly under construction. Understanding both the posted mechanics and the young-venue dynamics is what lets authors time their effort correctly.

The 2026 pipeline (verified 2026-07-08)

Phase2026 datesAuthor-side reality
Abstract deadlineMarch 26Drives bidding and reviewer matching
Full paper deadlineMarch 31Submission freezes
Review writingApril - mid-MaySilence; nothing actionable
Reviews releasedMay 22Read-only day one; no same-day replies
RebuttalMay 22 - June 8The 18-day window where effort pays
AC discussion + decisionsJune - July 8Decisions posted July 8
Camera-readyAugust 7Accepted papers finalize
ConferenceOctober 6-9, San FranciscoMain program Oct 6-8, workshops Oct 9

On this pack's access date — July 8, 2026 — the pipeline is at its decision moment: rebuttals are closed and notifications land today. If you are triaging an outcome, go directly to colm-camera-ready (accept) or the resubmission logic below (reject).

Who reviews you, and why it feels different

Three structural facts shape COLM reviews:

  • A self-selected LM reviewer pool. Everyone opted into a language-modeling venue, so you will rarely justify why LMs matter — but you will face specialists on contamination, harness quirks, and prompt sensitivity (colm-experiments lists exactly what they check).
  • Reciprocal reviewing feeds the pool. COLM has per-submission and per-reviewer requirements, and any author with 4+ submissions is drafted automatically. Your reviewers are substantially this year's authors — practically minded, current, and reading many similar papers in a short window.
  • Young-venue variance. With only two prior editions of precedent, calibration across reviewers is wider than at older venues: score meanings, appendix-reading habits, and rebuttal responsiveness vary. The rational response is to make the paper robust to the strictest plausible reviewer rather than tuning to an imagined average.

Rules that govern the conversation

  • Double-blind, both directions — reviewers and ACs cannot see author names; authors cannot see reviewer names. Anything that de-anonymizes you mid-process is a self-inflicted wound.
  • Code of Ethics scope — it explicitly covers reviewing and paper discussion, and reviewers are encouraged to raise potential violations they see in papers.
  • LLM use in reviewing must be disclosed, whatever its size — the 2026 policy draws the reviewer line stricter than the author line. As an author, this cuts two ways: a review may lawfully have LLM assistance behind it, and a review that looks LLM-generated without engagement is a legitimate thing to flag to the AC in the rebuttal, factually and without accusation theater.
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Reading a COLM review packet

Sort reviewer claims into four bins before writing anything:

text
bin A  misreading           -> point to the page/table; cheapest wins first
bin B  evidence gap         -> runnable inside the 18-day window? do it
                               (cache-based analyses are fastest: colm-artifact-evaluation)
bin C  scope disagreement   -> reviewer wants a different paper; answer once,
                               crisply, and let the AC arbitrate
bin D  correct hit          -> concede, state the fix, thank them briefly

The AC synthesizing the discussion is your real audience (colm-author-response handles execution). Between June 8 and July 8 the process belongs to reviewers and ACs; there is no author-visible discussion phase to work.

What the AC actually reads

Area chairs at a compact venue synthesize under time pressure, and their reading order shapes what survives:

  1. The reviews' summary and score fields — first impressions form here.
  2. The rebuttal's opening lines per reviewer — which is why conclusion-first responses matter (colm-author-response).
  3. Whether reviewers reacted to the rebuttal — an unanswered strong response still counts, but an acknowledged one counts double; polite nudge-questions to silent reviewers are legitimate inside the window.
  4. The paper itself, selectively, where reviewers disagree.

Score arithmetic is a poor predictor at a young venue: with wide reviewer calibration variance and no published acceptance rate (待核实), a 5-5-8 with an engaged champion routinely beats a flat 6-6-6. Optimize for giving one reviewer the material to argue your case in the discussion you cannot see, rather than for moving every score by one point.

If the decision is a reject

  • Mine the reviews for the bin-D items; they transfer to any venue.
  • The calendar is forgiving: a July 8 COLM decision precedes the autumn ICLR deadline and the following spring's NeurIPS cycle, and COLM 2027's expected late-March deadline (待核实) is a natural 8-month runway for a genuine revision.
  • Re-run colm-topic-selection honestly — a common COLM reject pattern is a paper whose contribution was a task result wearing LM-analysis framing.

Volatile every edition

  • All dates above; the phase structure itself (COLM has already adjusted process details in each of its three editions).
  • Reviewer-form contents, score scales, and any acceptance-rate figures (none officially published; 待核实).
  • Reciprocal-reviewing thresholds and enforcement.

Output format

text
[Phase today] <where the current cycle actually is — verify against colmweb.org/dates.html>
[Packet triage] A: <n> misreadings / B: <n> evidence gaps / C: <n> scope fights / D: <n> hits
[AC-facing issue] <the one point the meta-review will turn on>
[Deadline math] <days left in the relevant window>
[Plan] <respond / experiment / concede / escalate-to-AC items, in order>

© 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 COLM-Skills/skills/colm-review-process of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Colm Review Process

What does Colm Review Process do?

A skill your agent uses when reasoning about how COLM reviews a paper — the OpenReview pipeline from late-March submission through the May review release, the May-June rebuttal window, July…. Colm Review Process is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when reasoning about how COLM reviews a paper — the OpenReview pipeline from late-March submission through the May review release, the May-June rebuttal window, July decisions, reciprocal-reviewing obligations, the LLM-use rules for reviewers, and how a three-edition-old venue's norms differ from mature conferences.

When should I use Colm Review Process?

Colm Review Process fits situations like: reasoning about how COLM reviews a paper — the OpenReview pipeline from late-March submission through the May review release; the May-June rebuttal window; reciprocal-reviewing obligations; the LLM-use rules for reviewers.

How do I install Colm Review Process in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Colm Review Process in Codex?

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

Can I use Colm 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 colm-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/colm-review-process, .gemini/skills/colm-review-process, .github/skills/colm-review-process and .opencode/skills/colm-review-process in your project.

What does Colm Review Process need to run?

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

Does Colm 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 Colm 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 Colm Review Process use?

Colm 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 Colm 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 Colm Review Process?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,228 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.