Agent skill

Conext Topic Selection

by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a networking project belongs at ACM CoNEXT or should be routed to SIGCOMM, NSDI, IMC, SIGMETRICS, MobiCom, or HotNets, and when using CoNEXT's…

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Install Conext Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills conext-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/CoNEXT-Skills/skills/conext-topic-selection .claude/skills/conext-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
conext-topic-selection
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
723 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 networking project belongs at ACM CoNEXT or should be routed to SIGCOMM, NSDI, IMC, SIGMETRICS, MobiCom, or HotNets, and when using CoNEXT's…

  • Works in 2 steps: Which networking community and rigor bar… → Which of CoNEXT's two cycles is the…
  • Deciding whether a networking project belongs at ACM CoNEXT
  • SKILL.md covers The two routing questions that…, Sibling-venue routing table, Contribution shapes CoNEXT… and The platform-realism and…, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Conext Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a networking project belongs at ACM CoNEXT or should be routed to SIGCOMM, NSDI, IMC, SIGMETRICS, MobiCom, or HotNets, and when using CoNEXT's two-cycles-per-year calendar and PACMNET journal-style fit to choose the venue and the cycle by contribution shape and evidence maturity.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.7k 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 networking project belongs at ACM CoNEXT
  • Should be routed to SIGCOMM

Example prompts

  • “/conext-topic-selection”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Which networking community and rigor bar fits this contribution? (CoNEXT vs. SIGCOMM/NSDI/
  2. Which of CoNEXT's two cycles is the nearest honest deadline my evidence is ready for?

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

Conext Topic Selection loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 82 tokens; SKILL.md has 723 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~82
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.7k

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). 723 words, ~1,706 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/conext-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
conext-topic-selection
description
Use when deciding whether a networking project belongs at ACM CoNEXT or should be routed to SIGCOMM, NSDI, IMC, SIGMETRICS, MobiCom, or HotNets, and when using CoNEXT's two-cycles-per-year calendar and PACMNET journal-style fit to choose the venue and the cycle by contribution shape and evidence maturity.

CoNEXT Topic Selection

Decide the venue and the cycle before drafting. CoNEXT — the ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM — is a broad systems-and-measurement networking venue whose research papers are PACMNET journal articles. Reviewers read for a durable networking contribution evaluated on the real target (a testbed, deployment, or trace), not a one-conference result. A technically strong paper whose real lesson is about pure theory, pure ML, or a non-networking system is respected and then rejected as out of scope.

The two routing questions that matter most

Networking has several strong flagships with overlapping scope, so ask two things:

  1. Which networking community and rigor bar fits this contribution? (CoNEXT vs. SIGCOMM/NSDI/ IMC/SIGMETRICS/MobiCom.)
  2. Which of CoNEXT's two cycles is the nearest honest deadline my evidence is ready for? (December vs. June — a real lever unique to CoNEXT.)

A strong paper is often publishable at more than one venue; the nearer honest deadline and the best community fit usually win.

Sibling-venue routing table

Signal in your projectBetter homeWhy
Broad networking contribution — systems, measurement, or architecture — evaluated on a real platform, ready for the nearer CoNEXT cycleCoNEXTTwo-cycle PACMNET track; broad systems-networking scope
Top-tier, polished result aimed at the field's most selective single-deadline stageSIGCOMMThe flagship; single annual deadline, its own bar and calendar
Systems paper centered on a built-and-deployed networked system with a strong implementation storyNSDINetworked-systems design and implementation focus; USENIX proceedings
The whole contribution is a measurement study of the Internet or a large systemIMCPurpose-built internet-measurement venue
Core is performance modeling, analysis, or evaluation methodologySIGMETRICSMeasurement-and-modeling home (also a PACMNET-family stream)
Wireless/mobile systems are the heartMobiCom / MobiSysMobile/wireless-systems scope
Early idea or position with an argument but little evaluationHotNets (or CoNEXT Student Workshop)Venue for provocative early work

Contribution shapes CoNEXT rewards

  • Systems + implementation + evaluation on the real target — a new mechanism in the data plane, transport, routing, or the network stack, built and run on real hardware or a faithful testbed (the ASIC-switch-insertions lineage).
  • Internet / systems measurement — a campaign that changes what the community believes about how networks or protocols behave in the wild (the QUIC/TLS-performance lineage).
  • Network architecture with deployment or scalability evidence — a design shown running and scaling, not merely proposed (the inter-domain multi-path lineage).
  • Operational / traffic-engineering systems — measurement plus intervention at real carrier/operator scale (the hyper-giants lineage).
  • Wireless and low-power networking — a model or protocol that respects a real device constraint and is validated on a testbed (the ultra-low-power broadcast lineage).
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The platform-realism and re-label tests

Two quick tests sharpen a borderline verdict:

  • Platform-realism test: is the central claim evaluated on the real target the paper is about (switch, NIC, kernel, testbed, deployment, or real trace), or does a simulation stand in for hardware? CoNEXT rewards evidence on the real platform; a simulation-only systems claim is a re-route or a revision risk.
  • Re-label test: could this paper be submitted to IMC (pure measurement), NSDI (a built system), or a theory venue unchanged and read as native there? If its heart is one of those, route accordingly; CoNEXT rewards the broad networking framing with real-platform evidence.

The model-swap test (for ML-for-networking papers)

If your paper leans on a learner or LLM, ask whether the networking lesson survives swapping the model for another. If not, the model is the contribution and an ML venue fits better; if the lesson is about the network (a measured phenomenon, a deployable mechanism), CoNEXT fits — evaluate it on the real target and add a contamination-aware ablation (see conext-experiments).

Evidence maturity, without the ladder cliché

Fit is necessary but not sufficient: the same idea sits at different doors depending on how far the evidence has come. An idea with an argument but little evaluation is a HotNets or Student-Workshop paper; a mechanism evaluated only in simulation needs a testbed before the research track; a measurement too preliminary for the bar belongs in a workshop first. Submitting one step early earns a "promising, but..." — but CoNEXT's two cycles soften this: the next honest deadline is months away, not a year.

Cheap reconnaissance before committing

text
[Scope]   scan the last two CoNEXT programs (dblp, conferences.sigcomm.org) for your subarea
          -> 3+ recent papers = a reviewer pool exists; 0 = opening or mismatch
[Citations] is your bibliography majority networking venues (CoNEXT/SIGCOMM/NSDI/IMC/SIGMETRICS)?
          -> majority non-networking => reviewers read you as a visitor; naturalize the intro first
[Calendar] which CoNEXT cycle (Dec/Jun) is next, vs. SIGCOMM/NSDI/IMC dates -> route to the nearest
          honest fit rather than waiting for a marginal preference

Decision procedure

text
[Audience] who acts differently if the claim holds? -> operators / protocol designers / systems builders / researchers?
[Claim type] systems mechanism / measurement / architecture / operational / wireless
[Platform] is it evaluated on the real target, or only simulated? -> real => CoNEXT-ready
[CoNEXT vs siblings] pure measurement -> IMC; built system with deep impl -> NSDI; top polish -> SIGCOMM
[Cycle] December vs June -> nearest honest deadline the evidence is ready for
[Verdict] CoNEXT <cycle> / sibling venue / workshop, with a one-line reason

Run this before the writing skills; a wrong venue or cycle decision wastes every later step. When the verdict is CoNEXT, continue with conext-workflow for the calendar and conext-writing-style for the paper shape.

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Files

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

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Conext Topic Selection

What does Conext Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a networking project belongs at ACM CoNEXT or should be routed to SIGCOMM, NSDI, IMC, SIGMETRICS, MobiCom, or HotNets, and when using CoNEXT's…. Conext Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a networking project belongs at ACM CoNEXT or should be routed to SIGCOMM, NSDI, IMC, SIGMETRICS, MobiCom, or HotNets, and when using CoNEXT's two-cycles-per-year calendar and PACMNET journal-style fit to choose the venue and the cycle by contribution shape and evidence maturity.

When should I use Conext Topic Selection?

Conext Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a networking project belongs at ACM CoNEXT; should be routed to SIGCOMM.

How do I install Conext Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Conext Topic Selection in Codex?

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

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

What does Conext Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Conext 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 Conext 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 Conext Topic Selection use?

Conext 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 Conext Topic Selection use?

About 1.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.8k 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 Conext 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.