A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project belongs at CoRL, the Conference on Robot Learning, or should be routed to ICRA, IROS, RSS, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, or a journal — based on…

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Install Corl Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills corl-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/CoRL-Skills/skills/corl-topic-selection .claude/skills/corl-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
corl-topic-selection
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
718 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 CoRL, the Conference on Robot Learning, or should be routed to ICRA, IROS, RSS, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, or a journal — based on…

  • Works in 2 steps: Is learning the contribution? If you… → Does the claim need embodiment? If the…
  • Deciding whether a project belongs at CoRL
  • SKILL.md covers The two-axis test, Routing map, Signals from the venue itself and Timing reality for 2026-07-08, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Corl Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a project belongs at CoRL, the Conference on Robot Learning, or should be routed to ICRA, IROS, RSS, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, or a journal — based on whether the learned component is the contribution, what embodied evidence exists, and which reviewer community should judge the claim.

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

  • Deciding whether a project belongs at CoRL
  • The Conference on Robot Learning
  • Should be routed to ICRA
  • A journal — based on whether the learned component is the contribution

Example prompts

  • “/corl-topic-selection”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Is learning the contribution? If you replaced the learned policy, model, or
  2. Does the claim need embodiment? If the result would be equally convincing on

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

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • corl.org

    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

Corl Topic Selection loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 82 tokens; SKILL.md has 718 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
~1.6k

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). 718 words, ~1,578 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/corl-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
corl-topic-selection
description
Use when deciding whether a project belongs at CoRL, the Conference on Robot Learning, or should be routed to ICRA, IROS, RSS, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, or a journal — based on whether the learned component is the contribution, what embodied evidence exists, and which reviewer community should judge the claim.

CoRL Topic Selection

CoRL sits at a deliberate intersection: it was founded in 2017 precisely because learning-centric robotics papers were being squeezed between robotics conferences that undervalued the learning and ML conferences that undervalued the robot. Routing to CoRL is therefore a two-axis decision, and a project must score on both axes to belong here.

The two-axis test

Ask the two questions separately and honestly:

  1. Is learning the contribution? If you replaced the learned policy, model, or representation with a hand-engineered module and the paper's story survived, the learning is decoration. CoRL reviewers — drawn from the robot-learning community, not general robotics — will notice within one page.
  2. Does the claim need embodiment? If the result would be equally convincing on a static vision benchmark or a gridworld, the robot is decoration. NeurIPS, ICML, or ICLR will serve that paper better and reach a larger methods audience.

Only a yes-yes project is CoRL-shaped. A yes-no project is an ML paper; a no-yes project is a robotics-systems paper; a no-no project needs rethinking, not routing.

Routing map

Project profileBest homeWhy not CoRL
Imitation / RL / VLA policy with real-robot or credible sim evaluationCoRL—
Sim-to-real transfer method, transfer gap quantifiedCoRL—
Robot foundation model, data scaling, cross-embodiment trainingCoRL—
New gripper, SLAM pipeline, planner with hardware demo, learning peripheralICRA / IROSReviewers here score the learning question first
Broad robotics science where learning is one of several componentsRSSCoRL wants the learning claim central
Representation learning evaluated only on offline datasetsNeurIPS / ICLR / ICMLNo embodied claim to judge
Benchmark or dataset for robot learningCoRL (fits) or RA-L/journal for archival scopeCheck the current CFP wording
Mature system with extensive field validation, long paperT-RO / IJRR / Science RoboticsConference format too small

Signals from the venue itself

  • The CoRL 2026 Call for Papers (https://www.corl.org/contributions/call-for-papers, read 2026-07-08) frames the conference around the role of machine learning in robotics; the community's recent proceedings (PMLR v270 for 2024, v305 for 2025) are dominated by manipulation, locomotion, humanoid, VLA-model, and sim-to-real work.
  • Exemplar routing datapoints: SayCan (PMLR v205) and RT-2 (PMLR v229) — language models grounded in robot affordances — went to CoRL, not to an NLP or ML venue, because the grounding on hardware was the claim. See ../../resources/exemplars/library.md.
  • CoRL is young (first edition 2017, Mountain View; the 2026 Austin edition is the 10th) and single-track in spirit: it publishes far fewer papers than ICRA/IROS, so incremental fits that would survive at a mega-conference get filtered here.
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Timing reality for 2026-07-08

The CoRL 2026 deadline (paper: May 29, 2026) has passed. Routing decisions made today are about the next deadlines, so build the comparison calendar forward:

text
Routing calendar as of 2026-07-08 (verify each venue's own pages):
  CoRL 2027        — CFP not yet posted; recent cycles closed late May/early June  [待核实]
  ICRA 2027        — direct-submission deadline historically mid-September
  RSS 2027         — historically late January / early February
  NeurIPS 2026     — main deadline has also passed for this year
  ICLR 2027        — historically late September; nearest big ML deadline
  RA-L (journal)   — rolling; pairs with ICRA/IROS presentation options

A learning-heavy project missing CoRL 2026 typically weighs ICLR 2027 (if the sim evidence stands alone) against ICRA 2027 (if the hardware story stands alone) against waiting for CoRL 2027 (if the paper genuinely needs both audiences).

Common misroutes seen in review

  • The benchmark-only RL paper. Strong returns on standard sim suites, no robot-specific insight — reviewers ask "why is this not at an ML venue?" and score fit, not just quality.
  • The teleop-data demo. Beautiful hardware video, but the learning method is an off-the-shelf recipe with no analysis; reviewers ask what the community learns.
  • The one-task policy. Learning contribution present, but evaluated on a single task instance with no generalization axis; CoRL's evaluation culture (multiple tasks, objects, seeds, episodes — see corl-experiments) makes this fragile.
  • The theory paper without any environment. Pure sample-complexity analysis travels better at COLT/NeurIPS unless it predicts something testable on a robot.

Framing once you commit

If the answer is CoRL, write the fit into the paper rather than assuming it:

  • Name the embodied task family in the first paragraph, and the learned component in the second — both before any architecture detail.
  • State the evidence scale early (how many tasks, trials, robots, sim environments) so the reviewer's evaluation expectations are anchored by you, not by habit.
  • Reserve explicit space for the Limitations section — mandatory at CoRL and counted inside the 8-page limit in the 2026 instructions — from day one.
  • Choose baselines from the robot-learning literature (BC, offline RL, diffusion policies, VLA models), not only from the classical-control literature.

Output format

text
[CoRL fit] yes / no / borderline
[Axis 1 — learning is the contribution] yes / no + one-line justification
[Axis 2 — claim needs embodiment] yes / no + one-line justification
[Alternative venue] <name + reason, if either axis fails>
[Next actionable deadline] <venue, date, source URL to reverify>

Re-verify the current cycle at https://www.corl.org/ before acting: CoRL scope wording, deadlines, and policies are re-issued each year by that year's chairs.

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Files

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

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Corl Topic Selection

What does Corl Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project belongs at CoRL, the Conference on Robot Learning, or should be routed to ICRA, IROS, RSS, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, or a journal — based on…. Corl Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a project belongs at CoRL, the Conference on Robot Learning, or should be routed to ICRA, IROS, RSS, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, or a journal — based on whether the learned component is the contribution, what embodied evidence exists, and which reviewer community should judge the claim.

When should I use Corl Topic Selection?

Corl Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a project belongs at CoRL; the Conference on Robot Learning; should be routed to ICRA; A journal — based on whether the learned component is the contribution.

How do I install Corl Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Corl Topic Selection in Codex?

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

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

What does Corl Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Corl Topic Selection access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: corl.org. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Corl 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 Corl Topic Selection use?

Corl 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 Corl Topic Selection 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 Corl Topic Selection?

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.

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