A skill your agent uses when reasoning about how an ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Research Manuscript is evaluated, covering double-blind TPC review, the novelty-plus-QoR decision…

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Install Dac Review Process

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills dac-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/DAC-Skills/skills/dac-review-process .claude/skills/dac-review-process && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

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Facts

Skill name
dac-review-process
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
674 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 an ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Research Manuscript is evaluated, covering double-blind TPC review, the novelty-plus-QoR decision…

  • Reasoning about how an ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Research Manuscript is evaluated
  • SKILL.md covers Process model, Reading a decision against the…, Novelty-plus-QoR: the DAC bar and How DAC differs from its…, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Covering double-blind TPC review

What it does

Dac Review Process is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when reasoning about how an ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Research Manuscript is evaluated, covering double-blind TPC review, the novelty-plus-QoR decision criteria, program-committee discussion, the accept/reject (no major-revision) outcome, the ~20-25% selectivity, and how DAC's industry-facing, single-shot process differs from the architecture venues' rebuttal-and-revision cycles.

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 an ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Research Manuscript is evaluated
  • Covering double-blind TPC review
  • The novelty-plus-QoR decision criteria
  • Program-committee discussion

Example prompts

  • “/dac-review-process”

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

Dac Review Process loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 106 tokens; SKILL.md has 674 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~106
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

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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). 674 words, ~1,565 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/dac-review-process/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
dac-review-process
description
Use when reasoning about how an ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Research Manuscript is evaluated, covering double-blind TPC review, the novelty-plus-QoR decision criteria, program-committee discussion, the accept/reject (no major-revision) outcome, the ~20-25% selectivity, and how DAC's industry-facing, single-shot process differs from the architecture venues' rebuttal-and-revision cycles.

DAC Review Process

Model the pipeline before interpreting any single review. DAC's Research-Manuscript review is double-blind, Technical-Program-Committee-driven, and single-shot: papers are reviewed against novelty and measured design-quality impact, discussed by the committee, and get a binary accept/reject — there is no journal-style Major Revision round. Anchor to the DAC 2026 cycle facts in resources/official-source-map.md.

Process model

  • Submission and review run on Softconf/START with double-blind anonymity: reviewers do not see author identities, and the manuscript must be scrubbed of identifying content.
  • Each paper is read by multiple TPC members drawn from the relevant subcommittee (physical design, logic synthesis, verification/test, ML-for-EDA, security, embedded, etc.). Reviewers weigh novelty over prior art, technical soundness, the strength and fairness of the QoR evidence, relevance/impact to design automation, and clarity.
  • The committee discusses borderline papers to reach the final verdict; a strong advocate who can answer the objections carries a paper through discussion.
  • Decisions are essentially accept or reject (a fraction may be steered to a poster/LBR-style outcome per cycle — 待核实). There is no revise-and-resubmit within the cycle; a rejected paper reroutes to ICCAD/DATE/ASP-DAC or a journal.
  • Research selectivity is historically ~20-25% (verify each cycle).

Reading a decision against the criteria

Signal in the reviewsUnderlying criterionAuthor reality
"Incremental over [prior tool]"NoveltyStructural; the delta must be reframed or the idea extended before reroute
"Baseline is weak / untuned"Evidence fairnessOften fatal at DAC — the QoR comparison is the paper
"Only private benchmarks"Evidence credibilityAdd a recognized suite; results on toy circuits do not persuade
"Runtime/scalability unclear"Soundness/impactEDA reviewers care about scaling to realistic design sizes
"Unclear where the gain comes from"SoundnessMissing ablation isolating the contribution

Novelty-plus-QoR: the DAC bar

DAC is an engineering research venue: a beautiful idea with no measured QoR advantage rarely survives, and a large QoR number with thin novelty gets read as an engineering result, not a research contribution. Winning papers pair a genuinely new mechanism with a fair, benchmark-grounded QoR gain (PPA, wirelength, timing slack, coverage, or runtime) over the strongest prior technique. The most common reject cause is not a broken idea but an unconvincing comparison — a baseline the reviewer does not accept as state of the art or as fairly tuned.

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How DAC differs from its siblings

  • vs. ISCA / MICRO / HPCA (architecture): those venues run author rebuttals and, in some years, revision rounds, and reward microarchitectural novelty. DAC's research review has historically been TPC-driven without a standing author-response period (待核实 for DAC
    1. and rewards design-automation novelty measured in QoR. Do not carry an architecture rebuttal playbook into DAC.
  • vs. FSE / ICSE (software): no journal-style Major Revision, no ACM artifact-badging track, and a much tighter 6+1-page budget. DAC evidence is QoR on EDA benchmarks, not empirical-SE studies.
  • vs. ICCAD / DATE / ASP-DAC (sibling EDA): overlapping reviewer pools and criteria but different calendars and committees — a DAC reject is a natural ICCAD/DATE/ASP-DAC candidate, but never assume shared deadlines or that the same reviewers see it.

Who reads you

Expect subarea-matched EDA experts who will check whether your baseline is the real state of the art, whether the benchmarks are standard and reported honestly (all circuits, not a cherry-picked subset), whether runtime and scalability are credible for realistic designs, and whether an ablation shows the gain comes from your mechanism. Vague "we improve QoR" claims without per-benchmark tables get caught, not skimmed.

Where author leverage actually exists

text
[Before submission]  topic/subcommittee tags + a real abstract -> reviewer pool   (largest lever)
[Manuscript]         a fair, tuned, state-of-the-art baseline on standard benchmarks + an ablation
[Discussion]         a champion reviewer who can answer the objections carries the paper
[After reject]       no appeal; reroute to ICCAD/DATE/ASP-DAC or TCAD/TODAES with the reviews addressed

Because DAC has historically had no author rebuttal, the leverage is almost entirely front-loaded: you cannot talk a reviewer out of a weak-baseline finding after submission, so the baseline and benchmark choices must be unimpeachable before the November deadline.

Misreadings to avoid

  • Expecting a rebuttal to save the paper — do not budget on a response window DAC may not run.
  • Treating a big QoR number as sufficient — without novelty it reads as an Engineering-Track result.
  • Assuming one champion is enough without evidence — the discussion turns on answers to the other reviewers' concrete objections, not enthusiasm.
  • Projecting last year's process — deadline, selectivity, and whether any response step exists are decided per edition.

Output format

text
[Process stage]  pre-submission / under review / decided
[Decision driver] novelty | evidence fairness | benchmark credibility | scalability | clarity
[Criterion map]  each review point -> which criterion it invokes
[Leverage plan]  the pre-submission action (baseline/benchmark/ablation) that would have moved it
[Reroute target] ICCAD / DATE / ASP-DAC / TCAD if rejected, with the fix to make first

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Files

Just SKILL.md in DAC-Skills/skills/dac-review-process of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Dac Review Process

What does Dac Review Process do?

A skill your agent uses when reasoning about how an ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Research Manuscript is evaluated, covering double-blind TPC review, the novelty-plus-QoR decision…. Dac Review Process is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when reasoning about how an ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Research Manuscript is evaluated, covering double-blind TPC review, the novelty-plus-QoR decision criteria, program-committee discussion, the accept/reject (no major-revision) outcome, the ~20-25% selectivity, and how DAC's industry-facing, single-shot process differs from the architecture venues' rebuttal-and-revision cycles.

When should I use Dac Review Process?

Dac Review Process fits situations like: reasoning about how an ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Research Manuscript is evaluated; covering double-blind TPC review; the novelty-plus-QoR decision criteria; program-committee discussion.

How do I install Dac Review Process in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Dac Review Process in Codex?

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

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

What does Dac Review Process need to run?

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

Does Dac 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 Dac 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 Dac Review Process use?

Dac 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 Dac 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 Dac Review Process?

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