A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a data-management project belongs at EDBT or should be routed to SIGMOD, VLDB/PVLDB, ICDE, the co-located ICDT theory venue, or a database journal, and…

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Install Edbt Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills edbt-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/EDBT-Skills/skills/edbt-topic-selection .claude/skills/edbt-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
edbt-topic-selection
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
660 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 data-management project belongs at EDBT or should be routed to SIGMOD, VLDB/PVLDB, ICDE, the co-located ICDT theory venue, or a database journal, and…

  • Deciding whether a data-management project belongs at EDBT
  • SKILL.md covers The routing question that…, Sibling-venue routing table, Contribution shapes EDBT… and The theory-vs-systems test…, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Should be routed to SIGMOD

What it does

Edbt Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a data-management project belongs at EDBT or should be routed to SIGMOD, VLDB/PVLDB, ICDE, the co-located ICDT theory venue, or a database journal, and when choosing the EDBT paper shape (Regular / Experiments-&-Analysis / Vision) and the nearest submission cycle.

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 data-management project belongs at EDBT
  • Should be routed to SIGMOD
  • The co-located ICDT theory venue
  • A database journal

Example prompts

  • “/edbt-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

Edbt Topic Selection loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 78 tokens; SKILL.md has 660 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~78
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). 660 words, ~1,560 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/edbt-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
edbt-topic-selection
description
Use when deciding whether a data-management project belongs at EDBT or should be routed to SIGMOD, VLDB/PVLDB, ICDE, the co-located ICDT theory venue, or a database journal, and when choosing the EDBT paper shape (Regular / Experiments-&-Analysis / Vision) and the nearest submission cycle.

EDBT Topic Selection

Decide the venue and the paper shape before drafting. EDBT — the International Conference on Extending Database Technology — is the European database-systems flagship, held jointly with ICDT (its theory sibling) and published open access on OpenProceedings.org. Its reviewers read for a contribution that extends real database technology: systems, applied data management, and experiments-and-analysis work. A paper whose true center is a complexity result, a pure-ML model, or a US-flagship-scale systems marathon may be respected and then rerouted.

The routing question that matters most

EDBT overlaps heavily with SIGMOD, VLDB, and ICDE in scope and reviewer pool, so the decisive question is rarely "is this databases?" but "which database community, publication model, and cycle fits this paper now?" Two EDBT-specific pulls tilt the answer:

  • The rolling cycle is often the nearest honest deadline. EDBT's three cycles a year mean a ready paper rarely waits long; if SIGMOD/ICDE/PVLDB's next window is months out, the near EDBT cycle can be the rational choice for a finished contribution.
  • Open access matters to some authors and funders. OpenProceedings' CC-BY-NC-ND, author-retained copyright, no-APC model is a genuine reason to prefer EDBT over the paywalled ACM/IEEE DLs.

Sibling-venue routing table

Signal in your projectBetter homeWhy
A contribution that extends database technology — systems, applied data management, experiments — ready now, EDBT cycle nearestEDBTEuropean DB-systems flagship; OpenProceedings open access; rolling cycles
A flagship-scale systems result you want in the ACM DB community's marquee venueSIGMODUS flagship, ACM DL; different cycle and template
A polished journal-style systems paper aiming at the PVLDB monthly pipelineVLDB / PVLDBJournal-style monthly deadlines; different review model
A broad data-engineering contribution wanting the IEEE venue and stageICDEIEEE DL; sibling flagship, different calendar
The heart is a complexity, query-language, or dependency-theory resultICDTEDBT's co-located theory sibling — theory belongs there, not in EDBT
Too long or too deep for the page budget, or a surveyVLDBJ / TODS / TKDEJournals with no conference page ceiling

Contribution shapes EDBT rewards (and the paper shape they map to)

  • System + architecture / mechanism — a storage, query-processing, indexing, transaction, or integration mechanism, embodied in a real system and measured on real workloads → Regular.
  • Distributed / scalable algorithm — an operator or method that extends processing to a new scale, platform, or data type, with a scalability evaluation → Regular.
  • Experiments & Analysis — a rigorous benchmarking, repeatability, or comparative study where the measurement itself is the contribution → Experiments & Analysis paper.
  • Applied data management / experience — extending a working system to a real operational need, reported honestly → Regular.
  • Forward-looking idea — a well-argued new direction not yet fully built or evaluated → Vision paper (short).
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The theory-vs-systems test (the EDBT/ICDT boundary)

Because EDBT and ICDT share a conference and a proceedings platform, the sharpest routing mistake is sending a theory paper to EDBT (or an unbuilt systems idea to ICDT):

  • If the core result is a theorem — a complexity bound, an expressiveness or decidability result, a query-language or constraint-theory contribution — it belongs at ICDT, not EDBT, even though they meet in the same week.
  • If the core result is a built-and-measured system or a data-analysis study, it belongs at EDBT. Being able to co-present near the theory community is a benefit of EDBT, not a reason to submit theory to it.

The scale-and-community test (EDBT vs. the US flagships)

  • Scale realism, not scale maximalism. EDBT values evaluations on realistic workloads and honest scope; a paper does not need US-flagship-scale infrastructure to be strong here, but its claims must match its evidence.
  • Community pull. If your bibliography and closest prior work are European DB-systems papers and the near cycle fits, EDBT is a natural home; if the paper is in explicit dialogue with a SIGMOD/PVLDB line and aims at that audience, weigh the sibling.

Cheap reconnaissance before committing

text
[Scope]   scan the last two EDBT programs (dblp, OpenProceedings) for your subarea
          -> 3+ recent papers = a reviewer pool exists; 0 = opening or mismatch
[Boundary] is the core a theorem (-> ICDT) or a built/measured system-or-study (-> EDBT)?
[Citations] is your bibliography majority DB venues (SIGMOD/VLDB/ICDE/EDBT/ICDT)?
          -> majority non-DB => reviewers read you as a visitor; naturalize the intro first
[Calendar] compare the next EDBT cycle with SIGMOD/PVLDB/ICDE dates -> route to the nearest
          honest fit rather than idling

Decision procedure

text
[Audience] who acts differently if the claim holds? -> DB systems builders / practitioners / researchers?
[Claim type] system / scalable algorithm / experiments-&-analysis / applied experience / vision / theory
[Theory check] is the heart a theorem? -> route to ICDT
[EDBT vs US flagship] all fit? -> choose by open-access preference, cycle proximity, community pull
[Shape] Regular / Experiments-&-Analysis / Vision, matched to the contribution
[Verdict] EDBT (which shape, which cycle) / sibling venue / journal, with a one-line reason

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

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Files

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

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Edbt Topic Selection

What does Edbt Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a data-management project belongs at EDBT or should be routed to SIGMOD, VLDB/PVLDB, ICDE, the co-located ICDT theory venue, or a database journal, and…. Edbt Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a data-management project belongs at EDBT or should be routed to SIGMOD, VLDB/PVLDB, ICDE, the co-located ICDT theory venue, or a database journal, and when choosing the EDBT paper shape (Regular / Experiments-&-Analysis / Vision) and the nearest submission cycle.

When should I use Edbt Topic Selection?

Edbt Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a data-management project belongs at EDBT; should be routed to SIGMOD; the co-located ICDT theory venue; A database journal.

How do I install Edbt Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Edbt Topic Selection in Codex?

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

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

What does Edbt Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Edbt 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 Edbt 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 Edbt Topic Selection use?

Edbt 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 Edbt Topic Selection use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.2k 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 Edbt 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.

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