Agent skill

Eurosys Topic Selection

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

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a systems project belongs at EuroSys — the ACM SIGOPS-Europe flagship spanning OS, distributed systems, storage, cloud, virtualization, security, and ML…

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Install Eurosys Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills eurosys-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/EuroSys-Skills/skills/eurosys-topic-selection .claude/skills/eurosys-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
eurosys-topic-selection
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
656 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 systems project belongs at EuroSys — the ACM SIGOPS-Europe flagship spanning OS, distributed systems, storage, cloud, virtualization, security, and ML…

  • Deciding whether a systems project belongs at EuroSys — the ACM SIGOPS-Europe flagship spanning OS
  • SKILL.md covers The substance bar, Routing from the EuroSys seat, Fit self-interrogation and Contribution shapes EuroSys…, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Distributed systems

What it does

Eurosys Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a systems project belongs at EuroSys — the ACM SIGOPS-Europe flagship spanning OS, distributed systems, storage, cloud, virtualization, security, and ML systems — or routes better to SOSP, OSDI, NSDI, ASPLOS, ATC, FAST, or SoCC, and how the April slot and dual deadlines affect that call.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k 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 systems project belongs at EuroSys — the ACM SIGOPS-Europe flagship spanning OS
  • Distributed systems
  • Routes better to SOSP
  • How the April slot and dual deadlines affect that call

Example prompts

  • “/eurosys-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

Eurosys Topic Selection loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 85 tokens; SKILL.md has 656 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
~1.5k

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). 656 words, ~1,536 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/eurosys-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
eurosys-topic-selection
description
Use when deciding whether a systems project belongs at EuroSys — the ACM SIGOPS-Europe flagship spanning OS, distributed systems, storage, cloud, virtualization, security, and ML systems — or routes better to SOSP, OSDI, NSDI, ASPLOS, ATC, FAST, or SoCC, and how the April slot and dual deadlines affect that call.

EuroSys Topic Selection

Use this before serious writing begins. EuroSys is the flagship conference of the European Chapter of ACM SIGOPS (eurosys.org, rendered 2026-07-08), running annually since 2006 and seeking papers on all areas of computer systems — it is a broad-church systems venue, not a niche. The 2026 edition (the 21st) met in Edinburgh in April; 2027 meets in Rabat. The right question is rarely "is this systems?" but "is this conference-grade systems, and is EuroSys the best-positioned jury and calendar slot for it?"

The substance bar

A EuroSys-ready project typically has all four:

  • A built thing. An implemented system or substantial modification, not a simulation of one (measurement and experience papers are the exception, and must be framed as such).
  • A transferable idea. An abstraction, mechanism, or empirically established principle that outlives this codebase.
  • Evidence under realistic conditions. Workloads and scale that resemble the deployment story being told.
  • An articulable insight. One sentence a reviewer can carry into the PC meeting. Strong engineering without a nameable idea routes to ATC-style venues or an experience track.

Routing from the EuroSys seat

Center of gravityStay or routeWhy
OS/kernel, runtimes, virtualization, distributed infraEuroSys coreThe venue's home ground since 2006
ML systems (serving, training infra)EuroSys core, growingRecent best papers are LLM-serving systems (e.g., EuroSys '25)
Once-a-generation OS-principles resultConsider SOSP/OSDI tooSame-family flagships; route by cycle timing and audience
Network protocols, measurement of networksNSDI / SIGCOMMEuroSys reads it as out-of-center networking
Hardware/software interface, arch mechanismsASPLOSArchitecture jury evaluates architecture ideas
Storage-stack internalsFAST firstDeepest storage jury; EuroSys viable for broader claims
Cloud-native ops, serverless economicsSoCC / Middleware also viableMatch the paper's altitude to the jury
Pragmatic engineering, tool papersUSENIX ATCIdea-density bar differs there

Two calendar facts sharpen the call: EuroSys's April conference and dual gates (May and September submissions for 2027) interleave with the SOSP/OSDI and NSDI cycles, so a systems result can almost always find a flagship gate within a few months — pick by fit and readiness, never by whichever deadline is nearest. And a EuroSys rejection blocks the same round for a year, which makes premature submission genuinely expensive.

Fit self-interrogation

text
1. Insight test: state the idea in one sentence without naming your system.
2. Jury test: which three published papers would this one sit between?
   If ≥2 are EuroSys/SOSP/OSDI papers, EuroSys is plausible.
3. Evidence test: does the current evaluation reach the four-layer stack
   (end-to-end / decomposition / cost / boundary)? If not, is it reachable
   by the target gate?
4. Regime test: is the claim's deployment story credible to reviewers who
   run real infrastructure?
5. Calendar test: which gate (spring/fall) matches the project's maturity,
   accounting for the one-year ban if it fails?
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Contribution shapes EuroSys publishes

The exemplars library (resources/exemplars/library.md) documents these shapes across two decades of the venue's own award line:

ShapeAward-line instanceWhat it must bring
General abstraction + engineDryad (2007)Proof the abstraction subsumes existing practice
Tool with a thesisCoccinelle line (2008)Validation on the real ecosystem it targets
Small mechanism, big evidenceDelay Scheduling (2010)Production-shaped workloads carrying a simple idea
Design-space taxonomyOmega (2013)Vocabulary plus trace-driven comparison
Production retrospectiveBorg (2015)Transferable lessons including failures
ML-infrastructure mechanismCacheBlend (2025)A systems idea legible without ML expertise

If the project matches none of these shapes, that is not disqualifying — but it should prompt a harder look at what the contribution type is before a EuroSys jury is chosen for it.

Signals you are forcing it

  • The contribution sentence contains "we combine" and three technique names but no invariant or tradeoff.
  • The evaluation exists only at benchmark scale while the pitch is production scale.
  • The nearest related work is entirely from another community's venues — the jury you are choosing has no vocabulary for the delta.
  • The plan is "submit to fall EuroSys because SOSP just closed" — deadline proximity masquerading as venue fit.

When EuroSys is the strategically right flagship

Beyond raw fit, three situations tilt toward EuroSys among the systems flagships:

  • The work speaks to infrastructure and communities strongly represented on European PCs (e.g., European cloud/telecom operators, EU data-locality constraints) and benefits from that jury's context.
  • The project's maturity curve matches a EuroSys gate now, and waiting for another flagship's next cycle risks being scooped by a fast-moving line of work.
  • The team wants the artifact culture: sysartifacts badges plus a named artifact award make EuroSys a strong home for systems whose artifact is part of the contribution.

Output format

text
[Verdict] EuroSys-ready / EuroSys-plausible after gaps / route elsewhere
[Insight sentence] <the transferable idea, system name omitted>
[Neighbor triangulation] <three papers this would sit between>
[Best-fit gate] spring / fall 2027+ with readiness rationale
[If routing away] <venue + the specific mismatch driving it>

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Files

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

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Eurosys Topic Selection

What does Eurosys Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a systems project belongs at EuroSys — the ACM SIGOPS-Europe flagship spanning OS, distributed systems, storage, cloud, virtualization, security, and ML…. Eurosys Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a systems project belongs at EuroSys — the ACM SIGOPS-Europe flagship spanning OS, distributed systems, storage, cloud, virtualization, security, and ML systems — or routes better to SOSP, OSDI, NSDI, ASPLOS, ATC, FAST, or SoCC, and how the April slot and dual deadlines affect that call.

When should I use Eurosys Topic Selection?

Eurosys Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a systems project belongs at EuroSys — the ACM SIGOPS-Europe flagship spanning OS; distributed systems; routes better to SOSP; how the April slot and dual deadlines affect that call.

How do I install Eurosys Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Eurosys Topic Selection in Codex?

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

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

What does Eurosys Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Eurosys 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 Eurosys 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 Eurosys Topic Selection use?

Eurosys 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 Eurosys Topic Selection use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Eurosys Topic Selection?

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Who maintains Eurosys 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.