A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a responsible-AI project belongs at ACM FAccT or should route to a pure-ML venue (NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR), an HCI venue (CHI/CSCW), a law/policy venue, or an…

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Install Facct Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills facct-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/FAccT-Skills/skills/facct-topic-selection .claude/skills/facct-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
facct-topic-selection
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
677 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 responsible-AI project belongs at ACM FAccT or should route to a pure-ML venue (NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR), an HCI venue (CHI/CSCW), a law/policy venue, or an…

  • Deciding whether a responsible-AI project belongs at ACM FAccT
  • SKILL.md covers The routing question that…, Sibling-venue routing table, Contribution shapes FAccT… and The two sharpening tests, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Should route to a pure-ML venue (NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR)

What it does

Facct Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a responsible-AI project belongs at ACM FAccT or should route to a pure-ML venue (NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR), an HCI venue (CHI/CSCW), a law/policy venue, or an AI-ethics venue (AIES), by testing whether fairness, accountability, or transparency is a first-class contribution and whether the interdisciplinary framing is native rather than bolted on.

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.

It sits in Legal & Compliance, covering LLM guardrails and AI governance. 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 responsible-AI project belongs at ACM FAccT
  • Should route to a pure-ML venue (NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR)
  • An HCI venue (CHI/CSCW)
  • A law/policy venue

Example prompts

  • “/facct-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

Facct Topic Selection loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 98 tokens; SKILL.md has 677 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~98
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). 677 words, ~1,693 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/facct-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
facct-topic-selection
description
Use when deciding whether a responsible-AI project belongs at ACM FAccT or should route to a pure-ML venue (NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR), an HCI venue (CHI/CSCW), a law/policy venue, or an AI-ethics venue (AIES), by testing whether fairness, accountability, or transparency is a first-class contribution and whether the interdisciplinary framing is native rather than bolted on.

FAccT Topic Selection

Decide the venue before drafting. ACM FAccT — the Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency — is the flagship interdisciplinary responsible-AI venue. Its reviewer pool spans computer science, law, the social sciences, the humanities, and policy, and its defining demand is that fairness, accountability, or transparency (FAccT) is a first-class contribution, not a fairness paragraph appended to a systems result. A technically strong paper whose real center is a new model, a new interaction technique, or a doctrinal legal argument — with FAccT concerns merely gestured at — is respected and then rejected as out of scope.

The routing question that matters most

The decisive question is rarely "does this touch fairness/AI?" but "is a fairness, accountability, or transparency question the actual contribution, and is the sociotechnical framing native?" FAccT uniquely rewards work that takes the social and the technical as inseparable. A paper that would lose nothing if you deleted the equity framing belongs elsewhere; a paper whose whole point is who is harmed, who is accountable, or what can be made legible belongs here.

Sibling-venue routing table

Signal in your projectBetter homeWhy
Fairness/accountability/transparency is the contribution; social + technical are entangledACM FAccTThe interdisciplinary responsible-AI flagship; FAccT concerns are first-class
A new model/algorithm whose fairness angle is a secondary evaluationNeurIPS / ICML / ICLRML flagships; a fairness metric alone does not make it FAccT
A new interaction technique or system; the study is about use more than justice/powerCHI / CSCWHCI flagships; FAccT wants the accountability/harm question central
Primarily doctrinal legal analysis or regulatory design for a legal readershipLaw reviews / policy venuesFAccT welcomes law, but wants cross-disciplinary reach, not doctrine alone
AI-ethics argument aimed at a philosophy/ethics readershipAIES and adjacentOverlapping sibling; FAccT leans empirical + sociotechnical + policy-facing
Critical/qualitative/participatory engagement better as a session than a paperFAccT CRAFT trackParticipatory and world-building formats live in CRAFT, not the paper track

Contribution shapes FAccT rewards

FAccT is genuinely pluralistic — the following are all native, and a good program mixes them:

  • Algorithmic fairness / interpretability method — a new measure, algorithm, or auditing technique for bias, recourse, explainability, or transparency, evaluated on real data (the fairness-metrics lineage).
  • Empirical audit — measuring disparate performance or harm in a deployed or commercial system across subgroups (the Gender Shades lineage).
  • Documentation / accountability infrastructure — datasheets, model cards, data statements, audit frameworks, and impact-assessment tooling that change how the field builds and reports (the Model Cards / Datasheets lineage).
  • Critical / conceptual / position work — an argument that reframes what the field takes for granted about harm, power, or measurement (the Stochastic Parrots lineage).
  • Qualitative / sociotechnical study — interviews, ethnography, or a case study of how a system affects an affected community or institution, with sound method.
  • Law & policy — legal, regulatory, or governance analysis that engages the technical substrate and reaches a mixed audience.
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The two sharpening tests

  • Delete-the-equity test: remove every sentence about fairness, accountability, transparency, harm, or power. If a complete, publishable contribution remains, the FAccT framing is decoration — route to the ML/HCI/legal home of the surviving core. If nothing coherent remains without it, FAccT is right.
  • Mixed-reviewer test: imagine your paper read by a computer scientist, a lawyer, and a qualitative social scientist at once. FAccT-shaped work gives each of them something to hold and survives all three; a paper that only one of them can evaluate is usually a sibling-venue paper wearing a FAccT title.

Interdisciplinary rigor, not interdisciplinary gesture

Fit is necessary but not sufficient. FAccT reviewers penalize thin interdisciplinarity: a CS paper that cites one sociology book without method, or a critical paper that name-drops an algorithm it never engages. Whichever lane you sit in, meet that lane's standard of rigor — statistical care and honest baselines for a method/audit paper; coding schemes, saturation, and reflexivity for a qualitative paper; doctrinal precision for a legal paper — and then connect it across the divide.

Cheap reconnaissance before committing

text
[Scope]   scan the last two FAccT programs (facctconference.org, ACM DL, dblp db/conf/fat) for
          your topic -> several recent papers = a reviewer pool exists; none = opening or mismatch
[Focus areas] can you name a primary + secondary FAccT focus area (algorithm development; data &
          algorithm evaluation; applications; human factors; privacy & security; law; policy;
          critical/humanistic/social-scientific) that genuinely fit? -> if not, reconsider the venue
[Audience] would a lawyer AND a computer scientist both find a contribution? -> that dual pull is
          the FAccT signature; a single-discipline pull points to a sibling venue

Decision procedure

text
[Who is affected] whose fairness/accountability/transparency changes if the claim holds?
[Contribution type] method / audit / documentation-infra / critical-conceptual / qualitative / law-policy
[First-class check] delete-the-equity test -> does a contribution survive without the FAccT framing?
[Interdisciplinary check] mixed-reviewer test -> do a CS + a law + a social-science reader each hold something?
[Format check] is it a paper, or a participatory session? -> paper track vs CRAFT
[Verdict] FAccT paper track / FAccT CRAFT / sibling venue (NeurIPS/ICML/CHI/AIES/law), one-line reason

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

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Files

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

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Facct Topic Selection

What does Facct Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a responsible-AI project belongs at ACM FAccT or should route to a pure-ML venue (NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR), an HCI venue (CHI/CSCW), a law/policy venue, or an…. Facct Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a responsible-AI project belongs at ACM FAccT or should route to a pure-ML venue (NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR), an HCI venue (CHI/CSCW), a law/policy venue, or an AI-ethics venue (AIES), by testing whether fairness, accountability, or transparency is a first-class contribution and whether the interdisciplinary framing is native rather than bolted on.

When should I use Facct Topic Selection?

Facct Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a responsible-AI project belongs at ACM FAccT; should route to a pure-ML venue (NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR); an HCI venue (CHI/CSCW); A law/policy venue.

How do I install Facct Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Facct Topic Selection in Codex?

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

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

What does Facct Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Facct 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 Facct 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 Facct Topic Selection use?

Facct 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 Facct 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 Facct 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.