A skill your agent uses when auditing a USENIX FAST submission for HotCRP readiness, covering the choice between the Spring and Fall deadlines, abstract registration, the USENIX two-column template…

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Install Fast Submission

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill fast-submission -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills fast-submission --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/FAST-Skills/skills/fast-submission .claude/skills/fast-submission && 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
fast-submission
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
766 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when auditing a USENIX FAST submission for HotCRP readiness, covering the choice between the Spring and Fall deadlines, abstract registration, the USENIX two-column template…

  • Works in 7 steps: Confirm the target deadline… → Freeze the body early; references can… → Finalize the testbed table (devices,… → …
  • Auditing a USENIX FAST submission for HotCRP readiness
  • SKILL.md covers Pick the deadline first, Register the abstract early, Format and page limit and Double-blind sweep, plus 5 more sections
  • Calls pdftotext

What it does

Fast Submission is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when auditing a USENIX FAST submission for HotCRP readiness, covering the choice between the Spring and Fall deadlines, abstract registration, the USENIX two-column template and 12-page (long) / 6-page (short) limit excluding references, double-blind anonymization, the artifact-availability story, and desk-reject triage before the AoE cutoff.

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

  • Auditing a USENIX FAST submission for HotCRP readiness
  • Covering the choice between the Spring and Fall deadlines
  • Abstract registration
  • The USENIX two-column template and 12-page (long) / 6-page (short) limit excluding references

Example prompts

  • “/fast-submission”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Confirm the target deadline (Spring/Fall) and its HotCRP URL and cutoff.
  2. Freeze the body early; references can churn, the storage argument cannot.
  3. Finalize the testbed table (devices, firmware, kernel, workloads/traces, device state).
  4. Build the anonymized artifact/trace bundle and place its availability statement in the paper.
  5. Run the mechanical double-blind checks on the final PDF and archive, not drafts.
  6. Fill every HotCRP field — topics matching your evidence, conflicts for every coauthor's
  7. Re-download the uploaded PDF and read it cold to confirm it is the file you meant.

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

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • pdftotext

    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

Fast Submission loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 91 tokens; SKILL.md has 766 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~91
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). 766 words, ~1,633 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/fast-submission/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
fast-submission
description
Use when auditing a USENIX FAST submission for HotCRP readiness, covering the choice between the Spring and Fall deadlines, abstract registration, the USENIX two-column template and 12-page (long) / 6-page (short) limit excluding references, double-blind anonymization, the artifact-availability story, and desk-reject triage before the AoE cutoff.

FAST Submission

Run this audit before uploading to the FAST HotCRP site. FAST — the USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies — publishes open access via USENIX, reviews double-blind, and runs two deadlines a year. The first decision you make is not about the PDF but about which deadline you are aiming at. Every number below was read from the FAST '26/'27 calls on 2026-07-09 via search renderings of the usenix.org URLs (see resources/official-source-map.md); treat them as a one-cycle snapshot and reopen the live call first.

Pick the deadline first

FAST '27 runs a Spring deadline (17 Mar 2026) and a Fall deadline (15 Sep 2026), each with its own HotCRP instance, author-response window, and notification date. Consequences:

  • Choose by readiness, not habit: a study that will be steady-state-solid in August targets Fall; do not rush it into a Spring slot it will fail.
  • Register at the right HotCRP site — the Spring and Fall instances are different URLs; an abstract registered on the wrong one does not carry over.
  • As of 2026-07-09 the live actionable target is the FAST '27 Fall deadline, 15 Sep 2026.

Register the abstract early

FAST expects title, authors, abstract, and topics registered in HotCRP; some cycles require this a few days before the full-paper cutoff. Register with the real title and abstract — they drive reviewer bidding and PC match — not a placeholder you intend to swap.

Format and page limit

  • USENIX two-column template (LaTeX or Word), unmodified: 10-point on 12-point leading, a 7" x 9" text block, 0.33" inter-column gap, US-letter. This is the USENIX path — not ACM acmart, not IEEE 10+2. Do not carry a two-column ACM/IEEE habit over.
  • Page limit (verify per cycle): FAST '27 posts ≤12 pages for a long paper and ≤6 pages for a short paper, excluding references — the bibliography is uncapped and does not count. Camera-ready allowances are larger (reported 13 / 7 excluding references), so do not pad the submission toward the camera-ready size.
  • Everything a reviewer must read to judge the paper lives in those pages; the artifact supports, it does not hold the argument.

Double-blind sweep

FAST review is double-blind: anonymize the PDF and references and refer to your own prior work in the third person. Storage papers leak identity through devices, tools, and traces, so the surface is wide:

bash
# Mechanical pass on the submission PDF and any anonymized artifact archive
pdfinfo paper.pdf | grep -Ei 'author|creator|producer'
pdftotext paper.pdf - | grep -nEi 'github\.com/[a-z0-9-]+|zenodo\.org/record|our (system|lab|group)|acknowledg|grant' | head
unzip -l artifact.zip | grep -Ei '\.git/|\.DS_Store|/home/|/Users/|hostname' | head
grep -rni 'university\|@[a-z0-9.]*\.edu\|internal cluster\|<companyname>' artifact/ --include='*.md' | head

The storage-specific leaks: a system named after your lab or product, a cluster/hostname in a config or SMART dump, a trace hosted on a personal or institutional URL, a datacenter name in a field study, and commit metadata inside a zipped repository. Re-host artifacts and traces behind an anonymizing location before upload.

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Availability story at submission time

USENIX values sharing. Concretely for the submission:

  • State where the code, traces, and scripts will live and, where possible, provide an anonymized artifact or trace-replay bundle at review time.
  • If something cannot be shared (proprietary drives under NDA, production traces with privacy limits), say so and why — a silent gap reads worse than a stated, justified exception.
  • Pin device models, firmware, and trace identifiers now; they cannot be reconstructed later.

Desk-risk triage

Finding at audit timeSeverityReal fix
Body over the 12/6-page limitDesk-reject-gradeCut or move to the artifact; references don't absorb body text
Wrong template (ACM/IEEE, altered margins/font)Named format-reject groundRecompile in the USENIX template; recover space editorially
Identity leak in PDF, artifact, tool, or trace URLAnonymity violationRe-anonymize and re-host; scrub PDF and SMART/config metadata
Registered on the wrong deadline's HotCRPNo valid submission thereRe-register on the correct Spring/Fall instance before its cutoff
No device/firmware detail in the evaluationStorage-soundness weaknessAdd the testbed table before submission, not in rebuttal
Same work under review elsewhereConcurrent-submission violationWithdraw one venue; a one-shot revision also blocks parallel submission

Final-week order of operations

  1. Confirm the target deadline (Spring/Fall) and its HotCRP URL and cutoff.
  2. Freeze the body early; references can churn, the storage argument cannot.
  3. Finalize the testbed table (devices, firmware, kernel, workloads/traces, device state).
  4. Build the anonymized artifact/trace bundle and place its availability statement in the paper.
  5. Run the mechanical double-blind checks on the final PDF and archive, not drafts.
  6. Fill every HotCRP field — topics matching your evidence, conflicts for every coauthor's institution and recent collaborators — a day early.
  7. Re-download the uploaded PDF and read it cold to confirm it is the file you meant.

Reverify each cycle

  • Both deadline dates and which HotCRP instance is live now.
  • The page limit and which USENIX template revision is required.
  • Artifact timing, one-shot-revision and shepherding wording, concurrent-submission rules, and any AI-disclosure policy — all cycle-volatile.

Output format

text
[FAST submission status] ready / blocked / needs work
[Target deadline] Spring / Fall <date + correct HotCRP URL>
[Registration] title/abstract/authors/topics/conflicts locked? yes/no
[Format] pages used (body/refs), USENIX template compliance
[Anonymity] clean / leaks: <where>
[Availability] artifact/trace bundle present? device+firmware provenance stated?
[Fix queue] <ordered, with owners and dates before the AoE cutoff>

© brycewang-stanford, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in FAST-Skills/skills/fast-submission of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Fast Submission

What does Fast Submission do?

A skill your agent uses when auditing a USENIX FAST submission for HotCRP readiness, covering the choice between the Spring and Fall deadlines, abstract registration, the USENIX two-column template…. Fast Submission is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when auditing a USENIX FAST submission for HotCRP readiness, covering the choice between the Spring and Fall deadlines, abstract registration, the USENIX two-column template and 12-page (long) / 6-page (short) limit excluding references, double-blind anonymization, the artifact-availability story, and desk-reject triage before the AoE cutoff.

When should I use Fast Submission?

Fast Submission fits situations like: auditing a USENIX FAST submission for HotCRP readiness; covering the choice between the Spring and Fall deadlines; abstract registration; the USENIX two-column template and 12-page (long) / 6-page (short) limit excluding references.

How do I install Fast Submission in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Fast Submission in Codex?

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

Can I use Fast Submission 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 fast-submission -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/fast-submission, .gemini/skills/fast-submission, .github/skills/fast-submission and .opencode/skills/fast-submission in your project.

What does Fast Submission need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Fast Submission needs the command-line tools its instructions call (pdftotext).

Does Fast Submission 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 Fast Submission 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 Fast Submission use?

Fast Submission 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 Fast Submission use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.5k 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 Fast Submission?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,231 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.