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A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a theoretical-computer-science result belongs at FOCS (IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science) — testing foundations-level significance…
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill focs-topic-selection -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills focs-topic-selection --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/FOCS-Skills/skills/focs-topic-selection .claude/skills/focs-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "focs-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/FOCS-Skills/skills/focs-topic-selection into .claude/skills/focs-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "focs-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/FOCS-Skills/skills/focs-topic-selectionType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill focs-topic-selection -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills focs-topic-selection --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/FOCS-Skills/skills/focs-topic-selection .agents/skills/focs-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "focs-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/FOCS-Skills/skills/focs-topic-selection into .agents/skills/focs-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "focs-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill focs-topic-selection -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills focs-topic-selection --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/FOCS-Skills/skills/focs-topic-selection .cursor/skills/focs-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "focs-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/FOCS-Skills/skills/focs-topic-selection into .cursor/skills/focs-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "focs-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git --path FOCS-Skills/skills/focs-topic-selection--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill focs-topic-selection -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills focs-topic-selection --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/FOCS-Skills/skills/focs-topic-selection .gemini/skills/focs-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "focs-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/FOCS-Skills/skills/focs-topic-selection into .gemini/skills/focs-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "focs-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills focs-topic-selectionInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill focs-topic-selection -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/FOCS-Skills/skills/focs-topic-selection .github/skills/focs-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "focs-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/FOCS-Skills/skills/focs-topic-selection into .github/skills/focs-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "focs-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill focs-topic-selection -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills focs-topic-selection --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/FOCS-Skills/skills/focs-topic-selection .opencode/skills/focs-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "focs-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/FOCS-Skills/skills/focs-topic-selection into .opencode/skills/focs-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "focs-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
focs-topic-selectionA skill your agent uses when deciding whether a theoretical-computer-science result belongs at FOCS (IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science) — testing foundations-level significance…
Focs Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a theoretical-computer-science result belongs at FOCS (IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science) — testing foundations-level significance, weighing the April deadline against sibling theory venues like STOC, SODA, CCC, ITCS, or CRYPTO, and applying the CFP's broaden-the-reach clause.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.8k 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.
3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
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.
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.
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Focs Topic Selection loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 85 tokens; SKILL.md has 932 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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.
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.
The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 932 words, ~1,827 tokens.
.claude/skills/focs-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).FOCS asks for "new and original research on theory of computation" and explicitly
welcomes papers that broaden the reach of the theory of computing or raise
important problems that can benefit from theoretical investigation (FOCS 2026
CFP, checked 2026-07-08 via focs.computer.org/2026/call-for-papers-2/). The
selection question is therefore two-dimensional: is this a theorems paper whose
significance survives a committee drawn from every corner of TCS, and is the
April-anchored IEEE cycle the right launch window for it?
A foundations flagship rewards results that change what other theoreticians can prove, not results that only optimize inside one subcommunity's parameter chart. Before committing to the April deadline, answer three questions in writing:
A "yes" on two of three is competitive; a "yes" driven only by technical difficulty, with no consequence statement, is the classic strong-reject-with- respect outcome.
| Signal in your result | Better home | Why |
|---|---|---|
| General TCS interest, mature proofs, ready by April 1 | FOCS | The fall flagship; full-version submissions welcome |
| Same profile, but ready in autumn | STOC (ACM SIGACT) | The spring flagship; the other beat of the same community |
| Algorithms with heavy implementation or fine-grained constants | SODA / ESA | Committees calibrated for algorithmic depth over breadth |
| Complexity-internal progress (e.g., inside a known hierarchy) | CCC | Specialist referees who value the regime you improved |
| Conceptual model or provocative definition, proofs still thin | ITCS | Explicitly rewards vision over completeness |
| Cryptographic construction with security-proof machinery | CRYPTO / EUROCRYPT / TCC | IACR reviewing conventions fit the proof style |
| Quantum result addressed mainly to quantum insiders | QIP | Talk-driven venue; pair with an arXiv record |
| Learning-theoretic core with sample-complexity focus | COLT / ALT | Statistical-learning referees |
| Geometry- or distributed-computing-native contribution | SoCG / PODC / DISC | Community-specific evaluation depth |
FOCS and STOC differ in sponsor (IEEE Computer Society TCMF vs. ACM SIGACT), calendar seat, and program committee — not in scope or prestige. Never argue "FOCS because it is stronger than X"; argue from audience and timing.
The FOCS deadline (April 1 for the 2026 cycle) sits roughly five months after STOC's early-November deadline and about seven months before the conference itself. Consequences worth planning around:
The CFP sentence inviting papers that widen theory's reach is a real lane, not decoration: FOCS regularly accepts work importing TCS rigor into new territory (economic mechanisms, learning pipelines, quantum experiments, fairness, verification). To use the lane safely:
focs-experiments for what
computation can and cannot do in this venue.[Claimed contribution] <one sentence, no adjectives>
[Consequence outside subarea] <named problem or belief revised — or NONE>
[Barrier bypassed] <named obstacle — or NONE>
[Deletion test] remove best constants: still citable? yes/no
[Cycle fit] proofs complete by April 1? yes/no
[Verdict] FOCS / STOC (autumn) / specialized venue: ____Two NONE answers or a "no" on proof completeness means route elsewhere or wait
a beat. FOCS grants no rebuttal in which to repair a shaky significance case
(see focs-review-process), so the routing decision must be honest before the
formatting work begins. If the contribution is a new model or problem rather
than a theorem, re-read the CFP's broaden-the-reach sentence and consider
whether ITCS's explicitly conceptual charter serves the paper better — an
important-problems paper at FOCS still needs nontrivial technical evidence
that the problem is tractable and rich.
Finally, calibrate against the venue's own memory: the exemplars library in
resources/exemplars/library.md maps recent Test of Time and Machtey Award
citations to durability patterns (field-opener, technique transplant,
barrier map, subfield founder). If your draft cannot honestly claim kinship
with any pattern there, that is not disqualifying — but it predicts which
committee question (focs-review-process) will decide your fate, and it
should shape where the writing effort goes.
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Just SKILL.md in FOCS-Skills/skills/focs-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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| Focs Topic Selection this skillbrycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills | 1.2k | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Ito Computeaffaan-m/ECC | 275k | 1 repos | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Senior Computer Visiondavila7/claude-code-templates | 32k | 3 repos | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Senior Computer Visionalirezarezvani/claude-skills | 28k | 2 repos | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| GCP Computesickn33/agentic-awesome-skills | 47k | 2 repos | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Computer UseQwenLM/qwen-code | 28k | — | ~3.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 |
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A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a theoretical-computer-science result belongs at FOCS (IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science) — testing foundations-level significance…. Focs Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a theoretical-computer-science result belongs at FOCS (IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science) — testing foundations-level significance, weighing the April deadline against sibling theory venues like STOC, SODA, CCC, ITCS, or CRYPTO, and applying the CFP's broaden-the-reach clause.
Focs Topic Selection fits situations like: weighing the April deadline against sibling theory venues like STOC; applying the CFPs broaden-the-reach clause.
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill focs-topic-selection -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (FOCS-Skills/skills/focs-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/focs-topic-selection in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill focs-topic-selection -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (FOCS-Skills/skills/focs-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/focs-topic-selection in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
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 focs-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/focs-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/focs-topic-selection, .github/skills/focs-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/focs-topic-selection in your project.
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Focs Topic Selection is instructions for the agent only.
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.
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.
Focs 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.
About 1.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.3k 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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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.