A skill your agent uses when reasoning about how an ESEC/FSE research submission is evaluated, covering double-anonymous "heavy" review, the at-least-three-reviewer PC model, the Accept / Major…

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Install Fse Review Process

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill fse-review-process -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills fse-review-process --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/FSE-Skills/skills/fse-review-process .claude/skills/fse-review-process && 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
fse-review-process
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
705 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when reasoning about how an ESEC/FSE research submission is evaluated, covering double-anonymous "heavy" review, the at-least-three-reviewer PC model, the Accept / Major…

  • Reasoning about how an ESEC/FSE research submission is evaluated
  • SKILL.md covers Process model, Reading a decision against the…, How FSE differs from its… and Who reads you, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Covering double-anonymous heavy review

What it does

Fse Review Process is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when reasoning about how an ESEC/FSE research submission is evaluated, covering double-anonymous "heavy" review, the at-least-three-reviewer PC model, the Accept / Major Revision / Reject decision categories, the journal-style revise-and-resubmit round of PACMSE, and how FSE's process differs from ICSE's cycles and ISSTA's rounds.

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

  • Reasoning about how an ESEC/FSE research submission is evaluated
  • Covering double-anonymous heavy review
  • The at-least-three-reviewer PC model
  • The Accept / Major Revision / Reject decision categories

Example prompts

  • “s process differs from ICSE”
  • “/fse-review-process”

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

Fse Review Process loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 89 tokens; SKILL.md has 705 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~89
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). 705 words, ~1,519 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/fse-review-process/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
fse-review-process
description
Use when reasoning about how an ESEC/FSE research submission is evaluated, covering double-anonymous "heavy" review, the at-least-three-reviewer PC model, the Accept / Major Revision / Reject decision categories, the journal-style revise-and-resubmit round of PACMSE, and how FSE's process differs from ICSE's cycles and ISSTA's rounds.

FSE Review Process

Model the pipeline before interpreting any single review. FSE's process is journal-style: papers are PACMSE articles, and Major Revision is a first-class decision, not a soft rejection. The most consequential mental shift for authors arriving from a plain accept/reject conference is that a Major Revision is a genuine revise-and-resubmit round with the same reviewers, closer to a journal R&R than to a rebuttal.

Process model

  • Submission and review run on HotCRP with heavy double-anonymity: identities are hidden through all reviewing and discussion, and any Major Revision response must itself be anonymous.
  • Each paper is read by at least three program-committee members (FSE 2027 call), who weigh the significance of the SE contribution, soundness of the method, quality and honesty of the empirical evidence, threats-to-validity reasoning, clarity, and open-science support.
  • First decisions fall into Accept, Major Revision, or Reject. A Major Revision is re-reviewed — generally by the original reviewers — against the revision and its response letter.
  • Accepted papers publish in PACMSE, so final metadata, camera-ready compliance, and artifact follow-through matter as much as the initial verdict.

Reading a decision against the categories

DecisionWhat it meansAuthor move
AcceptContribution and evidence hold; minor polish onlyCamera-ready + artifact; do not reopen scope
Major RevisionRepairable gaps: missing analysis, unclear construct, a needed baselineTreat as an R&R: make or explicitly decline every request, evidenced
RejectStructural: wrong population, no credible baseline, thin contributionReframe or reroute (ICSE/ASE/ISSTA or a journal), do not lightly resubmit unchanged

The strategic reading: write the initial submission so that whatever is weakest is revisable in a revision round (an analysis you can add, a threat you can bound) rather than structural (a study design you cannot redo in weeks). The process is built to reward repairable papers.

How FSE differs from its siblings

  • vs. ICSE: ICSE has run its own cycle structure (a two-cycle model in some years, single in others) with an Accept/Major-Revision/Reject flavor too, but on the IEEE side. FSE's identity is the PACMSE journal framing and the SIGSOFT open-science defaults. Never assume the two share a calendar or template.
  • vs. ISSTA: ISSTA has used multi-round reviewing within a cycle; FSE's revise-and-resubmit is a decision-driven round (you revise because you were told to), not a scheduled second read of every paper.
  • vs. the FSE 2024 dual-deadline year: FSE once let a Major Revision resubmit to a later deadline within the same review year. Recent calls advertise a single annual deadline with the revision round inside it — confirm the current cadence rather than carrying either forward.
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Who reads you

Expect three SE-empiricist reviewers. They look for the threats-to-validity section, check whether claims outrun evidence, ask whether subjects and baselines are real and fair, and often open the artifact. Because FSE spans techniques, empirical studies, and human factors, a paper is usually matched to reviewers from its own subarea — vague method descriptions get caught, not skimmed.

Where author leverage actually exists

text
[Before submission]  topic tags -> reviewer pool           (largest lever)
[Initial reviews]    factual corrections, targeted evidence, clarifying misreadings
[Major Revision]     the strongest lever: a tracked-change revision + point-by-point,
                     anonymous response letter re-read by the same reviewers
[After reject]       no appeal; reroute to a sibling flagship or an SE journal

A response moves borderline papers when it corrects a factual misreading or supplies a number a reviewer said was missing; it does not move papers when it argues taste. In a Major Revision, silent omissions — a requested change neither made nor explicitly declined with a reason — are what turn the second read into a rejection.

Reading a review packet

Weight reviews before answering. A review that cites your section numbers, tables, and threats was read closely and will be read closely again in the revision round — its author is your likely advocate if the response holds. A review that discusses only novelty has left soundness and verifiability to the others; answer each reviewer on the axis they raised. Reviewers often end with an explicit question list; the revision is scored heavily on whether each question got a direct, evidenced answer.

Misreadings to avoid

  • Treating Major Revision as a guaranteed accept — the second read is real; budget the revision window like a deadline.
  • Treating the response as a debate — the PC discussion decides; your text is evidence for an advocate, not a closing argument.
  • Assuming unanimity is required — a champion with answers to the other reviews can carry a paper through the discussion.
  • Projecting last year's cadence — deadline count and revision timing are decided per edition.

Output format

text
[Process stage] pre-submission / awaiting reviews / major revision / final / accepted
[Decision category] accept / major revision / reject, with the criterion driving it
[Criterion map] each review point -> significance | soundness | evidence | threats | clarity | open-science
[Leverage plan] the next-stage action that can actually change the outcome
[Forbidden moves] identity leak (incl. in the response letter) / unsupported new claims

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Files

Just SKILL.md in FSE-Skills/skills/fse-review-process of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Fse Review Process

What does Fse Review Process do?

A skill your agent uses when reasoning about how an ESEC/FSE research submission is evaluated, covering double-anonymous "heavy" review, the at-least-three-reviewer PC model, the Accept / Major…. Fse Review Process is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when reasoning about how an ESEC/FSE research submission is evaluated, covering double-anonymous "heavy" review, the at-least-three-reviewer PC model, the Accept / Major Revision / Reject decision categories, the journal-style revise-and-resubmit round of PACMSE, and how FSE's process differs from ICSE's cycles and ISSTA's rounds.

When should I use Fse Review Process?

Fse Review Process fits situations like: reasoning about how an ESEC/FSE research submission is evaluated; covering double-anonymous heavy review; the at-least-three-reviewer PC model; the Accept / Major Revision / Reject decision categories.

How do I install Fse Review Process in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Fse Review Process in Codex?

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

Can I use Fse Review Process 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 fse-review-process -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/fse-review-process, .gemini/skills/fse-review-process, .github/skills/fse-review-process and .opencode/skills/fse-review-process in your project.

What does Fse Review Process need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Fse Review Process is instructions for the agent only.

Does Fse Review Process 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 Fse Review Process 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 Fse Review Process use?

Fse Review Process 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 Fse Review Process 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.

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Who maintains Fse Review Process?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,228 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.