A skill your agent uses when reasoning about how an ICALP (EATCS) submission is evaluated, covering lightweight double-blind review, the separate Track A and Track B program committees, the…

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Install Icalp Review Process

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills icalp-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/ICALP-Skills/skills/icalp-review-process .claude/skills/icalp-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
icalp-review-process
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
742 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 ICALP (EATCS) submission is evaluated, covering lightweight double-blind review, the separate Track A and Track B program committees, the…

  • Reasoning about how an ICALP (EATCS) submission is evaluated
  • SKILL.md covers Process model, Reading a decision against the…, How ICALP differs from its US… and Who reads you, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Covering lightweight double-blind review

What it does

Icalp Review Process is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when reasoning about how an ICALP (EATCS) submission is evaluated, covering lightweight double-blind review, the separate Track A and Track B program committees, the asymmetric author interaction (Track B rebuttal vs Track A correctness-only contact), correctness-driven acceptance, the single accept/reject decision, and how ICALP's process differs from STOC/FOCS/SODA.

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

  • Reasoning about how an ICALP (EATCS) submission is evaluated
  • Covering lightweight double-blind review
  • The separate Track A and Track B program committees
  • The asymmetric author interaction (Track B rebuttal vs Track A correctness-only contact)

Example prompts

  • “/icalp-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

Icalp Review Process loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 99 tokens; SKILL.md has 742 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~99
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

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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). 742 words, ~1,587 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/icalp-review-process/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
icalp-review-process
description
Use when reasoning about how an ICALP (EATCS) submission is evaluated, covering lightweight double-blind review, the separate Track A and Track B program committees, the asymmetric author interaction (Track B rebuttal vs Track A correctness-only contact), correctness-driven acceptance, the single accept/reject decision, and how ICALP's process differs from STOC/FOCS/SODA.

ICALP Review Process

Model the pipeline before interpreting any single review. ICALP's process is conference-style and correctness-centered: a paper is accepted or rejected in one round (no journal-style major revision), and the reviewers' overriding job is to judge whether the theorems are significant and the proofs are correct. The most consequential thing to internalize is that the two tracks run different processes — Track B gives you a rebuttal, Track A generally does not.

Process model

  • Submission and review run on HotCRP, on separate servers per track, under lightweight double-blind: identities are hidden for an unbiased first read, self-references are third person, but the regime is deliberately not adversarial about de-anonymization.
  • Each paper is refereed by the track's program committee (often with sub-reviewers who are subject experts), who weigh the significance of the result, the correctness and depth of the proofs, the improvement over prior bounds, and clarity.
  • Track A (Algorithms, Complexity and Games): chairs for ICALP 2026 are Sayan Bhattacharya and Danupon Nanongkai (reported). Authors are contacted only if a correctness issue must be resolved — otherwise there is no interaction.
  • Track B (Automata, Logic, Semantics and Theory of Programming): chaired by Michael Benedikt (reported). There is a rebuttal period (ICALP 2026: 21-24 March) where authors respond to initial reviews.
  • Decisions are accept / reject in one round; accepted papers publish open-access in LIPIcs.

Reading a decision against the criteria

DecisionWhat it usually meansAuthor move
AcceptResult significant, proofs judged correct, improvement over prior work is clearCamera-ready in LIPIcs; post/refresh the full version; arrange a presenter
Reject (borderline)Correct but incremental, or a proof gap the referees could not close in timeStrengthen or reframe; consider STOC/FOCS/SODA/LICS or a journal (icalp-topic-selection)
Reject (structural)A proof is wrong or the model/claim is offFix the mathematics before resubmitting anywhere; do not merely re-target

The strategic reading: because there is no revision round, the submission must be correct and complete at deadline. A believable-but-unwritten proof is the classic ICALP rejection — reviewers cannot accept what they cannot check in the appendix or full version.

How ICALP differs from its US siblings

  • vs. STOC / FOCS: those are ACM/IEEE flagships with their own PCs, templates, and calendars, and a US-centered community. ICALP is EATCS/European, LIPIcs open-access, and two-track. Prestige and pool differ; never assume a shared calendar or format.
  • vs. SODA: SODA is SIAM's algorithms venue with a distinct community and its own reviewing style. ICALP Track A overlaps in scope but is a different program committee and audience.
  • vs. journals: ICALP is single-round accept/reject, not revise-and-resubmit. There is no major revision; a paper that needs one belongs in a journal (LMCS, TALG, TCS, JACM) or a later cycle.
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Who reads you

Expect subject-matter referees for your specific subarea and track — a matroid result is read by someone who knows matroid intersection; a VASS result by someone who knows Petri nets. They will check the proofs, not skim them, which is exactly why the full version / appendix must be complete. A vague proof sketch with "details omitted" and no full version is caught, not trusted.

Where author leverage actually exists

text
[Before submission]  track choice + clean model + complete proofs      (largest lever)
[Track A]            essentially none post-submission except a correctness clarification if asked
[Track B rebuttal]   correct factual misreadings; point to the exact lemma answering an objection
[After reject]       no appeal; reroute to a sibling venue or journal, having fixed the mathematics

For Track B, a rebuttal moves a paper when it fixes a misread ("the reviewer thinks Lemma 4 needs X, but the hypothesis already gives it, see line ...") — not when it argues taste. For Track A, the lever is almost entirely before submission: get the proofs complete and the exposition clear, because you will likely not get to speak again.

Reading a review packet

Weight reviews by how closely the proof was read. A review that cites your lemma numbers and questions a specific step engaged the mathematics and is your most important reader — answer that step exactly (Track B) or make sure it is airtight (Track A). A review that discusses only novelty has left correctness to the others. Reviewers who flag a potential gap are giving you the single most important signal: if they are right, no rebuttal saves it; if they misread, a precise pointer to the proof can.

Misreadings to avoid

  • Expecting a revision round — there is none; the submission is the artifact of record.
  • Assuming a Track A rebuttal — Track A contacts you only for correctness; do not bank on responding.
  • Treating "details in the full version" as sufficient without the full version — reviewers must be able to check the proof at submission time.
  • Projecting a US-venue process onto ICALP — the two-track split and the rebuttal asymmetry are ICALP-specific.

Output format

text
[Process stage] pre-submission / under review / Track B rebuttal / notified
[Track] A (correctness-contact only) / B (rebuttal)
[Decision criterion] significance / correctness / improvement-over-prior / clarity
[Proof-check risk] any headline theorem whose full proof a referee cannot currently verify?
[Leverage plan] the next-stage action that can actually change the outcome
[Forbidden moves] shipping an unproved claim / arguing taste in a rebuttal

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Files

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

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Icalp Review Process

What does Icalp Review Process do?

A skill your agent uses when reasoning about how an ICALP (EATCS) submission is evaluated, covering lightweight double-blind review, the separate Track A and Track B program committees, the…. Icalp Review Process is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when reasoning about how an ICALP (EATCS) submission is evaluated, covering lightweight double-blind review, the separate Track A and Track B program committees, the asymmetric author interaction (Track B rebuttal vs Track A correctness-only contact), correctness-driven acceptance, the single accept/reject decision, and how ICALP's process differs from STOC/FOCS/SODA.

When should I use Icalp Review Process?

Icalp Review Process fits situations like: reasoning about how an ICALP (EATCS) submission is evaluated; covering lightweight double-blind review; the separate Track A and Track B program committees; the asymmetric author interaction (Track B rebuttal vs Track A correctness-only contact).

How do I install Icalp Review Process in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Icalp Review Process in Codex?

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

Can I use Icalp 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 icalp-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/icalp-review-process, .gemini/skills/icalp-review-process, .github/skills/icalp-review-process and .opencode/skills/icalp-review-process in your project.

What does Icalp Review Process need to run?

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

Does Icalp 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 Icalp 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 Icalp Review Process use?

Icalp 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 Icalp Review Process use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.3k 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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Who maintains Icalp Review Process?

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.

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