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A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project is a strong IEEE ICDE fit, routing among the three database venues from ICDE's seat (SIGMOD's quarterly rounds vs PVLDB's monthly deadlines vs…
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Install Icde Topic Selection
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill icde-topic-selection -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills icde-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/ICDE-Skills/skills/icde-topic-selection .claude/skills/icde-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 "icde-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ICDE-Skills/skills/icde-topic-selection into .claude/skills/icde-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "icde-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/ICDE-Skills/skills/icde-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 icde-topic-selection -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills icde-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/ICDE-Skills/skills/icde-topic-selection .agents/skills/icde-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 "icde-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ICDE-Skills/skills/icde-topic-selection into .agents/skills/icde-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "icde-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 icde-topic-selection -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills icde-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/ICDE-Skills/skills/icde-topic-selection .cursor/skills/icde-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 "icde-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ICDE-Skills/skills/icde-topic-selection into .cursor/skills/icde-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "icde-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 ICDE-Skills/skills/icde-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 icde-topic-selection -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills icde-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/ICDE-Skills/skills/icde-topic-selection .gemini/skills/icde-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 "icde-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ICDE-Skills/skills/icde-topic-selection into .gemini/skills/icde-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "icde-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 icde-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 icde-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/ICDE-Skills/skills/icde-topic-selection .github/skills/icde-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 "icde-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ICDE-Skills/skills/icde-topic-selection into .github/skills/icde-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "icde-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 icde-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 icde-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/ICDE-Skills/skills/icde-topic-selection .opencode/skills/icde-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 "icde-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ICDE-Skills/skills/icde-topic-selection into .opencode/skills/icde-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "icde-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.
Facts
- Skill name
icde-topic-selection- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 467 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 project is a strong IEEE ICDE fit, routing among the three database venues from ICDE's seat (SIGMOD's quarterly rounds vs PVLDB's monthly deadlines vs…
- Deciding whether a project is a strong IEEE ICDE fit
- SKILL.md covers The data-management-primitive…, Routing from ICDE's seat: the…, Fit signal table and Sharpening moves before…, plus 1 more section
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
- Routing among the three database venues from ICDEs seat (SIGMODs quarterly rounds vs PVLDBs monthly deadlines vs ICDEs two rounds)
What it does
Icde Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a project is a strong IEEE ICDE fit, routing among the three database venues from ICDE's seat (SIGMOD's quarterly rounds vs PVLDB's monthly deadlines vs ICDE's two rounds), choosing ICDE research vs industry track, applying the data-management-primitive test, and comparing with TKDE, EDBT, or systems venues.
Its SKILL.md is about 1k 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
- Deciding whether a project is a strong IEEE ICDE fit
- Routing among the three database venues from ICDEs seat (SIGMODs quarterly rounds vs PVLDBs monthly deadlines vs ICDEs two rounds)
- Choosing ICDE research vs industry track
- Applying the data-management-primitive test
Example prompts
- “s seat (SIGMOD”
- “s monthly deadlines vs ICDE”
- “/icde-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
Icde Topic Selection loads about 1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 89 tokens; SKILL.md has 467 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.
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). 467 words, ~1,033 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/icde-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- icde-topic-selection
- description
- Use when deciding whether a project is a strong IEEE ICDE fit, routing among the three database venues from ICDE's seat (SIGMOD's quarterly rounds vs PVLDB's monthly deadlines vs ICDE's two rounds), choosing ICDE research vs industry track, applying the data-management-primitive test, and comparing with TKDE, EDBT, or systems venues.
ICDE Topic Selection
Use this before writing. ICDE is strongest for data engineering — the design, building, management, and evaluation of data-intensive systems — where the contribution is a reconstructable data-management primitive with a systems-grade evaluation.
The data-management-primitive test
Ask what primitive the paper advances: an access method, a query operator, an execution or storage mechanism, a transaction or concurrency protocol, a data integration/cleaning/provenance technique, or a scalable analytics engine. If no primitive exists — if the database is merely a container for a result that lives elsewhere — the ICDE framing does not exist either.
Routing from ICDE's seat: the three-venue triangle
The scopes of ICDE, SIGMOD, and VLDB overlap almost entirely, so routing is usually about calendar geometry and house culture, not topic. Deciding from ICDE's seat:
| If the deciding factor is... | Lean toward | Because |
|---|---|---|
| You want two fixed shots a year and IEEE-Xplore proceedings | ICDE | Two rounds per edition (≈June + November), single-blind, IEEE format |
| You want quarterly journal-style rounds with a formal revision and a rejection embargo | SIGMOD / PACMMOD | Four rounds on the 17th, double-anonymous, 12-month embargo |
| You want to pick any month and submit on a rolling calendar | VLDB / PVLDB | Twelve monthly deadlines on the 1st, single-blind, revise verdict |
| The work is a shipped production system with deployment evidence | ICDE industry track (or SIGMOD industrial) | Non-academic co-author, production-scale story |
| The work needs journal-length treatment | IEEE TKDE or The VLDB Journal | Full-length exposition; ICDE best papers are invited to extend into TKDE anyway |
| The work is European-database-community facing | EDBT | Overlapping scope, different community and calendar |
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Fit signal table
| Signal in the project | ICDE reading |
|---|---|
| A new index, operator, or storage layout with a systems evaluation | Core fit — the house genre |
| A concurrency/transaction protocol exploiting new hardware | Core fit (cf. the Bw-Tree exemplar) |
| A platform primitive an ecosystem can build on | Core fit (cf. the SpatialHadoop exemplar) |
| A production cloud-database architecture with deployment lessons | Industry and applications track |
| An ML model that happens to run on data | Route to an ML venue unless the DB primitive is the contribution |
| A pure theory result with no system or workload | Route to a theory or journal venue |
Sharpening moves before committing
- Name the primitive in one sentence. "We make ordering a read-time cost so ingestion is write-bandwidth-bound" is a primitive; "we improve time-series databases" is a topic.
- Check the round you can actually hit. Because a Round 1 reject skips you to the next edition, do not aim a half-built system at Round 1 just because it is sooner.
- Decide research vs. industry honestly. If the evidence is production scale and the novelty is engineering-at-scale rather than a new mechanism, the industry track fits better and reviews you on the right axis.
- Topic emphasis and track boundaries drift between editions; scan the current call's topic list before final routing.
Output format
[Fit] strong ICDE / possible ICDE / better elsewhere
[Primitive] <one-sentence data-management primitive, or "none">
[Best venue] ICDE-research / ICDE-industry / SIGMOD / PVLDB / TKDE / EDBT / other
[Round target] Round 1 or Round 2 of which edition, if ICDE
[Top rejection risk] <novelty / evaluation / scope / wrong-track>
[Next action] <build, measure, reframe, or venue switch>© 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 ICDE-Skills/skills/icde-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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| Topic Modelingbrycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills | 4.6k | — | ~3.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Bestblogs Topicginobefun/BestBlogs | 4.1k | — | ~670 | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Zsxq Topicitwanger/toBeBetterJavaer | 18k | — | ~564 | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| The Strong Nomohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills | 1.4k | — | ~987 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Icde Topic Selection
What does Icde Topic Selection do?
A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project is a strong IEEE ICDE fit, routing among the three database venues from ICDE's seat (SIGMOD's quarterly rounds vs PVLDB's monthly deadlines vs…. Icde Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a project is a strong IEEE ICDE fit, routing among the three database venues from ICDE's seat (SIGMOD's quarterly rounds vs PVLDB's monthly deadlines vs ICDE's two rounds), choosing ICDE research vs industry track, applying the data-management-primitive test, and comparing with TKDE, EDBT, or systems venues.
When should I use Icde Topic Selection?
Icde Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a project is a strong IEEE ICDE fit; routing among the three database venues from ICDEs seat (SIGMODs quarterly rounds vs PVLDBs monthly deadlines vs ICDEs two rounds); choosing ICDE research vs industry track; applying the data-management-primitive test.
How do I install Icde Topic Selection in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill icde-topic-selection -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (ICDE-Skills/skills/icde-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/icde-topic-selection in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Icde Topic Selection in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill icde-topic-selection -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (ICDE-Skills/skills/icde-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/icde-topic-selection in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Icde 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 icde-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/icde-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/icde-topic-selection, .github/skills/icde-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/icde-topic-selection in your project.
What does Icde Topic Selection need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Icde Topic Selection is instructions for the agent only.
Does Icde 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 Icde 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 Icde Topic Selection use?
Icde 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 Icde Topic Selection use?
About 1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Icde Topic Selection?
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Who maintains Icde Topic Selection?
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.