A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a database-theory project belongs at ICDT (International Conference on Database Theory) or should be routed to PODS, the co-located EDBT systems track…

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Install Icdt Topic Selection

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill icdt-topic-selection -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills icdt-topic-selection --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/ICDT-Skills/skills/icdt-topic-selection .claude/skills/icdt-topic-selection && 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
icdt-topic-selection
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
645 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 database-theory project belongs at ICDT (International Conference on Database Theory) or should be routed to PODS, the co-located EDBT systems track…

  • Deciding whether a database-theory project belongs at ICDT (International Conference on Database Theory)
  • SKILL.md covers The routing question that…, Sibling-venue routing table, What makes a paper ICDT-shaped and The two sharpening tests, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Should be routed to PODS

What it does

Icdt Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a database-theory project belongs at ICDT (International Conference on Database Theory) or should be routed to PODS, the co-located EDBT systems track, a pure-TCS venue (LICS, ICALP, STACS), or a journal (ACM TODS, LMCS, TheoretiCS), and when distinguishing ICDT from its sibling database-theory flagship PODS by calendar, publisher, and community.

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

  • Deciding whether a database-theory project belongs at ICDT (International Conference on Database Theory)
  • Should be routed to PODS
  • The co-located EDBT systems track
  • A pure-TCS venue (LICS

Example prompts

  • “/icdt-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

Icdt Topic Selection loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 99 tokens; SKILL.md has 645 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
~1.5k

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). 645 words, ~1,489 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/icdt-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
icdt-topic-selection
description
Use when deciding whether a database-theory project belongs at ICDT (International Conference on Database Theory) or should be routed to PODS, the co-located EDBT systems track, a pure-TCS venue (LICS, ICALP, STACS), or a journal (ACM TODS, LMCS, TheoretiCS), and when distinguishing ICDT from its sibling database-theory flagship PODS by calendar, publisher, and community.

ICDT Topic Selection

Decide the venue before drafting. ICDT — the International Conference on Database Theory — is the European foundations-of-data-management venue, held jointly with EDBT and published open access in LIPIcs. Its referees read for a precise theorem with a clear consequence for data management: query languages, the complexity of query evaluation, finite model theory over databases, consistent query answering, provenance, and the theory of data integration. A technically strong paper whose real content is generic complexity theory, pure logic, or a systems benchmark is respected and then rejected as out of scope.

The routing question that matters most

ICDT and PODS are the two database-theory flagships and overlap almost completely in scope, so the decisive question is rarely "is this database theory?" but "which of the two theory venues, and which calendar and publisher, fits this paper now?" Both want a real theorem with a data-management payoff. Use the finer signals below and the live deadlines to choose.

Sibling-venue routing table

Signal in your projectBetter homeWhy
Foundational data-management theorem; you want European co-location and the next ICDT cycle is nearerICDTTwo-cycle LIPIcs venue with a Cycle-1 revision option; co-located with EDBT
Same kind of theorem, but PODS's single annual cycle lands better or you want the SIGMOD stagePODSThe other database-theory flagship; ACM PACMMOD, co-located with SIGMOD
The contribution is a system, an algorithm with an experimental evaluation, or a benchmarkEDBT (co-located) or a systems venueExperimental data management, not a theorem — the reproducibility track lives here
The core is generic finite model theory / logic with no data-management consequenceLICS / ICALP / STACSEATCS/logic venues reward the theory itself; ICDT wants the querying/constraints payoff
The result is too long, or wants a full journal treatment with all proofsACM TODS / LMCS / TheoretiCSJournals with no page ceiling; some are the natural home for the extended version
A neat connection between database theory and a neighboring field, shortICDT "Database Theory in Action"The 4-page non-anonymous track for bridging results and applications
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What makes a paper ICDT-shaped

  • A theorem about querying or data. A new expressiveness result, a tight complexity bound for evaluating a query language, a decidability/undecidability result for a class of constraints, a dichotomy — with the database-theory consequence stated, not implied.
  • Matching upper and lower bounds where the field expects them; a one-sided bound is often a "revise," not an accept.
  • A model that connects to data management. Finite structures, relational/graph/semistructured data models, incomplete or inconsistent databases, provenance semirings, integration mappings — the "database" in the name is load-bearing.
  • Foundational or conceptual advances — a new framework, a semantics, or a proof technique that the data-management theory community can build on.

The two sharpening tests

  • PODS-swap test: could this paper appear at PODS and read as native there? Almost certainly yes — so the choice is by calendar, publisher preference (open-access LIPIcs vs ACM PACMMOD), and community pull, not by scope. Pick the nearer honest deadline unless a specific reason favors the other.
  • Consequence test: strip the data-management framing — is there still a database-theory lesson, or just a complexity/logic result? If only the latter survives, a pure-TCS venue fits better and ICDT referees will say the data connection is decorative.

Maturity, without the ladder cliché

An idea sits at different doors depending on how finished the proof is. A conjecture with partial evidence is a workshop or "in action" contribution, not a regular ICDT paper; a theorem with a gap you can close belongs in Cycle 1 where the revision option exists; a fully worked, book-length treatment belongs in a journal. Submitting a one-sided bound when the field expects a matching one costs a cycle.

Cheap reconnaissance before committing

text
[Scope]    scan the last two ICDT and PODS programs (dblp, databasetheory.org) for your subarea
           -> present at both = pick by calendar; present at neither = mismatch or a new opening
[Citations] is your bibliography majority ICDT/PODS/LICS/TODS/LMCS?
           -> majority systems venues => you may actually have an EDBT/SIGMOD paper
[Calendar] compare the next ICDT cycle deadline with the PODS deadline and journal timelines
           -> route to the nearest honest fit; ICDT's two cycles give you two shots a year

Decision procedure

text
[Consequence] who in data management cares if the theorem holds? -> real payoff or decorative?
[Claim type] expressiveness / complexity / decidability / semantics / framework
[ICDT vs PODS] both fit? -> choose by calendar, open-access LIPIcs vs PACMMOD, community pull
[Sibling check] systems+experiments -> EDBT; pure logic -> LICS/ICALP; over-long -> journal
[Verdict] ICDT regular track / PODS / EDBT / TCS venue / journal, with a one-line reason

Run this before the writing skills; a wrong venue decision wastes every later step. When the verdict is ICDT, continue with icdt-workflow for the two-cycle calendar and icdt-writing-style for the theorem-proof shape.

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Files

Just SKILL.md in ICDT-Skills/skills/icdt-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Icdt Topic Selection

What does Icdt Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a database-theory project belongs at ICDT (International Conference on Database Theory) or should be routed to PODS, the co-located EDBT systems track…. Icdt Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a database-theory project belongs at ICDT (International Conference on Database Theory) or should be routed to PODS, the co-located EDBT systems track, a pure-TCS venue (LICS, ICALP, STACS), or a journal (ACM TODS, LMCS, TheoretiCS), and when distinguishing ICDT from its sibling database-theory flagship PODS by calendar, publisher, and community.

When should I use Icdt Topic Selection?

Icdt Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a database-theory project belongs at ICDT (International Conference on Database Theory); should be routed to PODS; the co-located EDBT systems track; A pure-TCS venue (LICS.

How do I install Icdt Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Icdt Topic Selection in Codex?

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

Can I use Icdt 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 icdt-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/icdt-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/icdt-topic-selection, .github/skills/icdt-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/icdt-topic-selection in your project.

What does Icdt Topic Selection need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Icdt Topic Selection is instructions for the agent only.

Does Icdt 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 Icdt 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 Icdt Topic Selection use?

Icdt 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 Icdt Topic Selection use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6k 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 Icdt Topic Selection?

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Who maintains Icdt Topic Selection?

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.