A skill your agent uses when auditing an ICSE research-track submission for HotCRP readiness, covering the mandatory abstract deadline, the 10-page-plus-2-reference-page IEEE format…

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Install Icse Submission

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill icse-submission -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills icse-submission --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/ICSE-Skills/skills/icse-submission .claude/skills/icse-submission && 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
icse-submission
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
784 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when auditing an ICSE research-track submission for HotCRP readiness, covering the mandatory abstract deadline, the 10-page-plus-2-reference-page IEEE format…

  • Works in 6 steps: Freeze the 10-page body early;… → Register the abstract well before June… → Build the anonymized replication package… → …
  • Auditing an ICSE research-track submission for HotCRP readiness
  • SKILL.md covers The 2027-cycle mechanics, Double-anonymous sweep, Open science at submission time and Desk-risk triage, plus 5 more sections
  • Calls pdftotext

What it does

Icse Submission is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when auditing an ICSE research-track submission for HotCRP readiness, covering the mandatory abstract deadline, the 10-page-plus-2-reference-page IEEE format, double-anonymous rules, the open-science Data Availability section, supplementary uploads, and desk-reject triage before the AoE cutoff.

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.

It sits in Research & Science, covering Reproducible research. 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

  • Auditing an ICSE research-track submission for HotCRP readiness
  • Covering the mandatory abstract deadline
  • The 10-page-plus-2-reference-page IEEE format
  • Double-anonymous rules

Example prompts

  • “/icse-submission”

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Freeze the 10-page body early; references can churn, the body cannot.
  2. Register the abstract well before June 23 with the real title and abstract.
  3. Build the anonymized replication package and place its link in the paper.
  4. Run the mechanical anonymity checks on the final PDF, not a draft.
  5. Fill every HotCRP field (topics, conflicts, coauthors with correct emails)
  6. Re-download your submission from HotCRP and read it cold, checking that the

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

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • pdftotext

    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

Icse Submission loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 79 tokens; SKILL.md has 784 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~79
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

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). 784 words, ~1,634 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/icse-submission/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
icse-submission
description
Use when auditing an ICSE research-track submission for HotCRP readiness, covering the mandatory abstract deadline, the 10-page-plus-2-reference-page IEEE format, double-anonymous rules, the open-science Data Availability section, supplementary uploads, and desk-reject triage before the AoE cutoff.

ICSE Submission

Run this audit before touching the submit button on the ICSE HotCRP site. Every number below was read from the ICSE 2027 Research Track pages on 2026-07-08 (via search renderings of the official conf.researchr.org URLs — see resources/official-source-map.md); treat them as one cycle's snapshot and reopen the live call before acting.

The 2027-cycle mechanics

  • Two deadlines, both AoE (23:59:59, UTC-12). The abstract deadline (June 23, 2026) is mandatory — no abstract in HotCRP by that date, no paper submission a week later (June 30, 2026). ICSE uses the abstract for bidding and PC assignment, so a placeholder abstract that drifts from the final paper quietly damages your reviewer match.
  • 10 + 2 page format. Main text ≤ 10 pages inclusive of all figures, tables, and appendices; up to 2 additional pages may contain only references. There is no unlimited appendix: anything reviewers must see lives inside the 10.
  • IEEE conference template, unmodified. Title in 24pt, body in 10pt — \documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran}, without compsoc options. The call states that spacing/font alterations can mean desk rejection without review.
  • Submission site: icse2027.hotcrp.com, one HotCRP instance per track.

Double-anonymous sweep

ICSE reviews double-anonymously: the submission may not reveal author identity, and your own prior work is cited in the third person. Because SE papers lean on tools and repositories, the leak surface is wider than the author block:

bash
# Mechanical pass on the submission PDF and any supplementary archive
pdfinfo paper.pdf | grep -Ei 'author|creator|producer'
pdftotext paper.pdf - | grep -nEi 'github\.com/[a-z0-9-]+|gitlab|zenodo\.org/record|acknowledg|grant' | head
unzip -l supplement.zip | grep -Ei '\.git/|\.DS_Store|/home/|/Users/' | head
grep -rn "university\|@.*\.edu" supplement/ --include='*.md' | head

The SE-specific leaks: a tool named after your lab, screenshots showing a username, a replication link pointing at a personal GitHub, commit metadata inside a zipped repository, and issue-tracker URLs in the evaluation section. Re-host artifacts behind an anonymizing service before upload, not after.

Open science at submission time

The research track is governed by the ICSE Open Science policy: sharing is the expected default, and non-sharing is what needs justification. Concretely for the submission:

  • Provide anonymized links to data/repositories, or upload anonymized material through HotCRP's supplementary option.
  • If you cannot share, add a short Data Availability section after the Conclusion explaining why (industrial confidentiality, human-subjects limits).
  • Sharing is not formally mandatory for acceptance — but the Verifiability and Transparency criterion is one of the four scored criteria, so an empty availability story is a scored weakness, not a neutral choice.

Desk-risk triage

Finding at audit timeSeverityReal fix
Main text spills to page 11Desk-reject-gradeCut content or move it to the artifact; the 2 extra pages are references-only
Template tampering (margins, 9.5pt body)Explicitly named desk-reject groundRecompile clean; recover space editorially
Identity leak in PDF or supplementAnonymity violationRe-anonymize and re-host; check PDF metadata too
Abstract not registered by June 23No submission slot existsNothing fixes this after AoE — calendar it now
No availability statement, no artifactScored against verifiabilityAdd Data Availability section + anonymized package
Same study under review elsewhereDual-submission exposureWithdraw one venue first; verify the current policy wording
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Final-week order of operations

  1. Freeze the 10-page body early; references can churn, the body cannot.
  2. Register the abstract well before June 23 with the real title and abstract.
  3. Build the anonymized replication package and place its link in the paper.
  4. Run the mechanical anonymity checks on the final PDF, not a draft.
  5. Fill every HotCRP field (topics, conflicts, coauthors with correct emails) a day early — conflicts entered late are the classic AoE-midnight failure.
  6. Re-download your submission from HotCRP and read it cold, checking that the PDF that uploaded is the PDF you meant.

What the form asks that the paper does not

HotCRP topic selections drive which PC members bid on you. Choose topics that match your evidence, not your ambitions: a paper tagged "machine learning for SE" plus "human factors" gets one reviewer from each pool, and the mismatched one writes the low score. Declare conflicts for every coauthor's institution and recent collaborators; ICSE PCs are large, and an undeclared conflict found later is a chair-level problem.

IEEEtran traps that surface at upload

Three template failures recur in SE submissions specifically: bibliography styles that silently exceed the reference pages when dblp entries carry long venue strings (abbreviate via the .bib, not by shrinking the font); listings/minted code blocks whose captured line widths overflow the column and get "fixed" with negative \hspace — a tampering signal; and figures exported from dashboards at screen resolution that balloon the PDF and blur in print. Budget a compile-and-print test on the true template a week out, because each of these costs hours exactly when you have none.

Reverify each cycle

  • Deadlines and whether the cycle count changes again (2025–2026 ran two cycles; 2027 posts one).
  • Page budget and template (10+2 and IEEEtran were the 2027 numbers).
  • Supplementary handling, AI-use disclosure rules, and dual-submission wording — all 待核实 per cycle; none should be assumed stable.

Output format

text
[ICSE submission status] ready / blocked / needs work
[Format] pages used (main/refs), template compliance
[Anonymity] clean / leaks: <where>
[Open science] artifact link present? availability statement present?
[HotCRP] abstract registered, topics, conflicts, coauthors
[Fix queue] <ordered, with owners and dates before June 30 AoE>

© 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 ICSE-Skills/skills/icse-submission of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Icse Submission

What does Icse Submission do?

A skill your agent uses when auditing an ICSE research-track submission for HotCRP readiness, covering the mandatory abstract deadline, the 10-page-plus-2-reference-page IEEE format…. Icse Submission is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when auditing an ICSE research-track submission for HotCRP readiness, covering the mandatory abstract deadline, the 10-page-plus-2-reference-page IEEE format, double-anonymous rules, the open-science Data Availability section, supplementary uploads, and desk-reject triage before the AoE cutoff.

When should I use Icse Submission?

Icse Submission fits situations like: auditing an ICSE research-track submission for HotCRP readiness; covering the mandatory abstract deadline; the 10-page-plus-2-reference-page IEEE format; double-anonymous rules.

How do I install Icse Submission in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Icse Submission in Codex?

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

Can I use Icse Submission 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 icse-submission -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/icse-submission, .gemini/skills/icse-submission, .github/skills/icse-submission and .opencode/skills/icse-submission in your project.

What does Icse Submission need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Icse Submission needs the command-line tools its instructions call (pdftotext).

Does Icse Submission 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 Icse Submission 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 Icse Submission use?

Icse Submission 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 Icse Submission use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.5k 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 Icse Submission?

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.