A skill your agent uses when reasoning about how an IEEE ICSME research submission is evaluated, covering double-anonymous review, the early-decision cut that issues Accept/Reject before the…

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Install Icsme Review Process

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills icsme-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/ICSME-Skills/skills/icsme-review-process .claude/skills/icsme-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
icsme-review-process
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
679 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 IEEE ICSME research submission is evaluated, covering double-anonymous review, the early-decision cut that issues Accept/Reject before the…

  • Reasoning about how an IEEE ICSME research submission is evaluated
  • SKILL.md covers Process model, Reading your early decision, How ICSME 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 review

What it does

Icsme Review Process is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when reasoning about how an IEEE ICSME research submission is evaluated, covering double-anonymous review, the early-decision cut that issues Accept/Reject before the rebuttal, the "Response Recommended" author-response period, the single-round accept/reject model with no Major Revision, and how ICSME's process differs from FSE's journal-style round and ICSE's cycles.

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.

It sits in Research & Science. 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 IEEE ICSME research submission is evaluated
  • Covering double-anonymous review
  • The early-decision cut that issues Accept/Reject before the rebuttal
  • The Response Recommended author-response period

Example prompts

  • “Response Recommended”
  • “s process differs from FSE”
  • “/icsme-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

Icsme Review Process loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 99 tokens; SKILL.md has 679 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). 679 words, ~1,530 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/icsme-review-process/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
icsme-review-process
description
Use when reasoning about how an IEEE ICSME research submission is evaluated, covering double-anonymous review, the early-decision cut that issues Accept/Reject before the rebuttal, the "Response Recommended" author-response period, the single-round accept/reject model with no Major Revision, and how ICSME's process differs from FSE's journal-style round and ICSE's cycles.

ICSME Review Process

Model the pipeline before interpreting any single review. ICSME's process is conference-style and single-round: papers are reviewed once, double-anonymously, and the outcome is accept or reject — there is no journal-style Major Revision. The distinctive mechanism authors must plan for is the early-decision cut: before the rebuttal even opens, the strongest and weakest papers are already decided, and only the middle is asked to respond.

Process model

  • Submission and review run on EasyChair with double-anonymity: author identities are hidden from reviewers throughout.
  • Each paper is read by multiple program-committee members who weigh the significance of the maintenance/evolution contribution, soundness of method, quality and honesty of the empirical evidence (mined data, subject systems, statistics), threats-to-validity reasoning, clarity, and open-science support.
  • At the start of the author-response period the PC issues an early decision:
    • Accept — reviewers agree the paper is publishable as is; no response requested.
    • Reject — reviewers judge the paper too deficient for a response to change; no response requested.
    • Response Recommended — the paper is in contention; authors may answer the PC's specific questions.
  • After responses and PC discussion, a final accept/reject is issued. Accepted papers publish in IEEE Xplore.

Reading your early decision

Early decisionWhat it meansAuthor move
AcceptContribution and evidence hold; polish onlyCamera-ready + ROSE artifact; do not reopen scope
Response RecommendedGenuinely in contention; specific PC questions decide itAnswer each question with existing evidence; correct misreadings
Reject (early)Structural: wrong scope, no credible baseline, thin/confounded studyReroute (SANER/SCAM/journal) or rebuild; do not resubmit unchanged

The strategic reading: because there is no revision round, write the initial submission so the evidence is already complete. An ICSME reviewer cannot ask you to add an analysis and wait — they either believe the paper now or they do not. The rebuttal moves papers by resolving a specific doubt, not by promising future work.

How ICSME differs from its siblings

  • vs. ESEC/FSE: FSE papers are PACMSE journal articles with a real Major Revision revise-and-resubmit round. ICSME has no such round — it is single-shot with an early-decision cut and a rebuttal. Never plan an ICSME submission as if a revision will rescue thin evidence.
  • vs. ICSE: ICSE is the general-SE flagship on a larger stage with its own (sometimes multi-cycle) structure. ICSME is the maintenance/evolution-focused venue; a paper accepted at either would differ in framing, not just calendar.
  • vs. MSR/SCAM: its co-located siblings review mining-for-its-own-sake and source-analysis machinery; ICSME reviewers ask what the maintenance payoff is.
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Who reads you

Expect maintenance and evolution empiricists. They check whether subject systems are real and evolving, whether the mined corpus is provenance-pinned, whether baselines are fair, whether the threats-to-validity section argues rather than recites, and they often open the artifact. Because ICSME spans techniques, empirical studies, comprehension, and replication, a paper is matched to reviewers from its own subarea — vague method descriptions get caught, not skimmed.

Where author leverage actually exists

text
[Before submission]  topic tags + subject-system realism -> reviewer pool & credibility (largest lever)
[Early-decision cut] nothing to do once issued; it reflects the submitted paper alone
[Response Recommended] the single rebuttal: answer the PC's exact questions with existing evidence
[After reject]       no appeal; reroute to a sibling, a journal, or Registered Reports next cycle

A response moves borderline papers when it corrects a factual misreading or supplies a number a reviewer said was missing and that already exists in the artifact; it does not move papers when it argues taste or promises new experiments. Silence on a PC question the response was invited to answer is read as inability to answer it.

Reading a review packet

Weight reviews before answering. A review that cites your section numbers, tables, and threats was read closely; its author is your likely advocate if the response holds. Because there is no second read, the PC discussion is where the decision is actually made — write the response as evidence for that discussion, addressed to the specific questions the PC flagged.

Misreadings to avoid

  • Expecting a revision round — there is none; the paper is judged as submitted.
  • Treating "Response Recommended" as bad news — it means you are in contention and the rebuttal matters; an early Accept or Reject is the terminal signal.
  • Treating the response as a debate — the PC discussion decides; answer questions, do not argue.
  • Projecting last year's cadence — the early-decision cut and response format are decided per edition; confirm they are offered this cycle.

Output format

text
[Process stage] pre-submission / awaiting early decision / response period / final / accepted
[Decision category] early accept / response recommended / early reject / final accept / final reject
[Criterion map] each review point -> significance | soundness | evidence | threats | clarity | open-science
[Leverage plan] the response-period answer that can actually change the outcome
[Forbidden moves] identity leak / promising new experiments as if they were done

© 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 ICSME-Skills/skills/icsme-review-process of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Icsme Review Process

What does Icsme Review Process do?

A skill your agent uses when reasoning about how an IEEE ICSME research submission is evaluated, covering double-anonymous review, the early-decision cut that issues Accept/Reject before the…. Icsme Review Process is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when reasoning about how an IEEE ICSME research submission is evaluated, covering double-anonymous review, the early-decision cut that issues Accept/Reject before the rebuttal, the "Response Recommended" author-response period, the single-round accept/reject model with no Major Revision, and how ICSME's process differs from FSE's journal-style round and ICSE's cycles.

When should I use Icsme Review Process?

Icsme Review Process fits situations like: reasoning about how an IEEE ICSME research submission is evaluated; covering double-anonymous review; the early-decision cut that issues Accept/Reject before the rebuttal; the Response Recommended author-response period.

How do I install Icsme Review Process in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Icsme Review Process in Codex?

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

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

What does Icsme Review Process need to run?

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

Does Icsme 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 Icsme 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 Icsme Review Process use?

Icsme 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 Icsme 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 Icsme 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.

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.