Agent skill

Ieeesp Topic Selection

by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a security or privacy project belongs at IEEE S&P (Oakland), including the threat-model test, SoK fit, routing among USENIX Security, CCS, NDSS, PETS…

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Install Ieeesp Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ieeesp-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/IEEE-SP-Skills/skills/ieeesp-topic-selection .claude/skills/ieeesp-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
ieeesp-topic-selection
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
584 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 security or privacy project belongs at IEEE S&P (Oakland), including the threat-model test, SoK fit, routing among USENIX Security, CCS, NDSS, PETS…

  • Works in 2 steps: Is there a real adversary? State who… → Does the evidence close the loop? An…
  • Deciding whether a security
  • SKILL.md covers The two-question fit test, SoK is a first-class lane, Routing among the security… and Embargo math changes the answer, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Ieeesp Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a security or privacy project belongs at IEEE S&P (Oakland), including the threat-model test, SoK fit, routing among USENIX Security, CCS, NDSS, PETS, and CRYPTO, and whether the one-year resubmission embargo or the 40% overlap rule constrains the plan.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k 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 Security, covering Threat modeling. 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 security
  • Privacy project belongs at IEEE S&P (Oakland)
  • Including the threat-model test
  • Routing among USENIX Security

Example prompts

  • “/ieeesp-topic-selection”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Is there a real adversary? State who attacks, with what access, and what
  2. Does the evidence close the loop? An attack needs an end-to-end

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

Ieeesp Topic Selection loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 76 tokens; SKILL.md has 584 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~76
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

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). 584 words, ~1,309 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/ieeesp-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
ieeesp-topic-selection
description
Use when deciding whether a security or privacy project belongs at IEEE S&P (Oakland), including the threat-model test, SoK fit, routing among USENIX Security, CCS, NDSS, PETS, and CRYPTO, and whether the one-year resubmission embargo or the 40% overlap rule constrains the plan.

IEEE S&P Topic Selection

Use this before any writing starts: is the project an Oakland paper, and if so, as a research paper or as an SoK? S&P has been the field's flagship since 1980 (first held at the Claremont Resort in the Oakland hills — hence the nickname), and its reviewer pool reads for adversarial rigor above topical fashion.

The two-question fit test

  1. Is there a real adversary? State who attacks, with what access, and what they win. If the paper has no defensible threat model — or the "attack" needs an adversary who could already do worse things more cheaply — Oakland reviewers will say so in round one. Papers where security is a motivating anecdote rather than the analyzed object usually belong at a systems, ML, or networking venue instead.
  2. Does the evidence close the loop? An attack needs an end-to-end demonstration against a realistic target; a defense needs evaluation against an adaptive adversary who knows the defense exists; a measurement study needs a sampling story and an ethics story. A promising idea with simulation-only evidence is a workshop paper, not yet an S&P submission.

SoK is a first-class lane

Both the 2026 and 2027 CFPs solicit Systematization of Knowledge papers, marked with the SoK: title prefix and a submission-form checkbox (sp2027.ieee-security.org/cfpapers.html, checked 2026-07-08). An SoK is judged on its treatment of existing work — a new viewpoint on a major area, evidence that challenges a long-held belief, or a genuinely new taxonomy — not on new results. If your "survey" cannot name the belief it overturns or the structure it reveals, it is a literature review, and S&P rejects those.

Routing among the security venues

Signal in your projectBetter-fit venueWhy
Adversarial rigor + broad security relevanceIEEE S&PFlagship generalist bar; SoK lane; Revise pathway rewards deep-but-fixable work
Deployable systems artifact, engineering depthUSENIX SecurityArtifact-forward culture, open-access proceedings
Applied crypto protocols, broad ACM communityACM CCSLarger program, more topical tracks
Network/protocol attacks needing fast turnaroundNDSSFebruary conference, distinct cycle timing
Privacy is the community, not just the propertyPETS/PoPETsJournal-style revisions, privacy-native reviewers
Theorems about cryptographic constructionsCRYPTO/EUROCRYPTProof-depth reviewing S&P cannot give

Route by contribution type and by calendar, not prestige: the four flagships alternate deadlines across the year, and S&P's own two cycles (June and November for the 2027 symposium) may simply not be the next open door.

Show full SKILL.md (189 more words)Show less

Embargo math changes the answer

Two S&P-specific rules constrain venue strategy (2027 CFP, checked 2026-07-08):

  • A rejected paper may not return to S&P for one year from the original submission date — so a weak submission burns the venue, not just the cycle.
  • A new submission counts as a resubmission when roughly 40% or more overlaps a previously rejected one; splitting a rejected paper into two does not reset the clock.

If the evidence will not be ready, targeting a sibling venue first and S&P with the mature version is often the higher-expected-value order.

Quick self-interrogation

text
Oakland fit worksheet (answer in one line each):
1. Adversary + access + payoff: ..............................
2. Evidence type that closes the loop (exploit / adaptive eval /
   measurement + ethics / systematization): ..................
3. If SoK: which belief or structure does it change? .........
4. Embargo status: any ≥40%-overlap rejection at S&P in the
   last 12 months? ...........................................
5. Which cycle is realistically reachable with finished
   evidence (not finished writing)? ..........................
→ Any blank line = not ready to pick S&P yet.

Signals you are choosing S&P for the wrong reason

  • The main argument for Oakland is "it is ranked highest" — the four flagships are close peers; wasted cycles are the real cost.
  • The threat model was written after the experiments, to justify them.
  • The contribution is a faster/cheaper version of a published system with the same security argument — reviewers will ask what the security delta is.
  • The plan depends on the Revise outcome as a safety net; Revise is offered to a limited set of papers reviewers already believe in, not to drafts.

Output format

text
[S&P fit] Strong / Plausible / Re-route (one-line reason)
[Paper type] research / SoK
[Threat-model status] stated & realistic / stated but strained / missing
[Evidence gap] <the one experiment or analysis that closes the loop>
[Embargo check] clear / blocked until <date> / 40%-overlap risk
[Alternative order] <e.g., USENIX Sec first, S&P with mature version>

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Files

Just SKILL.md in IEEE-SP-Skills/skills/ieeesp-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Ieeesp Topic Selection

What does Ieeesp Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a security or privacy project belongs at IEEE S&P (Oakland), including the threat-model test, SoK fit, routing among USENIX Security, CCS, NDSS, PETS…. Ieeesp Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a security or privacy project belongs at IEEE S&P (Oakland), including the threat-model test, SoK fit, routing among USENIX Security, CCS, NDSS, PETS, and CRYPTO, and whether the one-year resubmission embargo or the 40% overlap rule constrains the plan.

When should I use Ieeesp Topic Selection?

Ieeesp Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a security; privacy project belongs at IEEE S&P (Oakland); including the threat-model test; routing among USENIX Security.

How do I install Ieeesp Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Ieeesp Topic Selection in Codex?

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

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

What does Ieeesp Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Ieeesp 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 Ieeesp 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 Ieeesp Topic Selection use?

Ieeesp 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 Ieeesp Topic Selection use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.2k 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 Ieeesp 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.