A skill your agent uses when writing or auditing the related-work and positioning of an ACM IMC paper, covering the measurement literature lanes, positioning against prior datasets and vantage…

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Imc Related Work

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill imc-related-work -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills imc-related-work --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/IMC-Skills/skills/imc-related-work .claude/skills/imc-related-work && 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
imc-related-work
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
530 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when writing or auditing the related-work and positioning of an ACM IMC paper, covering the measurement literature lanes, positioning against prior datasets and vantage…

  • Auditing the related-work and positioning of an ACM IMC paper
  • SKILL.md covers Cover the measurement…, Delta-first positioning, Position against prior… and Get the venue attribution right, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Covering the measurement literature lanes

What it does

Imc Related Work is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when writing or auditing the related-work and positioning of an ACM IMC paper, covering the measurement literature lanes, positioning against prior datasets and vantage points, delta-first framing, citing the datasets and tools you build on, distinguishing IMC from SIGCOMM/NSDI/PAM prior art, and keeping self-citations double-blind.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k 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 Literature review, Positioning and messaging and Intellectual property. 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 the related-work and positioning of an ACM IMC paper
  • Covering the measurement literature lanes
  • Positioning against prior datasets and vantage points
  • Delta-first framing

Example prompts

  • “/imc-related-work”

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

Imc Related Work loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 89 tokens; SKILL.md has 530 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~89
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k

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). 530 words, ~1,140 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/imc-related-work/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
imc-related-work
description
Use when writing or auditing the related-work and positioning of an ACM IMC paper, covering the measurement literature lanes, positioning against prior datasets and vantage points, delta-first framing, citing the datasets and tools you build on, distinguishing IMC from SIGCOMM/NSDI/PAM prior art, and keeping self-citations double-blind.

Use this to position an IMC paper. In measurement, related work is not just prior claims — it is prior datasets, vantage points, tools, and methodologies. IMC reviewers know the measurement landscape intimately; a positioning that ignores the dataset or platform your finding builds on, or that misattributes measurement work to the wrong venue, reads as unfamiliarity with the field.

Cover the measurement literature lanes

Position against the relevant lanes, not a generic "prior work" pile:

  • The same phenomenon, measured before: who measured this, from which vantage points, when, and what did they find? Your delta is usually breadth, recency, a better vantage point, or a correction.
  • The datasets and platforms you use: RIPE Atlas, CAIDA data, scan datasets, DNS platforms, top lists, telescopes — cite the paper that introduced the instrument, and note its known biases.
  • The methodology you extend or question: if you improve or audit a measurement technique, cite its origin and state what you change.
  • Adjacent findings that frame significance: related measurements that make your question matter.

Delta-first positioning

Lead each comparison with the difference, not a summary:

  • "Prior work measured X from a single vantage point in 2019; we measure it from N vantage points across M regions over a 12-week window in 2026, revealing a diurnal pattern invisible to a snapshot."
  • Make the delta a measurement delta: more/better vantage points, longer window, better ground truth, a corrected input, or a newly reachable dataset — not merely "we also study this."

Position against prior datasets and vantage points

This is IMC-specific and easy to underdo:

  • If you reuse a dataset, say which version/vintage and why it still supports your claim.
  • If you build a new dataset, contrast its coverage and provenance with existing ones — this is also the seed of a Community Contribution Award case (imc-artifact-evaluation).
  • Acknowledge the biases of instruments you rely on (e.g., top-list instability, telescope coverage gaps); a reviewer who introduced that instrument may be reading you.
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Get the venue attribution right

Measurement work is spread across venues, and misattribution signals unfamiliarity:

  • Much scanning/tooling landed at USENIX Security or CCS (e.g., ZMap, Censys), not IMC.
  • Systems and protocol design with a measurement flavor is often SIGCOMM, NSDI, or CoNEXT.
  • Focused active-measurement work often appears at PAM.
  • Check dblp before writing "as shown at IMC" — cite the actual venue (see resources/exemplars/library.md for the sibling-confusion guard).

Keep self-citations double-blind

IMC is double-blind, so positioning against your own prior work is a leak risk:

  • Refer to your prior work in the third person: "Prior work [12] measured..." not "In our earlier work we...".
  • Do not let a chain of self-citations, a reused private vantage point, or a distinctive testbed name deanonymize you.
  • Cite your own datasets by their anonymized/public identifier, not an account or lab URL.

Failure patterns

PatternWhy it hurtsFix
Prior work summarized, delta impliedReviewer cannot see the contributionLead every comparison with the measurement delta
Instrument reused without citing its origin/biasReads as unaware of the fieldCite the dataset/tool paper and its known biases
Measurement misattributed to IMCSignals unfamiliarityVerify the venue on dblp; cite correctly
Self-citation in first personDouble-blind leakThird-person; anonymized dataset references

Output format

text
[Lane coverage] phenomenon / datasets-platforms / methodology / adjacent framing — all covered?
[Delta] stated as a measurement delta (vantage points/window/ground truth/dataset)? yes/no
[Dataset positioning] instruments cited with vintage + biases? yes/no
[Venue attribution] measurement prior art cited to the correct venue? yes/no
[Anonymity] self-citations third-person, no infrastructure leak? passed/issues
[Edits] <ordered list>

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Files

Just SKILL.md in IMC-Skills/skills/imc-related-work of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Imc Related Work

What does Imc Related Work do?

A skill your agent uses when writing or auditing the related-work and positioning of an ACM IMC paper, covering the measurement literature lanes, positioning against prior datasets and vantage…. Imc Related Work is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when writing or auditing the related-work and positioning of an ACM IMC paper, covering the measurement literature lanes, positioning against prior datasets and vantage points, delta-first framing, citing the datasets and tools you build on, distinguishing IMC from SIGCOMM/NSDI/PAM prior art, and keeping self-citations double-blind.

When should I use Imc Related Work?

Imc Related Work fits situations like: auditing the related-work and positioning of an ACM IMC paper; covering the measurement literature lanes; positioning against prior datasets and vantage points; delta-first framing.

How do I install Imc Related Work in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Imc Related Work in Codex?

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

Can I use Imc Related Work 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 imc-related-work -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/imc-related-work, .gemini/skills/imc-related-work, .github/skills/imc-related-work and .opencode/skills/imc-related-work in your project.

What does Imc Related Work need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Imc Related Work is instructions for the agent only.

Does Imc Related Work 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 Imc Related Work 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 Imc Related Work use?

Imc Related Work 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 Imc Related Work use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.6k 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 Imc Related Work?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Imc Related Work: Neuroarxiv (UditAkhourii/neuroarxiv, 433 stars), Deltasci Ground (boheling/deltasci, 144 stars), Ieee Paper Reader (CloudWave818/ieee-skills, 359 stars) and Gec Literature Positioning (franklee16/academic-research-skills, 223 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Imc Related Work?

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.

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