A skill your agent uses when auditing an ACM IMC submission for HotCRP readiness, covering the paper-registration step, the acmart template with BBL upload, the full/short page limits, double-blind…

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Install Imc Submission

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills imc-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/IMC-Skills/skills/imc-submission .claude/skills/imc-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
imc-submission
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
800 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 ACM IMC submission for HotCRP readiness, covering the paper-registration step, the acmart template with BBL upload, the full/short page limits, double-blind…

  • Works in 6 steps: Freeze the measurement narrative early;… → Register… → Write the Ethics section and confirm… → …
  • Auditing an ACM IMC submission for HotCRP readiness
  • SKILL.md covers Pick the cycle first, Format and page budget, Double-blind sweep (including… and The Ethics section is a gate, plus 5 more sections
  • Calls pdftotext

What it does

Imc Submission is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when auditing an ACM IMC submission for HotCRP readiness, covering the paper-registration step, the acmart template with BBL upload, the full/short page limits, double-blind anonymity including vantage-point details, the mandatory Ethics section, the artifact-availability declaration, cycle choice, and desk-reject triage before the AoE cutoff.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.7k 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

  • Auditing an ACM IMC submission for HotCRP readiness
  • Covering the paper-registration step
  • The acmart template with BBL upload
  • The full/short page limits

Example prompts

  • “/imc-submission”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Freeze the measurement narrative early; the finding and its vantage points cannot churn.
  2. Register title/abstract/authors/conflicts before the registration cutoff.
  3. Write the Ethics section and confirm IRB/disclosure documentation is ready.
  4. Build the anonymized dataset/tool link and set the availability declaration honestly.
  5. Run the mechanical anonymity checks — including infrastructure — on the final PDF.
  6. Upload the PDF and the BBL, fill every HotCRP field (topics, conflicts for every coauthor's

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

Imc Submission loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 91 tokens; SKILL.md has 800 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~91
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.7k

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). 800 words, ~1,707 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/imc-submission/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
imc-submission
description
Use when auditing an ACM IMC submission for HotCRP readiness, covering the paper-registration step, the acmart template with BBL upload, the full/short page limits, double-blind anonymity including vantage-point details, the mandatory Ethics section, the artifact-availability declaration, cycle choice, and desk-reject triage before the AoE cutoff.

IMC Submission

Run this audit before uploading to the IMC HotCRP site. IMC — the ACM Internet Measurement Conference, sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM — judges a submission on what it measured about the real Internet and how, so the mechanics below are where good measurement work is needlessly lost. Every number was read from the IMC 2026 call and submission instructions and the IMC 2025 call on 2026-07-09 via search renderings (see resources/official-source-map.md); treat them as a one-cycle snapshot and reopen the live pages first.

Pick the cycle first

IMC runs two deadlines a year (cycle 1 ~20 Nov 2025, cycle 2 ~29 Apr 2026). This is a real choice, not a formality:

  • The One-Shot-Revision path resubmits to the next deadline with the same reviewers, so a cycle-1 submission that earns a revision lands back in cycle 2. If your data collection finishes late, cycle 2 may be the honest target rather than rushing cycle 1.
  • Registration precedes submission by roughly a week (cycle 1: register ~13 Nov 2025). Miss registration and no PDF slot exists.

Format and page budget

  • ACM acmart template, in the required review format, unmodified. This is the ACM path — do not carry an IEEE two-column habit across from a sibling networking venue.
  • Upload the BBL file of your references on the reviewing system, as the submission instructions require — a missing BBL is a preventable processing failure.
  • Page budget (IMC 2025 basis; confirm 2026): full papers up to 13 pages of text and figures + unlimited references and appendix; short papers up to 6 pages of text and figures. Any paper with more than 6 pages of technical content is reviewed as a full paper.
  • The appendix is unlimited but may not be used to dodge the body limit — the page-limited body must be self-contained and decision-complete.

Double-blind sweep (including infrastructure)

IMC uses double-blind review: no author names or affiliations, no identifying grant numbers, and third-person references to your own prior work. Measurement papers leak identity in ways a generic checklist misses:

bash
# Mechanical pass on the submission PDF
pdfinfo paper.pdf | grep -Ei 'author|creator|producer'
pdftotext paper.pdf - | grep -nEi 'github\.com/[a-z0-9-]+|zenodo\.org/record|acknowledg|grant|@[a-z0-9.]*\.edu' | head

The measurement-specific leaks: a vantage point or testbed that only your group operates, an AS number or probe hostname that names your institution, a RIPE Atlas measurement ID tied to your account, a released-dataset URL on a personal or lab domain, and acknowledgements to the operators who gave you access. Anonymize the infrastructure description, not just the byline.

The Ethics section is a gate

IMC requires a clearly marked Ethics section or appendix; a paper without one may be rejected. This is not boilerplate:

  • Human subjects / user data (traffic, DNS queries, social data, credentials): document IRB approval or exemption, and attach the anonymized determination form if required. Reason explicitly against Belmont Report principles — respect for persons (consent), beneficence (risk vs. benefit), justice (who bears risk vs. who benefits).
  • Active measurement: argue that probing does not harm targets or intermediary networks, name opt-out/blocklist handling, and rate-limit disclosure.
  • Vulnerability or exposure findings: state a responsible-disclosure plan and its timeline.

Write this section early (see imc-experiments); ethics approvals cannot be retrofitted at the deadline.

Show full SKILL.md (296 more words)Show less

Artifact-availability declaration

Every submission carries a declaration: full, partial, or no availability.

  • Prefer full: an anonymized dataset/tool link the reviewers can inspect.
  • No availability is acceptable only with a stated legitimate reason (proprietary data, privacy, legal) in a specific section — a silent "none" reads as a weakness.
  • Accepted papers are shepherded to deliver what was promised, so do not over-declare.

Desk-risk triage

Finding at audit timeSeverityReal fix
Body over the page limit / appendix smuggling decision-critical contentDesk-reject-gradeCut or restructure; the body must be self-contained
Template altered or wrong acmart formatNamed desk-reject groundRecompile clean; recover space editorially
Missing BBL uploadProcessing failureGenerate and upload the BBL
Identity leak in PDF, dataset link, or vantage-point descriptionAnonymity violationRe-anonymize infrastructure and links; scrub PDF metadata
No Ethics sectionNamed rejection groundAdd a real Ethics section; document IRB/disclosure
Human-subjects work without IRB documentationEthics failureObtain/attach the IRB determination
Not registered by the cycle's registration dateNo submission slotNothing fixes this post-cutoff — calendar it now

Final-week order of operations

  1. Freeze the measurement narrative early; the finding and its vantage points cannot churn.
  2. Register title/abstract/authors/conflicts before the registration cutoff.
  3. Write the Ethics section and confirm IRB/disclosure documentation is ready.
  4. Build the anonymized dataset/tool link and set the availability declaration honestly.
  5. Run the mechanical anonymity checks — including infrastructure — on the final PDF.
  6. Upload the PDF and the BBL, fill every HotCRP field (topics, conflicts for every coauthor's institution and recent collaborators) a day early, then re-download and read the PDF cold.

Reverify each cycle

  • Exact deadline/registration dates and which cycle you are targeting.
  • The page limits and acmart variant.
  • Ethics-statement wording and the IRB-form requirement.
  • Artifact-declaration options and any responsible-disclosure or AI-use rule — all cycle-volatile.

Output format

text
[IMC submission status] ready / blocked / needs work
[Cycle] deadline 1 / deadline 2, registered by the cutoff? yes/no
[Format] pages used (body/refs), acmart compliance, BBL uploaded?
[Anonymity] clean / leaks: <where, incl. vantage points>
[Ethics] section present? IRB/disclosure documented? yes/no
[Availability] declaration full/partial/none + justification if none
[Fix queue] <ordered, with owners and dates before the AoE cutoff>

© 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 IMC-Skills/skills/imc-submission of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Imc Submission

What does Imc Submission do?

A skill your agent uses when auditing an ACM IMC submission for HotCRP readiness, covering the paper-registration step, the acmart template with BBL upload, the full/short page limits, double-blind…. Imc Submission is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when auditing an ACM IMC submission for HotCRP readiness, covering the paper-registration step, the acmart template with BBL upload, the full/short page limits, double-blind anonymity including vantage-point details, the mandatory Ethics section, the artifact-availability declaration, cycle choice, and desk-reject triage before the AoE cutoff.

When should I use Imc Submission?

Imc Submission fits situations like: auditing an ACM IMC submission for HotCRP readiness; covering the paper-registration step; the acmart template with BBL upload; the full/short page limits.

How do I install Imc Submission in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Imc Submission in Codex?

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

Can I use Imc 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 imc-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/imc-submission, .gemini/skills/imc-submission, .github/skills/imc-submission and .opencode/skills/imc-submission in your project.

What does Imc Submission need to run?

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

Does Imc 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 Imc 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 Imc Submission use?

Imc 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 Imc Submission use?

About 1.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.8k 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 Submission?

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Who maintains Imc 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.