Agent skill

Infocom Topic Selection

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

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a networking project belongs at IEEE INFOCOM or should be routed to SIGCOMM, NSDI, MobiCom, ICNP, or an IEEE/ACM networking journal (ToN, JSAC)…

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Install Infocom Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills infocom-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/INFOCOM-Skills/skills/infocom-topic-selection .claude/skills/infocom-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
infocom-topic-selection
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
610 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 networking project belongs at IEEE INFOCOM or should be routed to SIGCOMM, NSDI, MobiCom, ICNP, or an IEEE/ACM networking journal (ToN, JSAC)…

  • Deciding whether a networking project belongs at IEEE INFOCOM
  • SKILL.md covers The routing question that…, Sibling-venue routing table, Contribution shapes INFOCOM… and The modeling-vs-building and…, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Should be routed to SIGCOMM

What it does

Infocom Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a networking project belongs at IEEE INFOCOM or should be routed to SIGCOMM, NSDI, MobiCom, ICNP, or an IEEE/ACM networking journal (ToN, JSAC), distinguishing INFOCOM by its breadth, its analytical/optimization tradition alongside systems, and the modeling-vs-building axis.

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.

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 networking project belongs at IEEE INFOCOM
  • Should be routed to SIGCOMM
  • An IEEE/ACM networking journal (ToN
  • Distinguishing INFOCOM by its breadth

Example prompts

  • “/infocom-topic-selection”

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

Infocom Topic Selection loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 81 tokens; SKILL.md has 610 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~81
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

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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). 610 words, ~1,481 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/infocom-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
infocom-topic-selection
description
Use when deciding whether a networking project belongs at IEEE INFOCOM or should be routed to SIGCOMM, NSDI, MobiCom, ICNP, or an IEEE/ACM networking journal (ToN, JSAC), distinguishing INFOCOM by its breadth, its analytical/optimization tradition alongside systems, and the modeling-vs-building axis.

INFOCOM Topic Selection

Decide the venue before drafting. INFOCOM — the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, the IEEE ComSoc networking flagship — is the broad, large-scale networking venue. Its defining feature relative to its siblings is breadth plus a living analytical tradition: a well-posed model with a theorem and a convincing evaluation is a first-class INFOCOM paper, not a second-class one. A pure systems-building paper is welcome, but so is a scheduling/optimization/queueing/game-theory result that SIGCOMM or NSDI would push to a journal.

The routing question that matters most

The decisive question is rarely "is this networking?" but "is the contribution a model/analysis, a built system, or a measurement — and which community rewards that shape now?" INFOCOM is the safe home for the analytical and the broad; SIGCOMM/NSDI pull toward built-and-measured systems with a deployment story. Use the finer signals below and the live calendar to choose.

Sibling-venue routing table

Signal in your projectBetter homeWhy
Modeling/optimization/algorithmic core (scheduling, resource allocation, queueing, game theory, network economics) with analysis + simulationIEEE INFOCOMIts analytical tradition treats theorems-with-evaluation as first-class
Broad networking contribution, ready now, with the next INFOCOM deadline nearerIEEE INFOCOMLarge flagship; broad scope and reviewer pool
A built, deployed system with a measured Internet/datacenter deployment storyACM SIGCOMMRewards architecture + real deployment; smaller, systems-first
A systems artifact whose case is a real implementation and hard performance numbersUSENIX NSDINetworked-systems building, artifact-heavy
Wireless/mobile system with real devices, PHY/MAC + measurementACM MobiCom / MobiSysMobile-computing center of gravity
A focused protocol-design/analysis contributionIEEE ICNPProtocols venue; narrower than INFOCOM
Study too long or too incremental for a nine-page conference limitIEEE/ACM ToN, IEEE JSACJournals with no page ceiling and a revise-and-resubmit cycle

Contribution shapes INFOCOM rewards

  • Analytical / optimization — a scheduling, resource-allocation, routing, caching, or network-economics problem formulated cleanly, with structural results or an algorithm with provable guarantees, validated in simulation. The queueing/optimization lineage is native here.
  • Protocol / mechanism design — a new protocol or control mechanism (congestion control, access, coordination) with analysis and evaluation on a simulator or modest testbed.
  • Wireless and PHY/MAC — modeling and technique for wireless, cellular, 5G/6G, IoT, or backscatter, often blending analysis with measurement.
  • Measurement / empirical networking — a study of real network behavior with a dataset and methodology a reviewer can scrutinize.
  • Learning-for-networking — ML applied to a networking problem, where the networking lesson (not the model) is the contribution (see the modeling-swap test).
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The modeling-vs-building and model-swap tests

Two quick tests sharpen a borderline verdict:

  • Modeling-vs-building axis: if the heart is a formulation and analysis (with simulation to confirm), INFOCOM fits and SIGCOMM/NSDI may not. If the heart is a built system with a deployment/measurement story, the systems venues fit better and an analysis-only INFOCOM framing undersells it.
  • Model-swap test: if the paper leans on a learner, ask whether the networking lesson survives swapping the model. If not, the model is the contribution and an ML venue fits better; if yes, the networking framing is real and INFOCOM welcomes it.

Evidence maturity, without the ladder cliché

Fit is necessary but not sufficient. A formulation with a theorem but no evaluation reads as incomplete for the main track; a system evaluated only on a toy topology needs realistic scale before it convinces; a measurement without a methodology a reviewer can audit will not survive the crowded pool. INFOCOM's scale means a marginal paper competes against ~1,400 others for ~19% of slots — submit when the analysis and the evaluation are both ready.

Cheap reconnaissance before committing

text
[Scope]   scan the last two INFOCOM programs (dblp conf/infocom) for your subarea
          -> several recent papers = a reviewer pool exists; near-zero = mismatch or opening
[Shape]   is your core a model/algorithm, a built system, or a measurement?
          -> model/algorithm leans INFOCOM; built-and-deployed leans SIGCOMM/NSDI
[Calendar] compare the next INFOCOM deadline (late July) with SIGCOMM/NSDI/MobiCom/journal dates
          -> route to the nearest honest fit rather than idling a year

Decision procedure

text
[Audience] who acts differently if the claim holds? -> network designers/operators/theorists?
[Claim type] analytical / protocol / wireless / measurement / learning-for-networking
[Axis] model-and-analyze -> INFOCOM; build-and-deploy -> SIGCOMM/NSDI; wireless system -> MobiCom
[Sibling check] protocol-focused -> ICNP; too long/incremental -> ToN/JSAC
[Verdict] INFOCOM main track / sibling venue / journal, with a one-line reason

Run this before the writing skills; a wrong venue decision wastes every later step. When the verdict is INFOCOM, continue with infocom-workflow for the calendar and infocom-writing-style for the paper shape.

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Files

Just SKILL.md in INFOCOM-Skills/skills/infocom-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Infocom Topic Selection

What does Infocom Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a networking project belongs at IEEE INFOCOM or should be routed to SIGCOMM, NSDI, MobiCom, ICNP, or an IEEE/ACM networking journal (ToN, JSAC)…. Infocom Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a networking project belongs at IEEE INFOCOM or should be routed to SIGCOMM, NSDI, MobiCom, ICNP, or an IEEE/ACM networking journal (ToN, JSAC), distinguishing INFOCOM by its breadth, its analytical/optimization tradition alongside systems, and the modeling-vs-building axis.

When should I use Infocom Topic Selection?

Infocom Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a networking project belongs at IEEE INFOCOM; should be routed to SIGCOMM; an IEEE/ACM networking journal (ToN; distinguishing INFOCOM by its breadth.

How do I install Infocom Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Infocom Topic Selection in Codex?

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

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

What does Infocom Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Infocom 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 Infocom 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 Infocom Topic Selection use?

Infocom 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 Infocom Topic Selection use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.9k 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 Infocom Topic Selection?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,219 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.