Design Audit Against Rams' Principles
thedotmack/claude-mem
Audits a design against Dieter Rams' ten principles of good design, scores each with evidence, and hands off a make-plan prompt for a new, refined or redesigned outcome.
A skill your agent uses when designing or auditing the evaluation of an ISCA paper — pinning simulator fidelity to the claims it must carry, documenting gem5-class configurations and sampling…
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill isca-experiments -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills isca-experiments --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/ISCA-Skills/skills/isca-experiments .claude/skills/isca-experiments && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "isca-experiments" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ISCA-Skills/skills/isca-experiments into .claude/skills/isca-experiments/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "isca-experiments", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ISCA-Skills/skills/isca-experimentsType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill isca-experiments -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills isca-experiments --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/ISCA-Skills/skills/isca-experiments .agents/skills/isca-experiments && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "isca-experiments" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ISCA-Skills/skills/isca-experiments into .agents/skills/isca-experiments/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "isca-experiments", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill isca-experiments -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills isca-experiments --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/ISCA-Skills/skills/isca-experiments .cursor/skills/isca-experiments && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "isca-experiments" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ISCA-Skills/skills/isca-experiments into .cursor/skills/isca-experiments/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "isca-experiments", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git --path ISCA-Skills/skills/isca-experiments--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill isca-experiments -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills isca-experiments --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/ISCA-Skills/skills/isca-experiments .gemini/skills/isca-experiments && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "isca-experiments" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ISCA-Skills/skills/isca-experiments into .gemini/skills/isca-experiments/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "isca-experiments", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills isca-experimentsInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill isca-experiments -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/ISCA-Skills/skills/isca-experiments .github/skills/isca-experiments && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "isca-experiments" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ISCA-Skills/skills/isca-experiments into .github/skills/isca-experiments/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "isca-experiments", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill isca-experiments -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills isca-experiments --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/ISCA-Skills/skills/isca-experiments .opencode/skills/isca-experiments && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "isca-experiments" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ISCA-Skills/skills/isca-experiments into .opencode/skills/isca-experiments/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "isca-experiments", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
isca-experimentsA skill your agent uses when designing or auditing the evaluation of an ISCA paper — pinning simulator fidelity to the claims it must carry, documenting gem5-class configurations and sampling…
Isca Experiments is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when designing or auditing the evaluation of an ISCA paper — pinning simulator fidelity to the claims it must carry, documenting gem5-class configurations and sampling choices, selecting workload suites that represent the claim's domain, tuning baselines in good faith, and separating architectural effect from modeling artifact.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.8k 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.
4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
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.
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are ini).
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Isca Experiments loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 88 tokens; SKILL.md has 784 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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.
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.
The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 784 words, ~1,750 tokens.
.claude/skills/isca-experiments/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).Most ISCA evaluations run on models of machines rather than machines, so the evaluation section is really two nested arguments: that the modeled effect is real, and that the model deserves trust for this effect. Reviewers at this venue are professionally skeptical about the second argument, and papers die on it more often than on the first. Everything below serves one rule: the paper must state what its numbers are made of.
Early in the methodology section, answer four questions explicitly — this is the contract reviewers try to reconstruct when authors omit it:
| Claim type | Sufficient instrument | Chronic mismatch to avoid |
|---|---|---|
| Relative IPC/latency effect of a microarchitectural change | Cycle-level simulation with the changed structures modeled in detail | Quoting the result as absolute time or absolute joules |
| Absolute end-to-end performance | Real silicon or FPGA prototype measurement | Deriving it from an unvalidated software model |
| Energy/power | Measured power, or a named model (McPAT-class) with node assumptions stated | Modeled milliwatts presented without the model's error bars or vintage |
| Area/timing feasibility | Synthesis of the added logic, or a sizing argument from structure counts | "Negligible area" with no numbers |
| OS/IO-dependent behavior | Full-system simulation or hardware | User-level simulation silently ignoring the kernel |
| Datacenter/at-scale effects | Measurement study or trace-driven analysis with trace provenance | Extrapolating single-node simulation to fleet claims |
Choose suites because they exercise the mechanism's operating region, and say so. A cache-hierarchy paper needs memory-intensive selections and must report MPKI or footprint evidence that the pressure is real; an accelerator paper needs at least one end-to-end application, because kernels-only evaluation invites the question of what fraction of total time the kernel is. Standard anchors (SPEC-class CPU suites, graph/ML/server suites as appropriate) buy comparability; a workload nobody recognizes needs a characterization subsection justifying its inclusion. Report per-workload results — geomean-only reporting reads as concealment, and the interesting review questions live in the outliers.
The baseline is the strongest relevant prior mechanism tuned the way its authors would tune it, at equal hardware budget where the comparison implies one. State the equalization: same storage, same ports, same technology assumptions. When comparing against a prior paper's mechanism, reimplement it in your framework and say how you verified the reimplementation reproduces its published behavior — reviewers who authored those baselines are plausibly on the committee.
For every "gain comes from M" sentence, include the run with M disabled or replaced by its naive variant. Then sweep the two or three parameters the design is most sensitive to (table sizes, thresholds, latencies) and show where the benefit collapses — a visible break point is credibility, not weakness. Report run-to-run variation wherever nondeterminism exists (real hardware, multithreaded simulation): repeated trials with dispersion, not single lucky runs.
Make every figure regenerable from a manifest the artifact ships (see
isca-reproducibility and isca-artifact-evaluation):
; exp/f7-headline.manifest — one file per figure/table
[instrument]
simulator = gem5
commit = a1b2c3d4 (+ local patches: patches/*.diff)
mode = full-system, O3 core model
[machine-model]
core = 8-wide OOO, 352-entry ROB, 3.2 GHz nominal
l1d/l1i = 48K/32K, 8-way
l2 = 1.25M private ; llc = 3M/core shared, 16-way
dram = DDR5-4800, 2 ch, model=detailed
[measurement]
regions = simpoints(k=10, interval=100M)
warmup = 50M inst per region
metric = IPC, geomean over per-workload weighted regions
trials = 3 (report min/median/max where variance > 1%)
[workloads]
suite = SPEC-class CPU suite, ref inputs; list = workloads.txtHeadline comparison first; attribution/ablation second; sensitivity third; overheads (storage, energy, area, complexity) fourth; explicit limitations last. Burying overheads after the conclusion-adjacent paragraphs is the venue's most transparent tell; putting them in the main flow signals confidence.
Verified cycle facts (page rules, dates, double-blind handling of artifact links)
live in ../../resources/official-source-map.md, checked 2026-07-08; methodology
norms above are community practice, not CFP text, and should be applied with
judgment. The manifests built here are reused verbatim by isca-reproducibility
(freeze ritual) and isca-artifact-evaluation (claims table) — invest once,
spend three times.
© 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
Just SKILL.md in ISCA-Skills/skills/isca-experiments of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
Isca Experiments next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isca Experiments this skillbrycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills | 1.2k | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Design Audit Against Rams' Principlesthedotmack/claude-mem | 98k | — | ~4.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Experiment Auditwanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep | 17k | 1 repos | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | |
| Experiment Auditwanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep | 17k | — | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | |
| Experiment Designeralirezarezvani/claude-skills | 28k | 1 repos | ~783 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| OpenClaw Design Auditopenclaw/clawhub | 9.5k | — | ~498 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
thedotmack/claude-mem
Audits a design against Dieter Rams' ten principles of good design, scores each with evidence, and hands off a make-plan prompt for a new, refined or redesigned outcome.
wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep
Audit experiment integrity before claiming results. An agent skill from wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep.
wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep
Audit experiment integrity before claiming results. An agent skill from wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep.
alirezarezvani/claude-skills
A skill your agent uses when planning product experiments, writing testable hypotheses, estimating sample size, prioritizing tests, or interpreting A/B outcomes with practical statistical rigor.
openclaw/clawhub
Audits OpenClaw frontend code and rendered pages for token misuse, reimplemented primitives, accessibility and responsive defects and off-brand copy, with an evidence-based report.
affaan-m/ECC
Generate a design system from an existing codebase or audit one for visual consistency: extract tokens (colors, typography, spacing, shadows) into design-tokens.json and CSS custom properties with…
brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills
A skill your agent uses when running and reporting the analysis for an Annals of the American Association of Geographers manuscript — spatial statistics and modeling, remote-sensing accuracy, or…
brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills
A skill your agent uses when positioning an Annals of the American Association of Geographers manuscript in the literature — engaging geographic scholarship across the relevant area and the…
brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills
A skill your agent uses when responding to an Annals of the American Association of Geographers decision letter (major/minor revision) — building a point-by-point response to the subject editor and…
brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills
A skill your agent uses when defending the research design of an Annals of the American Association of Geographers manuscript — spatial/quantitative analysis and GIScience, remote-sensing and…
brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills
A skill your agent uses when you need to understand how the Annals of the American Association of Geographers evaluates a manuscript — double-anonymous review routed through a subject editor by…
brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills
A skill your agent uses when running the final pre-submission preflight for the Annals of the American Association of Geographers via ScholarOne Manuscripts — area/article-type selection…
A skill your agent uses when designing or auditing the evaluation of an ISCA paper — pinning simulator fidelity to the claims it must carry, documenting gem5-class configurations and sampling…. Isca Experiments is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when designing or auditing the evaluation of an ISCA paper — pinning simulator fidelity to the claims it must carry, documenting gem5-class configurations and sampling choices, selecting workload suites that represent the claim's domain, tuning baselines in good faith, and separating architectural effect from modeling artifact.
Isca Experiments fits situations like: auditing the evaluation of an ISCA paper — pinning simulator fidelity to the claims it must carry; documenting gem5-class configurations and sampling choices; selecting workload suites that represent the claims domain; tuning baselines in good faith.
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill isca-experiments -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (ISCA-Skills/skills/isca-experiments in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/isca-experiments in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill isca-experiments -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (ISCA-Skills/skills/isca-experiments in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/isca-experiments in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
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 isca-experiments -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/isca-experiments, .gemini/skills/isca-experiments, .github/skills/isca-experiments and .opencode/skills/isca-experiments in your project.
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Isca Experiments is instructions for the agent only.
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.
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.
Isca Experiments is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
About 1.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Isca Experiments: Design Audit Against Rams' Principles (thedotmack/claude-mem, 98k stars), Experiment Audit (wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep, 17k stars), Experiment Audit (wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep, 17k stars) and Experiment Designer (alirezarezvani/claude-skills, 28k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
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.