A skill your agent uses when running the final pre-deadline audit of an ISCA submission — the two-step abstract-then-paper gate a week apart, the 11-page text limit with unlimited references, the…

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Install Isca Submission

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills isca-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/ISCA-Skills/skills/isca-submission .claude/skills/isca-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
isca-submission
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
704 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when running the final pre-deadline audit of an ISCA submission — the two-step abstract-then-paper gate a week apart, the 11-page text limit with unlimited references, the…

  • Works in 3 steps: No author names on any submitted… → PDF metadata must not give away authors.… → Artifact links must be fully anonymized…
  • Running the final pre-deadline audit of an ISCA submission — the two-step abstract-then-paper gate a week apart
  • SKILL.md covers The two-step gate, Hard-format checklist, 2026…, Double-blind sweep — the three… and The HotCRP form is a second…, plus 3 more sections
  • Calls pdftotext

What it does

Isca Submission is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when running the final pre-deadline audit of an ISCA submission — the two-step abstract-then-paper gate a week apart, the 11-page text limit with unlimited references, the template check, the double-blind sweep including PDF metadata and anonymized artifact links, and HotCRP form completion before AoE.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k 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 Documents & Office, covering PDF. 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

  • Running the final pre-deadline audit of an ISCA submission — the two-step abstract-then-paper gate a week apart
  • The 11-page text limit with unlimited references
  • The template check
  • The double-blind sweep including PDF metadata and anonymized artifact links

Example prompts

  • “/isca-submission”

Workflow steps

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

  1. No author names on any submitted document — they exist only in the HotCRP
  2. PDF metadata must not give away authors. LaTeX toolchains embed usernames
  3. Artifact links must be fully anonymized (an anonymized repository service,

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

Isca Submission loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 81 tokens; SKILL.md has 704 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
~1.6k

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). 704 words, ~1,600 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/isca-submission/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
isca-submission
description
Use when running the final pre-deadline audit of an ISCA submission — the two-step abstract-then-paper gate a week apart, the 11-page text limit with unlimited references, the template check, the double-blind sweep including PDF metadata and anonymized artifact links, and HotCRP form completion before AoE.

ISCA Submission

This audit assumes the deadline is days away and the PDF nearly final. Every hard rule cited below is the verified ISCA 2026 record (checked 2026-07-08); the 2027 guidelines were not yet posted at check time, so confirm each line against the live iscaconf.org pages before trusting it (待核实).

The two-step gate

ISCA 2026 collected abstracts November 10 and full papers November 17, 2025 — a seven-day gap with different stakes at each step:

  • The abstract step registers title, abstract text, authors, topics, and conflicts in HotCRP. It is what reviewer assignment works from. Submitting a throwaway abstract and rewriting it at the paper step defeats its purpose and can misroute the paper to the wrong reviewers.
  • The paper step uploads the reviewed PDF. New submissions cannot appear at this step — no abstract, no paper.
  • Industry-track submissions ran on their own later pair (December 5 / December 12, 2025); confirm which track's dates govern you.

Treat the abstract deadline as the real deadline for decisions (title, claim, topic areas, author list, conflicts) and the paper deadline as the real deadline for evidence and prose.

Hard-format checklist, 2026 rules

Item2026 ruleCheck
Body length≤ 11 pages of single-spaced two-column text, references NOT countedCount pages up to the bibliography start
ReferencesAny number of pagesNever cut citations for space
TemplateISCA 2026 IEEE LaTeX template suggested for LaTeX usersBuild from the official class, unmodified
FilePrintable PDFFonts embedded; prints without errors
PortalHotCRP (isca2026.hotcrp.com pattern)Account, form, and upload confirmed — not just saved

Page-limit recovery should come from cutting content, not squeezing geometry: committees can and do check formatting mechanically, and a paper that reads as crammed invites the question of what a revision could even absorb.

Double-blind sweep — the three 2026-specific rules

The verified guidelines make three demands that trip authors coming from other venues:

  1. No author names on any submitted document — they exist only in the HotCRP form fields.
  2. PDF metadata must not give away authors. LaTeX toolchains embed usernames and file paths; scrub and verify.
  3. Artifact links must be fully anonymized (an anonymized repository service, not your lab's GitHub) — while references must not be anonymized or omitted. Blind the voice and the links, never the bibliography (details in isca-related-work).
bash
# Mechanical anonymity + format pass on the final PDF
pdfinfo paper.pdf | grep -Ei 'author|creator|producer'     # metadata fields
pdftotext paper.pdf - | grep -nEi \
  'github\.com/(?!anonymous)|gitlab|acknowledg|funded by|grant' | head
pdftotext -f 1 -l 1 paper.pdf - | head -5                  # no names under title
pdffonts paper.pdf | awk '$5=="no"'                        # non-embedded fonts
# body-page count: note the page where references begin, compare to 11
pdftotext paper.pdf - | grep -n 'REFERENCES\|References' | head -1

Also sweep content-level identity: named internal clusters, institution-specific trace names, acknowledgment stubs, and "as we showed in [7]" phrasing.

Show full SKILL.md (307 more words)Show less

The HotCRP form is a second document

Draft every field at the abstract step and re-verify at the paper step:

  • Title/abstract — must match the PDF exactly; mismatches confuse bidding and look careless at the PC meeting.
  • Topics — choose for the reviewer pool you want; a memory-hierarchy paper tagged only "accelerators" gets accelerator reviewers.
  • Authors and conflicts — complete conflict declaration for every author: advisors, recent coauthors, institutional conflicts. Missing conflicts discovered later are an integrity problem, not a typo. Over-declaring to dodge specific reviewers is likewise detectable and sanctionable.
  • Declared coverage — any dual-submission, prior-workshop, or extended-abstract history the current cycle's form asks about, answered literally.

Final-72-hours run order

  1. Freeze experiments; tag the repo at the commit producing every number in the PDF (isca-reproducibility).
  2. Full read-through by a coauthor against the self-check lists in isca-writing-style and isca-experiments.
  3. Run the mechanical pass above on the final build, not a near-final one — metadata regenerates on every compile.
  4. Complete every HotCRP field; upload; confirm status shows submitted.
  5. Download the PDF back from HotCRP and open it cold on another machine. The uploaded artifact, not your local file, is the submission.
  6. Calendar the rebuttal/revision window now (mid-February to early March in the 2026 cycle) so the team is staffed when reviews land (isca-author-response).

Common last-week failures, ranked by frequency

  • Abstract step missed entirely — authors tracking only the paper date.
  • Metadata leak from a coauthor's build environment (fixed by one designated build machine).
  • Un-anonymized artifact URL in a footnote added late.
  • Topics chosen in five seconds, misrouting review assignment.
  • HotCRP "draft saved" mistaken for "submitted" at 11:58 PM AoE.

Audit output template

Fill this in and circulate to all coauthors before each of the two deadlines:

text
[Gate] abstract step / paper step         [Deadline] <date, AoE-converted>
[Format] body pages: __ /11 · refs pages: __ (uncounted) · template: official
[Blinding] names=form-only · metadata=clean · artifact-links=anonymized ·
           references=INTACT
[HotCRP] title/abstract match PDF · topics deliberate · conflicts complete ·
         status=SUBMITTED
[Freeze] repo tagged at figure-producing commit · env image stored
[Open risks] <anything unresolved, with owner and hour-of-day plan>

Every rule above is one edition's snapshot from ../../resources/official-source-map.md. If the live 2027 pages disagree with this file, the live pages win.

© 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 ISCA-Skills/skills/isca-submission of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Isca Submission

What does Isca Submission do?

A skill your agent uses when running the final pre-deadline audit of an ISCA submission — the two-step abstract-then-paper gate a week apart, the 11-page text limit with unlimited references, the…. Isca Submission is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when running the final pre-deadline audit of an ISCA submission — the two-step abstract-then-paper gate a week apart, the 11-page text limit with unlimited references, the template check, the double-blind sweep including PDF metadata and anonymized artifact links, and HotCRP form completion before AoE.

When should I use Isca Submission?

Isca Submission fits situations like: running the final pre-deadline audit of an ISCA submission — the two-step abstract-then-paper gate a week apart; the 11-page text limit with unlimited references; the template check; the double-blind sweep including PDF metadata and anonymized artifact links.

How do I install Isca Submission in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Isca Submission in Codex?

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

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

What does Isca Submission need to run?

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

Does Isca 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 Isca 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 Isca Submission use?

Isca 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 Isca Submission use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.4k 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 Isca 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.