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ZimoLiao/scholaraio
A skill your agent uses when the user asks about research themes, topic distribution, BERTopic clustering, topic overview, topic papers, topic merges, or HTML topic visualizations.
A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project belongs at ISCA, the ACM/IEEE flagship architecture symposium — testing whether the machine itself is the contribution, choosing between…
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill isca-topic-selection -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills isca-topic-selection --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-topic-selection .claude/skills/isca-topic-selection && 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-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ISCA-Skills/skills/isca-topic-selection into .claude/skills/isca-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "isca-topic-selection", 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-topic-selectionType 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-topic-selection -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills isca-topic-selection --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-topic-selection .agents/skills/isca-topic-selection && 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-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ISCA-Skills/skills/isca-topic-selection into .agents/skills/isca-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "isca-topic-selection", 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-topic-selection -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills isca-topic-selection --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-topic-selection .cursor/skills/isca-topic-selection && 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-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ISCA-Skills/skills/isca-topic-selection into .cursor/skills/isca-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "isca-topic-selection", 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-topic-selection--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-topic-selection -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills isca-topic-selection --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-topic-selection .gemini/skills/isca-topic-selection && 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-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ISCA-Skills/skills/isca-topic-selection into .gemini/skills/isca-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "isca-topic-selection", 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-topic-selectionInstalls 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-topic-selection -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-topic-selection .github/skills/isca-topic-selection && 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-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ISCA-Skills/skills/isca-topic-selection into .github/skills/isca-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "isca-topic-selection", 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-topic-selection -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-topic-selection --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-topic-selection .opencode/skills/isca-topic-selection && 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-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ISCA-Skills/skills/isca-topic-selection into .opencode/skills/isca-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "isca-topic-selection", 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-topic-selectionA skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project belongs at ISCA, the ACM/IEEE flagship architecture symposium — testing whether the machine itself is the contribution, choosing between…
Isca Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a project belongs at ISCA, the ACM/IEEE flagship architecture symposium — testing whether the machine itself is the contribution, choosing between ISCA's November gate and the MICRO, HPCA, and ASPLOS seats in the architecture year, and weighing the main track against the industry track.
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.
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.
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 Topic Selection loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 84 tokens; SKILL.md has 745 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). 745 words, ~1,708 tokens.
.claude/skills/isca-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).ISCA reviews reward papers whose central object is a hardware organization: a pipeline, a cache hierarchy, a memory controller, an accelerator datapath, an interconnect, a coherence or consistency mechanism. Software may motivate the work and co-design may strengthen it, but at ISCA the question a program committee member carries into every discussion is what does this paper teach us about how to build machines? Projects that cannot answer that in one sentence tend to be respected and rejected in the same review.
Write down the single artifact your evaluation section studies hardest. Then ask where its novelty lives:
A useful stress test: describe the contribution without naming any benchmark. If what remains is a statement about machine organization ("decoupling X from Y removes the Z stall class"), the paper is ISCA-shaped. If what remains is only a speedup, it is a results report, and every top venue struggles to accept those.
ISCA's November deadline and June conference define one corner of a four-venue rotation. Retargeting between them is normal practice; plan it as a calendar decision, not an act of desperation. Dates below reflect the most recent verified cycle (ISCA 2026) — reopen each venue's current CFP before committing.
| Venue | Typical deadline seat | Conference seat | Takes best what |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISCA | mid-November (Nov 10/17, 2025 for the 2026 edition) | late June | Broad architecture ideas: cores, memory, accelerators, interconnect, evaluation methodology |
| MICRO | spring (roughly April) | October | Microarchitecture depth: front-end, prediction, scheduling, implementation-level mechanisms |
| HPCA | mid-summer (roughly July/August) | February | Architecture with a performance-systems flavor; a fast second gate after a June ISCA reject |
| ASPLOS | multiple gates per edition | spring | Work whose hardware and software halves are inseparable |
The practical rhythm from ISCA's seat: a paper rejected from ISCA's November gate can be revised for MICRO in spring; a paper that misses November because evidence was immature has HPCA's summer gate before the next ISCA November. Retarget on reviewer-pool fit, never on deadline convenience alone — each venue's committee notices work dressed for a different room.
ISCA 2026 ran a separate industry track with its own later deadlines (abstracts December 5, papers December 12, 2025). Choose it when the contribution's value is evidence from real products at scale — measurements, deployment lessons, or design retrospectives that academia cannot produce — rather than a novel mechanism. A novel mechanism from an industrial lab still belongs in the main track.
Run this before any drafting; keep the answers in the repo.
CLAIM One sentence, no benchmark names: what about machine organization
does this paper establish?
LEVEL Which layer changes: core / memory hierarchy / accelerator /
interconnect / ISA contract / methodology?
AUDIENCE Name three recent ISCA papers whose authors are the natural
reviewers. (Cannot name three -> wrong room.)
DELTA Against the nearest of those three: what does this design do that
theirs cannot, stated as behavior not adjectives?
EVIDENCE Is the evaluation instrument (simulator / RTL / FPGA / silicon
measurement) credible for THIS claim? (See isca-experiments.)
TIMING Can the evidence be complete 6 weeks before mid-November?
If not, which venue's gate matches the real finish date?
ROUTE ISCA main / ISCA industry / MICRO / HPCA / ASPLOS / defer.The Influential ISCA Paper Award record (see
../../resources/exemplars/library.md) shows the venue's long-run taste. Winning
shapes include a security-motivated cache redesign, a polymorphous core
architecture, 3D-stacked memory organization, a datacenter power-provisioning
measurement study, and a thermal-management design-space classification. Two
lessons: measurement and methodology papers can be first-class ISCA contributions,
and ideas that name a reusable organizing principle outlast ideas that optimize
one metric.
isca-experiments before deciding fit, not after).[ISCA fit] strong / plausible / weak
[Center of gravity] <layer + one-sentence organizing claim>
[Nearest reviewers] <3 recent ISCA papers>
[Track] main / industry
[Fallback seat] MICRO <year> / HPCA <year> / ASPLOS <cycle> + trigger condition
[Evidence deadline] <date evidence must freeze for a mid-November submission>Facts here are the 2026-cycle snapshot verified 2026-07-08
(../../resources/official-source-map.md); the ISCA 2027 CFP was not yet posted at
check time, so treat the November seat as expected, not promised — 待核实. Scope,
track structure, and topics lists are re-decided per edition: reread the live CFP's
topics enumeration before declaring anything out of scope.
© 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-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
Isca Topic Selection 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 Topic Selection this skillbrycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills | 1.2k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| TopicsZimoLiao/scholaraio | 576 | — | ~294 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Topic Modelingbrycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills | 4.5k | — | ~3.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Acm Workshop On Hot Topics In Networksfranklee16/academic-research-skills | 223 | 1 repos | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Bestblogs Topicginobefun/BestBlogs | 4k | — | ~670 | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Zsxq Topicitwanger/toBeBetterJavaer | 18k | — | ~564 | Automated safety check: Pass | None |
ZimoLiao/scholaraio
A skill your agent uses when the user asks about research themes, topic distribution, BERTopic clustering, topic overview, topic papers, topic merges, or HTML topic visualizations.
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills
Structural topic modeling: STM spec, topic count, coherence-exclusivity.
franklee16/academic-research-skills
A skill your agent uses when targeting ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets) or deciding whether a computer-science manuscript fits this venue.
ginobefun/BestBlogs
A skill your agent uses when the user asks about a specific topic, subject area, or wants to explore curated topic pages on BestBlogs.
itwanger/toBeBetterJavaer
知识星球主题管理:搜索主题、查看主题详情、发布帖子、编辑主题、发表评论、回复某条评论(楼中楼)、回答提问、删除主题;通过 api call 查看主题评论列表、设置精华、设置标签、查看自己提的问题与已回答记录。当用户需要查找内容、发帖、编辑主题、评论、回复评论、回答问题、删除主题、查看主题评论、查看自己的提问记录、或管理主题精华和标签时使用。
aipoch/medical-research-skills
Generate ~5 actionable research topic recommendations by querying PubMed E-utilities; use when a user provides a research direction/constraints and needs evidence-backed topic ideas quickly.
brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills
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A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project belongs at ISCA, the ACM/IEEE flagship architecture symposium — testing whether the machine itself is the contribution, choosing between…. Isca Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a project belongs at ISCA, the ACM/IEEE flagship architecture symposium — testing whether the machine itself is the contribution, choosing between ISCA's November gate and the MICRO, HPCA, and ASPLOS seats in the architecture year, and weighing the main track against the industry track.
Isca Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a project belongs at ISCA; the ACM/IEEE flagship architecture symposium — testing whether the machine itself is the contribution; choosing between ISCAs November gate and the MICRO; ASPLOS seats in the architecture year.
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill isca-topic-selection -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (ISCA-Skills/skills/isca-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/isca-topic-selection in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill isca-topic-selection -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (ISCA-Skills/skills/isca-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/isca-topic-selection 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-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/isca-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/isca-topic-selection, .github/skills/isca-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/isca-topic-selection in your project.
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Isca Topic Selection 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 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.
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.
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Isca Topic Selection: Topics (ZimoLiao/scholaraio, 576 stars), Topic Modeling (brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, 4.5k stars), Acm Workshop On Hot Topics In Networks (franklee16/academic-research-skills, 223 stars) and Bestblogs Topic (ginobefun/BestBlogs, 4k 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.