A skill your agent uses when planning a full ISCA campaign on a calendar — working back from the expected mid-November abstract and paper deadlines to freeze simulation evidence in time, staffing…

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Install Isca Workflow

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills isca-workflow --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-workflow .claude/skills/isca-workflow && 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-workflow
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
733 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when planning a full ISCA campaign on a calendar — working back from the expected mid-November abstract and paper deadlines to freeze simulation evidence in time, staffing…

  • Staffing the winter two-round review wait
  • SKILL.md covers The verified 2026-cycle skeleton, Working backward from November, The winter: silence, then… and Branch plans after notification, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Preparing for the February-March rebuttal and revision window

What it does

Isca Workflow is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when planning a full ISCA campaign on a calendar — working back from the expected mid-November abstract and paper deadlines to freeze simulation evidence in time, staffing the winter two-round review wait, preparing for the February-March rebuttal and revision window, and branching to camera-ready, artifacts, and the June conference.

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

  • Staffing the winter two-round review wait
  • Preparing for the February-March rebuttal and revision window
  • Branching to camera-ready
  • The June conference

Example prompts

  • “/isca-workflow”

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 (its code samples are yaml).

    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 Workflow loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 88 tokens; SKILL.md has 733 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~88
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). 733 words, ~1,680 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/isca-workflow/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
isca-workflow
description
Use when planning a full ISCA campaign on a calendar — working back from the expected mid-November abstract and paper deadlines to freeze simulation evidence in time, staffing the winter two-round review wait, preparing for the February-March rebuttal and revision window, and branching to camera-ready, artifacts, and the June conference.

ISCA Workflow

An ISCA year has one gate. Miss mid-November and the next identical opportunity is twelve months away, which is why experienced groups treat the ISCA calendar as an engineering schedule with the deadline as tape-out. This skill lays out that schedule using the verified ISCA 2026 dates as the template; as of 2026-07-08 the ISCA 2027 CFP was not yet posted, so every 2027 date below is an expectation to confirm against iscaconf.org/isca2027/ the moment it exists (待核实).

The verified 2026-cycle skeleton

MilestoneISCA 2026 date (verified)What it means operationally
Abstract registrationNovember 10, 2025Title, abstract, authors, conflicts locked in HotCRP; paper content still fluid
Full paperNovember 17, 2025The reviewed PDF — one week after abstracts, so the abstract week is a writing week, not a buffer
Round 1 reviews dueDecember 19, 2025First reviewer wave completes before the holidays
Round 2 reviews dueFebruary 13, 2026Additional reviews on papers that advanced
Rebuttal + revisionFebruary 16 - March 6, 2026Authors see reviews, respond, and may revise — a three-week working window
ConferenceJune 27 - July 1, 2026 (Raleigh, NC)Presentation; artifact badges resolved before publication

Industry-track submissions ran about a month behind (abstracts December 5, papers December 12, 2025). Final notification date for 2026 was not captured in this pack's verification — 待核实.

Working backward from November

Count in weeks from the expected paper deadline (call it P, likely mid-November 2026 for ISCA 2027):

  • P minus 16 weeks (late July): venue decision final (isca-topic-selection); simulation or prototype infrastructure chosen and validated (isca-experiments); the one-sentence claim written on the whiteboard.
  • P minus 10 weeks: baseline configurations frozen and reproduced from scratch by a second person. Baseline drift discovered later invalidates every downstream number.
  • P minus 6 weeks: main-result experiments complete. From here, compute goes to sensitivity studies and reviewer-anticipation runs, not to the headline.
  • P minus 4 weeks: full draft exists — bad prose, complete structure. Internal "mock PC" read by two colleagues who did not build the system.
  • P minus 1 week (abstract deadline): title/abstract/topics/conflicts final in HotCRP. The abstract steers reviewer assignment; write it for bidding, not as a placeholder.
  • P: upload per isca-submission, then freeze the artifact snapshot that matches the submitted numbers (isca-reproducibility).

The winter: silence, then three loud weeks

Between November and mid-February the authors' only jobs are (a) keep the evaluation environment resurrectable and (b) pre-build rebuttal ammunition: the five most likely objections, each with a ready experiment or a pointer into the submitted PDF. The 2026 cycle then opened a combined rebuttal/revision period (February 16 - March 6) — unusually long by conference standards precisely because ISCA lets authors change the paper, not just argue about it. Staff those three weeks like a sprint: compute reserved, coauthors on call, no conference travel booked. Details of what to do inside the window live in isca-author-response.

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Branch plans after notification

  • Accept: camera-ready under the edition's publisher workflow (isca-camera-ready), voluntary artifact submission (isca-artifact-evaluation), talk and travel for late June.
  • Reject with salvageable reviews: map every misunderstanding to the sentence that permitted it; decide MICRO (spring gate) vs HPCA (summer gate) within two weeks while the reviews are fresh.
  • Reject with a fit objection: rerun isca-topic-selection honestly — the committee may have told you the paper's true venue.

Team ledger

Keep a single tracking file in the paper repo; every risk has one owner.

yaml
# isca-campaign.yaml
target: ISCA 2027            # 54th by arithmetic - ordinal 待核实
gate:
  abstract: TBD-2026-11      # confirm on iscaconf.org/isca2027 when live
  paper:    TBD-2026-11
  source:   "not yet posted as of 2026-07-08"
owners:
  claim_and_story:   <name>   # one sentence, defended weekly
  simulation_infra:  <name>   # versions pinned, configs archived
  baselines:         <name>   # frozen P-10w, independently reproduced
  writing:           <name>   # draft complete P-4w
  submission_admin:  <name>   # HotCRP, conflicts, template, metadata
  rebuttal_reserve:  <name>   # compute + calendar hold, mid-Feb to early Mar
checks:
  - abstract written for reviewer bidding, not filler
  - artifact snapshot tagged at submission commit
  - mock-PC read completed and objections filed
  - fallback venue named with trigger condition

Failure modes this calendar prevents

  • The November collision: abstract and paper a week apart means groups that planned "we'll write after the abstract" write the whole paper in seven days. The P-4w draft rule exists for this.
  • The dead environment: rebuttal-window experiments that fail because the simulator tree no longer builds in February. Tag and containerize at submission.
  • The unstaffed revision: ISCA's revision option is leverage only for teams that can produce new results in days; treat the window as scheduled work.
  • The stale retarget: rejected papers resubmitted unchanged to MICRO carry their ISCA reviews' fingerprints; committees overlap. Budget a real revision.

Milestone-to-skill routing

When you are at...Open...
Venue decision (P-16w)isca-topic-selection, exemplars library
Infrastructure setupisca-experiments, isca-reproducibility
Drafting (P-6w to P-1w)isca-writing-style, isca-related-work, isca-supplementary
Upload weekisca-submission (twice: abstract step, paper step)
Winter waitisca-review-process
February windowisca-author-response
Post-decisionisca-camera-ready, isca-artifact-evaluation, or the retarget branch

All dates above are the 2026-cycle record (../../resources/official-source-map.md, checked 2026-07-08). Confirm the 2027 calendar, page rules, and review mechanics on the official site before acting on any of them.

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Files

Just SKILL.md in ISCA-Skills/skills/isca-workflow of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Isca Workflow

What does Isca Workflow do?

A skill your agent uses when planning a full ISCA campaign on a calendar — working back from the expected mid-November abstract and paper deadlines to freeze simulation evidence in time, staffing…. Isca Workflow is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when planning a full ISCA campaign on a calendar — working back from the expected mid-November abstract and paper deadlines to freeze simulation evidence in time, staffing the winter two-round review wait, preparing for the February-March rebuttal and revision window, and branching to camera-ready, artifacts, and the June conference.

When should I use Isca Workflow?

Isca Workflow fits situations like: staffing the winter two-round review wait; preparing for the February-March rebuttal and revision window; branching to camera-ready; the June conference.

How do I install Isca Workflow in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Isca Workflow in Codex?

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

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

What does Isca Workflow need to run?

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

Does Isca Workflow 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 Workflow 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 Workflow use?

Isca Workflow 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 Workflow use?

About 1.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.7k 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 Workflow?

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.