A skill your agent uses when strengthening ISSTA reproducibility and verifiability evidence, covering pinned subject programs and benchmark versions, random seeds and timeout budgets…

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Install Issta Reproducibility

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills issta-reproducibility --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/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-reproducibility .claude/skills/issta-reproducibility && 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
issta-reproducibility
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
452 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when strengthening ISSTA reproducibility and verifiability evidence, covering pinned subject programs and benchmark versions, random seeds and timeout budgets…

  • Strengthening ISSTA reproducibility and verifiability evidence
  • SKILL.md covers Evidence map, Claim-to-evidence audit table, Vignette: a fuzzing evaluation and Degrees of reproducibility, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Covering pinned subject programs and benchmark versions

What it does

Issta Reproducibility is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when strengthening ISSTA reproducibility and verifiability evidence, covering pinned subject programs and benchmark versions, random seeds and timeout budgets, non-determinism disclosure for fuzzing and analysis, claim-to-evidence traceability, tool availability statements, and keeping the artifact consistent with the paper's tables.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k 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 Security, covering Reproducible research and Fuzzing. 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

  • Strengthening ISSTA reproducibility and verifiability evidence
  • Covering pinned subject programs and benchmark versions
  • Random seeds and timeout budgets
  • Non-determinism disclosure for fuzzing and analysis

Example prompts

  • “/issta-reproducibility”

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

Issta Reproducibility loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 90 tokens; SKILL.md has 452 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~90
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k

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). 452 words, ~1,050 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/issta-reproducibility/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
issta-reproducibility
description
Use when strengthening ISSTA reproducibility and verifiability evidence, covering pinned subject programs and benchmark versions, random seeds and timeout budgets, non-determinism disclosure for fuzzing and analysis, claim-to-evidence traceability, tool availability statements, and keeping the artifact consistent with the paper's tables.

ISSTA Reproducibility

Use this before submission and again before the artifact deadline. Verifiability and transparency are named ISSTA evaluation criteria, so reproducibility is scored, not optional. Reopen the current call and artifact instructions to confirm what the cycle requires.

Evidence map

  • Map each empirical claim — a detection rate, a coverage gain, a bug count, a speedup — to a verifiable location: a table, the artifact, or a logged run that a reader could regenerate.
  • Pin the substrate: benchmark version (e.g. the Defects4J revision), subject-program commit SHAs, the extraction date of any mined corpus, and the exact toolchain versions. "The latest version" is not reproducible.
  • Fix and report the stochastic knobs: random seeds, timeout budgets, iteration or generation counts, and hardware, because a fuzzing or search result at one budget says little about another.
  • Disclose non-determinism honestly. Where results vary between runs, report the run count and the observed spread rather than a single golden run, and say which tables are means over runs.
  • Give an availability statement: what is released, under what license, and where, or an honest reason for withholding (proprietary subjects, license terms) with enough detail for in-principle reproduction.
  • Keep the artifact and the paper in lockstep; a table the artifact cannot regenerate is a verifiability failure the criteria will catch.

Claim-to-evidence audit table

Claim typeMinimum reproducibility evidenceCommon failure caught
Detection / bug-finding rateLabelled subjects + ground-truth labels archivedRate reported against an unshared or hand-picked subject set
Coverage or analysis-precision gainSubject SHAs, tool config, and the measurement scriptBaseline run under a different configuration than the tool
Fuzzing throughput / bugs foundSeed corpus, time budget, run count, hardwareA single lucky campaign presented as typical
Speedup over a baselineSame machine, same subjects, wall-clock protocolSpeedup measured on incomparable inputs

Marking a stochastic result as if it were deterministic — no seed, no run count — is a recognizable ISSTA red flag, because reviewers know these techniques do not produce the same number twice.

Show full SKILL.md (126 more words)Show less

Vignette: a fuzzing evaluation

Consider a paper claiming a new mutation strategy finds more bugs. Its reproducibility spine: the seed corpus and target binaries pinned by hash; the CPU-time budget per campaign and the number of repeated campaigns; the deduplication method for counting distinct bugs; a statement of which bugs are previously known versus new; and a script that turns the raw campaign logs into the paper's bug-count table — plus one honest sentence about variance across campaigns.

Degrees of reproducibility

text
Turnkey     one command regenerates each table from logged runs (aim for the smoke path)
Scripted    scripts exist but need documented manual steps or large external data
Descriptive prose detailed enough that a competent reader could rebuild the pipeline

For ISSTA, aim for at least a turnkey smoke path plus scripted full runs; long fuzzing or symbolic-execution campaigns may stay scripted if the budget and variance are documented. Stating the achieved level honestly beats promising turnkey behaviour that fails on a clean machine.

Output format

text
[Claim inventory] <claim -> evidence location>
[Substrate pinned] benchmark version / subject SHAs / toolchain: yes/no
[Stochastic disclosure] seeds / budgets / run count / variance: complete/partial/missing
[Availability] released / partially released / withheld-with-reason
[Paper fixes] <must appear in the body>
[Artifact fixes] <package or script additions>

© 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 ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-reproducibility of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Issta Reproducibility

What does Issta Reproducibility do?

A skill your agent uses when strengthening ISSTA reproducibility and verifiability evidence, covering pinned subject programs and benchmark versions, random seeds and timeout budgets…. Issta Reproducibility is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when strengthening ISSTA reproducibility and verifiability evidence, covering pinned subject programs and benchmark versions, random seeds and timeout budgets, non-determinism disclosure for fuzzing and analysis, claim-to-evidence traceability, tool availability statements, and keeping the artifact consistent with the paper's tables.

When should I use Issta Reproducibility?

Issta Reproducibility fits situations like: strengthening ISSTA reproducibility and verifiability evidence; covering pinned subject programs and benchmark versions; random seeds and timeout budgets; non-determinism disclosure for fuzzing and analysis.

How do I install Issta Reproducibility in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Issta Reproducibility in Codex?

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

Can I use Issta Reproducibility 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 issta-reproducibility -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/issta-reproducibility, .gemini/skills/issta-reproducibility, .github/skills/issta-reproducibility and .opencode/skills/issta-reproducibility in your project.

What does Issta Reproducibility need to run?

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

Does Issta Reproducibility 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 Issta Reproducibility 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 Issta Reproducibility use?

Issta Reproducibility 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 Issta Reproducibility use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Issta Reproducibility?

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Who maintains Issta Reproducibility?

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.