Hypothesis Generation
spacering-net/codeg
Structured hypothesis formulation from observations. An agent skill from spacering-net/codeg.
A skill your agent uses when planning an ISSTA project timeline from venue fit through the January research-paper deadline, the March author response, the April first decision, the May…
Install Issta Workflow
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill issta-workflow -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills issta-workflow --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/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-workflow .claude/skills/issta-workflow && 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 "issta-workflow" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-workflow into .claude/skills/issta-workflow/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "issta-workflow", 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/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-workflowType 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 issta-workflow -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills issta-workflow --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/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-workflow .agents/skills/issta-workflow && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "issta-workflow" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-workflow into .agents/skills/issta-workflow/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "issta-workflow", 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 issta-workflow -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills issta-workflow --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/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-workflow .cursor/skills/issta-workflow && 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 "issta-workflow" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-workflow into .cursor/skills/issta-workflow/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "issta-workflow", 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 ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-workflow--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 issta-workflow -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills issta-workflow --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/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-workflow .gemini/skills/issta-workflow && 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 "issta-workflow" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-workflow into .gemini/skills/issta-workflow/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "issta-workflow", 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 issta-workflowInstalls 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 issta-workflow -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/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-workflow .github/skills/issta-workflow && 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 "issta-workflow" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-workflow into .github/skills/issta-workflow/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "issta-workflow", 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 issta-workflow -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 issta-workflow --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/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-workflow .opencode/skills/issta-workflow && 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 "issta-workflow" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-workflow into .opencode/skills/issta-workflow/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "issta-workflow", 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.
Facts
- Skill name
issta-workflow- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 469 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 2,387
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
A skill your agent uses when planning an ISSTA project timeline from venue fit through the January research-paper deadline, the March author response, the April first decision, the May…
- Planning an ISSTA project timeline from venue fit through the January research-paper deadline
- SKILL.md covers Milestones (2026 shape —…, Backward plan from the paper…, Failure modes by stage and Coordination notes, plus 1 more section
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
- The March author response
What it does
Issta Workflow is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when planning an ISSTA project timeline from venue fit through the January research-paper deadline, the March author response, the April first decision, the May Major-Revision sprint, the June final decision, artifact evaluation, and the October symposium, with backward-planning offsets for a testing/analysis tool paper and its artifact.
Its SKILL.md is about 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 Research & Science. 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
- Planning an ISSTA project timeline from venue fit through the January research-paper deadline
- The March author response
- The April first decision
- The May Major-Revision sprint
Example prompts
- “/issta-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.
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 Workflow loads about 1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 90 tokens; SKILL.md has 469 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.
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). 469 words, ~1,032 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/issta-workflow/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- issta-workflow
- description
- Use when planning an ISSTA project timeline from venue fit through the January research-paper deadline, the March author response, the April first decision, the May Major-Revision sprint, the June final decision, artifact evaluation, and the October symposium, with backward-planning offsets for a testing/analysis tool paper and its artifact.
ISSTA Workflow
Use this as the project-management skill for an ISSTA submission. Replace every date below with the current official timetable and work backward from the HotCRP deadline — ISSTA's calendar, and even its number of deadlines, changes between editions.
ISSTA is a conference, not a journal: it has no standing editor-in-chief and no article-processing charge. The rotating leadership is the per-edition General Chair and Program Chairs, appointed by ACM SIGSOFT and turning over each year, and the cost model is registration, not APCs — proceedings appear in the ACM Digital Library. Re-check the current organization page rather than carrying a name forward.
Milestones (2026 shape — verify the current cycle)
- Venue fit: confirm the contribution is genuinely testing-and-analysis, not a broader SE result.
- Evidence lock: freeze the technique's scope, the subjects and benchmark versions, the baselines, and the artifact plan.
- Submission deadline (Jan 29, 2026): HotCRP record complete, 18-page anonymous
sigconfPDF uploaded, subjects pinned. - Author response (Mar 24-26, 2026): rebuttal anchored in submitted evidence.
- First decision (Apr 16, 2026): Accept, Major Revision, or Reject.
- Major-Revision deadline (May 21, 2026): revised paper plus a ledger walking every reviewer comment.
- Final decision (Jun 25, 2026): terminal outcome for revised papers.
- Artifact evaluation: package for the ACM badges and the Zenodo deposit (separate track/dates).
- Camera-ready and symposium (Oakland, Oct 3-9, 2026): ACM DL package, registration, in-person presentation.
Backward plan from the paper deadline
| Weeks out (heuristic) | Testing/analysis milestone |
|---|---|
| 10+ | Technique implemented; scope and threat model fixed |
| 8 | Subjects and benchmark versions pinned; baselines configured at equal budget |
| 6 | Full evaluation runs complete with repeated runs and seeds logged |
| 4 | Statistics done (non-parametric test + effect size); tables generated from logs |
| 3 | Draft in ACM sigconf; threats-to-validity section written, not stubbed |
| 2 | Internal mock review by a testing-literate reader; artifact smoke-tested |
| 1 | Anonymity sweep; HotCRP record; artifact staging anonymized |
| 0 | 18-page PDF on HotCRP; confirm the abstract matches |
These offsets are planning heuristics only — anchor each to the current official timetable, never to a previous cycle's calendar or deadline count.
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Failure modes by stage
- Treating Major Revision as a soft reject: teams that coast after April lose the June decision they could have won by walking the reviewers' ledger.
- Deferring the artifact to after acceptance: the badge and Zenodo work is real engineering, and a tool that only ran on the authors' cluster earns nothing.
- Leaving
sigconfreflow to the final week: two-column code listings and full-width tables overflow late. - Picking private subjects over an established benchmark: an evaluation that cannot be compared to prior work invites an external-validity reject that no rebuttal fixes.
Coordination notes
- Assign one owner for the artifact and Zenodo deposit and another for the anonymity sweep; shared ownership is how both slip.
- Archive the exact submitted PDF and artifact, because response and Major-Revision replies must quote them precisely.
Output format
[Current stage] idea / evaluation / writing / submission / response / major-revision / accepted
[Next official deadline] <date and source, or unknown>
[Critical path] <three tasks that determine readiness>
[Risk register] <page/anonymity/evaluation/baseline/artifact/presentation>
[Owner map] <task -> person or role>© 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-workflow of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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| GitHub Deep Researchbytedance/deer-flow | 84k | 4 repos | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Nature Paper CardYuan1z0825/nature-skills | 47k | 2 repos | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Content Research Writerweapp-tailwindcss/weapp-tailwindcss | 1.9k | 25 repos | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Peer Reviewspacering-net/codeg | 3.9k | 17 repos | ~5.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT |
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What does Issta Workflow do?
A skill your agent uses when planning an ISSTA project timeline from venue fit through the January research-paper deadline, the March author response, the April first decision, the May…. Issta Workflow is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when planning an ISSTA project timeline from venue fit through the January research-paper deadline, the March author response, the April first decision, the May Major-Revision sprint, the June final decision, artifact evaluation, and the October symposium, with backward-planning offsets for a testing/analysis tool paper and its artifact.
When should I use Issta Workflow?
Issta Workflow fits situations like: planning an ISSTA project timeline from venue fit through the January research-paper deadline; the March author response; the April first decision; the May Major-Revision sprint.
How do I install Issta Workflow in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill issta-workflow -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-workflow in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/issta-workflow in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Issta Workflow in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill issta-workflow -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (ISSTA-Skills/skills/issta-workflow in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/issta-workflow in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Issta 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 issta-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/issta-workflow, .gemini/skills/issta-workflow, .github/skills/issta-workflow and .opencode/skills/issta-workflow in your project.
What does Issta Workflow need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Issta Workflow is instructions for the agent only.
Does Issta 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 Issta 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 Issta Workflow use?
Issta 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 Issta Workflow use?
About 1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.1k 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 Workflow?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Issta Workflow: Hypothesis Generation (spacering-net/codeg, 3.9k stars), GitHub Deep Research (bytedance/deer-flow, 84k stars), Nature Paper Card (Yuan1z0825/nature-skills, 47k stars) and Content Research Writer (weapp-tailwindcss/weapp-tailwindcss, 1.9k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Issta Workflow?
brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,228 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.