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A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a theoretical-computer-science result belongs at ITCS or should be routed to STOC, FOCS, SODA, CCC, ICALP, TCC, or a journal, and when distinguishing…
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill itcs-topic-selection -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills itcs-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/ITCS-Skills/skills/itcs-topic-selection .claude/skills/itcs-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 "itcs-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ITCS-Skills/skills/itcs-topic-selection into .claude/skills/itcs-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "itcs-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/ITCS-Skills/skills/itcs-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 itcs-topic-selection -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills itcs-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/ITCS-Skills/skills/itcs-topic-selection .agents/skills/itcs-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 "itcs-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ITCS-Skills/skills/itcs-topic-selection into .agents/skills/itcs-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "itcs-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 itcs-topic-selection -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills itcs-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/ITCS-Skills/skills/itcs-topic-selection .cursor/skills/itcs-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 "itcs-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ITCS-Skills/skills/itcs-topic-selection into .cursor/skills/itcs-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "itcs-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 ITCS-Skills/skills/itcs-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 itcs-topic-selection -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills itcs-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/ITCS-Skills/skills/itcs-topic-selection .gemini/skills/itcs-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 "itcs-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ITCS-Skills/skills/itcs-topic-selection into .gemini/skills/itcs-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "itcs-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 itcs-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 itcs-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/ITCS-Skills/skills/itcs-topic-selection .github/skills/itcs-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 "itcs-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ITCS-Skills/skills/itcs-topic-selection into .github/skills/itcs-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "itcs-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 itcs-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 itcs-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/ITCS-Skills/skills/itcs-topic-selection .opencode/skills/itcs-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 "itcs-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ITCS-Skills/skills/itcs-topic-selection into .opencode/skills/itcs-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "itcs-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.
itcs-topic-selectionA skill your agent uses when deciding whether a theoretical-computer-science result belongs at ITCS or should be routed to STOC, FOCS, SODA, CCC, ICALP, TCC, or a journal, and when distinguishing…
Itcs Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a theoretical-computer-science result belongs at ITCS or should be routed to STOC, FOCS, SODA, CCC, ICALP, TCC, or a journal, and when distinguishing ITCS from its depth-first siblings by the conceptual-novelty test — is this a new question, model, or connection worth asking, rather than the deepest theorem of the year.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.8k 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.
Itcs Topic Selection loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 92 tokens; SKILL.md has 813 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). 813 words, ~1,820 tokens.
.claude/skills/itcs-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).Decide the venue before drafting, and decide it on the axis ITCS actually selects on. ITCS — the Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science conference — was founded (as Innovations in Computer Science, 2010) to reward conceptual novelty: a new model, a new question, a surprising connection, a direction the field had not thought to take. Its sibling flagships STOC and FOCS reward the deepest, most polished result on questions the field already agrees are hard. A technically strong paper whose real virtue is that it finally proves a known hard theorem is respected and then, often, routed away from ITCS as "not innovative enough" — while a bold, imperfect, genuinely new idea can be accepted here that STOC/FOCS would reject for want of depth.
For most theory papers the decisive question is not "is this good theory?" but "does this paper give the community a new idea, or a stronger result on an existing idea?"
Both are valuable; ITCS is simply the venue whose PC is briefed to weight the first over the second. When your paper has both a new idea and deep technical results, you have a genuine choice, and the calendar and community fit break the tie.
| Signal in your project | Better home | Why |
|---|---|---|
| A new model, definition, question, or connection with a first result showing it is alive | ITCS | The conceptual-novelty venue; "innovation" is the selection criterion, not a bonus |
| The deepest/tightest theorem of the year on an established question | STOC / FOCS | Depth-first general theory flagships; polish and difficulty are rewarded |
| A new or improved algorithm / data structure, discrete-algorithms flavor | SODA | Algorithms-centered; the ACM-SIAM discrete-algorithms community |
| A complexity result centered on classes, lower bounds, circuit/proof complexity | CCC | Computational Complexity Conference; specialist depth |
| A broad EATCS-scope algorithms/automata/logic result, single September-ish cycle | ICALP | Track A/B breadth; European TCS flagship |
| A cryptography result with a formal model and reductions | TCC / CRYPTO / Eurocrypt | Crypto-specialist venues; TCC especially for foundational crypto |
| A result too long, too incremental-over-your-own-prior, or needing full journal treatment | A journal (JACM/SICOMP/ToC/...) | No conference deadline or page pressure; simultaneous journal submission is even allowed alongside ITCS |
Sharpen a borderline verdict with three quick tests the PC will apply:
Fit is necessary but not sufficient — but note ITCS's maturity ladder runs opposite to an
empirical venue's. A preliminary, incomplete, bold exploration of a genuinely new model is
more ITCS-appropriate than a fully mopped-up version whose novelty has worn off. What ITCS will
not accept is a new-model paper with no result at all (a definition with nothing proved) or a
"new" question that is actually a known question in disguise. The failure mode here is not "too
early" (as at STOC) but "not actually new" — do the related-work delta honestly first (see
itcs-related-work).
[Novelty] can you state your contribution as a NEW noun (a model, a notion, a connection)?
-> yes, and it's checkably new in the literature = ITCS-shaped
-> it's a better bound/algorithm on an existing noun = STOC/FOCS/SODA
[Scope] scan the last 2-3 ITCS programs (dblp conf/innovations, LIPIcs) for kindred papers
-> a cluster of "new model" papers in your area = a reviewer pool exists
[Calendar] ITCS has ONE deadline, early September, notification November, conference January.
Missed it? the next depth-venue deadline may beat waiting a year for ITCS.[Takeaway] is the reader's takeaway a new IDEA or a stronger RESULT?
[Shape] model / notion / connection / seam-question / reframing -> ITCS lane
[Alive] do you have >=1 crisp result showing the model is not empty and not everything?
[Sibling] depth on a known question -> STOC/FOCS; algorithms -> SODA; complexity -> CCC;
crypto model -> TCC; too long/incremental -> journal (journal submission is
even allowed simultaneously with ITCS)
[Verdict] ITCS / sibling venue / journal, with a one-line reason naming the new nounRun this before the writing skills; a wrong venue decision wastes every later step. When the
verdict is ITCS, continue with itcs-workflow for the single-cycle
calendar and itcs-writing-style for the innovation-first
paper shape.
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Just SKILL.md in ITCS-Skills/skills/itcs-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
Itcs 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Itcs Topic Selection this skillbrycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills | 1.2k | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Ito Computeaffaan-m/ECC | 275k | 1 repos | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Senior Computer Visiondavila7/claude-code-templates | 32k | 3 repos | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Senior Computer Visionalirezarezvani/claude-skills | 28k | 2 repos | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| GCP Computesickn33/agentic-awesome-skills | 47k | 2 repos | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Computer UseQwenLM/qwen-code | 28k | — | ~3.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 |
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A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a theoretical-computer-science result belongs at ITCS or should be routed to STOC, FOCS, SODA, CCC, ICALP, TCC, or a journal, and when distinguishing…. Itcs Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a theoretical-computer-science result belongs at ITCS or should be routed to STOC, FOCS, SODA, CCC, ICALP, TCC, or a journal, and when distinguishing ITCS from its depth-first siblings by the conceptual-novelty test — is this a new question, model, or connection worth asking, rather than the deepest theorem of the year.
Itcs Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a theoretical-computer-science result belongs at ITCS; should be routed to STOC; when distinguishing ITCS from its depth-first siblings by the conceptual-novelty test — is this a new question; connection worth asking.
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill itcs-topic-selection -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (ITCS-Skills/skills/itcs-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/itcs-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 itcs-topic-selection -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (ITCS-Skills/skills/itcs-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/itcs-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 itcs-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/itcs-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/itcs-topic-selection, .github/skills/itcs-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/itcs-topic-selection in your project.
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Itcs 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.
Itcs 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 1.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.3k 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 Itcs Topic Selection: Ito Compute (affaan-m/ECC, 275k stars), Senior Computer Vision (davila7/claude-code-templates, 32k stars), Senior Computer Vision (alirezarezvani/claude-skills, 28k stars) and GCP Compute (sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, 47k 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.