Agent skill

Mobicom Topic Selection

by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project belongs at MobiCom or a sibling venue — testing whether the core contribution is a mobile/wireless-networking mechanism the SIGMOBILE flagship…

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Install Mobicom Topic Selection

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill mobicom-topic-selection -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills mobicom-topic-selection --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/MobiCom-Skills/skills/mobicom-topic-selection .claude/skills/mobicom-topic-selection && 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
mobicom-topic-selection
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
540 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project belongs at MobiCom or a sibling venue — testing whether the core contribution is a mobile/wireless-networking mechanism the SIGMOBILE flagship…

  • Works in 4 steps: Is the contribution a wireless or… → Does the wireless/mobility condition… → Is there over-the-air evidence, or a… → …
  • Deciding whether a project belongs at MobiCom
  • SKILL.md covers The fit test, Routing map, Contribution-type honesty and Common misfit patterns, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Mobicom Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a project belongs at MobiCom or a sibling venue — testing whether the core contribution is a mobile/wireless-networking mechanism the SIGMOBILE flagship rewards, and routing platform, sensing, broad-networking, security, or ubicomp misfits to MobiSys, SenSys, SIGCOMM/NSDI, WiSec, or IMWUT before a cycle is committed.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k 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

  • Deciding whether a project belongs at MobiCom
  • A sibling venue — testing whether the core contribution is a mobile/wireless-networking mechanism the SIGMOBILE flagship rewards
  • Routing platform
  • Broad-networking

Example prompts

  • “/mobicom-topic-selection”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Is the contribution a wireless or mobile-networking mechanism? A protocol, a
  2. Does the wireless/mobility condition matter to the result? If the channel, spectrum,
  3. Is there over-the-air evidence, or a credible plan for it? MobiCom expects real
  4. Would MobiCom's reviewers be the right audience? Say why in one sentence using the

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

Mobicom Topic Selection loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 92 tokens; SKILL.md has 540 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~92
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

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). 540 words, ~1,253 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/mobicom-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
mobicom-topic-selection
description
Use when deciding whether a project belongs at MobiCom or a sibling venue — testing whether the core contribution is a mobile/wireless-networking mechanism the SIGMOBILE flagship rewards, and routing platform, sensing, broad-networking, security, or ubicomp misfits to MobiSys, SenSys, SIGCOMM/NSDI, WiSec, or IMWUT before a cycle is committed.

MobiCom Topic Selection

MobiCom is the ACM SIGMOBILE flagship for mobile computing and wireless networking — the radio, protocol, and mobility side of mobile. The fastest way to waste a rolling deadline is to submit a paper whose real contribution belongs one venue over. This skill is a fit and routing tool, not a substitute for the current CFP scope list.

The fit test

A MobiCom-shaped paper answers all four:

  1. Is the contribution a wireless or mobile-networking mechanism? A protocol, a link/PHY-MAC technique, a routing or scheduling method, an RF-sensing capability, a measurement finding about mobile networks — something in the networking stack, not an application that merely runs on a phone.
  2. Does the wireless/mobility condition matter to the result? If the channel, spectrum, interference, or mobility could be abstracted away with no loss, the contribution is probably not MobiCom's.
  3. Is there over-the-air evidence, or a credible plan for it? MobiCom expects real radios and testbeds; a simulation-only story is a fit risk (mobicom-experiments).
  4. Would MobiCom's reviewers be the right audience? Say why in one sentence using the venue's own vocabulary, not "it is a top conference."

Routing map

Route by contribution type, not prestige. The nearest siblings and what pulls a paper to each:

Signal in the contributionBetter-fit venue
End-to-end mobile/embedded platform, wearable, or mobile app systemACM MobiSys
Sensing pipeline, ubiquitous/embedded sensing infrastructureACM SenSys
Broad Internet/measurement/data-center networking, congestion controlACM SIGCOMM
Networked/distributed systems design and implementation at largeUSENIX NSDI
Security or privacy of wireless/mobile as the central claimACM WiSec
Ubiquitous-computing / on-body inference as the findingACM IMWUT (UbiComp)
Early idea without full evaluationHotMobile or a workshop

The MobiCom↔MobiSys line is the one authors get wrong most: a wireless/networking mechanism is MobiCom; an end-to-end platform whose artifact behavior is the point is MobiSys. When both are present, decide which is the contribution and which is the vehicle.

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Contribution-type honesty

Name the contribution before choosing the venue:

text
[Contribution type] protocol / PHY-MAC technique / routing / RF sensing /
                    measurement study / mobile-networking system / other
[Wireless dependence] does the result change if the channel/mobility is idealized? y/n
[Evidence form] testbed / SDR prototype / deployment / trace / simulation-only
[Primary audience] the MobiCom sub-community that should review it

If the type is "measurement study," MobiCom rewards a study that changes how the community models a mobile network — not a dashboard of numbers. If it is "RF sensing," the wireless mechanism must be the contribution, not just the medium (see WiSee in ../../resources/exemplars/library.md).

Common misfit patterns

  • The phone-app paper. Runs on mobile hardware but the novelty is an application or an ML model; the wireless stack is incidental → MobiSys, IMWUT, or a domain venue.
  • The pure-PHY paper. A modulation or coding result with no networking or systems payoff → an information-theory or communications venue unless it changes a networked mechanism.
  • The simulation-only protocol. A routing or scheduling idea evaluated only in a simulator; strong ones still need over-the-air or testbed evidence to clear the bar.
  • The broad-systems paper wearing a wireless hat. A distributed-systems contribution with a mobile motivating example → NSDI/OSDI.

Re-routing decision

If the paper misses MobiCom's bar, do not force it — re-route by type and record why. A theory result goes to a theory venue, a platform to MobiSys, a measurement-heavy networking study to SIGCOMM, an early idea to HotMobile. Re-routing early is cheaper than a rolling deadline spent on a mismatch, and MobiCom's two-round review means a misfit often surfaces as an early reject after round 1 rather than a rescue.

Output format

text
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason in MobiCom's vocabulary)
[Contribution type] <named>
[Wireless dependence] result depends on channel/mobility? y/n
[Evidence form] testbed / SDR / deployment / trace / simulation-only
[Main gap] the single most important missing mechanism or measurement
[Re-route] <sibling venue if not a fit, with the signal that sends it there>

© 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 MobiCom-Skills/skills/mobicom-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Mobicom Topic Selection

What does Mobicom Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project belongs at MobiCom or a sibling venue — testing whether the core contribution is a mobile/wireless-networking mechanism the SIGMOBILE flagship…. Mobicom Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a project belongs at MobiCom or a sibling venue — testing whether the core contribution is a mobile/wireless-networking mechanism the SIGMOBILE flagship rewards, and routing platform, sensing, broad-networking, security, or ubicomp misfits to MobiSys, SenSys, SIGCOMM/NSDI, WiSec, or IMWUT before a cycle is committed.

When should I use Mobicom Topic Selection?

Mobicom Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a project belongs at MobiCom; A sibling venue — testing whether the core contribution is a mobile/wireless-networking mechanism the SIGMOBILE flagship rewards; routing platform; broad-networking.

How do I install Mobicom Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Mobicom Topic Selection in Codex?

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

Can I use Mobicom Topic Selection 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 mobicom-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/mobicom-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/mobicom-topic-selection, .github/skills/mobicom-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/mobicom-topic-selection in your project.

What does Mobicom Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Mobicom Topic Selection 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 Mobicom Topic Selection 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 Mobicom Topic Selection use?

Mobicom 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.

How many tokens does Mobicom Topic Selection use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5k 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 Mobicom Topic Selection?

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.