Agent skill

Mobisys Topic Selection

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

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project belongs at MobiSys — testing whether the core contribution is a mobile or embedded system, application, or service whose on-device behavior is…

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Install Mobisys Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills mobisys-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/MobiSys-Skills/skills/mobisys-topic-selection .claude/skills/mobisys-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
mobisys-topic-selection
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
594 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 MobiSys — testing whether the core contribution is a mobile or embedded system, application, or service whose on-device behavior is…

  • Works in 4 steps: Is the contribution a mobile or embedded… → Does the device constraint shape the… → Is there on-device evidence, or a… → …
  • Deciding whether a project belongs at MobiSys — testing whether the core contribution is a mobile
  • 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

Mobisys Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a project belongs at MobiSys — testing whether the core contribution is a mobile or embedded system, application, or service whose on-device behavior is the result, and routing wireless, sensor-network, distributed-systems, ubicomp, or early-idea misfits to MobiCom, SenSys, NSDI/OSDI, IMWUT, or HotMobile.

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.

It sits in Development, covering Embedded systems. 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 MobiSys — testing whether the core contribution is a mobile
  • Embedded system
  • Service whose on-device behavior is the result
  • Routing wireless

Example prompts

  • “/mobisys-topic-selection”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Is the contribution a mobile or embedded system? A runtime, an OS/platform mechanism,
  2. Does the device constraint shape the result? If compute, energy, latency, memory, or
  3. Is there on-device evidence, or a credible plan for it? MobiSys expects real phones,
  4. Would MobiSys's systems-and-services reviewers be the right audience? Say why in one

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

Mobisys Topic Selection loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 89 tokens; SKILL.md has 594 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~89
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). 594 words, ~1,338 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/mobisys-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
mobisys-topic-selection
description
Use when deciding whether a project belongs at MobiSys — testing whether the core contribution is a mobile or embedded system, application, or service whose on-device behavior is the result, and routing wireless, sensor-network, distributed-systems, ubicomp, or early-idea misfits to MobiCom, SenSys, NSDI/OSDI, IMWUT, or HotMobile.

MobiSys Topic Selection

MobiSys is the ACM SIGMOBILE venue for mobile systems, applications, and services — the system that runs on the device, not the radio underneath it. The fastest way to waste a year-long cycle 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 MobiSys-shaped paper answers all four:

  1. Is the contribution a mobile or embedded system? A runtime, an OS/platform mechanism, an on-device inference engine, a sensing pipeline, an offload scheduler, a mobile application or service — something built and run on the device, not an algorithm evaluated in the abstract.
  2. Does the device constraint shape the result? If compute, energy, latency, memory, or thermal budget could be idealized away with no loss, the contribution is probably not MobiSys's.
  3. Is there on-device evidence, or a credible plan for it? MobiSys expects real phones, wearables, or embedded boards; a simulation-only story is a fit risk (mobisys-experiments).
  4. Would MobiSys's systems-and-services reviewers be the right audience? Say why in one sentence using the venue's 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
Wireless/PHY-MAC mechanism, protocol, or RF sensing as the coreACM MobiCom
Sensor-network / embedded-sensing infrastructure at largeACM SenSys
Data-center, cloud, or distributed-systems design and implementationUSENIX NSDI / OSDI
Operating-system generality beyond mobileUSENIX OSDI / ACM SOSP
Ubiquitous-computing / on-body inference as the findingACM IMWUT (UbiComp)
Security or privacy of mobile as the central claima security venue
Early idea without a full on-device evaluationHotMobile or a workshop

The MobiSys↔MobiCom line is the one authors get wrong most: a wireless mechanism is MobiCom; an end-to-end mobile system whose device behavior is the point is MobiSys. The MobiSys↔SenSys line is the second: a sensing infrastructure is SenSys; a mobile platform, app, or service built on sensing is MobiSys. When two 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] mobile runtime / OS-platform mechanism / on-device ML system /
                    sensing service / offload scheduler / mobile app-service / other
[Device dependence] does the result change if compute/energy/latency is idealized? y/n
[Evidence form] real-device measurement / deployment / user study / trace / simulation-only
[Primary audience] the MobiSys sub-community that should review it

If the type is "on-device ML system," MobiSys rewards a resource-management or runtime contribution (scheduling, approximation, placement, thermal control), not a better model — a new architecture with mobile motivation routes to a machine-learning venue. If it is "sensing service," the mobile system and its on-device budget must be the contribution, not just the sensor.

Common misfit patterns

  • The better-model paper. A more accurate network that happens to run on a phone; the system is incidental → a machine-learning venue, unless the runtime is the contribution.
  • The wireless paper wearing a systems hat. A link/PHY result with a phone demo → MobiCom.
  • The sensor-network paper. A multi-node embedded-sensing infrastructure → SenSys.
  • The simulation-only system. A scheduler or runtime evaluated only in a simulator; strong ones still need on-device measurement to clear the bar.
  • The distributed-systems paper with a mobile example. A cloud/back-end contribution with a mobile motivating scenario → NSDI/OSDI.

Re-routing decision

If the paper misses MobiSys's bar, do not force it into the December deadline — re-route by type and record why. A wireless mechanism goes to MobiCom, a sensing infrastructure to SenSys, a distributed-systems design to NSDI/OSDI, a ubicomp finding to IMWUT, an early idea to HotMobile. Because MobiSys runs one deadline a year, a misfit costs a full cycle, and the two-round review often surfaces it as an early reject after round 1 rather than a rescue — re-routing early is by far the cheaper move.

Output format

text
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason in MobiSys's vocabulary)
[Contribution type] <named>
[Device dependence] result depends on compute/energy/latency/memory? y/n
[Evidence form] real-device / deployment / user study / trace / simulation-only
[Main gap] the single most important missing system mechanism or measurement
[Re-route] <sibling venue if not a fit, with the signal that sends it there>

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Files

Just SKILL.md in MobiSys-Skills/skills/mobisys-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Mobisys Topic Selection

What does Mobisys Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project belongs at MobiSys — testing whether the core contribution is a mobile or embedded system, application, or service whose on-device behavior is…. Mobisys Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a project belongs at MobiSys — testing whether the core contribution is a mobile or embedded system, application, or service whose on-device behavior is the result, and routing wireless, sensor-network, distributed-systems, ubicomp, or early-idea misfits to MobiCom, SenSys, NSDI/OSDI, IMWUT, or HotMobile.

When should I use Mobisys Topic Selection?

Mobisys Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a project belongs at MobiSys — testing whether the core contribution is a mobile; embedded system; service whose on-device behavior is the result; routing wireless.

How do I install Mobisys Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Mobisys Topic Selection in Codex?

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

Can I use Mobisys 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 mobisys-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/mobisys-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/mobisys-topic-selection, .github/skills/mobisys-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/mobisys-topic-selection in your project.

What does Mobisys Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Mobisys 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 Mobisys 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 Mobisys Topic Selection use?

Mobisys 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 Mobisys Topic Selection use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.4k 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 Mobisys Topic Selection?

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.