A skill your agent uses when designing or auditing the evaluation of an NDSS paper — attack demonstrations, defense evaluations under adaptive adversaries, and Internet measurements — choosing…

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Install Ndss Experiments

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

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

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

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when designing or auditing the evaluation of an NDSS paper — attack demonstrations, defense evaluations under adaptive adversaries, and Internet measurements — choosing…

  • Works in 3 steps: Restate the defense as the constraint it… → Enumerate strategies that respect… → Implement the strongest of these, not…
  • Auditing the evaluation of an NDSS paper — attack demonstrations
  • SKILL.md covers Evidence by contribution type, Choosing the experimental…, The adaptive-adversary… and Measurement hygiene, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Ndss Experiments is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when designing or auditing the evaluation of an NDSS paper — attack demonstrations, defense evaluations under adaptive adversaries, and Internet measurements — choosing between testbed, emulation, and live experiments and meeting NDSS's deployment-realism evidence bar.

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 DevOps & Cloud. 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

  • Auditing the evaluation of an NDSS paper — attack demonstrations
  • Defense evaluations under adaptive adversaries
  • Internet measurements — choosing between testbed
  • Live experiments and meeting NDSSs deployment-realism evidence bar

Example prompts

  • “/ndss-experiments”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Restate the defense as the constraint it imposes on the adversary.
  2. Enumerate strategies that respect capabilities from the threat model but target the
  3. Implement the strongest of these, not the most convenient, and report where the defense

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

Ndss Experiments loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 73 tokens; SKILL.md has 590 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~73
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). 590 words, ~1,336 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/ndss-experiments/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
ndss-experiments
description
Use when designing or auditing the evaluation of an NDSS paper — attack demonstrations, defense evaluations under adaptive adversaries, and Internet measurements — choosing between testbed, emulation, and live experiments and meeting NDSS's deployment-realism evidence bar.

NDSS Experiments

Evidence at NDSS answers one question: would this hold on the real network? Every design choice in the evaluation — target selection, vantage, scale, baseline — either supports that answer or advertises that you avoided it.

Evidence by contribution type

You claim...Reviewers require...Weak substitute they will flag
A new attackEnd-to-end demonstration on real implementations, named versions, measured preconditions and costPoC against a config you weakened
A prevalent conditionDefined population, sampling method, validated vulnerability test, false-positive analysisExtrapolation from anecdotes
A defenseSecurity and utility: adaptive-adversary evaluation + overhead on realistic workloadsBlocking only the published attack
A detection systemBase-rate honest metrics on traffic resembling deployment, drift discussionAccuracy on one stale benchmark
A protocol changeInterop and incremental-deployment story, behavior under partial adoption"Assume everyone upgrades"

Choosing the experimental substrate

Match the substrate to the claim, and say why in the paper:

  • Live Internet — the only substrate for prevalence claims. Requires the ethics machinery (below) and a recorded snapshot: measurement results are time-indexed facts, so log the observation window, vantage points, and population source.
  • Testbed / physical devices — for exploit reliability and defense overhead, where you need ground truth and repeatability. Pin firmware, kernel, and topology; a testbed nobody can reconstruct is an anecdote with racks.
  • Emulation / simulation — legitimate for scale sweeps and what-if topologies after the mechanism is shown real elsewhere. A paper whose only evidence is simulated packets is, at this venue, a proposal.

Mixed designs are the norm: demonstrate on real systems, generalize on the testbed, sweep in emulation, and keep the chain of custody between the three explicit.

The adaptive-adversary requirement

For defenses, the reviewer's first move is to play attacker against your design. Do it first, in print:

  1. Restate the defense as the constraint it imposes on the adversary.
  2. Enumerate strategies that respect capabilities from the threat model but target the mechanism itself — evasion, mimicry, resource exhaustion, downgrade, oracle abuse.
  3. Implement the strongest of these, not the most convenient, and report where the defense bends. Cost asymmetry (defender cents vs. attacker weeks) is a legitimate result; silence about adaptation is not.
Show full SKILL.md (237 more words)Show less

Measurement hygiene

  • One vantage point is a case study; state how many you used and what each can and cannot see (anycast, geo-blocking, and CDN behavior all bite here).
  • Validate the classifier or vulnerability test against labeled ground truth and report both error directions — a scanner's false positives are the headline number's error bar.
  • Repeat over time before claiming stability; the Internet's diurnal and patch-cycle rhythms confound single-shot scans.

Ethics as an experimental parameter

Live experiments are bounded by harm, and the CFP backs this with an Ethics Review Board. Design limits in from the start: rate caps and opt-out honoring for scans, no serving of real user traffic during interception experiments, synthetic victims wherever the demonstration allows, notification pipelines for anything you confirm exploitable, and IRB engagement where humans are observed — while remembering NDSS treats IRB sign-off as necessary context, not sufficient mitigation. Every one of these choices belongs in the paper's method text, not only in the ethics section.

Reporting discipline

text
For every headline number, the text or appendix must pin:
  target set + versions + selection method
  vantage(s) and observation window
  trials, variance, and the aggregation rule
  hardware/software of the measurement or attack host
  configuration deltas from defaults (ideally: none, or justified)
  the command or procedure that regenerates the number (→ artifact)

Numbers that move between runs get intervals; comparisons against baselines get identical conditions or an explanation of why identity was impossible.

Failure modes this venue punishes

  • Evaluating on the environment you developed on, and nowhere else.
  • Baselines run with defaults while your system got tuning.
  • Success rates without denominators; "up to X" as a summary statistic.
  • Prevalence claims from a population chosen because it was scannable, described as if it were representative.

Output format

text
[Claim → evidence map] each headline claim + substrate + status
[Adaptive evaluation] strategies enumerated / strongest implemented / result
[Measurement validity] population, vantage, validation, error directions
[Ethics parameters] rate caps, synthetic victims, notification, IRB state
[Repro pinning] items from the reporting block still missing

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Files

Just SKILL.md in NDSS-Skills/skills/ndss-experiments of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Ndss Experiments

What does Ndss Experiments do?

A skill your agent uses when designing or auditing the evaluation of an NDSS paper — attack demonstrations, defense evaluations under adaptive adversaries, and Internet measurements — choosing…. Ndss Experiments is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when designing or auditing the evaluation of an NDSS paper — attack demonstrations, defense evaluations under adaptive adversaries, and Internet measurements — choosing between testbed, emulation, and live experiments and meeting NDSS's deployment-realism evidence bar.

When should I use Ndss Experiments?

Ndss Experiments fits situations like: auditing the evaluation of an NDSS paper — attack demonstrations; defense evaluations under adaptive adversaries; internet measurements — choosing between testbed; live experiments and meeting NDSSs deployment-realism evidence bar.

How do I install Ndss Experiments in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Ndss Experiments in Codex?

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

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

What does Ndss Experiments need to run?

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

Does Ndss Experiments 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 Ndss Experiments 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 Ndss Experiments use?

Ndss Experiments 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 Ndss Experiments use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.3k 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 Ndss Experiments?

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.