A skill your agent uses when planning an NDSS submission calendar — choosing between the summer and fall cycles, backward-planning from the AoE deadline through early-reject, rebuttal, notification…

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Install Ndss Workflow

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ndss-workflow --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-workflow .claude/skills/ndss-workflow && 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-workflow
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
571 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 NDSS submission calendar — choosing between the summer and fall cycles, backward-planning from the AoE deadline through early-reject, rebuttal, notification…

  • Works in 2 steps: Retargeting without revision is… → NDSS is a venue, not a fallback tier.…
  • Planning an NDSS submission calendar — choosing between the summer and fall cycles
  • SKILL.md covers The 2027 skeleton (verified…, Backward plan from a fall…, Choosing the cycle and The big-four year, seen from…, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Ndss Workflow is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when planning an NDSS submission calendar — choosing between the summer and fall cycles, backward-planning from the AoE deadline through early-reject, rebuttal, notification, camera-ready, and the Seoul symposium, and placing NDSS honestly inside the security big-four retargeting year.

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

  • Planning an NDSS submission calendar — choosing between the summer and fall cycles
  • Backward-planning from the AoE deadline through early-reject
  • The Seoul symposium
  • Placing NDSS honestly inside the security big-four retargeting year

Example prompts

  • “/ndss-workflow”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Retargeting without revision is re-rejection. Reviewer pools overlap heavily across
  2. NDSS is a venue, not a fallback tier. Its acceptance bar is a peer of the other

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 Workflow loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 76 tokens; SKILL.md has 571 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~76
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). 571 words, ~1,335 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/ndss-workflow/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
ndss-workflow
description
Use when planning an NDSS submission calendar — choosing between the summer and fall cycles, backward-planning from the AoE deadline through early-reject, rebuttal, notification, camera-ready, and the Seoul symposium, and placing NDSS honestly inside the security big-four retargeting year.

NDSS Workflow

One symposium, two entrances. NDSS 2027 accepts papers through a summer cycle and a fall cycle, each a complete two-round review pipeline, both feeding the same week in Seoul (22-26 March 2027). Plan against the cycle you can actually win, not the one that arrives first.

The 2027 skeleton (verified 2026-07-08; always recheck the live CFP)

MilestoneSummer cycleFall cycle
Paper deadline (AoE / UTC-12)May 6, 2026 — passedAugust 19, 2026
Early-reject notification + Round-1 reviewsJune 12, 2026September 25, 2026
Rebuttal + interactive discussionJune 24-28, 2026October 8-10, 2026
Final notificationJuly 22, 2026November 4, 2026
Camera-ready (both cycles)January 6, 2027January 6, 2027
Symposium (Seoul)March 22-26, 2027March 22-26, 2027

As of 2026-07-08 the summer cycle is between rebuttal and notification; the fall deadline is roughly six weeks out. Registration for Seoul opens in October 2026 (Internet Society announcement) — for many teams the 2027 edition also means visas and long-haul travel budgets that San Diego never required. Start that paperwork at acceptance, not at camera-ready.

Backward plan from a fall submission

text
Aug 19  paper deadline (AoE)          ── freeze everything
Aug 12  full-draft freeze              ── format, anonymity, ethics-section passes only
Aug 05  internal red-team read         ── someone plays the Round-1 reviewer
Jul 29  evaluation freeze              ── last new experiment; start writing results
Jul 15  disclosure clock check         ── vendor notifications sent early enough that
                                          "we disclosed" is true at submission time
Jul 08  (today) go/no-go               ── fit test done, adversary model written,
                                          headline experiment already running

The item teams misplace is the disclosure clock: responsible disclosure has latency measured in weeks, and the CFP expects reporting (or a concrete plan) for high-impact vulnerabilities. A finding made on August 10 forces an uncomfortable choice; a finding made in July does not.

Choosing the cycle

  • Enter the earliest cycle whose backward plan closes with the evaluation done, not projected. A thin submission is worse than a late one here, because a rejection blocks major-overlap resubmission in the other 2027 cycle.
  • The rebuttal window is short and fixed (Oct 8-10 for fall). Check coauthor availability during those exact days before committing.
  • A Major Revision outcome converts the calendar: you get reviewer-specified revision tasks and a resubmission window (dates 待核实 — confirm on notification). Budget the post-notification month as working time, not celebration time.
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The big-four year, seen from the NDSS seat

The four flagship deadlines interleave, and NDSS's late-summer fall deadline sits where papers rejected from the S&P and CCS spring/summer cycles and the USENIX Security year naturally land. Two honest rules for riding this calendar:

  1. Retargeting without revision is re-rejection. Reviewer pools overlap heavily across the big four; a resubmission that ignores its previous reviews often meets the same people. Fold in the fixes, and re-frame for NDSS's networked-adversary lens rather than doing a logo swap.
  2. NDSS is a venue, not a fallback tier. Its acceptance bar is a peer of the other three; a paper that was thin at S&P is thin here too. What legitimately changes is fit — protocol, web, DNS, and distributed-infrastructure work often reads better to an NDSS PC than it did wherever it bounced.

Running the year

  • Track each paper as a state machine: drafting → submitted → round-2 | early-reject → rebuttal → accept | minor-rev | major-rev | reject, with an owner and a next-action per state. The review-process skill details what each state means.
  • On early reject (with Round-1 reviews in hand): route to the next venue on the routing table in ndss-topic-selection, after folding in the reviews. The same-edition door is closed; the 2028 door is not.
  • On accept / minor revision: fork immediately into camera-ready (January 6 is far but the artifact-evaluation opt-in is near — see ndss-artifact-evaluation) and logistics (registration, visas, who presents).
  • Keep the per-author six-submission cap visible on the group's board each cycle; it binds collaborations with many shared authors sooner than people expect.

Output format

text
[Cycle chosen] summer / fall / next edition — one-line justification
[Backward plan] table of dated freezes ending at the AoE deadline
[Disclosure clock] green / yellow / red + earliest safe submission date
[Rebuttal window] coauthors confirmed available? yes/no
[Post-decision branches] accept / minor / major / reject → owner + next action each
[Logistics] Seoul registration, visa lead time, presenter

© 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 NDSS-Skills/skills/ndss-workflow of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Ndss Workflow

What does Ndss Workflow do?

A skill your agent uses when planning an NDSS submission calendar — choosing between the summer and fall cycles, backward-planning from the AoE deadline through early-reject, rebuttal, notification…. Ndss Workflow is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when planning an NDSS submission calendar — choosing between the summer and fall cycles, backward-planning from the AoE deadline through early-reject, rebuttal, notification, camera-ready, and the Seoul symposium, and placing NDSS honestly inside the security big-four retargeting year.

When should I use Ndss Workflow?

Ndss Workflow fits situations like: planning an NDSS submission calendar — choosing between the summer and fall cycles; backward-planning from the AoE deadline through early-reject; the Seoul symposium; placing NDSS honestly inside the security big-four retargeting year.

How do I install Ndss Workflow in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Ndss Workflow in Codex?

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

Can I use Ndss 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 ndss-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/ndss-workflow, .gemini/skills/ndss-workflow, .github/skills/ndss-workflow and .opencode/skills/ndss-workflow in your project.

What does Ndss Workflow need to run?

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

Does Ndss 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 Ndss 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 Ndss Workflow use?

Ndss 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 Ndss Workflow 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 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.