A skill your agent uses when positioning an NSDI submission against the networked-systems literature — covering the NSDI/SIGCOMM/OSDI/SOSP lanes plus both accepted-paper cohorts of the current…

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Install Nsdi Related Work

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill nsdi-related-work -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills nsdi-related-work --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/NSDI-Skills/skills/nsdi-related-work .claude/skills/nsdi-related-work && 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
nsdi-related-work
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
784 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when positioning an NSDI submission against the networked-systems literature — covering the NSDI/SIGCOMM/OSDI/SOSP lanes plus both accepted-paper cohorts of the current…

  • Works in 4 steps: At project start: lanes 1-3 in depth;… → Four weeks before the gate: re-sweep the… → At bibliography freeze: run the… → …
  • Verifying venues against dblp and open-access USENIX proceedings
  • SKILL.md covers The lanes an NSDI reviewer…, Verification: the venue must…, Positioning moves that work at… and Double-blind mechanics for…, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Nsdi Related Work is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when positioning an NSDI submission against the networked-systems literature — covering the NSDI/SIGCOMM/OSDI/SOSP lanes plus both accepted-paper cohorts of the current edition, verifying venues against dblp and open-access USENIX proceedings, and handling self-citations and concurrent submissions under double-blind rules.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.7k 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 Research & Science, covering Literature review, Citation management and Positioning and messaging. 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

  • Verifying venues against dblp and open-access USENIX proceedings
  • Handling self-citations and concurrent submissions under double-blind rules

Example prompts

  • “/nsdi-related-work”

Workflow steps

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

  1. At project start: lanes 1-3 in depth; identify the two or three systems the
  2. Four weeks before the gate: re-sweep the current edition's earlier cohort
  3. At bibliography freeze: run the venue-verification pass below; fix
  4. In a one-shot revision: re-check whether the reviewers' cited omissions have

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 (its code samples are bash).

    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

Nsdi Related Work loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 87 tokens; SKILL.md has 784 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~87
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.7k

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). 784 words, ~1,724 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/nsdi-related-work/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
nsdi-related-work
description
Use when positioning an NSDI submission against the networked-systems literature — covering the NSDI/SIGCOMM/OSDI/SOSP lanes plus both accepted-paper cohorts of the current edition, verifying venues against dblp and open-access USENIX proceedings, and handling self-citations and concurrent submissions under double-blind rules.

Related work at NSDI answers one reviewer question: what does this design let us do that the systems we already have do not? Coverage gaps read as either ignorance or evasion, and the venue's open-access record removes every excuse for both.

The lanes an NSDI reviewer expects swept

LaneWhere it livesWhat must be said about it
Direct competitorsNSDI, SIGCOMM, OSDI, SOSPMechanism-level delta, ideally measured head-to-head
Same problem, other stack layerSIGCOMM (protocol), OSDI/SOSP (host), FAST (storage)Why this layer is the right place to solve it
Same technique, other domainbroad systems + ML-systems venuesWhat the networked setting breaks or changes
Measurement/characterization basisIMC, NSDI measurement papersWhich observed phenomena motivated the design
Deployed/industrial precedentoperational-track papers, provider tech reportsWhat production experience the design inherits or contradicts
Early/idea-stage neighborsHotNets, frontiers-track papersThat the idea's grown-up form differs from the sketch

Both cohorts of the current edition count as literature: NSDI posts spring accepted-paper lists months before the symposium (e.g., usenix.org/conference/nsdi26/spring-accepted-papers), so "it wasn't published yet" fails for a fall submission when the spring list was public at deadline time. Sweep the sibling deadlines too — SIGCOMM's accepted list frequently contains the closest neighbor of an NSDI submission.

Verification: the venue must be proven

Systems folklore misfiles its classics; citing Raft "at NSDI" or B4 "from NSDI" signals secondhand reading (Raft is USENIX ATC 2014, B4 is SIGCOMM 2013 — see the guard list in ../../resources/exemplars/library.md). Every NSDI paper since the venue began is a free PDF on usenix.org, and dblp's conf/nsdi stream gives the authoritative edition/pages. Verify before the bibliography freezes:

bash
# Cross-check claimed venues in the .bib against dblp keys / USENIX URLs
grep -E '^@' paper.bib | wc -l                       # inventory
grep -A3 -iE 'booktitle.*(nsdi|sigcomm|osdi|sosp)' paper.bib | head -40
# For each NSDI claim: the usenix.org/conference/nsdi<yy>/presentation/<key>
# page or the dblp record must exist. No render, no citation-as-NSDI.

Read the PDF of any paper you compare against quantitatively. Comparing against a system's abstract is how "prior work cannot handle churn" ends up in front of the reviewer who wrote the churn section.

Positioning moves that work at this venue

  • Delta by mechanism, not by adjective. "X batches at the NIC; we batch at the RPC layer, which preserves per-request deadlines" beats "unlike X, our approach is more flexible."
  • Concede the overlap, then locate the divergence. NSDI reviewers usually know the neighbor papers personally; a generous one-clause summary of the competitor buys credibility for the distinction that follows.
  • Use operational precedent as evidence, not decoration. If a provider's operational-track paper reports the failure mode your design removes, that citation is motivation-grade, not related-work filler.
  • Position against the measurement literature. A design justified by workload properties should cite where those properties were measured — or measure them in §2.

Double-blind mechanics for citations

  • Self-citations stay, in third person. "We extend Ballast [12]" reveals; "This work extends Ballast [12]" written as if by strangers does not. Omitting your own prior paper to hide identity is explicitly against the CFP.
  • Concurrent NSDI submissions are cited with the CFP's fixed sentence: "Under submission. Details omitted for double-blind reviewing."
  • Tech reports and arXiv versions of your own work: cite in third person like any prior art; do not link author-revealing artifacts in the text.
  • Operational-track nuance: the anonymization exception covers your paper's system and company names — it does not license identifying the author list through possessive phrasing.
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Sequencing the sweep across the two-deadline year

Because NSDI publishes cohort lists mid-cycle, the sweep has a rhythm:

  1. At project start: lanes 1-3 in depth; identify the two or three systems the paper must beat or distinguish, since they shape the evaluation (nsdi-experiments).
  2. Four weeks before the gate: re-sweep the current edition's earlier cohort list and the most recent SIGCOMM/OSDI/SOSP programs; new neighbors get a mechanism-delta sentence, not a panicked rewrite.
  3. At bibliography freeze: run the venue-verification pass below; fix misattributions before reviewers find them.
  4. In a one-shot revision: re-check whether the reviewers' cited omissions have themselves been published since — the same reviewers will notice both presence and absence (nsdi-author-response).

Failure patterns

  • The wall of one-line citations ("Much work has studied datacenter transport [3-19]") — coverage theater with no deltas.
  • Comparing only against academic prototypes when a widely deployed system solves an adjacent problem — reviewers from industry will supply the omission.
  • Treating a spring-cohort paper of the same edition as invisible.
  • Venue misattribution in the bibliography — cheap to fix, expensive in credibility.
  • A related-work section that never mentions the paper's own limits relative to prior work; positioning is bidirectional.

Where the section lives

NSDI drafts split positioning across two homes, both inside the 12 pages: a short contrast in the introduction (the two nearest neighbors, one delta sentence each) and the fuller section — conventionally late, before or after discussion — carrying the lane-by-lane sweep. Whichever home a comparison occupies, the quantitative version belongs in the evaluation: a related-work sentence claiming superiority that §6 never measures is a self-inflicted reviewer question.

Output format

text
[Lane coverage] table lane -> covered / gap (paper to add)
[Nearest neighbor] <paper, venue-verified> + mechanism delta
[Cohort sweep] current-edition spring list checked? sibling deadlines?
[Verification] # citations venue-proven / total NSDI-venue claims
[Blind check] self-cites third-person? concurrent-submission wording?
[Fix list] ordered corrections before bibliography freeze

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Files

Just SKILL.md in NSDI-Skills/skills/nsdi-related-work of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Nsdi Related Work

What does Nsdi Related Work do?

A skill your agent uses when positioning an NSDI submission against the networked-systems literature — covering the NSDI/SIGCOMM/OSDI/SOSP lanes plus both accepted-paper cohorts of the current…. Nsdi Related Work is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when positioning an NSDI submission against the networked-systems literature — covering the NSDI/SIGCOMM/OSDI/SOSP lanes plus both accepted-paper cohorts of the current edition, verifying venues against dblp and open-access USENIX proceedings, and handling self-citations and concurrent submissions under double-blind rules.

When should I use Nsdi Related Work?

Nsdi Related Work fits situations like: verifying venues against dblp and open-access USENIX proceedings; handling self-citations and concurrent submissions under double-blind rules.

How do I install Nsdi Related Work in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Nsdi Related Work in Codex?

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

Can I use Nsdi Related Work 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 nsdi-related-work -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/nsdi-related-work, .gemini/skills/nsdi-related-work, .github/skills/nsdi-related-work and .opencode/skills/nsdi-related-work in your project.

What does Nsdi Related Work need to run?

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

Does Nsdi Related Work 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 Nsdi Related Work 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 Nsdi Related Work use?

Nsdi Related Work 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 Nsdi Related Work use?

About 1.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.9k 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 Nsdi Related Work?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,231 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

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