A skill your agent uses when planning an NSDI campaign across the spring and fall deadlines — sequencing abstract and paper gates, notification waits, one-shot revision windows, artifact evaluation…

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Nsdi Workflow

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills nsdi-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/NSDI-Skills/skills/nsdi-workflow .claude/skills/nsdi-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
nsdi-workflow
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
764 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 NSDI campaign across the spring and fall deadlines — sequencing abstract and paper gates, notification waits, one-shot revision windows, artifact evaluation…

  • Works in 4 steps: Within a week: map every required issue… → Reserve infrastructure immediately for… → Maintain the change-highlighted PDF and… → …
  • Planning an NSDI campaign across the spring and fall deadlines — sequencing abstract and paper gates
  • SKILL.md covers The '27 clock, One project, four legal paths…, Working backward from a gate and The waits, and what to do…, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Nsdi Workflow is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when planning an NSDI campaign across the spring and fall deadlines — sequencing abstract and paper gates, notification waits, one-shot revision windows, artifact evaluation, and the May symposium — so a networked-systems project always knows which of the two yearly gates it is really building toward.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k 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. 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 NSDI campaign across the spring and fall deadlines — sequencing abstract and paper gates
  • Notification waits
  • One-shot revision windows
  • Artifact evaluation

Example prompts

  • “/nsdi-workflow”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Within a week: map every required issue to an owner and a cost (new experiment,
  2. Reserve infrastructure immediately for any issue needing measurements.
  3. Maintain the change-highlighted PDF and the change-summary memo as you go — both
  4. Freeze two weeks before the gate; a revision that misses its window or dodges an

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

Nsdi Workflow loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 80 tokens; SKILL.md has 764 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~80
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k

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). 764 words, ~1,585 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/nsdi-workflow/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
nsdi-workflow
description
Use when planning an NSDI campaign across the spring and fall deadlines — sequencing abstract and paper gates, notification waits, one-shot revision windows, artifact evaluation, and the May symposium — so a networked-systems project always knows which of the two yearly gates it is really building toward.

NSDI Workflow

NSDI is a calendar problem disguised as a conference. One edition, two submission gates, two decision cohorts, and a revision mechanism that spans deadlines — a team that plans "for NSDI" without naming the gate usually discovers it planned for neither. Dates below are the NSDI '27 cycle as rendered on 2026-07-08; treat them as this cycle's snapshot and re-pull the HotCRP /deadlines pages before acting.

The '27 clock

GateDate (11:59 pm US EDT)Cohort
Spring abstractsApril 16, 2026spring
Spring full papersApril 23, 2026spring
Spring notificationJuly 23, 2026spring
Fall abstractsSeptember 10, 2026fall
Fall full papersSeptember 17, 2026fall
Fall notificationDecember 8, 2026fall
SymposiumMay 11-13, 2027, Providence, RIboth

Where "today" (2026-07-08) sits: spring authors are two weeks from notification; a fresh submission has nine weeks to the fall abstract gate. Camera-ready dates and the '27 artifact schedule were not yet rendered — 待核实, watch the conference page.

text
Path A  fall '26 submit -> accept (Dec 8) -> final paper + AE -> present May '27
Path B  fall '26 submit -> one-shot revision -> resubmit spring '27 (next edition)
Path C  fall '26 submit -> reject -> BARRED from spring '27; rework for fall '27
Path D  spring '26 one-shot revision (notif Jul 23) -> revise -> fall '26 resubmit

Path C is the one teams forget: a plain rejection carries a one-deadline ban, so the cheapest-looking option — "just submit and see" — silently spends two deadlines, not one. Build the decision into the plan: submit only when the evidence would survive review, otherwise hold for the next gate and use the time on the testbed.

Working backward from a gate

A fall-2026 target, walked backward:

  • T-9 to T-6 weeks: freeze the design; the evaluation plan (workloads, baselines, scale points) written down and reviewed as if it were the paper (nsdi-experiments). Trace collection and testbed reservations start now — cluster time is the resource that cannot be compressed in deadline week.
  • T-6 to T-3: experiments run continuously with provenance capture (nsdi-reproducibility); the paper skeleton fills section by section (nsdi-writing-style); related-work sweep across both NSDI cohort lists of the current edition (nsdi-related-work).
  • T-2: full internal read against the 12-page budget; appendix triage (nsdi-supplementary).
  • T-1 week (Sept 10): abstract, authors, track, and conflicts registered on the fall HotCRP site. The abstract gate is a hard prerequisite, not a formality.
  • T-0 (Sept 17): final PDF through the submission audit (nsdi-submission), uploaded and marked complete with hours to spare.

The waits, and what to do inside them

NSDI's review silences are long (spring: April to late July; fall: September to early December). Productive uses that pay off regardless of outcome:

  • Harden the artifact toward badge evaluation — the accept-case deliverable (nsdi-artifact-evaluation), and the Community Award requires public code/data by the final-papers deadline.
  • Keep the testbed alive and re-runnable; a one-shot revision letter often demands new experiments on a 3-4 month fuse, and a decommissioned cluster turns a feasible revision into a forfeit.
  • Draft the extension or the next paper; do not submit the same work elsewhere — concurrent submission violates USENIX policy.
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Revision-window management (path B/D)

A one-shot revision arrives with a reviewer-authored list of required issues and a deadline implied by the next submission gate. Run it as a mini-project:

  1. Within a week: map every required issue to an owner and a cost (new experiment, new analysis, rewrite).
  2. Reserve infrastructure immediately for any issue needing measurements.
  3. Maintain the change-highlighted PDF and the change-summary memo as you go — both are mandatory auxiliary material at resubmission (nsdi-author-response).
  4. Freeze two weeks before the gate; a revision that misses its window or dodges an issue is rejected with no further revision option.

Choosing between the gates when both are open

Early in a cycle, spring-vs-fall is a real decision, not a default:

  • Spring favors projects whose evaluation is already running: an accept yields ten months of artifact and presentation runway, and even a one-shot revision recycles into the same edition's fall gate (path D) — the gentlest failure mode NSDI offers.
  • Fall favors projects still building: five more months of testbed time, at the cost of a compressed post-accept pipeline and a revision that lands in the next edition.
  • Never split one paper across both by submitting a weak spring version as a placeholder — the rejection ban (path C) converts that hedge into exclusion from the very fall gate the team was counting on.

Standing risks with named owners

  • Gate confusion — someone plans for "the NSDI deadline" without saying which. Owner: project lead; fix: every milestone names spring/fall + year.
  • Time-zone drift — '27 uses US EDT where '26 used PDT; a reused conversion table is an hour-scale landmine. Owner: submitter of record.
  • Cap collisions — eight submissions per author per edition across both deadlines; large groups reconcile author lists before each abstract gate. Owner: most-senior common author.
  • Infrastructure decay during waits. Owner: artifact lead.

Output format

text
[Target gate] spring / fall + year (papers due <date>)
[Today's position] weeks to next gate; cohort status of any pending submission
[Backward plan] milestone -> week -> owner
[Ban check] any cohort-ban or revision window constraining this plan?
[Wait-time tasks] artifact / testbed / next-paper assignments
[Top schedule risk] <one item + mitigation>

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Files

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

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Nsdi Workflow

What does Nsdi Workflow do?

A skill your agent uses when planning an NSDI campaign across the spring and fall deadlines — sequencing abstract and paper gates, notification waits, one-shot revision windows, artifact evaluation…. Nsdi Workflow is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when planning an NSDI campaign across the spring and fall deadlines — sequencing abstract and paper gates, notification waits, one-shot revision windows, artifact evaluation, and the May symposium — so a networked-systems project always knows which of the two yearly gates it is really building toward.

When should I use Nsdi Workflow?

Nsdi Workflow fits situations like: planning an NSDI campaign across the spring and fall deadlines — sequencing abstract and paper gates; notification waits; one-shot revision windows; artifact evaluation.

How do I install Nsdi Workflow in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Nsdi Workflow in Codex?

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

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

What does Nsdi Workflow need to run?

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

Does Nsdi 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 Nsdi 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 Nsdi Workflow use?

Nsdi 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 Nsdi Workflow use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.3k 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 Nsdi 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.

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