Agent skill

Oopsla Reproducibility

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

A skill your agent uses when hardening an OOPSLA paper's empirical claims to the SIGPLAN Empirical Evaluation Guidelines — managed-runtime measurement discipline, warmup and variance reporting…

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Oopsla Reproducibility

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills oopsla-reproducibility --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/OOPSLA-Skills/skills/oopsla-reproducibility .claude/skills/oopsla-reproducibility && 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
oopsla-reproducibility
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
404 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when hardening an OOPSLA paper's empirical claims to the SIGPLAN Empirical Evaluation Guidelines — managed-runtime measurement discipline, warmup and variance reporting…

  • Works in 3 steps: Re-derive every headline number from the… → Delete one machine from the picture:… → Hand a labmate the guidelines' four…
  • Hardening an OOPSLA papers empirical claims to the SIGPLAN Empirical Evaluation Guidelines — managed-runtime measurement discipline
  • SKILL.md covers The four guideline pillars,…, Managed-runtime and…, Reproducibility ledger and Statement discipline, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Oopsla Reproducibility is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when hardening an OOPSLA paper's empirical claims to the SIGPLAN Empirical Evaluation Guidelines — managed-runtime measurement discipline, warmup and variance reporting, corpus and benchmark provenance, environment pinning, and a Data-Availability Statement that the eventual artifact can actually honor.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k 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 Reproducible research. 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

  • Hardening an OOPSLA papers empirical claims to the SIGPLAN Empirical Evaluation Guidelines — managed-runtime measurement discipline
  • Warmup and variance reporting
  • Corpus and benchmark provenance
  • Environment pinning

Example prompts

  • “/oopsla-reproducibility”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Re-derive every headline number from the ledger with one command.
  2. Delete one machine from the picture: does any claim silently depend on
  3. Hand a labmate the guidelines' four pillars and the PDF; each pillar they

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 yaml).

    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

Oopsla Reproducibility loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 83 tokens; SKILL.md has 404 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~83
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k

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). 404 words, ~1,078 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/oopsla-reproducibility/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
oopsla-reproducibility
description
Use when hardening an OOPSLA paper's empirical claims to the SIGPLAN Empirical Evaluation Guidelines — managed-runtime measurement discipline, warmup and variance reporting, corpus and benchmark provenance, environment pinning, and a Data-Availability Statement that the eventual artifact can actually honor.

OOPSLA Reproducibility

OOPSLA carries a particular historical burden here: the venue itself published the papers showing that sloppy runtime measurement produces wrong conclusions — Georges, Buytaert & Eeckhout's statistical-rigor paper (OOPSLA 2007) and the DaCapo suite's methodology argument (OOPSLA 2006); see resources/exemplars/library.md. Reviewers steeped in that lineage apply the SIGPLAN Empirical Evaluation Guidelines (sigplan.org/Resources/EmpiricalEvaluation/) as a working checklist, and the two-round model gives them a Minor/Major Revision lever to demand rigor rather than merely complain about it. Reproducibility work done before Round N is cheaper than the revision it preempts.

The four guideline pillars, operationalized

PillarReviewer questionConcrete obligation in the paper
Clear claimsWhat exactly is asserted, on what workloads, on what hardware?Claims scoped with population, platform, and configuration
Suitable comparisonIs the baseline the strongest sensible one, correctly configured?Baseline versions, flags, and tuning documented
Principled benchmarksWhy these programs/corpora and not cherry-picked ones?Selection rule stated; exclusions listed with reasons
Adequate data analysisDo the numbers separate signal from noise?Repetitions, warmup policy, dispersion, and summary statistic all named

Managed-runtime and PL-specific traps

  • JIT warmup: steady-state and startup are different claims; measure and label both or pick one explicitly.
  • Nondeterministic compilation: JIT tiering, GC scheduling, and ASLR mean run-to-run variance is structural — report distributions, not best-of.
  • Geometric vs arithmetic means across benchmarks: choose deliberately and say why; ratios of means and means of ratios diverge.
  • Corpus studies (the Meyerovich–Rabkin lane): repository selection bias, fork/duplicate contamination, and time-of-scrape all belong in the paper, since the corpus is the instrument.
  • Mechanized proofs: state the proof assistant version, axioms/assumed lemmas, and which theorems are checked vs paper-only.
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Reproducibility ledger

Keep one machine-readable ledger from the first experiment; it becomes the artifact's spine and the Data-Availability Statement's evidence.

yaml
experiment: table3-throughput
runtime: OpenJDK 21.0.2 (Temurin), -Xmx16g, JIT default
hardware: 2x Xeon 6338, 256 GiB, SMT off, governor=performance
benchmarks: dacapo-23.11-chopin subset (selection rule: R1)
protocol: 30 invocations x 10 iterations, discard warmup by CUSUM
stats: geomean ratio + 95% bootstrap CI, per-benchmark violin in appendix
seed_policy: fixed seeds logged; randomized order per invocation
data: raw CSV -> artifact path /results/table3/

Statement discipline

The Data-Availability Statement (required before the references — oopsla-submission) is a promissory note the artifact must later redeem under badge review (oopsla-artifact-evaluation). Write it from the ledger: name what is included, what is excluded and why (license, privacy, scale), and on what hardware results were produced. A statement that overpromises is worse than a modest one — evaluators check.

Pre-round self-audit

  1. Re-derive every headline number from the ledger with one command.
  2. Delete one machine from the picture: does any claim silently depend on unstated hardware?
  3. Hand a labmate the guidelines' four pillars and the PDF; each pillar they cannot check off in the text is a revision demand waiting to be written.

Output format

text
[Pillar audit] claims/comparison/benchmarks/analysis: pass|gap each
[Runtime traps] <warmup, variance, mean-choice, corpus, proofs — issues found>
[Ledger] complete / missing fields: <list>
[Statement] redeemable as written: yes / overpromises: <items>
[Revision exposure] what a reviewer could demand in Round N+1

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Files

Just SKILL.md in OOPSLA-Skills/skills/oopsla-reproducibility of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Oopsla Reproducibility

What does Oopsla Reproducibility do?

A skill your agent uses when hardening an OOPSLA paper's empirical claims to the SIGPLAN Empirical Evaluation Guidelines — managed-runtime measurement discipline, warmup and variance reporting…. Oopsla Reproducibility is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when hardening an OOPSLA paper's empirical claims to the SIGPLAN Empirical Evaluation Guidelines — managed-runtime measurement discipline, warmup and variance reporting, corpus and benchmark provenance, environment pinning, and a Data-Availability Statement that the eventual artifact can actually honor.

When should I use Oopsla Reproducibility?

Oopsla Reproducibility fits situations like: hardening an OOPSLA papers empirical claims to the SIGPLAN Empirical Evaluation Guidelines — managed-runtime measurement discipline; warmup and variance reporting; corpus and benchmark provenance; environment pinning.

How do I install Oopsla Reproducibility in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Oopsla Reproducibility in Codex?

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

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

What does Oopsla Reproducibility need to run?

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

Does Oopsla Reproducibility 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 Oopsla Reproducibility 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 Oopsla Reproducibility use?

Oopsla Reproducibility 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 Oopsla Reproducibility use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Oopsla Reproducibility?

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Who maintains Oopsla Reproducibility?

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.