Agent skill

Percom Topic Selection

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

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a pervasive-computing project belongs at IEEE PerCom or should be routed to ACM UbiComp/IMWUT, MobiCom, MobiSys, SenSys, or IPSN, and when…

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Install Percom Topic Selection

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill percom-topic-selection -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills percom-topic-selection --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/PerCom-Skills/skills/percom-topic-selection .claude/skills/percom-topic-selection && 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
percom-topic-selection
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
608 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a pervasive-computing project belongs at IEEE PerCom or should be routed to ACM UbiComp/IMWUT, MobiCom, MobiSys, SenSys, or IPSN, and when…

  • Deciding whether a pervasive-computing project belongs at IEEE PerCom
  • SKILL.md covers The routing question that…, Neighbor-venue routing table, Contribution shapes PerCom… and The human-centricity and…, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Should be routed to ACM UbiComp/IMWUT

What it does

Percom Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a pervasive-computing project belongs at IEEE PerCom or should be routed to ACM UbiComp/IMWUT, MobiCom, MobiSys, SenSys, or IPSN, and when distinguishing PerCom's human-centric ubicomp focus from networked-sensor-systems venues by contribution shape, the human-centricity test, and the IEEE-conference vs. IMWUT-journal model.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k 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

  • Deciding whether a pervasive-computing project belongs at IEEE PerCom
  • Should be routed to ACM UbiComp/IMWUT
  • When distinguishing PerComs human-centric ubicomp focus from networked-sensor-systems venues by contribution shape
  • The human-centricity test

Example prompts

  • “/percom-topic-selection”

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

Percom Topic Selection loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 94 tokens; SKILL.md has 608 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~94
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.5k

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). 608 words, ~1,501 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/percom-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
percom-topic-selection
description
Use when deciding whether a pervasive-computing project belongs at IEEE PerCom or should be routed to ACM UbiComp/IMWUT, MobiCom, MobiSys, SenSys, or IPSN, and when distinguishing PerCom's human-centric ubicomp focus from networked-sensor-systems venues by contribution shape, the human-centricity test, and the IEEE-conference vs. IMWUT-journal model.

PerCom Topic Selection

Decide the venue before drafting. PerCom — the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications — is IEEE's flagship for human-centric ubiquitous computing: activity recognition, context-awareness, wearable and mobile sensing, and smart environments. Its papers are IEEE Xplore proceedings read for a pervasive-computing contribution grounded in real human use. A technically strong paper whose real lesson is about network protocols, low-power hardware, or a pure ML model is respected and then rejected as out of scope.

The routing question that matters most

PerCom overlaps most with ACM UbiComp/IMWUT in topic — both cover HAR, wearables, and smart spaces — so the decisive question is rarely "is this ubicomp?" but "which model and calendar fits this paper now?" UbiComp presents papers published in the IMWUT journal on rolling quarterly deadlines with a revise cycle; PerCom is an IEEE conference with a single annual deadline, a bounded rebuttal, and an in-person-presentation requirement. A strong ubicomp paper is publishable at either — choose by the publication model you want and the nearer honest deadline.

Neighbor-venue routing table

Signal in your projectBetter homeWhy
Human-centric ubicomp (HAR, context, wearables, smart space), ready now, PerCom deadline nearerIEEE PerComIEEE conference flagship; annual deadline + rebuttal
Same topic, but you want a journal publication and a rolling deadlineACM UbiComp / IMWUTJournal model, quarterly submissions, revise cycle
Core is wireless/cellular networking or the mobile network itselfMobiCom / MobiSysMobile-networking and mobile-systems centers
Core is a low-power networked-sensor system or sensor-platform designSenSysNetworked sensor systems, not human-centric ubicomp
Core is information processing in sensor networks / signal-level sensingIPSNSensor-network information processing
Study is a deep dataset/measurement better as an archival journal articleIMWUT / IEEE journalsJournal length and revise cycle

Contribution shapes PerCom rewards

  • Human activity / context recognition — a recognizer or model for human activity, context, or behavior from mobile/wearable/ambient sensors, evaluated cross-subject on real people (the EMGSense lineage).
  • Pervasive system / infrastructure — a deployable system for sensing, localization, or smart environments whose insight outlives the specific hardware (the LANDMARC lineage).
  • Sensing tooling / datasets — a generator, framework, or dataset that unblocks how the community evaluates (the SmartSPEC lineage).
  • Sensing consequence / privacy — surfacing what ubiquitous sensing makes possible on real devices, for good or ill (the DeepMag side-channel lineage).
  • Context modeling / device-to-device — treating context as a first-class systems concern with real deployment tradeoffs (the CHITCHAT lineage).
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The human-centricity and model-swap tests

Two quick tests sharpen a borderline verdict:

  • Human-centricity test: is a person — their activity, context, behavior, or environment — the center of the contribution? If the paper is really about the network stack or the sensor hardware with no human at the center, route to MobiCom/MobiSys or SenSys/IPSN.
  • Model-swap test: if the paper leans on a deep model, ask whether the pervasive-computing lesson survives swapping the model for another. If not, the model is the contribution and an ML venue fits better; PerCom rewards the ubicomp insight, not the architecture.

Evidence maturity, without the ladder cliché

Fit is necessary but not sufficient: the same idea sits at different doors depending on evidence maturity. A recognizer evaluated only within-subject or in-lab needs cross-subject, free-living data before the research track; a system shown only on your own testbed needs a realistic deployment; a study too deep and long for 9 pages may belong in IMWUT first. Submitting a step early earns a polite "promising, but the evaluation is within-subject" and costs a full cycle, because PerCom runs on an annual rhythm.

Cheap reconnaissance before committing

text
[Scope]   scan the last two PerCom programs (dblp, percom.org) for your subarea
          -> 3+ recent papers = a reviewer pool exists; 0 = opening or mismatch
[Citations] is your bibliography majority ubicomp/mobile/sensing venues (PerCom/UbiComp/IMWUT/
          MobiCom/SenSys)? -> majority non-ubicomp => reviewers read you as a visitor; naturalize first
[Calendar] compare the next PerCom deadline (annual, ~Sep) with IMWUT's rolling quarterly cutoffs
          and MobiCom/SenSys dates -> route to the nearest honest fit, not a year's wait

Decision procedure

text
[Audience] who acts differently if the claim holds? -> ubicomp researchers/practitioners/users?
[Claim type] recognition / system / tooling-dataset / sensing-consequence / context-modeling
[Human-centricity] is a person at the center? -> yes: PerCom-family; no: MobiCom/SenSys/IPSN
[PerCom vs IMWUT] both fit? -> conference+rebuttal+annual (PerCom) vs journal+rolling (IMWUT)
[Verdict] PerCom research track / neighbor venue / journal-first, with a one-line reason

Run this before the writing skills; a wrong venue decision wastes every later step. When the verdict is PerCom, continue with percom-workflow for the calendar and percom-writing-style for the paper shape.

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Files

Just SKILL.md in PerCom-Skills/skills/percom-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Percom Topic Selection

What does Percom Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a pervasive-computing project belongs at IEEE PerCom or should be routed to ACM UbiComp/IMWUT, MobiCom, MobiSys, SenSys, or IPSN, and when…. Percom Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a pervasive-computing project belongs at IEEE PerCom or should be routed to ACM UbiComp/IMWUT, MobiCom, MobiSys, SenSys, or IPSN, and when distinguishing PerCom's human-centric ubicomp focus from networked-sensor-systems venues by contribution shape, the human-centricity test, and the IEEE-conference vs.

When should I use Percom Topic Selection?

Percom Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a pervasive-computing project belongs at IEEE PerCom; should be routed to ACM UbiComp/IMWUT; when distinguishing PerComs human-centric ubicomp focus from networked-sensor-systems venues by contribution shape; the human-centricity test.

How do I install Percom Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Percom Topic Selection in Codex?

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

Can I use Percom Topic Selection 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 percom-topic-selection -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/percom-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/percom-topic-selection, .github/skills/percom-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/percom-topic-selection in your project.

What does Percom Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Percom Topic Selection 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 Percom Topic Selection 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 Percom Topic Selection use?

Percom Topic Selection 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 Percom Topic Selection use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6k 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 Percom Topic Selection?

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.