A skill your agent uses when auditing an ACM PODC submission for HotCRP readiness, covering the two-step abstract-registration then full-paper deadline, the ACM Master template with the…

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Install Podc Submission

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills podc-submission --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/PODC-Skills/skills/podc-submission .claude/skills/podc-submission && 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
podc-submission
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.9k tokens
SKILL.md length
918 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when auditing an ACM PODC submission for HotCRP readiness, covering the two-step abstract-registration then full-paper deadline, the ACM Master template with the…

  • Works in 7 steps: Freeze the model box and theorem… → Register… → Decide regular vs. Brief Announcement… → …
  • Auditing an ACM PODC submission for HotCRP readiness
  • SKILL.md covers The two-step deadline, Regular paper or Brief…, Format and page budget and Lightweight double-blind sweep, plus 5 more sections
  • Calls pdftotext

What it does

Podc Submission is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when auditing an ACM PODC submission for HotCRP readiness, covering the two-step abstract-registration then full-paper deadline, the ACM Master template with the 10-page-merits budget and unbounded full version, lightweight double-blind anonymization, the regular-paper-vs-Brief-Announcement choice, and desk-risk triage before the AoE cutoff.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.9k 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

  • Auditing an ACM PODC submission for HotCRP readiness
  • Covering the two-step abstract-registration then full-paper deadline
  • The ACM Master template with the 10-page-merits budget and unbounded full version
  • Lightweight double-blind anonymization

Example prompts

  • “/podc-submission”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Freeze the model box and theorem statements early; the proof text can be polished, the claims
  2. Register title/abstract/authors/conflicts before the 11 Feb cutoff.
  3. Decide regular vs. Brief Announcement and format to the right budget.
  4. Run the anonymization checks on the final PDF; make every self-citation third-person.
  5. Confirm the first 10 pages make the full merits case and that all invoked proofs are present in
  6. Fill every HotCRP field — topics that match your model/subarea, conflicts for every coauthor's
  7. Re-download the uploaded PDF and read it cold to confirm it is the file you meant.

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

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • pdftotext

    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

Podc Submission loads about 1.9k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 91 tokens; SKILL.md has 918 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~91
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.9k

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). 918 words, ~1,917 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/podc-submission/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
podc-submission
description
Use when auditing an ACM PODC submission for HotCRP readiness, covering the two-step abstract-registration then full-paper deadline, the ACM Master template with the 10-page-merits budget and unbounded full version, lightweight double-blind anonymization, the regular-paper-vs-Brief-Announcement choice, and desk-risk triage before the AoE cutoff.

PODC Submission

Run this audit before uploading to the PODC HotCRP site (podc26.hotcrp.com for the 2026 cycle). PODC — the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing — judges a model, a theorem, and a proof, so the submission is read as a mathematical argument, not as a system or a study. Every number below was read from the PODC 2026 call for papers on 2026-07-09 via search renderings (see resources/official-source-map.md); treat them as a one-cycle snapshot and reopen the live call first.

The two-step deadline

PODC 2026 separates abstract registration from full-paper submission, and both are AoE:

  • Abstract registration locks in title, abstract, authors, and conflicts a few days early (PODC 2026: 11 February 2026). Miss it and the system will not accept the PDF later.
  • Full-paper submission uploads the anonymized PDF (PODC 2026: 16 February 2026, 23:59 AoE).

Register with the real title and abstract, not a placeholder — the abstract drives reviewer bidding among a specialized PC, and a registered abstract that diverges from the final paper quietly worsens your match.

Regular paper or Brief Announcement — decide before formatting

PODC has two tracks, and choosing wrong wastes the slot:

SituationTrackLimit
Complete result with full proofs, ready for archival publicationRegular paperSubmission unbounded; first 10 pages after the title page carry the merits; published ≤10 pages
Work in progress, a result whose full version is (or will be) published elsewhere, or a small self-contained contributionBrief AnnouncementSubmission ≤5 pages incl. title/abstract/references; published ≤3 pages

A Brief Announcement is a real strategic option — it timestamps a result, reaches the community, and does not bar a later full paper elsewhere — not a demotion. But a regular result padded into a BA, or an incomplete result stretched into a regular paper, both read as misjudged. See podc-supplementary for the content split.

Format and page budget

  • ACM Master template (acmart), two-column proceedings format, unmodified. This is the ACM path — do not carry an LNCS/LIPIcs habit over from a DISC or OPODIS submission.
  • The 10-page-merits rule: a regular submission has no page limit, but only the abstract and the first 10 pages following the title page are guaranteed to be read. Everything after is read at the committee's discretion. So the first 10 pages must contain: the model, the result statement, the positioning against prior work, and the key technical/conceptual ideas — enough to decide acceptance. Authors are encouraged to submit the full version (all proofs) as the submission; the extra pages hold the proofs a convinced reviewer will check.
  • Published length: accepted regular papers appear in ≤10 pages two-column; Brief Announcements in ≤3 pages. Plan the compression now, not in May.

Lightweight double-blind sweep

PODC 2026 runs lightweight double-blind review: the submission must not reveal author names, affiliations, or email addresses anywhere. This is a change from PODC's historically single-blind practice — do not carry a prior single-blind habit forward, but also do not over-anonymize past what the call asks.

bash
# Mechanical pass on the submission PDF
pdfinfo paper.pdf | grep -Ei 'author|creator|producer'          # scrub identifying metadata
pdftotext paper.pdf - | grep -nEi 'university|@[a-z0-9.]+\.edu|acknowledg|grant|thanks' | head
pdftotext paper.pdf - | grep -nEi 'our (previous|prior|earlier) (work|paper)|we showed in \[' | head

The theory-specific leaks: a self-citation phrased as "in our earlier paper [12] we proved..." (make it third-person "[12] proves..."), a named funding grant, an acknowledgements block, a non-anonymized arXiv link, or a repository/author page for an optional simulation. Neutralize self-references and remove the acknowledgements until camera-ready.

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The proof is the deliverable

Because PODC has no artifact track, the reviewers' object of scrutiny is the proof. Before upload, confirm:

  • Every theorem invoked on the first 10 pages has its proof present in the submission/full version.
  • The model box (network, timing, fault model, adversary, cost measure) is fixed before the first theorem and no proof silently changes it.
  • Lemmas are stated where used and proved, not gestured at; a "proof sketch" in the body has its full version in the appendix.

Desk-risk triage

Finding at audit timeSeverityReal fix
Merits case not made within the first 10 pagesEffectively unreviewableRestructure so model+result+delta+key ideas fit in 10 pages
Template altered / not acmart two-columnFormat-reject gradeRecompile clean in the ACM Master template
Identity leak in PDF, self-citation, or linked repoAnonymity violationThird-person self-cites, strip metadata/acknowledgements, anonymize links
Abstract not registered by the earlier dateNo submission slot existsNothing fixes this post-AoE — calendar it now
Proof gap or missing lemma in a first-10-pages theoremSoundness riskClose the proof or weaken the claim before submitting
Regular result forced into a ≤5-page Brief Announcement (or vice versa)MisroutedRe-choose the track before formatting
Same result under review at DISC/SPAA/a journalDual-submission exposureWithdraw one venue; a preprint on arXiv is allowed, a concurrent submission is not

Final-week order of operations

  1. Freeze the model box and theorem statements early; the proof text can be polished, the claims cannot churn.
  2. Register title/abstract/authors/conflicts before the 11 Feb cutoff.
  3. Decide regular vs. Brief Announcement and format to the right budget.
  4. Run the anonymization checks on the final PDF; make every self-citation third-person.
  5. Confirm the first 10 pages make the full merits case and that all invoked proofs are present in the full version.
  6. Fill every HotCRP field — topics that match your model/subarea, conflicts for every coauthor's institution and recent collaborators — a day early.
  7. Re-download the uploaded PDF and read it cold to confirm it is the file you meant.

Reverify each cycle

  • The exact dates and whether abstract registration precedes the full-paper deadline.
  • The double-blind wording and how strictly it is enforced (recently changed).
  • Whether the cycle runs an author-response/rebuttal phase (待核实 for 2026).
  • The Brief Announcement limits and the 10-page-merits wording.
  • Any generative-AI-use disclosure policy (待核实).

Output format

text
[PODC submission status] ready / blocked / needs work
[Track] regular paper / brief announcement
[Registration] title/abstract/authors/conflicts locked by the earlier deadline? yes/no
[Format] first-10-pages merits case complete? acmart two-column? published-length plan?
[Anonymity] clean / leaks: <where>  (self-cites third-person? metadata scrubbed?)
[Proofs] every first-10-pages theorem has a present proof? model box fixed? yes/no
[Fix queue] <ordered, with owners and dates before the AoE cutoff>

© 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 PODC-Skills/skills/podc-submission of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Podc Submission

What does Podc Submission do?

A skill your agent uses when auditing an ACM PODC submission for HotCRP readiness, covering the two-step abstract-registration then full-paper deadline, the ACM Master template with the…. Podc Submission is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when auditing an ACM PODC submission for HotCRP readiness, covering the two-step abstract-registration then full-paper deadline, the ACM Master template with the 10-page-merits budget and unbounded full version, lightweight double-blind anonymization, the regular-paper-vs-Brief-Announcement choice, and desk-risk triage before the AoE cutoff.

When should I use Podc Submission?

Podc Submission fits situations like: auditing an ACM PODC submission for HotCRP readiness; covering the two-step abstract-registration then full-paper deadline; the ACM Master template with the 10-page-merits budget and unbounded full version; lightweight double-blind anonymization.

How do I install Podc Submission in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Podc Submission in Codex?

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

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

What does Podc Submission need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Podc Submission needs the command-line tools its instructions call (pdftotext).

Does Podc Submission 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 Podc Submission 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 Podc Submission use?

Podc Submission 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 Podc Submission use?

About 1.9k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.7k 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 Podc Submission?

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.

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.