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A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a distributed-computing result belongs at ACM PODC or should be routed to DISC, SPAA, OPODIS/SIROCCO/SSS, STOC/FOCS/SODA, a systems venue…
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill podc-topic-selection -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills podc-topic-selection --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ 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-topic-selection .claude/skills/podc-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "podc-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/PODC-Skills/skills/podc-topic-selection into .claude/skills/podc-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "podc-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/PODC-Skills/skills/podc-topic-selectionType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill podc-topic-selection -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills podc-topic-selection --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/PODC-Skills/skills/podc-topic-selection .agents/skills/podc-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "podc-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/PODC-Skills/skills/podc-topic-selection into .agents/skills/podc-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "podc-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill podc-topic-selection -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills podc-topic-selection --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/PODC-Skills/skills/podc-topic-selection .cursor/skills/podc-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "podc-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/PODC-Skills/skills/podc-topic-selection into .cursor/skills/podc-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "podc-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git --path PODC-Skills/skills/podc-topic-selection--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill podc-topic-selection -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills podc-topic-selection --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/PODC-Skills/skills/podc-topic-selection .gemini/skills/podc-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "podc-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/PODC-Skills/skills/podc-topic-selection into .gemini/skills/podc-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "podc-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills podc-topic-selectionInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill podc-topic-selection -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/PODC-Skills/skills/podc-topic-selection .github/skills/podc-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "podc-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/PODC-Skills/skills/podc-topic-selection into .github/skills/podc-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "podc-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill podc-topic-selection -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills podc-topic-selection --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/PODC-Skills/skills/podc-topic-selection .opencode/skills/podc-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "podc-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/PODC-Skills/skills/podc-topic-selection into .opencode/skills/podc-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "podc-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
podc-topic-selectionA skill your agent uses when deciding whether a distributed-computing result belongs at ACM PODC or should be routed to DISC, SPAA, OPODIS/SIROCCO/SSS, STOC/FOCS/SODA, a systems venue…
Podc Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a distributed-computing result belongs at ACM PODC or should be routed to DISC, SPAA, OPODIS/SIROCCO/SSS, STOC/FOCS/SODA, a systems venue (ICDCS/DSN/OSDI/NSDI), a blockchain-theory venue (AFT/FC), or a journal (JACM / Distributed Computing) — and how to avoid the PODC-vs-PODS naming trap by reasoning about the distributed model and the cost measure.
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.
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.
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
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.
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.
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Podc Topic Selection loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 100 tokens; SKILL.md has 737 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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.
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.
The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 737 words, ~1,748 tokens.
.claude/skills/podc-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).Decide the venue before drafting. PODC — the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing — is the SIGACT-SIGOPS home for the theory of distributed computing. Reviewers read for a provable guarantee in a precisely stated distributed model: an algorithm with a complexity bound, an impossibility, or a matching lower bound. A technically strong paper whose real contribution is a sequential algorithm, a measured system, or a database result is respected and then rejected as out of scope.
PODC is not PODS. PODS is the ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (SIGMOD week); its theory is query languages, dependencies, and database complexity. If your result is about data management rather than distributed processes, agents, or memory, you want PODS, not PODC. One letter, two communities — check before you submit.
PODC, DISC, and SPAA overlap heavily in scope and share much of a reviewer pool, so the decisive question is rarely "is this distributed theory?" but "which model, which cost measure, and which calendar fit this result now?" Use the finer signals below and the live deadlines to choose.
| Signal in your project | Better home | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Provable guarantee in a distributed model (consensus, shared memory, LOCAL/CONGEST, self-stabilization, population protocols), ready now, PODC's Feb deadline is nearer | PODC | The ACM distributed-theory flagship; proofs-centric |
| Same distributed-theory flavor but DISC's fall cycle lands better, or the result is very European-community-facing | DISC | The EATCS distributed-theory flagship; LIPIcs proceedings; shares the Dijkstra Prize and Dissertation Award with PODC |
| Core is parallel algorithms/architectures, work-span/PRAM, shared-memory throughput, scheduling | SPAA | Parallelism is its named center; co-located with PODC 2026 but a distinct scope |
| Networks, mobile agents, self-stabilization with a specific community fit | OPODIS / SIROCCO / SSS | Focused distributed-theory venues; often a better match for niche models |
| The algorithm is sequential — the distribution is incidental | STOC / FOCS / SODA | Sequential theory flagships; no distributed model to reward |
| A built system with measurements and no analyzed guarantee | ICDCS / DSN / OSDI / NSDI / SOSP | Systems venues reward implementation and evaluation, not a proof |
| Blockchain/DeFi with a financial-mechanism or cryptographic-protocol core | AFT / FC / CCS | Financial-technology and security venues; PODC takes distributed-ledger theory but not applied crypto engineering |
| A result too long/deep for 10 pages, or a definitive journal statement | JACM / Distributed Computing | The journals PODC papers are invited to; some results are journal-first |
Two quick tests sharpen a borderline verdict:
Fit is necessary but not sufficient. The same idea sits at different doors depending on how finished the proof is. An algorithm with a plausible-but-unproved bound is a Brief Announcement or a work-in-progress talk, not a regular paper; a construction with an upper bound but no lower bound is publishable but stronger with the matching bound; a result too long for 10 pages of merits belongs in a journal. Submitting a regular paper with a proof gap earns a fast rejection, because the proof is the paper.
[Scope] scan the last two PODC programs (dblp db/conf/podc, podc.org) for your model
-> 3+ recent papers in your subarea = a reviewer pool exists; 0 = opening or mismatch
[Citations] is your bibliography majority PODC/DISC/SPAA/JACM/Distributed Computing?
-> majority STOC/FOCS or majority systems venues => reviewers read you as a visitor
[Calendar] compare the next PODC (Feb) deadline with DISC (spring), SPAA, and journal timelines
-> route to the nearest honest fit rather than waiting a year for a marginal preference[Model] state it: network (message-passing/shared-memory), timing, faults, adversary, cost measure
[Contribution] algorithm+bound / impossibility / matching lower bound / new model / concurrency object
[De-distribute test] does the value survive removing distribution? no => STOC/SODA
[Sibling check] parallelism core -> SPAA; built system -> ICDCS/DSN/OSDI; database -> PODS; ledger-as-system -> AFT/FC
[PODC vs DISC] both fit? -> choose by calendar and community; the prize/award ecosystem is shared
[Verdict] PODC regular / PODC Brief Announcement / sibling venue / journal-first, with a one-line reasonRun this before the writing skills; a wrong venue decision wastes every later step. When the verdict
is PODC, continue with podc-workflow for the calendar and podc-writing-style for the paper shape.
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Just SKILL.md in PODC-Skills/skills/podc-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
Podc Topic Selection next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Podc Topic Selection this skillbrycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills | 1.2k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Ito Computeaffaan-m/ECC | 275k | 1 repos | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Distributed Triagepytorch/pytorch | 104k | — | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Debug Distributed Hangsgl-project/sglang | 37k | 2 repos | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Senior Computer Visiondavila7/claude-code-templates | 32k | 3 repos | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Senior Computer Visionalirezarezvani/claude-skills | 28k | 2 repos | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a distributed-computing result belongs at ACM PODC or should be routed to DISC, SPAA, OPODIS/SIROCCO/SSS, STOC/FOCS/SODA, a systems venue…. Podc Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a distributed-computing result belongs at ACM PODC or should be routed to DISC, SPAA, OPODIS/SIROCCO/SSS, STOC/FOCS/SODA, a systems venue (ICDCS/DSN/OSDI/NSDI), a blockchain-theory venue (AFT/FC), or a journal (JACM / Distributed Computing) — and how to avoid the PODC-vs-PODS naming trap by reasoning about the distributed model and the cost measure.
Podc Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a distributed-computing result belongs at ACM PODC; should be routed to DISC; OPODIS/SIROCCO/SSS; A systems venue (ICDCS/DSN/OSDI/NSDI).
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill podc-topic-selection -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (PODC-Skills/skills/podc-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/podc-topic-selection in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill podc-topic-selection -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (PODC-Skills/skills/podc-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/podc-topic-selection in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
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-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/podc-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/podc-topic-selection, .github/skills/podc-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/podc-topic-selection in your project.
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Podc Topic Selection is instructions for the agent only.
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.
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.
Podc 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.
About 1.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Podc Topic Selection: Ito Compute (affaan-m/ECC, 275k stars), Distributed Triage (pytorch/pytorch, 104k stars), Debug Distributed Hang (sgl-project/sglang, 37k stars) and Senior Computer Vision (davila7/claude-code-templates, 32k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
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.