Pod Sales
ruvnet/ruflo
Run one tick of the sales business-pod (ADR-164 §4.1, Phase 2).
A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a data-management project belongs at ACM PODS (the database-theory symposium) or should be routed to SIGMOD/VLDB/ICDE (systems), ICDT (its sister theory…
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill pods-topic-selection -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills pods-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/PODS-Skills/skills/pods-topic-selection .claude/skills/pods-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 "pods-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/PODS-Skills/skills/pods-topic-selection into .claude/skills/pods-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "pods-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/PODS-Skills/skills/pods-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 pods-topic-selection -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills pods-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/PODS-Skills/skills/pods-topic-selection .agents/skills/pods-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 "pods-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/PODS-Skills/skills/pods-topic-selection into .agents/skills/pods-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "pods-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 pods-topic-selection -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills pods-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/PODS-Skills/skills/pods-topic-selection .cursor/skills/pods-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 "pods-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/PODS-Skills/skills/pods-topic-selection into .cursor/skills/pods-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "pods-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 PODS-Skills/skills/pods-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 pods-topic-selection -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills pods-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/PODS-Skills/skills/pods-topic-selection .gemini/skills/pods-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 "pods-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/PODS-Skills/skills/pods-topic-selection into .gemini/skills/pods-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "pods-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 pods-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 pods-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/PODS-Skills/skills/pods-topic-selection .github/skills/pods-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 "pods-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/PODS-Skills/skills/pods-topic-selection into .github/skills/pods-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "pods-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 pods-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 pods-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/PODS-Skills/skills/pods-topic-selection .opencode/skills/pods-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 "pods-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/PODS-Skills/skills/pods-topic-selection into .opencode/skills/pods-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "pods-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.
pods-topic-selectionA skill your agent uses when deciding whether a data-management project belongs at ACM PODS (the database-theory symposium) or should be routed to SIGMOD/VLDB/ICDE (systems), ICDT (its sister theory…
Pods Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a data-management project belongs at ACM PODS (the database-theory symposium) or should be routed to SIGMOD/VLDB/ICDE (systems), ICDT (its sister theory venue), LICS/ICALP/STOC (pure theory), or a journal (TODS/LMCS/JACM), by contribution shape, the result-swap test, and the PODS-vs-ICDT community fit.
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.
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.
Pods Topic Selection loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 88 tokens; SKILL.md has 675 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). 675 words, ~1,537 tokens.
.claude/skills/pods-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).Decide the venue before drafting. PODS — the ACM SIGMOD/SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Database Systems — is the theoretical-foundations symposium held jointly with SIGMOD each year. Its papers are theorems about data management: models, query languages, complexity bounds, dichotomies, logic, and provably optimal algorithms. A technically strong paper whose real contribution is a faster system, a benchmark win, or an engineering artifact is respected and then rejected as out of scope — that paper is SIGMOD/VLDB/ICDE. PODS reviewers read for a provable, foundational statement about a cleanly defined model.
The decisive question is rarely "is this about databases?" but "is the contribution a theorem or a system?" If the headline is a bound, a dichotomy, a semantics, an expressiveness result, or an algorithm with a matching lower bound, it is PODS-shaped. If the headline is throughput, latency, or accuracy on real workloads — even with clever theory inside — its home is a systems-DB flagship. PODS and SIGMOD share a week and a hallway but not a bar for acceptance.
| Signal in your project | Better home | Why |
|---|---|---|
| A bound, dichotomy, semantics, or provably optimal algorithm in a data model | PODS | The database-theory symposium; results are theorems with proofs |
| A system, index, or optimizer evaluated on real workloads for performance | SIGMOD / VLDB / ICDE | The systems-DB flagships; evidence is measured, not proved |
| Database theory, but you want the EDBT/ICDT federation or missed the PODS cycle | ICDT | PODS's sister theory venue; overlapping community and reviewer pool, different calendar |
| Pure logic / finite model theory with no data-management payoff | LICS / ICALP / STOC / FOCS | Theory venues; PODS wants the data-management motivation to be central |
| A deep, long development beyond a 15-page symposium result | TODS / LMCS / JACM / VLDBJ | Journals with no symposium page ceiling; often the full-version home |
| Applied ML-for-data with empirical validation as the point | SIGMOD / VLDB / a ML venue | Not a PODS theorem; route to where the evidence is measured |
Two quick tests sharpen a borderline verdict:
Fit is necessary but not sufficient. A conjecture with partial evidence but no proof is a workshop or a Gems-of-PODS talk, not a research paper; a theorem whose proof only handles a special case needs the general result or an honest scope; a sprawling development that cannot breathe in 15 pages plus appendix may belong in a journal first, with a PODS extended abstract of the core theorem. Submitting a half-proved result costs a full cycle even when the topic is perfect.
[Scope] scan the last two PODS proceedings (dblp db/conf/pods, PACMMOD PODS track) for your
subarea -> 3+ recent papers = a reviewer pool exists; 0 = mismatch or ICDT/LICS territory
[Citations] is your bibliography majority PODS/ICDT/LICS/TODS/JACM, or majority SIGMOD/VLDB?
-> majority systems venues => reviewers may read you as a systems paper; reframe the intro
[Calendar] PODS runs two cycles a year; compare the next PODS cycle with ICDT's and the systems
deadlines, and route to the nearest honest fit rather than idling[Contribution] theorem (bound/dichotomy/semantics/optimal algorithm) or measured system?
[Model] is there a cleanly defined data/query model the result is about?
[PODS vs ICDT] data-management theory with the SIGMOD community pull -> PODS; EDBT/ICDT federation
fit or calendar -> ICDT
[Systems check] performance is the headline -> SIGMOD/VLDB/ICDE, not PODS
[Verdict] PODS / ICDT / systems flagship / journal-first, with a one-line reasonRun this before the writing skills; a wrong venue decision wastes every later step. When the verdict
is PODS, continue with pods-workflow for the two-cycle calendar and pods-writing-style for the
paper shape.
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Just SKILL.md in PODS-Skills/skills/pods-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
Pods 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pods Topic Selection this skillbrycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills | 1.2k | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Pod Salesruvnet/ruflo | 74k | — | ~774 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | |
| Implementing Pod Security Admission Controllermukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills | 34k | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| TopicsZimoLiao/scholaraio | 577 | — | ~294 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Topic Modelingbrycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills | 4.5k | — | ~3.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Bestblogs Topicginobefun/BestBlogs | 4k | — | ~670 | Automated safety check: Pass | None |
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A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a data-management project belongs at ACM PODS (the database-theory symposium) or should be routed to SIGMOD/VLDB/ICDE (systems), ICDT (its sister theory…. Pods Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a data-management project belongs at ACM PODS (the database-theory symposium) or should be routed to SIGMOD/VLDB/ICDE (systems), ICDT (its sister theory venue), LICS/ICALP/STOC (pure theory), or a journal (TODS/LMCS/JACM), by contribution shape, the result-swap test, and the PODS-vs-ICDT community fit.
Pods Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a data-management project belongs at ACM PODS (the database-theory symposium); should be routed to SIGMOD/VLDB/ICDE (systems); ICDT (its sister theory venue); LICS/ICALP/STOC (pure theory).
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill pods-topic-selection -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (PODS-Skills/skills/pods-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/pods-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 pods-topic-selection -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (PODS-Skills/skills/pods-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/pods-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 pods-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/pods-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/pods-topic-selection, .github/skills/pods-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/pods-topic-selection in your project.
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Pods 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.
Pods 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 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.1k 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 Pods Topic Selection: Pod Sales (ruvnet/ruflo, 74k stars), Implementing Pod Security Admission Controller (mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills, 34k stars), Topics (ZimoLiao/scholaraio, 577 stars) and Topic Modeling (brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, 4.5k 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 1,228 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.