A skill your agent uses when planning a POPL campaign calendar — backward-scheduling theory and mechanization from the July deadline, riding the October notification into the conditional-acceptance…

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Install Popl Workflow

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills popl-workflow --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/POPL-Skills/skills/popl-workflow .claude/skills/popl-workflow && 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
popl-workflow
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~882 tokens
SKILL.md length
342 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when planning a POPL campaign calendar — backward-scheduling theory and mechanization from the July deadline, riding the October notification into the conditional-acceptance…

  • Works in 3 steps: Committee revision — mandatory, deadline… → Artifact evaluation — by invitation for… → January logistics — visa appointment,…
  • Planning a POPL campaign calendar — backward-scheduling theory and mechanization from the July deadline
  • SKILL.md covers Backward plan from a July…, The fall gauntlet (acceptance…, If July slips: the PACMPL… and Output format
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Popl Workflow is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when planning a POPL campaign calendar — backward-scheduling theory and mechanization from the July deadline, riding the October notification into the conditional-acceptance revision and artifact evaluation, landing the January conference, and retargeting across the SIGPLAN/PACMPL deadline wheel if July slips.

Its SKILL.md is about 880 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

  • Planning a POPL campaign calendar — backward-scheduling theory and mechanization from the July deadline
  • Riding the October notification into the conditional-acceptance revision and artifact evaluation
  • Landing the January conference
  • Retargeting across the SIGPLAN/PACMPL deadline wheel if July slips

Example prompts

  • “/popl-workflow”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Committee revision — mandatory, deadline set at notification
  2. Artifact evaluation — by invitation for conditionally accepted papers; the
  3. January logistics — visa appointment, registration, talk. Mexico City in

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

Popl Workflow loads about 882 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 82 tokens; SKILL.md has 342 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~82
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~882

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). 342 words, ~882 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/popl-workflow/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
popl-workflow
description
Use when planning a POPL campaign calendar — backward-scheduling theory and mechanization from the July deadline, riding the October notification into the conditional-acceptance revision and artifact evaluation, landing the January conference, and retargeting across the SIGPLAN/PACMPL deadline wheel if July slips.

POPL Workflow

POPL's seat in the SIGPLAN year is fixed and unforgiving: submit in July, hear in early October, revise and package artifacts in the fall, present in January. For POPL 2027 (verified 2026-07-08): deadline July 9, 2026 AoE; notification October 5, 2026; symposium January 10-16, 2027, Mexico City. There is no abstract deadline and no second call. POPL is a conference — no editor-in-chief, no submission fee; the chairs rotate per edition (2027 names 待核实) and publication costs run through PACMPL's open-access model, not author-facing page charges in the normal case.

Backward plan from a July deadline

Weeks before deadlineTheory-paper milestone
16+Core calculus stable; main theorem conjectured precisely
12Hard lemmas proved on paper; mechanization of the kernel started
8Main theorem proved; decide mechanize-vs-hand-prove split per theorem
6Case studies or prototype evidence frozen (popl-experiments)
4Full draft in acmsmall; informal-to-formal ramp reviewed by an outsider
2Mock review by someone who tries to break the theorem, not the prose
1Anonymity sweep of paper + proof archive; correspondence table regenerated
0HotCRP upload with hours of AoE margin, not minutes

The distinctive scheduling truth: theorems do not compress. An experiment can be rerun overnight; a broken lemma two weeks out cannot be fixed by working weekends. Freeze the formal core earlier than feels necessary.

The fall gauntlet (acceptance path)

October notification opens three parallel tracks that all land before January:

  1. Committee revision — mandatory, deadline set at notification (popl-camera-ready).
  2. Artifact evaluation — by invitation for conditionally accepted papers; the no-admit/no-sorry pass and Zenodo archiving take real days (popl-artifact-evaluation).
  3. January logistics — visa appointment, registration, talk. Mexico City in January is an international trip for most authors; start visas the week the decision lands.

If July slips: the PACMPL deadline wheel

All four SIGPLAN flagships publish in the same journal, so retargeting costs reviewer culture, not archival quality. From POPL's July seat, the recent pattern (verify each venue's current call — dates rotate):

text
POPL (July deadline, January conference)   <- you are here
  -> OOPSLA: next PACMPL deadline after July in recent cycles
  -> PLDI: November-ish deadline, June conference
  -> ICFP: late-winter/spring deadline, fall conference
Retarget rule: move to the venue whose reviewers match your EVIDENCE,
not the nearest date — see popl-topic-selection.

Never park the same paper at two of them at once; dual submission burns the pair.

Output format

text
[Current stage] framing / proving / mechanizing / drafting / submitted / response / revision / production
[Next hard date] <event + date + source URL, or 待核实>
[Critical path] <the three tasks that gate the next date>
[Frozen vs fluid] <what may still change without cascading into proofs>
[Fallback] <retarget venue + its verified deadline, if July is unrealistic>

© 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 POPL-Skills/skills/popl-workflow of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Popl Workflow

What does Popl Workflow do?

A skill your agent uses when planning a POPL campaign calendar — backward-scheduling theory and mechanization from the July deadline, riding the October notification into the conditional-acceptance…. Popl Workflow is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when planning a POPL campaign calendar — backward-scheduling theory and mechanization from the July deadline, riding the October notification into the conditional-acceptance revision and artifact evaluation, landing the January conference, and retargeting across the SIGPLAN/PACMPL deadline wheel if July slips.

When should I use Popl Workflow?

Popl Workflow fits situations like: planning a POPL campaign calendar — backward-scheduling theory and mechanization from the July deadline; riding the October notification into the conditional-acceptance revision and artifact evaluation; landing the January conference; retargeting across the SIGPLAN/PACMPL deadline wheel if July slips.

How do I install Popl Workflow in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Popl Workflow in Codex?

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

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

What does Popl Workflow need to run?

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

Does Popl Workflow 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 Popl Workflow 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 Popl Workflow use?

Popl Workflow 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 Popl Workflow use?

About 882 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.5k 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 Popl Workflow?

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Who maintains Popl Workflow?

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.