A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a cloud-computing project belongs at ACM SoCC or should be routed to OSDI, NSDI, EuroSys, USENIX ATC, SOSP, or a data venue (SIGMOD/VLDB), leaning on…

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Install Socc Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills socc-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/SoCC-Skills/skills/socc-topic-selection .claude/skills/socc-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
socc-topic-selection
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
687 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 cloud-computing project belongs at ACM SoCC or should be routed to OSDI, NSDI, EuroSys, USENIX ATC, SOSP, or a data venue (SIGMOD/VLDB), leaning on…

  • Deciding whether a cloud-computing project belongs at ACM SoCC
  • SKILL.md covers The routing question that…, Sibling-venue routing table, Contribution shapes SoCC rewards and The model-swap and re-label…, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Should be routed to OSDI

What it does

Socc Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a cloud-computing project belongs at ACM SoCC or should be routed to OSDI, NSDI, EuroSys, USENIX ATC, SOSP, or a data venue (SIGMOD/VLDB), leaning on SoCC's unique joint SIGMOD+SIGOPS identity, its welcome of measurement and experience papers alongside systems-building, and the model-swap and re-label tests.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Backend & APIs. 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 cloud-computing project belongs at ACM SoCC
  • Should be routed to OSDI
  • A data venue (SIGMOD/VLDB)
  • Leaning on SoCCs unique joint SIGMOD+SIGOPS identity

Example prompts

  • “/socc-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

Socc Topic Selection loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 89 tokens; SKILL.md has 687 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~89
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k

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). 687 words, ~1,615 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/socc-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
socc-topic-selection
description
Use when deciding whether a cloud-computing project belongs at ACM SoCC or should be routed to OSDI, NSDI, EuroSys, USENIX ATC, SOSP, or a data venue (SIGMOD/VLDB), leaning on SoCC's unique joint SIGMOD+SIGOPS identity, its welcome of measurement and experience papers alongside systems-building, and the model-swap and re-label tests.

SoCC Topic Selection

Decide the venue before drafting. SoCC — the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing — is the only conference co-sponsored by SIGMOD and SIGOPS, and that joint sponsorship is its identity: it sits at the systems-and-data intersection of cloud research. Reviewers read for a cloud contribution that matters at scale, and the venue explicitly welcomes not just clean-slate systems but measurement studies, experience papers, and cloud-economics work that a pure OS/networking flagship might treat as second-class. A technically strong paper whose real home is kernel scheduling, network fabric, or query-optimizer internals is respected and then routed elsewhere.

The routing question that matters most

The decisive question is rarely "is this cloud?" but "does this contribution live at the systems-and-data intersection that SoCC owns, or is it a pure-systems or pure-data result better served by a specialized flagship?" SoCC's sweet spot is the paper that a datacenter operator or cloud platform team would act on: storage and data services, resource management and scheduling, serverless, multi-tenancy, big-data and ML-systems infrastructure, edge/fog, and the cost and economics of running all of it.

Sibling-venue routing table

Signal in your projectBetter homeWhy
Cloud infrastructure at the systems+data intersection: storage/data services, resource mgmt, serverless, ML-systems infra, multi-tenancy, cloud economicsACM SoCCThe joint SIGMOD+SIGOPS venue; welcomes systems and measurement/experience
Core is a novel OS/kernel or a clean-slate distributed-systems mechanism, depth over cloud framingOSDI / SOSPOS and systems flagships; deeper systems-novelty bar
Core is the network — datacenter fabric, congestion control, RDMA, SDNNSDINetworked-systems flagship
General systems contribution, European rotation, OS/runtime flavorEuroSysBroad systems venue; ACM, different community and calendar
Solid systems/experience result that fits a broad practitioner venueUSENIX ATCGeneral systems + experience; USENIX template and process
Core is a database engine, query processing, transactions, or data mgmt theorySIGMOD / VLDBData-management flagships; SoCC shares SIGMOD sponsorship but is systems-facing
Pure ML modeling result whose cloud consequence is incidentalan ML venueThe model, not the cloud system, is the contribution

Contribution shapes SoCC rewards

  • Cloud system + evaluation on a real/realistic deployment — a new storage, scheduling, serverless, or data-serving mechanism, built and measured on a cluster or testbed against credible baselines (the Cake / YARN lineage).
  • Measurement / trace study — turning production traces or large-scale measurement into durable findings about how real cloud infrastructure behaves (the Google-trace lineage) — a distinctly prized SoCC mode, reflecting the SIGMOD half of its identity.
  • Benchmark / measurement instrument — a reusable tool the community adopts to compare cloud systems (the YCSB lineage).
  • Experience paper — design decisions and operational lessons from a deployed system at scale, reported honestly including what failed (the YARN lineage) — SoCC's welcome mat for industry and operations.
  • Cloud economics / data markets — pricing, cost models, SLAs, and the data economy, a scope the joint sponsorship makes native rather than exotic.
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The model-swap and re-label tests

Two quick tests sharpen a borderline verdict:

  • Model-swap / mechanism-swap test: if your paper leans on an ML predictor or one specific engine, ask whether the cloud lesson survives swapping it. If not, the model is the contribution and an ML venue fits better; if yes, the cloud-systems framing is real.
  • Re-label test: could this paper be submitted to OSDI/NSDI/SIGMOD unchanged and read as native there? If its heart is kernel novelty (OSDI), network fabric (NSDI), or query internals (SIGMOD), route accordingly. SoCC rewards the paper whose contribution genuinely spans operating a cloud service on real data at scale.

Evidence maturity, without the ladder cliché

Fit is necessary but not sufficient: the same idea sits at different doors depending on how far the evidence has come. A mechanism evaluated only in simulation needs a testbed or deployment before the research track; a measurement study needs a trace or corpus a reviewer can scrutinize; an experience paper needs a system that was actually operated. Submitting a simulation-only systems claim invites the "does this hold on a real deployment?" reject that both sponsoring communities apply.

Cheap reconnaissance before committing

text
[Scope]   scan the last two SoCC programs (dblp conf/cloud, acmsocc.org) for your subarea
          -> 3+ recent papers = a reviewer pool exists; 0 = opening or mismatch
[Citations] is your bibliography a mix of systems (OSDI/NSDI/EuroSys/ATC/SoCC) and data
          (SIGMOD/VLDB) venues? -> a SoCC paper usually cites both lanes
[Calendar] SoCC has two rounds/year; compare the nearer round with OSDI/NSDI/EuroSys/ATC and
          SIGMOD/VLDB dates -> route to the nearest honest fit, but never reuse a Round-1 reject
          in Round 2

Decision procedure

text
[Audience] who acts differently if the claim holds? -> cloud operators / platform teams / data-infra builders?
[Claim type] cloud system / measurement / benchmark / experience / cloud-economics
[Intersection check] does it span systems AND data/scale, or is it pure-OS / pure-network / pure-DB?
[Sibling check] kernel depth -> OSDI/SOSP; network fabric -> NSDI; DB engine -> SIGMOD/VLDB
[Verdict] SoCC research track / sibling venue, with a one-line reason

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

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Files

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

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Socc Topic Selection

What does Socc Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a cloud-computing project belongs at ACM SoCC or should be routed to OSDI, NSDI, EuroSys, USENIX ATC, SOSP, or a data venue (SIGMOD/VLDB), leaning on…. Socc Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a cloud-computing project belongs at ACM SoCC or should be routed to OSDI, NSDI, EuroSys, USENIX ATC, SOSP, or a data venue (SIGMOD/VLDB), leaning on SoCC's unique joint SIGMOD+SIGOPS identity, its welcome of measurement and experience papers alongside systems-building, and the model-swap and re-label tests.

When should I use Socc Topic Selection?

Socc Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a cloud-computing project belongs at ACM SoCC; should be routed to OSDI; A data venue (SIGMOD/VLDB); leaning on SoCCs unique joint SIGMOD+SIGOPS identity.

How do I install Socc Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Socc Topic Selection in Codex?

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

Can I use Socc 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 socc-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/socc-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/socc-topic-selection, .github/skills/socc-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/socc-topic-selection in your project.

What does Socc Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Socc 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 Socc 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 Socc Topic Selection use?

Socc 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 Socc Topic Selection use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.5k 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 Socc Topic Selection?

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.