Agent skill

Soda Artifact Evaluation

by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

A skill your agent uses when deciding how code, computations, or data attach to a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper — SODA itself runs no artifact track, so this skill covers…

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Soda Artifact Evaluation

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill soda-artifact-evaluation -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills soda-artifact-evaluation --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/SODA-Skills/skills/soda-artifact-evaluation .claude/skills/soda-artifact-evaluation && 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
soda-artifact-evaluation
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
834 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when deciding how code, computations, or data attach to a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper — SODA itself runs no artifact track, so this skill covers…

  • Deciding how code
  • SKILL.md covers Which of three situations are…, Computer-assisted proof…, Certificate patterns by claim… and Routing to ALENEX AE, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Data attach to a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper — SODA itself runs no artifact track

What it does

Soda Artifact Evaluation is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding how code, computations, or data attach to a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper — SODA itself runs no artifact track, so this skill covers computer-assisted proof evidence, implementation companions, and when to route the artifact to co-located ALENEX's formal artifact evaluation instead.

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.

It sits in Research & Science. 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 how code
  • Data attach to a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper — SODA itself runs no artifact track
  • So this skill covers computer-assisted proof evidence
  • Implementation companions

Example prompts

  • “/soda-artifact-evaluation”

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

Soda Artifact Evaluation loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 88 tokens; SKILL.md has 834 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~88
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.7k

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). 834 words, ~1,724 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/soda-artifact-evaluation/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
soda-artifact-evaluation
description
Use when deciding how code, computations, or data attach to a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper — SODA itself runs no artifact track, so this skill covers computer-assisted proof evidence, implementation companions, and when to route the artifact to co-located ALENEX's formal artifact evaluation instead.

SODA Artifact Evaluation

First, the venue truth: SODA has no artifact-evaluation track. Referees judge proofs, not repositories. But two kinds of computational objects still matter to a SODA author, and the co-located satellite ALENEX runs a genuine AE process — for the 2027 cycle, ALENEX's dates were: submission July 20, 2026; notification early September 2026; artifact submission September 11, 2026; AE rebuttal October 12-14; AE results by October 16, 2026, with a dedicated HotCRP AE site (alenex27ae.hotcrp.com; checked 2026-07-08 via search renderings of the SIAM ALENEX27 pages).

Which of three situations are you in?

SituationArtifact's roleCorrect home
Proof relies on machine computation (case enumeration, SAT/ILP certificate, verified numerics)Part of the proof — reviewers must be able to check itThe SODA submission itself, described in the paper, archive linked
Implementation exists but the claim is the theoremSupporting color; zero review weight at SODAarXiv full version appendix + repository; one paragraph in the paper
The experiments are the contribution (engineering, tuning, real datasets)The reviewed objectALENEX, with its AE process — not SODA

The routing mistake costs a cycle: an implementation-led paper at SODA reads as a theorem-light submission; a theorem-led paper at ALENEX reads as an experiment-light one. soda-experiments covers the boundary in detail.

Computer-assisted proof evidence at SODA

When a lemma's truth rests on computation, treat the computation like a proof step:

  • State in the paper what was computed, why the computation's correctness implies the lemma, and the reduction from lemma to finite check.
  • Prefer certificates over executions: a SAT unsatisfiability certificate, an LP dual solution, or an exhaustive-search transcript that an independent checker can validate is stronger than "our script printed True."
  • Pin the environment. A checker that needs one standard tool beats a stack of research dependencies.
  • Anonymity still applies at submission time (lightweight double-blind): host the archive at an anonymous URL or describe it and promise availability; a link to github.com/yourname defeats the author-block scrubbing.

A minimal verification bundle that a skeptical theorist can run:

text
verification/
├── README.md          # lemma ↔ computation map; expected output; runtime
├── generate.py        # enumerates the finite case space (deterministic)
├── check.py           # validates each case; exits nonzero on failure
├── certificates/      # per-case witnesses, checkable independently
└── environment.txt    # exact toolchain versions

The README's first line should be the command that reproduces the check, and the paper should quote the total case count so a re-runner knows when they are done.

Certificate patterns by claim type

Choosing the certificate form is the design decision; everything else is plumbing. Patterns that referees can check without trusting your code:

Claim shapeCertificateIndependent check
"No object with property P exists below size k"Exhaustive enumeration transcript + case count stated in the paperRe-run enumeration; compare count
"Formula/configuration is unsatisfiable"DRAT or similar proof log from the solverStandard proof checker, not your solver
"This LP/SDP bound holds"Dual solution with rational entriesVerify feasibility + objective by exact arithmetic
"This extremal object exists"The object itself, in a documented formatVerify its properties directly (cheap direction)
"Constant c < 1.4142"Interval-arithmetic evaluation scriptRe-run with a different interval library

Two disciplines cut referee effort by an order of magnitude: make the checking program trivial even if the searching program was heroic, and put the case count / certificate size in the paper so a verifier knows what "done" looks like before starting.

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Routing to ALENEX AE

If the artifact is the point, the ALENEX pipeline gives it real review: artifacts are submitted after paper notification (September 11, 2026 for the 2027 cycle), evaluated with a rebuttal round in mid-October, and the results feed the final paper. Practical notes for a SODA-adjacent group:

  • ALENEX's paper deadline (July 20, 2026) sits eleven days after SODA's — a SODA submission's experimental spin-off can be written in that gap, but the two papers must have genuinely disjoint contributions.
  • Prepare the artifact for a stranger's machine: pinned dependencies, dataset download scripts with checksums, a single entry point per figure/table.
  • The AE rebuttal (October 12-14, 2026) is for fixing evaluator blockers, not for adding features — keep a maintainer on call that week.

Referee psychology of computer-assisted claims

A theory referee meeting a machine-checked lemma asks three questions in order, and the paper should answer them in the same order: Is the reduction from lemma to finite check proved? (prose, in the paper, no code involved); Could the check be wrong? (certificates checkable by independent tools answer this; "our program says so" does not); Can I re-run it before my review is due? (state the runtime — an hour on a laptop invites verification, a week on a cluster invites suspicion). Papers that answer all three convert the computational step from a reviewing liability into a fully-verified component; papers that answer none of them get reviews containing the phrase "we were unable to verify," which at a proofs-are-the-product venue is close to fatal.

Post-acceptance artifact hygiene (either venue)

  • Move from "anonymous archive" to a citable, versioned release (tagged repository plus an archival DOI service) referenced in the camera-ready.
  • The repository README should state the paper title, venue, and which claims the code supports — and, honestly, which it does not.
  • Freeze the version that matches the proceedings; development continues on main, but the paper points to the tag.

Output format

text
[Artifact routing] SODA-internal proof evidence / arXiv companion / ALENEX AE
[Proof-dependence audit] <claims whose truth relies on computation, and their certificates>
[Anonymity state] <archive hosting compatible with double-blind: yes/no>
[AE calendar] <applicable ALENEX dates, owner per deadline>
[Release plan] <post-acceptance versioning and DOI>

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Files

Just SKILL.md in SODA-Skills/skills/soda-artifact-evaluation of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Soda Artifact Evaluation

What does Soda Artifact Evaluation do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding how code, computations, or data attach to a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper — SODA itself runs no artifact track, so this skill covers…. Soda Artifact Evaluation is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding how code, computations, or data attach to a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper — SODA itself runs no artifact track, so this skill covers computer-assisted proof evidence, implementation companions, and when to route the artifact to co-located ALENEX's formal artifact evaluation instead.

When should I use Soda Artifact Evaluation?

Soda Artifact Evaluation fits situations like: deciding how code; data attach to a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper — SODA itself runs no artifact track; so this skill covers computer-assisted proof evidence; implementation companions.

How do I install Soda Artifact Evaluation in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Soda Artifact Evaluation in Codex?

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

Can I use Soda Artifact Evaluation 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 soda-artifact-evaluation -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/soda-artifact-evaluation, .gemini/skills/soda-artifact-evaluation, .github/skills/soda-artifact-evaluation and .opencode/skills/soda-artifact-evaluation in your project.

What does Soda Artifact Evaluation need to run?

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

Does Soda Artifact Evaluation 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 Soda Artifact Evaluation 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 Soda Artifact Evaluation use?

Soda Artifact Evaluation 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 Soda Artifact Evaluation use?

About 1.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.9k 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 Soda Artifact Evaluation?

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.

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