Literature Review
neflibata-feng/MyArxiv-Agent
Conduct comprehensive, systematic literature reviews using multiple academic databases (PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar, etc.).
A skill your agent uses when positioning a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper in the algorithms literature — tracing bound lineages across SODA/STOC/FOCS/ESA/ICALP and journals…
Install Soda Related Work
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill soda-related-work -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills soda-related-work --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/SODA-Skills/skills/soda-related-work .claude/skills/soda-related-work && 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 "soda-related-work" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/SODA-Skills/skills/soda-related-work into .claude/skills/soda-related-work/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "soda-related-work", 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/SODA-Skills/skills/soda-related-workType 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 soda-related-work -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills soda-related-work --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/SODA-Skills/skills/soda-related-work .agents/skills/soda-related-work && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "soda-related-work" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/SODA-Skills/skills/soda-related-work into .agents/skills/soda-related-work/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "soda-related-work", 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 soda-related-work -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills soda-related-work --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/SODA-Skills/skills/soda-related-work .cursor/skills/soda-related-work && 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 "soda-related-work" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/SODA-Skills/skills/soda-related-work into .cursor/skills/soda-related-work/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "soda-related-work", 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 SODA-Skills/skills/soda-related-work--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 soda-related-work -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills soda-related-work --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/SODA-Skills/skills/soda-related-work .gemini/skills/soda-related-work && 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 "soda-related-work" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/SODA-Skills/skills/soda-related-work into .gemini/skills/soda-related-work/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "soda-related-work", 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 soda-related-workInstalls 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 soda-related-work -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/SODA-Skills/skills/soda-related-work .github/skills/soda-related-work && 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 "soda-related-work" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/SODA-Skills/skills/soda-related-work into .github/skills/soda-related-work/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "soda-related-work", 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 soda-related-work -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 soda-related-work --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/SODA-Skills/skills/soda-related-work .opencode/skills/soda-related-work && 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 "soda-related-work" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/SODA-Skills/skills/soda-related-work into .opencode/skills/soda-related-work/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "soda-related-work", 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.
Facts
- Skill name
soda-related-work- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1.5k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 607 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 2,387
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
A skill your agent uses when positioning a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper in the algorithms literature — tracing bound lineages across SODA/STOC/FOCS/ESA/ICALP and journals…
- Handling arXiv-first priority culture
- SKILL.md covers The five lanes to sweep, Bound-lineage verification…, arXiv-first culture and priority and Self-citation under…, plus 3 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
- Citing conference versus journal versions correctly
What it does
Soda Related Work is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when positioning a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper in the algorithms literature — tracing bound lineages across SODA/STOC/FOCS/ESA/ICALP and journals, handling arXiv-first priority culture, citing conference versus journal versions correctly, and self-citation under lightweight double-blind rules.
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.
It sits in Research & Science, covering Academic paper search, Literature review and Citation management. It works with arXiv. 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
- Handling arXiv-first priority culture
- Citing conference versus journal versions correctly
- Self-citation under lightweight double-blind rules
Example prompts
- “/soda-related-work”
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 (its code samples are bibtex).
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 Related Work loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 86 tokens; SKILL.md has 607 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.
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). 607 words, ~1,536 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/soda-related-work/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- soda-related-work
- description
- Use when positioning a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper in the algorithms literature — tracing bound lineages across SODA/STOC/FOCS/ESA/ICALP and journals, handling arXiv-first priority culture, citing conference versus journal versions correctly, and self-citation under lightweight double-blind rules.
SODA Related Work
Positioning at SODA is quantitative: the related-work section's job is to establish, bound by bound, exactly where your result sits in a lineage the referees already know. The most common positioning failure is not a missing citation but a mis-stated bound — quoting a superseded conference version, missing a stronger journal version, or comparing against the randomized bound when a better deterministic one exists.
The five lanes to sweep
| Lane | Where it lives | What referees check |
|---|---|---|
| Direct predecessors | SODA/STOC/FOCS/ESA/ICALP proceedings, arXiv | Is the displaced bound the true state of the art? |
| Journal consolidations | SICOMP, JACM, ACM ToA, Algorithmica | Did the journal version strengthen the bound you quote? |
| Lower bounds / hardness | Same venues + ITCS, CCC | Does a conditional lower bound cap your claimed improvement's meaning? |
| Concurrent arXiv postings | arXiv (last ~18 months) | Anything simultaneous that changes the delta |
| Adjacent-model results | Distributed (PODC/DISC), parallel (SPAA), geometry (SoCG), dynamic/streaming lines | Incomparable-but-related results a subreviewer will ask about |
The concurrent lane is the one that changes late: re-sweep arXiv in the final week before the July deadline and again before the September rebuttal — a concurrent improvement discovered by the referee but unacknowledged by you turns a coexistence story into a credibility problem.
Bound-lineage verification recipe
For every row of your comparison table (soda-writing-style):
1. Find the paper's dblp entry (dblp.org) — canonical venue + year.
2. Check for a journal version listed alongside the conference version;
if one exists, read ITS abstract for the strongest stated bound.
3. Check the arXiv page for post-publication revisions or errata.
4. Quote: strongest bound, both versions cited ("[SODA 2019; SICOMP 2021]"),
with the model/caveat column filled from the actual theorem statement.
5. If two papers claim the same bound, cite both and let dblp dates
order them — do not adjudicate priority disputes in your paper.arXiv-first culture and priority
The algorithms community treats arXiv posting as the priority event and the conference as certification. Consequences for positioning:
- Cite arXiv preprints of results you use or displace — refusing to engage with
a well-known preprint because it is "unpublished" reads as gamesmanship.
Distinguish status in the bibliography (
arXiv:2401.xxxxx, preprint). - If your result was scooped between writing and deadline, the honest structure is a "concurrent and independent work" paragraph stating both results' deltas — PCs routinely accept parallel discoveries when the relationship is cleanly disclosed.
- Your own posting strategy: SODA permits arXiv dissemination before and during review (2027 CFP, checked 2026-07-08), so establishing priority early is free.
Self-citation under lightweight double-blind
SODA's double-blind rules explicitly require that important references not be
omitted or anonymized (soda-submission). So:
- Cite your prior work in third person, fully: "extending the decomposition of [14]" — never "our decomposition [14]," and never a blanked "[anonymized]."
- A direct predecessor paper of yours belongs in the comparison table like anyone else's; suppressing it to "look more novel" is the actual violation.
- Do not cite an in-submission companion manuscript that referees cannot read; if the companion is load-bearing, post it to arXiv first.
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Bibliography mechanics for dual-version results
The conference/journal duality has a concrete BibTeX answer — cite both, quote the strongest:
% Conference announcement:
@inproceedings{HLRW24soda, ... booktitle = {SODA}, year = {2024}, ... }
% If a journal version exists, add and PREFER its bound:
@article{HLRW26sicomp, ... journal = {SIAM J. Comput.}, ... }
% In text: "achieves O(m log^2 n) [HLRW24soda; journal version HLRW26sicomp]"Hygiene rules that referees notice when violated:
- Never cite an arXiv identifier for a result that has a published version — it suggests the sweep stopped at the preprint.
- Never quote a bound from a paper's abstract; abstracts round. Quote the theorem, with its number if your comparison is load-bearing.
- Keep dblp keys or DOIs in comments next to each entry so the September rebuttal and the October camera-ready don't re-litigate attribution.
- Alphabetic-initial citation labels ([HLRW24]) are house convention in theory bibliographies; numeric labels work, but author-initial labels make your comparison table readable without flipping to the references.
Positioning prose patterns
- Lineage sentence: "For dynamic connectivity, worst-case bounds improved
from
O(sqrt n)[F] throughn^{o(1)}[NSW] to the currentpolylogamortized bounds [HdLT; journal version]." Three citations, one sentence, and the referee knows you know the field. - Incomparability paragraph: for results that trade parameters ("faster but randomized," "deterministic but amortized"), state the trade explicitly instead of claiming dominance.
- Technique genealogy: name where your tools come from ("our charging argument adapts [X]'s token scheme") — theory culture rewards disclosed intellectual debts and punishes discovered ones.
Output format
[Lineage verdict] Sound / Gaps / Mis-stated bounds found
[Lane sweep] <per-lane findings, incl. concurrent arXiv window>
[Version errors] <rows quoting superseded or weaker versions>
[Self-citation audit] <third-person compliance; nothing omitted or anonymized>
[Table repairs] <rows to add, bounds to correct, caveats to co-locate>© 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 SODA-Skills/skills/soda-related-work of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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| Systematic Literature Review Builderbytedance/deer-flow | 84k | 2 repos | ~4.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Paper Research on arXivXiaomiMiMo/MiMo-Code | 14k | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Literature Review AgentAr9av/PaperOrchestra | 679 | 1 repos | ~5.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Arxiv MCP Serverblazickjp/arxiv-mcp-server | 3.2k | — | ~353 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 |
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What does Soda Related Work do?
A skill your agent uses when positioning a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper in the algorithms literature — tracing bound lineages across SODA/STOC/FOCS/ESA/ICALP and journals…. Soda Related Work is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when positioning a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper in the algorithms literature — tracing bound lineages across SODA/STOC/FOCS/ESA/ICALP and journals, handling arXiv-first priority culture, citing conference versus journal versions correctly, and self-citation under lightweight double-blind rules.
When should I use Soda Related Work?
Soda Related Work fits situations like: handling arXiv-first priority culture; citing conference versus journal versions correctly; self-citation under lightweight double-blind rules.
How do I install Soda Related Work in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill soda-related-work -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (SODA-Skills/skills/soda-related-work in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/soda-related-work in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Soda Related Work in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill soda-related-work -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (SODA-Skills/skills/soda-related-work in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/soda-related-work in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Soda Related Work 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-related-work -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-related-work, .gemini/skills/soda-related-work, .github/skills/soda-related-work and .opencode/skills/soda-related-work in your project.
What does Soda Related Work need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Soda Related Work is instructions for the agent only.
Does Soda Related Work 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 Related Work 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 Related Work use?
Soda Related Work 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 Related Work use?
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.
What are the alternatives to Soda Related Work?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Soda Related Work: Literature Review (neflibata-feng/MyArxiv-Agent, 126 stars), Systematic Literature Review Builder (bytedance/deer-flow, 84k stars), Paper Research on arXiv (XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-Code, 14k stars) and Literature Review Agent (Ar9av/PaperOrchestra, 679 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Soda Related Work?
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.
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.