A skill your agent uses when hardening the verifiability of a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper, where reproducibility means checkable mathematics — complete proofs in the…

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Install Soda Reproducibility

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills soda-reproducibility --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-reproducibility .claude/skills/soda-reproducibility && 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-reproducibility
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
645 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when hardening the verifiability of a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper, where reproducibility means checkable mathematics — complete proofs in the…

  • Works in 6 steps: Ledger complete: every claim has a proof… → Bound re-derivation pass: recompute each… → Import pass: every external theorem… → …
  • Hardening the verifiability of a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper
  • SKILL.md covers The verifiability ledger, Failure modes referees…, Worked micro-example: a… and Machine-checked steps, plus 3 more sections
  • Calls git and python3

What it does

Soda Reproducibility is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when hardening the verifiability of a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper, where reproducibility means checkable mathematics — complete proofs in the submitted full version, stable statement-proof correspondence, explicit constants and model assumptions, and certificates for any machine-checked step.

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 Reproducible research. 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

  • Hardening the verifiability of a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper
  • Where reproducibility means checkable mathematics — complete proofs in the submitted full version
  • Stable statement-proof correspondence
  • Explicit constants and model assumptions

Example prompts

  • “/soda-reproducibility”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

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

  1. Ledger complete: every claim has a proof location and a blind checker.
  2. Bound re-derivation pass: recompute each headline bound from its final proof.
  3. Import pass: every external theorem quoted with hypotheses verified in-text.
  4. Probability pass: failure probabilities summed and stated once, correctly.
  5. Computation pass: certificates rerun from a clean clone on a second machine.
  6. Cross-version pass: submission, arXiv, and any slides state identical bounds.

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

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • git
    • python3

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use git, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

    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 Reproducibility loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 86 tokens; SKILL.md has 645 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~86
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.5k

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). 645 words, ~1,499 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/soda-reproducibility/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
soda-reproducibility
description
Use when hardening the verifiability of a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper, where reproducibility means checkable mathematics — complete proofs in the submitted full version, stable statement-proof correspondence, explicit constants and model assumptions, and certificates for any machine-checked step.

SODA Reproducibility

At SODA, "reproducibility" is not seeds and GPUs — it is whether a competent reader can re-derive every claim from the submitted document. Because SODA takes full versions with no page limit (2027 CFP, checked 2026-07-08), there is no "details omitted" escape hatch: the community's expectation is that the PDF on HotCRP contains a complete, checkable argument. This skill is the audit for that standard.

The verifiability ledger

Build a table with one row per claim before the July deadline. It doubles as the rebuttal-preparation ledger in September (soda-author-response).

ColumnWhat goes in it
ClaimTheorem/lemma/corollary number and one-line statement
ModelComputation model and input assumptions (RAM model? adversary? degree bounds?)
Proof locationSection and page of the complete proof — "sketch only" is a red flag
External results usedExact citation with theorem number, plus where hypotheses are checked
ConstantsHidden-constant status: explicit / bounded / genuinely unbounded
Checked byCoauthor who verified the proof without having written it

Every row must close before submission. The last column is the single most valuable ritual an algorithms group can institutionalize: author-blind proof checking catches the drift bugs that referees otherwise find in August.

Failure modes referees actually report

  • Statement-proof drift. The theorem says O(m log n), the proof delivers O(m log^2 n) after a late edit. Mechanically re-derive the final bound from the final proof, not from memory.
  • Imported-theorem hypothesis gaps. A cited result requires constant degree; your graph is merely sparse. Quote the hypothesis next to each use.
  • Model slippage. The lower bound is proved against oblivious adversaries; the abstract claims it for adaptive ones. State the model in the theorem, not only in the preliminaries.
  • Randomness accounting. "With high probability" needs a stated exponent and a union-bound budget that survives all invocations.
  • Case-analysis holes. For arguments with many cases, include the case inventory explicitly; referees count cases before reading any.

Worked micro-example: a probability budget

The randomness-accounting failure deserves its own drill because it compounds silently. Keep a single budget table in the source comments and make every "w.h.p." claim draw from it:

text
% Failure-probability budget for Theorem 2 (target: n^{-2} overall)
%   E1: sampling lemma (Lemma 3.1), invoked <= n times ... n * n^{-4}
%   E2: hash collision (Lemma 3.4), invoked once      ... n^{-3}
%   E3: concentration (Lemma 4.2), invoked <= log n   ... log n * n^{-4}
%   Union bound: n^{-3} + o(n^{-3}) <= n^{-2} for n >= n_0 (state n_0!)

Audit questions the table forces: does each lemma's stated exponent survive its actual invocation count in the final proof (invocation counts drift when algorithms get restructured)? Is the constant n_0 stated anywhere? Does the theorem statement promise the same exponent the budget delivers? A referee who finds one unbudgeted invocation will re-check every probabilistic step in the paper — the budget table is cheap insurance against that spiral.

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Machine-checked steps

When part of the argument is computational (exhaustive search over configurations, extremal-object certificates, verified constants), the reproducibility bar is a rerunnable check, not a claim of one:

bash
# The paper should let a referee do exactly this:
git clone <anonymous-archive-url> && cd verification
python3 check.py            # deterministic; prints per-case status
echo $?                     # 0 iff every case verified

State in the paper the case count, total runtime on commodity hardware, and the reduction proving that check.py succeeding implies the lemma. See soda-artifact-evaluation for packaging and anonymity.

Full version as the reproducibility instrument

The arXiv full version is the community's long-term verification record — SODA proceedings versions are often condensations (soda-camera-ready). Discipline:

  • The submitted HotCRP version, the arXiv version, and the proceedings version must agree on every theorem statement; keep a single source with build flags rather than three diverging files.
  • When a bug is found post-publication, fix the arXiv version with a dated erratum note; silent replacement erodes exactly the trust this skill protects.
  • Version the bibliography: a "personal communication" load-bearing citation is a reproducibility hole; get the statement into a citable preprint or prove it yourself in an appendix.

Pre-submission audit sequence

  1. Ledger complete: every claim has a proof location and a blind checker.
  2. Bound re-derivation pass: recompute each headline bound from its final proof.
  3. Import pass: every external theorem quoted with hypotheses verified in-text.
  4. Probability pass: failure probabilities summed and stated once, correctly.
  5. Computation pass: certificates rerun from a clean clone on a second machine.
  6. Cross-version pass: submission, arXiv, and any slides state identical bounds.

Output format

text
[Verifiability verdict] Checkable / Gaps found / Not checkable
[Ledger gaps] <claims lacking proof location, blind check, or model statement>
[Drift findings] <statement-proof or cross-version mismatches>
[Import findings] <external results with unverified hypotheses>
[Computation findings] <uncertified machine-checked steps>
[Fix order] <ranked repairs before the July deadline>

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Files

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

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Soda Reproducibility

What does Soda Reproducibility do?

A skill your agent uses when hardening the verifiability of a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper, where reproducibility means checkable mathematics — complete proofs in the…. Soda Reproducibility is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when hardening the verifiability of a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper, where reproducibility means checkable mathematics — complete proofs in the submitted full version, stable statement-proof correspondence, explicit constants and model assumptions, and certificates for any machine-checked step.

When should I use Soda Reproducibility?

Soda Reproducibility fits situations like: hardening the verifiability of a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper; where reproducibility means checkable mathematics — complete proofs in the submitted full version; stable statement-proof correspondence; explicit constants and model assumptions.

How do I install Soda Reproducibility in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Soda Reproducibility in Codex?

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

Can I use Soda Reproducibility 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-reproducibility -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-reproducibility, .gemini/skills/soda-reproducibility, .github/skills/soda-reproducibility and .opencode/skills/soda-reproducibility in your project.

What does Soda Reproducibility need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Soda Reproducibility needs the command-line tools its instructions call (git and python3). Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Soda Reproducibility access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use git, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Soda Reproducibility 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 Reproducibility use?

Soda Reproducibility 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 Reproducibility use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6k 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 Reproducibility?

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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