A skill your agent uses when hardening the reproducibility of a SOSP paper's results before submission — pinning the OS-level environment, recording hardware and topology, making every figure…

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Sosp Reproducibility

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills sosp-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/SOSP-Skills/skills/sosp-reproducibility .claude/skills/sosp-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
sosp-reproducibility
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
560 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 reproducibility of a SOSP paper's results before submission — pinning the OS-level environment, recording hardware and topology, making every figure…

  • Hardening the reproducibility of a SOSP papers results before submission — pinning the OS-level environment
  • SKILL.md covers The OS-research twist: your…, Capture the environment…, One command per figure and Variance is a first-class result, plus 2 more sections
  • Calls git
  • Recording hardware and topology

What it does

Sosp Reproducibility is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when hardening the reproducibility of a SOSP paper's results before submission — pinning the OS-level environment, recording hardware and topology, making every figure regenerable from logged runs, separating measurement noise from effect size, and preparing the ground for post-acceptance artifact evaluation.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k 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 reproducibility of a SOSP papers results before submission — pinning the OS-level environment
  • Recording hardware and topology
  • Making every figure regenerable from logged runs
  • Separating measurement noise from effect size

Example prompts

  • “/sosp-reproducibility”

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

    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

Sosp Reproducibility loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 84 tokens; SKILL.md has 560 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~84
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

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). 560 words, ~1,304 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/sosp-reproducibility/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
sosp-reproducibility
description
Use when hardening the reproducibility of a SOSP paper's results before submission — pinning the OS-level environment, recording hardware and topology, making every figure regenerable from logged runs, separating measurement noise from effect size, and preparing the ground for post-acceptance artifact evaluation.

SOSP Reproducibility

Use this while experiments are being designed and run — months before the SOSP deadline, not during artifact evaluation. At SOSP the artifact process happens after acceptance (see sosp-artifact-evaluation), which means reproducibility discipline has a different job pre-submission: it protects you. Reviewers probe numbers during a three-month review cycle and a response phase in which new experiments are forbidden; the only defensible paper is one whose every number can be traced to a logged, re-runnable measurement of a pinned system.

The OS-research twist: your system changes the platform

An operating-systems artifact often is the environment — a modified kernel, a new scheduler, an interposed I/O path. That collapses the usual app/platform separation and creates specific hazards:

  • A rebased kernel patch series can silently change baseline behavior; record the exact base commit and the full patch stack for every run, including baseline runs.
  • Firmware, microcode, and mitigations (for example, speculative-execution mitigations) can dominate syscall-heavy microbenchmarks; log them and hold them constant across system and baseline.
  • Frequency scaling, turbo states, and NUMA placement move tail latencies by tens of percent; fix the policy, and record it rather than assuming defaults.

Capture the environment mechanically

Hand-written "Experimental Setup" sections drift from reality. Generate the facts:

bash
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# capture-env.sh — run on every experiment node, archive with the run's results
{
  uname -a; cat /etc/os-release | head -2
  cat /proc/cmdline                          # mitigations, isolcpus, hugepages
  lscpu | grep -E 'Model name|Socket|NUMA|MHz'
  free -h | head -2; lsblk -d -o NAME,MODEL,ROTA,SIZE
  ip -br link; ethtool eth0 2>/dev/null | grep -E 'Speed|Duplex'
  git -C "$REPO" rev-parse HEAD; git -C "$REPO" status --porcelain
} > "env-$(hostname)-$(date +%Y%m%dT%H%M%S).txt"

Archive one such file per node per experiment batch, next to the raw results. When a reviewer asks eleven weeks later whether the baseline ran with the same mitigations, the answer is a file, not a memory.

One command per figure

The standard that survives review pressure: every figure and table in the paper is produced by a script that reads only archived raw logs. No spreadsheet steps, no hand-transcribed numbers. This is also what makes the response phase survivable — you can re-check any reviewer-doubted number against raw data without re-running anything, which is the only kind of "checking" the response rules allow.

DisciplinePre-submission payoffPost-acceptance payoff
Raw logs archived per run, immutableResponse-phase answers under the no-new-data ruleAE claims map writes itself
Figure scripts read logs onlyNo PDF/data divergence between draftsEvaluators regenerate your plots
Environment capture per node per batchDetects config drift between system and baseline runshardware/ directory is done
Run manifest (who, when, which commit, which config)Attribution when a number looks offProvenance for the archival artifact
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Variance is a first-class result

Systems effects live in distributions. Reproducibility at SOSP includes making the noise floor explicit:

  • Report repetitions and the spread (percentiles or CIs), especially for tail-latency claims — a p99 from one run of one trial is folklore, not a measurement.
  • Distinguish sources: run-to-run jitter, node-to-node hardware variation, and time-of-day effects on shared testbeds. If experiments ran on a shared cluster, say so and quantify what that cost in variance.
  • Decide the warm-up policy (discard first N iterations? cold-start included?) once, document it, and apply it uniformly; asymmetric warm-up between system and baseline is a classic self-inflicted review wound.

Traces and workloads you cannot publish

Production traces make SOSP evaluations compelling and reproductions hard. The honest pattern: characterize the private trace in the paper (size, arrival statistics, skew, whatever drives the result), release a synthetic generator matched to those statistics, and show at least one headline experiment where synthetic and real traces agree in trend. Flag in the paper which results are re-runnable and which are documented-only — the same tiering the artifact evaluation will ask for later.

Output format

text
[Repro posture] traceable / partially / folklore
[Environment] capture automated? mitigations+kernel pinned for baseline too?
[Figure pipeline] all one-command? exceptions: <list>
[Variance] repetitions, spread reported, warm-up policy uniform?
[Private data] trace characterization + generator plan
[Gap list] <ordered fixes before the freeze>

© 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 SOSP-Skills/skills/sosp-reproducibility of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Sosp Reproducibility

What does Sosp Reproducibility do?

A skill your agent uses when hardening the reproducibility of a SOSP paper's results before submission — pinning the OS-level environment, recording hardware and topology, making every figure…. Sosp Reproducibility is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when hardening the reproducibility of a SOSP paper's results before submission — pinning the OS-level environment, recording hardware and topology, making every figure regenerable from logged runs, separating measurement noise from effect size, and preparing the ground for post-acceptance artifact evaluation.

When should I use Sosp Reproducibility?

Sosp Reproducibility fits situations like: hardening the reproducibility of a SOSP papers results before submission — pinning the OS-level environment; recording hardware and topology; making every figure regenerable from logged runs; separating measurement noise from effect size.

How do I install Sosp Reproducibility in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Sosp Reproducibility in Codex?

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

Can I use Sosp 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 sosp-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/sosp-reproducibility, .gemini/skills/sosp-reproducibility, .github/skills/sosp-reproducibility and .opencode/skills/sosp-reproducibility in your project.

What does Sosp Reproducibility need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Sosp Reproducibility needs the command-line tools its instructions call (git).

Does Sosp 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 Sosp 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 Sosp Reproducibility use?

Sosp 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 Sosp Reproducibility use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.2k 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 Sosp Reproducibility?

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Who maintains Sosp 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.

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.