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A skill your agent uses when the user asks about research themes, topic distribution, BERTopic clustering, topic overview, topic papers, topic merges, or HTML topic visualizations.
A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a systems project is SOSP-shaped — a built and measured artifact embodying an extractable principle in operating and distributed systems — or better…
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Install Sosp Topic Selection
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill sosp-topic-selection -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills sosp-topic-selection --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/SOSP-Skills/skills/sosp-topic-selection .claude/skills/sosp-topic-selection && 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 "sosp-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/SOSP-Skills/skills/sosp-topic-selection into .claude/skills/sosp-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "sosp-topic-selection", 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/SOSP-Skills/skills/sosp-topic-selectionType 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 sosp-topic-selection -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills sosp-topic-selection --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/SOSP-Skills/skills/sosp-topic-selection .agents/skills/sosp-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "sosp-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/SOSP-Skills/skills/sosp-topic-selection into .agents/skills/sosp-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "sosp-topic-selection", 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 sosp-topic-selection -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills sosp-topic-selection --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/SOSP-Skills/skills/sosp-topic-selection .cursor/skills/sosp-topic-selection && 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 "sosp-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/SOSP-Skills/skills/sosp-topic-selection into .cursor/skills/sosp-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "sosp-topic-selection", 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 SOSP-Skills/skills/sosp-topic-selection--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 sosp-topic-selection -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills sosp-topic-selection --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/SOSP-Skills/skills/sosp-topic-selection .gemini/skills/sosp-topic-selection && 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 "sosp-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/SOSP-Skills/skills/sosp-topic-selection into .gemini/skills/sosp-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "sosp-topic-selection", 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 sosp-topic-selectionInstalls 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 sosp-topic-selection -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/SOSP-Skills/skills/sosp-topic-selection .github/skills/sosp-topic-selection && 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 "sosp-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/SOSP-Skills/skills/sosp-topic-selection into .github/skills/sosp-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "sosp-topic-selection", 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 sosp-topic-selection -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 sosp-topic-selection --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/SOSP-Skills/skills/sosp-topic-selection .opencode/skills/sosp-topic-selection && 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 "sosp-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/SOSP-Skills/skills/sosp-topic-selection into .opencode/skills/sosp-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "sosp-topic-selection", 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
sosp-topic-selection- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1.3k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 552 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 systems project is SOSP-shaped — a built and measured artifact embodying an extractable principle in operating and distributed systems — or better…
- Works in 3 steps: Principle — an extractable insight that… → Embodiment — a real system that exists… → Evidence at the claim's scale — an…
- Better routed to OSDI
- SKILL.md covers The three-part SOSP shape test, Routing table, Timing the call and Anti-patterns this venue…, plus 1 more section
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Sosp Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a systems project is SOSP-shaped — a built and measured artifact embodying an extractable principle in operating and distributed systems — or better routed to OSDI, EuroSys, USENIX ATC, NSDI, FAST, ASPLOS, VLDB, MLSys, or HotOS, and when to make that call in the project's life.
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.
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
- Better routed to OSDI
- When to make that call in the projects life
Example prompts
- “/sosp-topic-selection”
Workflow steps
3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Principle — an extractable insight that outlives the artifact. Someone should
- Embodiment — a real system that exists and runs. SOSP is hostile to
- Evidence at the claim's scale — an evaluation that could survive
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
Sosp Topic Selection loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 81 tokens; SKILL.md has 552 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). 552 words, ~1,309 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/sosp-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- sosp-topic-selection
- description
- Use when deciding whether a systems project is SOSP-shaped — a built and measured artifact embodying an extractable principle in operating and distributed systems — or better routed to OSDI, EuroSys, USENIX ATC, NSDI, FAST, ASPLOS, VLDB, MLSys, or HotOS, and when to make that call in the project's life.
SOSP Topic Selection
Use this months before any deadline, when the routing decision is still cheap. SOSP
solicits work on "the design, implementation, analysis, evaluation, and deployment
of computer systems software" (2026 CFP at sigops.org/s/conferences/sosp/2026/cfp.html,
checked 2026-07-08) — a broad charter that in practice is filtered through one
question: is there an operating-systems principle here, embodied in something built
and measured?
The three-part SOSP shape test
- Principle — an extractable insight that outlives the artifact. Someone should be able to apply it while building a different system. "We made X fast" is not a principle; "X can be fast because responsibility R can move below interface I" is.
- Embodiment — a real system that exists and runs. SOSP is hostile to simulation-only and design-only papers outside genuinely unusual cases; the venue's culture is build-and-measure.
- Evidence at the claim's scale — an evaluation that could survive
sosp-experiments. A principle about datacenter tails needs datacenter-shaped evidence.
A project passing all three is SOSP-shaped regardless of its subdomain: kernels, virtualization, distributed systems, storage, verification, security architecture, cloud infrastructure, and systems-for-ML have all produced recent SOSP programs.
Routing table
| Signal from the project | Better home | Why |
|---|---|---|
| SOSP-shaped, but the posted SOSP deadline is far and OSDI's is near | OSDI | The venues are peer siblings, both annual since 2024; timing may decide (see sosp-workflow) |
| Solid engineering, deployment lessons, no extractable principle | USENIX ATC | ATC's practitioner center of gravity rewards experience and pragmatics |
| The contribution lives in protocols, routing, or the network path | NSDI | Networked-systems PC evaluates the right axis |
| Storage stack, file systems, flash/NVM specifics | FAST | Deep storage expertise in the room |
| The insight is at the hardware/software interface | ASPLOS | Architecture-adjacent reviewers |
| Query processing, transactions as data management | VLDB / SIGMOD | Database evaluation norms differ from systems norms |
| ML and systems reshape each other; ML-quality metrics load-bearing | MLSys | Needs reviewers fluent in both accuracy and throughput |
| Provocative early idea, no full system yet | HotOS | Position-paper venue; burns no full-paper novelty |
| European community timing, same standards | EuroSys | Full peer venue with its own cycle |
Routing is about the center of gravity, not exclusivity — plenty of storage and network papers appear at SOSP when the principle is systemic rather than domain-internal. The test: which PC can evaluate the paper's hardest claim?
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Timing the call
- Project start: choose the target family (SOSP/OSDI-tier vs domain venue), because it dictates the evaluation scale you must budget for.
- First results: run the shape test honestly. A missing principle at this stage is fixable — often the principle exists but the team hasn't extracted it. Write the one-sentence version; if it keeps coming out as a speedup report, reroute.
- Three months out: lock the venue. Late switches leak time into reformatting and re-framing that the evaluation needed.
Shape-test worksheet
Principle (one sentence, no system name allowed): <...>
- could a different team use it in a different system? yes/no
Embodiment: what runs today end-to-end? <...>
Evidence scale: hardest claim <...> needs <workload/hardware> budgeted? yes/no
Nearest published neighbor + venue: <paper, venue'yy>
Center of gravity (one): OS principle / networking / storage /
architecture / data mgmt / ML-systems / engineering lessons
-> Route: SOSP | OSDI (timing) | <domain venue> | HotOS firstAnti-patterns this venue punishes
- The 10% paper: a measured improvement on a known design with no new understanding — competent, publishable, not SOSP.
- The unbuilt design: elegant architecture, evaluation by argument. HotOS or a workshop first; SOSP later, with the system.
- The scale flex: impressive deployment numbers, but the lesson is "we had more machines." ATC will value the experience report more than a SOSP PC will.
- The camouflaged domain paper: a database or ML paper wearing systems vocabulary; the PC detects the mismatch at the meeting when the hardest claim needs expertise the room correctly declines to fake.
Output format
[Shape test] principle / embodiment / evidence-scale — pass/fail each
[Principle] the extracted one-liner
[Route] SOSP | sibling (named) + the deciding factor
[Timing] next posted deadline for the routed venue (never an implied one)
[Risk] the anti-pattern this project is closest to© 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-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
Compare with similar skills
Sosp Topic Selection next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sosp Topic Selection this skillbrycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills | 1.2k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| TopicsZimoLiao/scholaraio | 576 | — | ~294 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Topic Modelingbrycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills | 4.5k | — | ~3.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Add Shape Inferenceonnx/onnx | 22k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Bestblogs Topicginobefun/BestBlogs | 4k | — | ~670 | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Zsxq Topicitwanger/toBeBetterJavaer | 18k | — | ~564 | Automated safety check: Pass | None |
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Questions about Sosp Topic Selection
What does Sosp Topic Selection do?
A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a systems project is SOSP-shaped — a built and measured artifact embodying an extractable principle in operating and distributed systems — or better…. Sosp Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a systems project is SOSP-shaped — a built and measured artifact embodying an extractable principle in operating and distributed systems — or better routed to OSDI, EuroSys, USENIX ATC, NSDI, FAST, ASPLOS, VLDB, MLSys, or HotOS, and when to make that call in the project's life.
When should I use Sosp Topic Selection?
Sosp Topic Selection fits situations like: better routed to OSDI; when to make that call in the projects life.
How do I install Sosp Topic Selection in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill sosp-topic-selection -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (SOSP-Skills/skills/sosp-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/sosp-topic-selection in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Sosp Topic Selection in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill sosp-topic-selection -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (SOSP-Skills/skills/sosp-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/sosp-topic-selection in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Sosp 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 sosp-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/sosp-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/sosp-topic-selection, .github/skills/sosp-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/sosp-topic-selection in your project.
What does Sosp Topic Selection need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Sosp Topic Selection is instructions for the agent only.
Does Sosp 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 Sosp 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 Sosp Topic Selection use?
Sosp 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 Sosp Topic Selection 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 Topic Selection?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Sosp Topic Selection: Topics (ZimoLiao/scholaraio, 576 stars), Topic Modeling (brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, 4.5k stars), Add Shape Inference (onnx/onnx, 22k stars) and Bestblogs Topic (ginobefun/BestBlogs, 4k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Sosp Topic Selection?
brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,219 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.