Agent skill

Stoc Artifact Evaluation

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

A skill your agent uses when deciding what evidence objects a STOC (ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing) paper must ship, given that STOC runs no artifact-evaluation track — the durable artifact is…

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Install Stoc Artifact Evaluation

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

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

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

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when deciding what evidence objects a STOC (ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing) paper must ship, given that STOC runs no artifact-evaluation track — the durable artifact is…

  • Deciding what evidence objects a STOC (ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing) paper must ship
  • SKILL.md covers The STOC evidence stack, When computation is inside the…, The full version as the… and Worked vignette: a…, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Given that STOC runs no artifact-evaluation track — the durable artifact is the public full version on arXiv/ECCC

What it does

Stoc Artifact Evaluation is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding what evidence objects a STOC (ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing) paper must ship, given that STOC runs no artifact-evaluation track — the durable artifact is the public full version on arXiv/ECCC, plus verifiable certificates whenever a proof leans on computation, and optional mechanization.

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, covering Academic paper search. 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

  • Deciding what evidence objects a STOC (ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing) paper must ship
  • Given that STOC runs no artifact-evaluation track — the durable artifact is the public full version on arXiv/ECCC
  • Plus verifiable certificates whenever a proof leans on computation
  • Optional mechanization

Example prompts

  • “/stoc-artifact-evaluation”

Requirements

  • Python 3

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 bash).

    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

Stoc Artifact Evaluation loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 85 tokens; SKILL.md has 853 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~85
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). 853 words, ~1,741 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/stoc-artifact-evaluation/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
stoc-artifact-evaluation
description
Use when deciding what evidence objects a STOC (ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing) paper must ship, given that STOC runs no artifact-evaluation track — the durable artifact is the public full version on arXiv/ECCC, plus verifiable certificates whenever a proof leans on computation, and optional mechanization.

STOC Artifact Evaluation

STOC has no artifact-evaluation committee, no badges, and no code-upload channel: nothing of that kind appears in the STOC 2026 Call for Papers (checked 2026-07-08). Importing an ML-conference artifact checklist would answer questions this venue never asks. But STOC is not artifact-free either — the 2026 CFP expects accepted authors to place the full paper, with all proofs, on arXiv or ECCC by camera-ready. So the venue's real artifact policy is: the extended abstract advertises; the public full version is the object of record. Plan your evidence around that split.

The STOC evidence stack

Evidence objectLives whereConsumed byBinding?
Theorem statements + overviewFirst 12 pages of the submissionThe whole PC, guaranteedYes — the reading contract
Complete proofsAppendix of the submission; later the arXiv/ECCC full versionAssigned reviewers; posterityYes — correctness rests here
Certificates for computer-assisted stepsAppendix description + released checkerAny skeptic with a laptopYes, if a proof step depends on them
Illustration code (plots, small searches)Public repository linked from the full versionCasual readersNo
Mechanized proofs (Lean, Coq, Isabelle)Repository + a coverage statement in the paperFormal-methods-inclined readersNo, but rising in credibility value

When computation is inside the proof

The one place STOC treats code with journal-referee seriousness is a computer-assisted step: an exhaustive case check, a SAT/ILP-certified combinatorial fact, an interval-arithmetic bound, a verified base case for an induction. House expectations, drawn from how such papers are read:

  • State in the theorem's proof, not a footnote, that a step is machine-checked, and characterize the computation: search space, pruning logic, runtime, and what exactly the program's output certifies.
  • Prefer computations that emit a certificate checkable by independent code (a DRAT proof from a SAT solver, an explicit combinatorial witness) over "our program found no counterexample."
  • Ship the checker with the full version. arXiv accepts ancillary files, which is the cleanest venue-native mechanism:
bash
# arXiv ancillary files ride inside the source tarball under anc/
mkdir -p anc
cp verify_certificate.py certificate.drat anc/
tar czf stoc-full.tar.gz full-version.tex macros.tex refs.bib anc/
# arXiv lists anc/* as downloadable ancillary files next to the paper
  • Pin the environment in one line ("Python 3.12, no dependencies; verified independently with drat-trim") — a skeptic should reproduce the check in minutes, because at least one will try.

The full version as the artifact of record

Before camera-ready (and ideally before submission, since theory reviewers routinely search for the full version even under double-blind), audit it as you would a released artifact:

  • Completeness: no proof step deferred to "the full version" inside the full version; that document is the end of the chain.
  • Self-containment: definitions and notation resolve internally; a reader must not need the extended abstract open in a second window.
  • Versioning: arXiv revisions are the community's errata mechanism. When a bug is found post-publication, the corrected arXiv version plus a changelog note in the abstract field is standard practice; silent replacement is not.
  • Anonymity timing: if the full version goes up before notification, keep it consistent with the double-blind submission rules of the current cycle (待核实 each year — the interaction between preprint posting and STOC's newly adopted anonymization is exactly the kind of policy that gets refined).
Show full SKILL.md (361 more words)Show less

Suppose a submission's key lemma asserts that a particular 11-vertex gadget with a rare expansion property exists, and the gadget was found by a randomized search over labeled graphs. The evidence plan under STOC norms:

  • The lemma's proof in the appendix presents the gadget explicitly (adjacency list in a figure) and verifies its property analytically where feasible; if the property check is itself a finite computation, the proof says exactly what was computed and by what procedure.
  • The search program is credited in one sentence and never trusted: "the gadget was located by simulated annealing; its properties are verified below."
  • A 25-line standalone checker that re-verifies the property from the adjacency list ships as an arXiv ancillary file with the full version.
  • Nothing about the search's hyperparameters, runtime, or seed enters the paper — those matter only when a nonexistence claim rests on the search, which would move the computation into the certified-proof-step regime.

Optional strengtheners, priced honestly

  • A Lean/Coq mechanization of a central lemma is a strong credibility signal in the current theory climate (STOC 2026's TheoryFest even hosted a workshop on AI and theorem-proving), but state coverage precisely: which statements, which axioms, what remains informal. Overclaiming formality is worse than none.
  • A reference implementation of a new algorithm helps readers, but do not let it drift into benchmark claims the paper does not make — that invites the question of why the paper is not at an experimental venue.
  • The STOC 2026 opt-in LLM pre-submission feedback experiment (full paper due November 1, output visible only to authors) is a free adversarial reader for rigor, not an artifact process; treat its output as hints to verify, never as verification.

Quick decision rubric

  • Claim depends on a computation → certified proof step: determinism, certificate, independent checker, all shipped. Non-negotiable.
  • Computation only found something humans then verified → one sentence of credit; the found object carries the weight.
  • Code merely illustrates → public repository after acceptance, linked from the full version; keep it out of the reviewed pages.
  • Someone suggests an "artifact appendix" with environment tables → decline; that is another venue's ritual and reads as venue confusion here.

Output format

text
[Evidence stack] <object -> location -> binding or optional>
[Computer-assisted steps] none / certified (checker shipped?) / uncertified <- fix
[Full-version audit] complete / gaps: <list>
[Mechanization] none / partial (coverage stated?) / full
[Release plan] <arXiv/ECCC timing, anc files, repository>

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Files

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

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Stoc Artifact Evaluation

What does Stoc Artifact Evaluation do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding what evidence objects a STOC (ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing) paper must ship, given that STOC runs no artifact-evaluation track — the durable artifact is…. Stoc Artifact Evaluation is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding what evidence objects a STOC (ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing) paper must ship, given that STOC runs no artifact-evaluation track — the durable artifact is the public full version on arXiv/ECCC, plus verifiable certificates whenever a proof leans on computation, and optional mechanization.

When should I use Stoc Artifact Evaluation?

Stoc Artifact Evaluation fits situations like: deciding what evidence objects a STOC (ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing) paper must ship; given that STOC runs no artifact-evaluation track — the durable artifact is the public full version on arXiv/ECCC; plus verifiable certificates whenever a proof leans on computation; optional mechanization.

How do I install Stoc Artifact Evaluation in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Stoc Artifact Evaluation in Codex?

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

Can I use Stoc 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 stoc-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/stoc-artifact-evaluation, .gemini/skills/stoc-artifact-evaluation, .github/skills/stoc-artifact-evaluation and .opencode/skills/stoc-artifact-evaluation in your project.

What does Stoc Artifact Evaluation need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Stoc Artifact Evaluation is instructions for the agent only. Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Stoc 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 Stoc 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 Stoc Artifact Evaluation use?

Stoc 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 Stoc Artifact Evaluation use?

About 1.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7k 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 Stoc 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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