Acm Symposium On Theory Of Computing
franklee16/academic-research-skills
A skill your agent uses when targeting ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) or deciding whether a computer-science manuscript fits this venue.
A skill your agent uses when judging whether computation belongs in a STOC (ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing) paper at all — STOC accepts on theorems, with no empirical-evaluation expectation —…
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill stoc-experiments -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills stoc-experiments --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/STOC-Skills/skills/stoc-experiments .claude/skills/stoc-experiments && 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 "stoc-experiments" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/STOC-Skills/skills/stoc-experiments into .claude/skills/stoc-experiments/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "stoc-experiments", 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/STOC-Skills/skills/stoc-experimentsType 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 stoc-experiments -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills stoc-experiments --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/STOC-Skills/skills/stoc-experiments .agents/skills/stoc-experiments && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "stoc-experiments" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/STOC-Skills/skills/stoc-experiments into .agents/skills/stoc-experiments/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "stoc-experiments", 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 stoc-experiments -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills stoc-experiments --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/STOC-Skills/skills/stoc-experiments .cursor/skills/stoc-experiments && 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 "stoc-experiments" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/STOC-Skills/skills/stoc-experiments into .cursor/skills/stoc-experiments/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "stoc-experiments", 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 STOC-Skills/skills/stoc-experiments--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 stoc-experiments -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills stoc-experiments --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/STOC-Skills/skills/stoc-experiments .gemini/skills/stoc-experiments && 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 "stoc-experiments" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/STOC-Skills/skills/stoc-experiments into .gemini/skills/stoc-experiments/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "stoc-experiments", 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 stoc-experimentsInstalls 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 stoc-experiments -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/STOC-Skills/skills/stoc-experiments .github/skills/stoc-experiments && 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 "stoc-experiments" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/STOC-Skills/skills/stoc-experiments into .github/skills/stoc-experiments/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "stoc-experiments", 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 stoc-experiments -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 stoc-experiments --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/STOC-Skills/skills/stoc-experiments .opencode/skills/stoc-experiments && 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 "stoc-experiments" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/STOC-Skills/skills/stoc-experiments into .opencode/skills/stoc-experiments/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "stoc-experiments", 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.
stoc-experimentsA skill your agent uses when judging whether computation belongs in a STOC (ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing) paper at all — STOC accepts on theorems, with no empirical-evaluation expectation —…
Stoc Experiments is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when judging whether computation belongs in a STOC (ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing) paper at all — STOC accepts on theorems, with no empirical-evaluation expectation — and when it does, scoping it as certified proof computation, constructive search, or clearly labeled illustration rather than benchmarking.
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.
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.
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
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.
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are python).
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Stoc Experiments loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 84 tokens; SKILL.md has 806 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.
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.
The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 806 words, ~1,689 tokens.
.claude/skills/stoc-experiments/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).The ground truth about this venue: STOC papers are accepted on the strength of theorems, and the STOC 2026 Call for Papers asks for original research on the theory of computation with no empirical-evaluation requirement of any kind (checked 2026-07-08). Most STOC papers contain zero computation. The question this skill answers is not "how do I run experiments for STOC" but "does this computation have a legitimate job in a STOC paper, and if so, which job?"
| Job | Example | Proof weight | Obligations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Proof step | Exhaustive check of base cases $n \le 8$; SAT-certified nonexistence of a small counterexample | Full — the theorem is false if the run is wrong | Determinism, published certificate, independent checker (see stoc-reproducibility) |
| Discovery instrument | Computer search that found the gadget/construction the humans then verify by hand | None — the found object is verified analytically | Optional to even mention; a sentence of credit suffices |
| Illustration | A plot showing the new algorithm's iteration count on random instances | None | Honest labeling, disclosed instances and seeds, no performance claims |
| Benchmarking against baselines | Runtime tables vs. prior implementations | Not a STOC job | Re-route: this evidence belongs at SODA's experimental siblings, ALENEX/ESA, or a systems venue |
The fourth row is the routing trap. A STOC submission whose contribution needs runtime tables to be convincing is announcing that its theorems do not stand alone; committees read that accurately.
Computer search that finds mathematical objects is a quiet workhorse of modern combinatorics and complexity papers. The credibility rules:
# Independent checker pattern: ~30 lines, no dependencies, verifies the
# certificate that the (arbitrarily messy) search produced.
import itertools
def is_valid_gadget(g): # transcribes Definition 4.1 literally
return all(constraint(g, s) for s in itertools.product([0, 1], repeat=k))
g = load("gadget.json") # the object the paper's Lemma 4.2 uses
assert is_valid_gadget(g) # a reader re-runs this in seconds
print("certificate valid: gadget satisfies Definition 4.1")The checker transcribes a definition from the paper; anyone can audit 30 lines against Definition 4.1. That closure — messy finder, trivial checker — is what lets a theory reviewer accept a computed object without trusting your code.
A figure can help a cross-area committee member see a phenomenon (a threshold, a tradeoff curve, the shape of a potential function). Norms for keeping it from harming the paper:
A submission proves that a new local-search rule escapes a known family of bad local optima. The authors add one figure: the objective-value trajectory of the old rule and the new rule on the lower-bound instance from their own Section 5, showing the old rule plateauing exactly where Theorem 5.2 says it must and the new rule passing through. Why this works as illustration rather than benchmark: the instance is the paper's own analyzed object, not a dataset; the phenomenon shown is the theorem's content, not a performance claim; the caption states the instance parameters and that the plot is illustrative; and the figure sits in the appendix with a one-line pointer from the body, spending no guaranteed-read space. The same figure drawn on "20 standard TSPLIB instances" would have been a benchmark — and an invitation to review the paper as an experimental contribution it never intended to be.
Any two of these: run stoc-topic-selection and look hard at SODA, ALENEX,
ESA, or an applied venue where empirical craft is rewarded instead of tolerated.
acm-stoc.org/stoc2026/accepted-papers.html).[Computation verdict] none needed / proof step / discovery / illustration / benchmark <- re-route
[Proof-step obligations] certificate + independent checker in place? yes / no / n.a.
[Illustration budget] <figures, placement outside the 12-page window?>
[Deletion test] <what is lost if all numerics are removed>
[Venue signal] STOC-shaped / drifting empirical (target: <venue>)© 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
Just SKILL.md in STOC-Skills/skills/stoc-experiments of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
Stoc Experiments 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stoc Experiments this skillbrycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills | 1.2k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Acm Symposium On Theory Of Computingfranklee16/academic-research-skills | 223 | 1 repos | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Acm Ieee Symposium On Logic In Computer Sciencefranklee16/academic-research-skills | 223 | 1 repos | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Acm Siggraph Eurographics Symposium On Computer Animationfranklee16/academic-research-skills | 223 | 1 repos | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Ito Computeaffaan-m/ECC | 275k | 1 repos | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Finding ExperimentsPostHog/posthog | 40k | — | ~783 | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence |
franklee16/academic-research-skills
A skill your agent uses when targeting ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) or deciding whether a computer-science manuscript fits this venue.
franklee16/academic-research-skills
A skill your agent uses when targeting ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS) or deciding whether a computer-science manuscript fits this venue.
franklee16/academic-research-skills
A skill your agent uses when targeting ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) or deciding whether a computer-science manuscript fits this venue.
affaan-m/ECC
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brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills
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A skill your agent uses when positioning an Annals of the American Association of Geographers manuscript in the literature — engaging geographic scholarship across the relevant area and the…
brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills
A skill your agent uses when responding to an Annals of the American Association of Geographers decision letter (major/minor revision) — building a point-by-point response to the subject editor and…
brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills
A skill your agent uses when defending the research design of an Annals of the American Association of Geographers manuscript — spatial/quantitative analysis and GIScience, remote-sensing and…
brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills
A skill your agent uses when you need to understand how the Annals of the American Association of Geographers evaluates a manuscript — double-anonymous review routed through a subject editor by…
brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills
A skill your agent uses when running the final pre-submission preflight for the Annals of the American Association of Geographers via ScholarOne Manuscripts — area/article-type selection…
A skill your agent uses when judging whether computation belongs in a STOC (ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing) paper at all — STOC accepts on theorems, with no empirical-evaluation expectation —…. Stoc Experiments is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when judging whether computation belongs in a STOC (ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing) paper at all — STOC accepts on theorems, with no empirical-evaluation expectation — and when it does, scoping it as certified proof computation, constructive search, or clearly labeled illustration rather than benchmarking.
Stoc Experiments fits situations like: judging whether computation belongs in a STOC (ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing) paper at all — STOC accepts on theorems; with no empirical-evaluation expectation — and when it does; scoping it as certified proof computation; constructive search.
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill stoc-experiments -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (STOC-Skills/skills/stoc-experiments in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/stoc-experiments in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill stoc-experiments -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (STOC-Skills/skills/stoc-experiments in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/stoc-experiments in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
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-experiments -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-experiments, .gemini/skills/stoc-experiments, .github/skills/stoc-experiments and .opencode/skills/stoc-experiments in your project.
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Stoc Experiments is instructions for the agent only. Our summary lists: Python 3.
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.
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.
Stoc Experiments is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
About 1.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Stoc Experiments: Acm Symposium On Theory Of Computing (franklee16/academic-research-skills, 223 stars), Acm Ieee Symposium On Logic In Computer Science (franklee16/academic-research-skills, 223 stars), Acm Siggraph Eurographics Symposium On Computer Animation (franklee16/academic-research-skills, 223 stars) and Ito Compute (affaan-m/ECC, 275k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
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.