A skill your agent uses when positioning a UIST submission against prior art — organizing by capability delta rather than paper lists, covering the technique lineage, toolkit ancestry, and…

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Install Uist Related Work

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill uist-related-work -a claude-code

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

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

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when positioning a UIST submission against prior art — organizing by capability delta rather than paper lists, covering the technique lineage, toolkit ancestry, and…

  • Works in 4 steps: Choose dimensions from your claims, not… → Fill each competitor cell from their… → Include at least one dimension where a… → …
  • Positioning a UIST submission against prior art — organizing by capability delta rather than paper lists
  • SKILL.md covers Organize by capability, not by…, The three lineages to cover, Where to search, and how to… and Building the comparison table…, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Uist Related Work is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when positioning a UIST submission against prior art — organizing by capability delta rather than paper lists, covering the technique lineage, toolkit ancestry, and commercial systems reviewers know, citing your own work in the third person, and verifying venue attribution through the ACM DL and dblp.

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 Literature review and Intellectual property. 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

  • Positioning a UIST submission against prior art — organizing by capability delta rather than paper lists
  • Covering the technique lineage
  • Toolkit ancestry
  • Commercial systems reviewers know

Example prompts

  • “/uist-related-work”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Choose dimensions from your claims, not from your strengths — a table whose
  2. Fill each competitor cell from their paper's own text, with the section
  3. Include at least one dimension where a prior system beats yours (maturity,
  4. Re-check cells against later versions — a 2019 system may have gained the

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

Uist Related Work loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 81 tokens; SKILL.md has 658 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~81
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). 658 words, ~1,500 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/uist-related-work/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
uist-related-work
description
Use when positioning a UIST submission against prior art — organizing by capability delta rather than paper lists, covering the technique lineage, toolkit ancestry, and commercial systems reviewers know, citing your own work in the third person, and verifying venue attribution through the ACM DL and dblp.

At UIST, related work is a novelty proof, not a literature survey. The section exists to establish that no prior system delivers your capability, and its jury includes people who built the prior systems. Precision about what neighbors can and cannot do is therefore worth more than coverage breadth — and misdescribing a reviewer's own system is the fastest way to earn a hostile expert review.

Organize by capability, not by paper

Structure subsections around the dimensions on which your artifact differs, and end each with an explicit delta sentence:

text
WEAK:  "Several systems have explored on-skin input [4,9,12]. Others used
       acoustic sensing [7,15]. We also use acoustic sensing."
STRONG: "Prior on-skin input systems localize touches on the forearm [4,9] or
       hand [12], but all require instrumentation of the touching finger.
       Acoustic approaches remove finger instrumentation [7,15] yet resolve
       only 4-6 discrete locations. Our contribution is continuous 2D
       localization with no finger instrumentation."

A comparison table (rows: closest systems; columns: the 3-5 capability dimensions) is often the strongest half-page in the paper — but every cell about someone else's system must be defensible from their paper's text.

The three lineages to cover

LineageWhat reviewers checkWhere authors slip
Technique lineageThe chain of prior techniques for the same user intent, across decadesCiting only the last 5 years; UIST's canon runs to the early 1990s
Toolkit/platform ancestryWhich abstractions you inherit vs inventClaiming novelty for what a mature toolkit already provides
Commercial and open-source practiceShipping products that already do a version of itIgnoring the product every reviewer owns

Commercial systems lack papers but not existence: cite documentation or teardowns and state the capability difference plainly. "No academic paper describes X" is not a novelty claim when X ships on a phone.

Where to search, and how to verify

  • Sweep the UIST main proceedings first, then the adjunct proceedings — demos and posters establish prior art too, and a 2-page poster that showed your idea must be cited and differentiated, not hidden.
  • Continue through the sibling venues in both directions: CHI, TEI, IMWUT, ISMAR, IUI, SUI, CSCW — UIST reviewers move through the same circuit.
  • Verify every venue attribution against the ACM DL record or dblp before the camera-ready; "CHI 2019" citations that were actually UIST 2019 (or an adjunct demo, or an arXiv preprint) are noticed at this venue in particular.
  • For canonical anchors, the Lasting Impact lineage in ../../resources/exemplars/library.md is verified against DL/dblp records; follow the same recipe for anything you add.
Show full SKILL.md (305 more words)Show less

Building the comparison table without libel

The capability-comparison table is high-value and high-risk. A defensible build procedure:

  1. Choose dimensions from your claims, not from your strengths — a table whose columns are exactly where you win reads as rigged, and reviewers discount it.
  2. Fill each competitor cell from their paper's own text, with the section number kept in your notes; "not reported" is a legitimate cell value and more honest than an inferred "no."
  3. Include at least one dimension where a prior system beats yours (maturity, cost, resolution); the table gains credibility exactly there.
  4. Re-check cells against later versions — a 2019 system may have gained the capability in its authors' 2023 follow-up, and those authors review at UIST.
text
Table skeleton (rows = closest systems, cols = capability dimensions):
            | finger-free | continuous 2D | on unmodified skin | latency reported
SystemA '19 |     no      |  4 sites      |       yes          |  not reported
SystemB '22 |     yes     |  1D slider    |       no (sleeve)  |  23 ms
Ours        |     yes     |  yes ±2.1 mm  |       yes          |  11 ms median

Anonymization interacts with self-citation

UIST's 2026 rules (verified 2026-07-08) are specific and unusual in one respect:

  • Cite your own prior work in the third person with a full, non-redacted reference — do not write "[anonymized for review]", which both leaks that the cited work is yours and breaks the reviewer's ability to check the delta.
  • If a prior submission of yours overlaps heavily with this one, attach an anonymized copy of it as supplementary material so reviewers can judge the overlap themselves.
  • The delta over your own prior system gets the same explicit treatment as anyone else's — self-succession without a stated capability difference reads as salami-slicing.

Timing note for the live cycle

Reviews for UIST 2026 papers are in (notification June 27, 2026). If you are repositioning after rejection, mine the reviews for missed prior art before choosing the next venue: an expert pointing at a system you did not cite is the cheapest related-work audit you will ever get. For camera-ready papers, the +10% page allowance is often best spent making the comparison table honest about points the rebuttal conceded (see uist-camera-ready).

Output format

text
[Novelty frame] <the capability delta in one sentence>
[Nearest neighbors] <3-5 systems + the dimension separating each>
[Lineage gaps] technique / toolkit / commercial — which is thin
[Attribution check] verified via DL-dblp / pending
[Self-citation risk] third-person compliant / overlap attachment needed / clean

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Files

Just SKILL.md in UIST-Skills/skills/uist-related-work of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Uist Related Work

What does Uist Related Work do?

A skill your agent uses when positioning a UIST submission against prior art — organizing by capability delta rather than paper lists, covering the technique lineage, toolkit ancestry, and…. Uist Related Work is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when positioning a UIST submission against prior art — organizing by capability delta rather than paper lists, covering the technique lineage, toolkit ancestry, and commercial systems reviewers know, citing your own work in the third person, and verifying venue attribution through the ACM DL and dblp.

When should I use Uist Related Work?

Uist Related Work fits situations like: positioning a UIST submission against prior art — organizing by capability delta rather than paper lists; covering the technique lineage; toolkit ancestry; commercial systems reviewers know.

How do I install Uist Related Work in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Uist Related Work in Codex?

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

Can I use Uist Related Work 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 uist-related-work -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/uist-related-work, .gemini/skills/uist-related-work, .github/skills/uist-related-work and .opencode/skills/uist-related-work in your project.

What does Uist Related Work need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Uist Related Work is instructions for the agent only.

Does Uist Related Work 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 Uist Related Work 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 Uist Related Work use?

Uist Related Work 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 Uist Related Work 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 Uist Related Work?

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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