Agent skill

Usenixsec Camera Ready

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

A skill your agent uses when preparing final papers for the USENIX Security Symposium after acceptance — de-anonymizing, keeping the Ethical Considerations and Open Science appendices current…

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Usenixsec Camera Ready

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill usenixsec-camera-ready -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills usenixsec-camera-ready --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/USENIX-Security-Skills/skills/usenixsec-camera-ready .claude/skills/usenixsec-camera-ready && 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
usenixsec-camera-ready
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
577 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when preparing final papers for the USENIX Security Symposium after acceptance — de-anonymizing, keeping the Ethical Considerations and Open Science appendices current…

  • Preparing final papers for the USENIX Security Symposium after acceptance — de-anonymizing
  • SKILL.md covers What is actually conditional, De-anonymization done in the…, Mechanical pass before upload and Publication model: open…, plus 3 more sections
  • Calls pdftotext
  • Keeping the Ethical Considerations and Open Science appendices current

What it does

Usenixsec Camera Ready is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when preparing final papers for the USENIX Security Symposium after acceptance — de-anonymizing, keeping the Ethical Considerations and Open Science appendices current, clearing the mandatory Phase-1 artifact availability check before finals are due, and meeting USENIX's open-access publication and presentation obligations.

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

  • Preparing final papers for the USENIX Security Symposium after acceptance — de-anonymizing
  • Keeping the Ethical Considerations and Open Science appendices current
  • Clearing the mandatory Phase-1 artifact availability check before finals are due
  • Meeting USENIXs open-access publication and presentation obligations

Example prompts

  • “/usenixsec-camera-ready”

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:

    • pdftotext

    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

Usenixsec Camera Ready loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 88 tokens; SKILL.md has 577 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~88
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). 577 words, ~1,341 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/usenixsec-camera-ready/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
usenixsec-camera-ready
description
Use when preparing final papers for the USENIX Security Symposium after acceptance — de-anonymizing, keeping the Ethical Considerations and Open Science appendices current, clearing the mandatory Phase-1 artifact availability check before finals are due, and meeting USENIX's open-access publication and presentation obligations.

USENIX Security Camera-Ready

Acceptance at USENIX Security starts a short, condition-laden runway: in the '26 cycles, final papers were due about six weeks after notification (Cycle 1: notified Dec 4, 2025, finals Jan 15, 2026; Cycle 2: notified May 14, 2026, finals Jun 11, 2026), and during that same window the mandatory artifact-availability check had to pass. The camera-ready is therefore not a formatting chore — part of the acceptance itself is still pending.

What is actually conditional

Under the '26 Open Science policy, acceptance is conditional on the artifact evaluation committee verifying, before finals are due, that the artifacts named in the paper's Open Science appendix are genuinely available — or that the appendix carries a justified explanation for withholding them. Plan the runway backwards from that:

Week after notificationCamera-ready laneArtifact lane
1Ingest decision + shepherd requestsMove artifacts from anonymous mirror to permanent home
2–3Apply required edits; shepherd sign-offSubmit availability materials; respond to AE contact
4De-anonymize; final template passAvailability verified (Phase-1 complete)
5–6Upload finals + metadata; presenter formsDecide on optional Phase-2 (Functional / Reproduced)

De-anonymization done in the right order

Restore identity everywhere it was stripped, and keep the pieces consistent:

  • Author block and affiliations, matching the HotCRP metadata exactly — the proceedings entry is generated from what USENIX has on file.
  • Acknowledgements and funding, which double-blind rules forced out of the submission.
  • Self-citations rewritten back to natural first-person where that reads better.
  • Artifact URLs: replace every anonymized mirror with the permanent, named location. A camera-ready pointing at a dead anonymous repository is the classic post-acceptance defect at this venue, because reviewers checked the anonymous one and nobody rechecks the swap.

The two named appendices — "Ethical Considerations" and "Open Science" — remain in the final paper, updated: disclosure timelines that were "in progress" at submission should state their current status (vendor response, CVE assignment, patch release).

Mechanical pass before upload

bash
# Final-paper checks
pdftotext final.pdf - | grep -nEi 'anonym|under submission|double.blind' | head
pdftotext final.pdf - | grep -noE 'https?://[^ ]+' | sort -u > urls.txt
while read -r n url; do curl -sIL --max-time 10 "${url#*:}" -o /dev/null \
  -w "%{http_code} ${url}\n"; done < <(tr ':' ' ' < urls.txt | head -40)
pdffonts final.pdf | awk 'NR>2 && $4!="yes"'   # any non-embedded font lines = fix

Follow the current "Instructions for Presenters and Authors of Accepted Papers" page for the cycle — title formatting, copyright/consent forms, and slide or poster requirements are set there, not in the CFP.

Show full SKILL.md (232 more words)Show less

Publication model: open access, no author fee

USENIX publishes Security proceedings open access; papers (and later, talk recordings) are freely available on usenix.org. There is no article charge. The author-side obligations run through the conference instead: presentation at the symposium in Baltimore (Aug 12–14, 2026 for the '26 program) per the current presenter instructions. Registration mechanics, speaker-registration rules, and any remote-presentation allowance are per-year decisions — 待核实 against the instructions page for your cycle before booking anything.

Cycle-1 authors get a bonus decision: finals are locked ~7 months before the symposium, so plan whether to post an extended version (arXiv or tech report) in the gap, and make the proceedings version state clearly which version is canonical.

Badge and visibility follow-through

  • Optional Phase-2 artifact evaluation (Functional / Results Reproduced badges) happens after finals are due — the camera-ready must not overstate badge status it does not yet hold.
  • Distinguished Paper Awards and the Internet Defense Prize are selected from the final program; nothing to do except have the final PDF be the strongest version.
  • Add the paper's usenix.org proceedings URL to the artifact README once live, so artifact users land on the canonical version.

Reverify each cycle

  • Final-paper deadline for your cycle and the shepherd-approval interaction.
  • Whether Phase-1 availability verification remains a condition of acceptance.
  • Presenter/registration requirements and any remote option (待核实 for '27).
  • Formatting and form requirements on the current instructions page.

Output format

text
[Runway] notification → finals dates; days remaining
[Conditions open] shepherd sign-off / Phase-1 availability / forms
[De-anonymization] identity restored + artifact URLs swapped and re-tested
[Appendices] Ethical Considerations + Open Science updated to current status
[Presentation] presenter, registration status, travel constraints

© 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 USENIX-Security-Skills/skills/usenixsec-camera-ready of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Usenixsec Camera Ready

What does Usenixsec Camera Ready do?

A skill your agent uses when preparing final papers for the USENIX Security Symposium after acceptance — de-anonymizing, keeping the Ethical Considerations and Open Science appendices current…. Usenixsec Camera Ready is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when preparing final papers for the USENIX Security Symposium after acceptance — de-anonymizing, keeping the Ethical Considerations and Open Science appendices current, clearing the mandatory Phase-1 artifact availability check before finals are due, and meeting USENIX's open-access publication and presentation obligations.

When should I use Usenixsec Camera Ready?

Usenixsec Camera Ready fits situations like: preparing final papers for the USENIX Security Symposium after acceptance — de-anonymizing; keeping the Ethical Considerations and Open Science appendices current; clearing the mandatory Phase-1 artifact availability check before finals are due; meeting USENIXs open-access publication and presentation obligations.

How do I install Usenixsec Camera Ready in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Usenixsec Camera Ready in Codex?

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

Can I use Usenixsec Camera Ready 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 usenixsec-camera-ready -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/usenixsec-camera-ready, .gemini/skills/usenixsec-camera-ready, .github/skills/usenixsec-camera-ready and .opencode/skills/usenixsec-camera-ready in your project.

What does Usenixsec Camera Ready need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Usenixsec Camera Ready needs the command-line tools its instructions call (pdftotext).

Does Usenixsec Camera Ready 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 Usenixsec Camera Ready 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 Usenixsec Camera Ready use?

Usenixsec Camera Ready 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 Usenixsec Camera Ready use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.4k 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 Usenixsec Camera Ready?

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.