A skill your agent uses when finalizing a USENIX Security Symposium submission — the per-cycle HotCRP site, the registration deadline a week before the paper deadline, the 13-page body plus…

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Usenixsec Submission

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

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

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

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when finalizing a USENIX Security Symposium submission — the per-cycle HotCRP site, the registration deadline a week before the paper deadline, the 13-page body plus…

  • Works in 3 steps: Main body: at most 13 pages in the… → Immediately after the body, before the… → References, then any optional…
  • Finalizing a USENIX Security Symposium submission — the per-cycle HotCRP site
  • SKILL.md covers Two dates per cycle, and the…, The page geometry is unusual —…, Anonymity, in USENIX… and Early reject makes sloppy…, plus 3 more sections
  • Calls pdftotext

What it does

Usenixsec Submission is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when finalizing a USENIX Security Symposium submission — the per-cycle HotCRP site, the registration deadline a week before the paper deadline, the 13-page body plus mandatory Ethical Considerations and Open Science appendices, double-blind sweeps, and the early-reject exposure of a weak upload.

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

  • Finalizing a USENIX Security Symposium submission — the per-cycle HotCRP site
  • The registration deadline a week before the paper deadline
  • The 13-page body plus mandatory Ethical Considerations and Open Science appendices
  • Double-blind sweeps

Example prompts

  • “/usenixsec-submission”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Main body: at most 13 pages in the unaltered USENIX Security LaTeX template.
  2. Immediately after the body, before the references: a mandatory appendix titled
  3. References, then any optional appendices, with no page cap.

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 Submission loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 80 tokens; SKILL.md has 640 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~80
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). 640 words, ~1,327 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/usenixsec-submission/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
usenixsec-submission
description
Use when finalizing a USENIX Security Symposium submission — the per-cycle HotCRP site, the registration deadline a week before the paper deadline, the 13-page body plus mandatory Ethical Considerations and Open Science appendices, double-blind sweeps, and the early-reject exposure of a weak upload.

USENIX Security Submission

Final gate before a paper enters a USENIX Security cycle. The numbers below are the '26 and '27 cycle values read from usenix.org pages on 2026-07-08 (direct fetches of usenix.org returned 403 in the verification environment, so pages were read through search-engine renderings and cross-checked against the per-cycle HotCRP deadline pages). Reopen the live CFP before trusting any date or cap.

Two dates per cycle, and the first one bites

Every USENIX Security cycle opens with a mandatory paper registration roughly one week ahead of the submission deadline. Registration creates the HotCRP record — title, abstract, authors, topics, conflicts — and a paper that was never registered cannot be uploaded later, no matter how finished the PDF is.

GateSec '26 Cycle 1Sec '26 Cycle 2Sec '27 Cycle 1Sec '27 Cycle 2
RegistrationAug 19, 2025Jan 29, 2026Aug 18, 2026Jan 19, 2027
Paper uploadAug 26, 2025Feb 5, 2026Aug 25, 2026Jan 26, 2027
Clock11:59 pm AoE11:59 pm AoE待核实 (assume AoE)待核实 (assume AoE)

Each cycle runs its own HotCRP instance (the '26 sites were sec26cycle1.usenix.hotcrp.com and sec26cycle2.usenix.hotcrp.com). Registering on the wrong cycle's site is a real failure mode when both are open in overlapping windows — confirm the URL against the CFP, not against a browser bookmark.

The page geometry is unusual — learn it before the deadline

The '26 CFP fixed a structure that trips authors arriving from ACM venues:

  1. Main body: at most 13 pages in the unaltered USENIX Security LaTeX template.
  2. Immediately after the body, before the references: a mandatory appendix titled "Ethical Considerations" and a mandatory appendix titled "Open Science", each allowed up to one page.
  3. References, then any optional appendices, with no page cap.

Both named appendices are required content, not decoration. A submission whose Open Science appendix does not state where the artifacts supporting the paper live (or justify why they cannot be shared) is out of policy, and paper acceptance is later made conditional on the availability actually checking out (see usenixsec-artifact-evaluation). Squeezing whitespace or altering the template is explicitly forbidden.

Show full SKILL.md (288 more words)Show less

Anonymity, in USENIX Security's own terms

The '26 CFP names the leak vectors directly: author names, self-references phrased as "we previously showed", funding acknowledgements, and GitHub repositories that identify the group. Sweep for each of them plus the mechanical ones:

bash
# Run on the exact PDF you intend to upload
pdftotext sub.pdf - | grep -nEi 'our (prior|previous) work|as we showed' | head
pdftotext sub.pdf - | grep -nEi 'github\.com/|gitlab\.|acknowledg|funded by' | head
pdfinfo sub.pdf | grep -Ei 'author|creator|producer'
grep -rEl 'institution|\\author' *.tex   # stray identity in source before rebuild

Artifacts referenced in the Open Science appendix must be reachable anonymously at submission time — an anonymized mirror (e.g., a stripped repository on an anonymous hosting service) rather than the lab's named organization.

Early reject makes sloppy uploads expensive

USENIX Security notifies a first wave of rejections mid-cycle (Oct 7, 2025 and Mar 17, 2026 in the '26 cycles). A submission that reads as unfinished, violates format, or ducks the ethics discussion can exit at that gate without ever reaching full committee discussion, and second-cycle rejects face resubmission restrictions set by the next year's chairs. The audit below is cheaper than a lost cycle.

Pre-upload audit order

  1. Registration record complete and frozen: title, abstract (the real one — it drives reviewer bidding), all authors, topics, conflicts.
  2. Rebuild the PDF from clean sources; confirm 13-page body, the two named appendices in position, references after them.
  3. Run the anonymity greps above; treat every hit as a blocker.
  4. Open every artifact URL from a logged-out browser session.
  5. Confirm no concurrent submission of the same work elsewhere, in writing from every coauthor.
  6. Upload early enough to re-download the PDF from HotCRP and read it cold.

Reverify each cycle

  • Registration/upload dates and the AoE convention (待核实 for '27 until the final CFP text is fetched directly).
  • The 13-page cap and the one-page allowances for the two named appendices.
  • The per-cycle HotCRP hostnames.
  • Any new AI-assistance disclosure or submission-count rule (none confirmed for '27 as of 2026-07-08 — 待核实).

Output format

text
[Cycle] target cycle + HotCRP URL confirmed against CFP
[Registration] complete / missing fields: <list>
[Format] body pages, appendix order, template integrity
[Anonymity] clean / blockers: <grep hits, artifact URLs>
[Ethics + Open Science] both appendices substantive: yes / no
[Verdict] upload / hold — with the fix list

© 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-submission of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Usenixsec Submission

What does Usenixsec Submission do?

A skill your agent uses when finalizing a USENIX Security Symposium submission — the per-cycle HotCRP site, the registration deadline a week before the paper deadline, the 13-page body plus…. Usenixsec Submission is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when finalizing a USENIX Security Symposium submission — the per-cycle HotCRP site, the registration deadline a week before the paper deadline, the 13-page body plus mandatory Ethical Considerations and Open Science appendices, double-blind sweeps, and the early-reject exposure of a weak upload.

When should I use Usenixsec Submission?

Usenixsec Submission fits situations like: finalizing a USENIX Security Symposium submission — the per-cycle HotCRP site; the registration deadline a week before the paper deadline; the 13-page body plus mandatory Ethical Considerations and Open Science appendices; double-blind sweeps.

How do I install Usenixsec Submission in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Usenixsec Submission in Codex?

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

Can I use Usenixsec Submission 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-submission -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-submission, .gemini/skills/usenixsec-submission, .github/skills/usenixsec-submission and .opencode/skills/usenixsec-submission in your project.

What does Usenixsec Submission need to run?

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

Does Usenixsec Submission 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 Submission 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 Submission use?

Usenixsec Submission 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 Submission use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.3k 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 Submission?

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.