Peer Review
K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer
Prepare evidence-bounded, constructive peer-review drafts and structured manuscript assessments.
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…
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill usenixsec-submission -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills usenixsec-submission --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/USENIX-Security-Skills/skills/usenixsec-submission .claude/skills/usenixsec-submission && 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 "usenixsec-submission" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/USENIX-Security-Skills/skills/usenixsec-submission into .claude/skills/usenixsec-submission/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "usenixsec-submission", 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/USENIX-Security-Skills/skills/usenixsec-submissionType 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 usenixsec-submission -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills usenixsec-submission --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/USENIX-Security-Skills/skills/usenixsec-submission .agents/skills/usenixsec-submission && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "usenixsec-submission" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/USENIX-Security-Skills/skills/usenixsec-submission into .agents/skills/usenixsec-submission/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "usenixsec-submission", 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 usenixsec-submission -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills usenixsec-submission --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/USENIX-Security-Skills/skills/usenixsec-submission .cursor/skills/usenixsec-submission && 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 "usenixsec-submission" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/USENIX-Security-Skills/skills/usenixsec-submission into .cursor/skills/usenixsec-submission/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "usenixsec-submission", 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 USENIX-Security-Skills/skills/usenixsec-submission--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 usenixsec-submission -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills usenixsec-submission --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/USENIX-Security-Skills/skills/usenixsec-submission .gemini/skills/usenixsec-submission && 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 "usenixsec-submission" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/USENIX-Security-Skills/skills/usenixsec-submission into .gemini/skills/usenixsec-submission/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "usenixsec-submission", 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 usenixsec-submissionInstalls 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 usenixsec-submission -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/USENIX-Security-Skills/skills/usenixsec-submission .github/skills/usenixsec-submission && 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 "usenixsec-submission" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/USENIX-Security-Skills/skills/usenixsec-submission into .github/skills/usenixsec-submission/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "usenixsec-submission", 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 usenixsec-submission -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 usenixsec-submission --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/USENIX-Security-Skills/skills/usenixsec-submission .opencode/skills/usenixsec-submission && 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 "usenixsec-submission" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/USENIX-Security-Skills/skills/usenixsec-submission into .opencode/skills/usenixsec-submission/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "usenixsec-submission", 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.
usenixsec-submissionA 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.
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.
3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
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.
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
pdftotextFrom 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.
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.
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). 640 words, ~1,327 tokens.
.claude/skills/usenixsec-submission/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).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.
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.
| Gate | Sec '26 Cycle 1 | Sec '26 Cycle 2 | Sec '27 Cycle 1 | Sec '27 Cycle 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Registration | Aug 19, 2025 | Jan 29, 2026 | Aug 18, 2026 | Jan 19, 2027 |
| Paper upload | Aug 26, 2025 | Feb 5, 2026 | Aug 25, 2026 | Jan 26, 2027 |
| Clock | 11:59 pm AoE | 11:59 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 '26 CFP fixed a structure that trips authors arriving from ACM venues:
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.
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:
# 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 rebuildArtifacts 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.
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.
[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
Just SKILL.md in USENIX-Security-Skills/skills/usenixsec-submission of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
Usenixsec Submission 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Usenixsec Submission this skillbrycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills | 1.2k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Peer ReviewK-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer | 2.4k | 2 repos | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | |
| CHARLS Paper Reproduction Guidexjtulyc/MedgeClaw | 617 | 1 repos | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Compute Environment Setupaipoch/open-science | 5.5k | — | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Figure Styleaipoch/open-science | 5.5k | — | ~5.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Add Bactopia Toolbactopia/bactopia | 522 | — | ~4.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer
Prepare evidence-bounded, constructive peer-review drafts and structured manuscript assessments.
xjtulyc/MedgeClaw
Guides an agent through reproducing papers built on the CHARLS health and retirement survey, from variable mapping to cognition, depression and isolation scores.
aipoch/open-science
Prepares setup instructions and a named activation file for a user-managed software environment on an Open-Science SSH or Slurm compute host.
aipoch/open-science
Publication-grade correctness and legibility rules for final-deliverable scientific figures, not exploratory plots.
bactopia/bactopia
Scaffold a complete Bactopia Tool across all three tiers -- module, subworkflow, and workflow entry point under workflows/bactopia-tools/.
yushui2022/MathModel-Skill
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brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Usenixsec Submission needs the command-line tools its instructions call (pdftotext).
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.
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.
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.
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Usenixsec Submission: Peer Review (K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer, 2.4k stars), CHARLS Paper Reproduction Guide (xjtulyc/MedgeClaw, 617 stars), Compute Environment Setup (aipoch/open-science, 5.5k stars) and Figure Style (aipoch/open-science, 5.5k 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 1,231 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.