A skill your agent uses when reasoning about how an IEEE VIS full-paper submission is evaluated, covering the two-phase review that mirrors IEEE TVCG, the primary/secondary/external (and 2026…

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Install Vis Review Process

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill vis-review-process -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills vis-review-process --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/VIS-Skills/skills/vis-review-process .claude/skills/vis-review-process && 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
vis-review-process
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.9k tokens
SKILL.md length
838 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when reasoning about how an IEEE VIS full-paper submission is evaluated, covering the two-phase review that mirrors IEEE TVCG, the primary/secondary/external (and 2026…

  • Reasoning about how an IEEE VIS full-paper submission is evaluated
  • SKILL.md covers Process model, The two-phase structure (the…, Reading a first-round decision and How VIS differs from its…, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Covering the two-phase review that mirrors IEEE TVCG

What it does

Vis Review Process is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when reasoning about how an IEEE VIS full-paper submission is evaluated, covering the two-phase review that mirrors IEEE TVCG, the primary/secondary/external (and 2026 student) reviewer roles, the six-area routing through Area Paper Chairs, the conditional-accept second round, and how VIS's journal-integrated process differs from a single accept/reject conference and from CHI/CVPR.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.9k 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.

When your agent uses it

  • Reasoning about how an IEEE VIS full-paper submission is evaluated
  • Covering the two-phase review that mirrors IEEE TVCG
  • The primary/secondary/external (and 2026 student) reviewer roles
  • The six-area routing through Area Paper Chairs

Example prompts

  • “/vis-review-process”

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

Vis Review Process loads about 1.9k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 102 tokens; SKILL.md has 838 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~102
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.9k

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). 838 words, ~1,893 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/vis-review-process/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
vis-review-process
description
Use when reasoning about how an IEEE VIS full-paper submission is evaluated, covering the two-phase review that mirrors IEEE TVCG, the primary/secondary/external (and 2026 student) reviewer roles, the six-area routing through Area Paper Chairs, the conditional-accept second round, and how VIS's journal-integrated process differs from a single accept/reject conference and from CHI/CVPR.

VIS Review Process

Model the pipeline before interpreting any single review. IEEE VIS's process is journal-style because VIS full papers are IEEE TVCG articles, so a first-round outcome is rarely a plain accept or reject — the pivotal decision is a conditional accept that sends the paper into a real second round. The most consequential mental shift for authors arriving from a one-shot conference is that VIS gives repairable papers a genuine revise-and-review cycle within the same edition.

Process model

  • Submission and review run on PCS under the VGTC society, with author-optional double-blind anonymity following the IEEE TVCG process.
  • Each paper is routed by its primary area to one of the six areas and handled by that area's Area Paper Chairs; Overall Paper Chairs keep decisions consistent across areas.
  • Each paper gets at least three reviewers: a primary and a secondary (both program committee members) plus at least one external expert. VIS 2026 adds an optional student reviewer the primary may invite — a fourth, developmental voice, not a replacement.
  • Reviewers weigh scientific quality and novelty, potential impact, whether the evidence supports the claims, appropriateness of methodology, and the soundness of the research process. Approved reviews are published only if the authors opt in at camera-ready and every reviewer on the paper also consents — they then appear as supplemental material in an OSF repository, not in IEEE Xplore. One dissenting reviewer is enough to keep them unpublished, and the chairs have no mechanism to override that.

The two-phase structure (the defining VIS mechanic)

text
Phase 1: submission -> reviews -> reviewer discussion -> first-round decision
         decisions: Accept  |  Conditional Accept (revise)  |  Reject
Phase 2 (only for Conditional Accept): revised paper + summary of changes ->
         re-review by the SAME reviewers against the required changes ->
         final Accept / Reject

A conditional accept is not a soft accept — the second round is real, and only papers that actually make the required changes are accepted. Treat it like a journal major-revision with a hard window.

Reading a first-round decision

DecisionWhat it meansAuthor move
AcceptContribution and evidence hold; minor polish onlyCamera-ready + open materials; do not reopen scope
Conditional AcceptRepairable gaps: a missing study, an unclear encoding rationale, a needed baseline or conditionTreat as a journal R&R: make or explicitly justify declining every required change, evidenced
RejectStructural: wrong contribution shape, unconvincing evaluation, thin noveltyReframe or reroute (a sibling venue or TVCG journal track), do not lightly resubmit unchanged

The strategic reading: design the first submission so its weakest point is revisable in the second round (a study you can add, an ablation you can run, a design rationale you can articulate) rather than structural (an evaluation you cannot redo in the revision window). The process rewards papers whose gaps are fixable.

How VIS differs from its siblings

  • vs. CHI: CHI is a mandatory-anonymous, ACM-proceedings HCI venue with its own rebuttal + revise-and-resubmit; VIS publishes in the TVCG journal, routes by six visualization areas through Area Paper Chairs, and makes double-blind optional. Never assume a shared template (acmart vs VGTC) or calendar.
  • vs. CVPR: CVPR is a single-decision, high-volume vision conference with a fixed rebuttal and no in-cycle revision round; VIS's conditional-accept second round and journal publication are the opposite model. A CVPR-style "one rebuttal, then final" mental model will mis-time your VIS revision effort.
  • vs. pre-2021 VIS: VIS once ran three separate conferences (SciVis, InfoVis, VAST) with separate committees. Since 2021 there is one call, one review process, and the six-area model. Do not carry a track-specific assumption from an older edition.
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Who reads you

Expect a primary, a secondary, and an external reviewer matched to your area, possibly plus a student reviewer. Visualization reviewers check whether the visual encoding and interaction are justified by task, whether the evaluation matches the contribution type (a technique needs different evidence than a design study or a perceptual experiment), and often open the supplemental video and code. Vague design rationale or an evaluation mismatched to the claim gets caught, not skimmed.

Where author leverage actually exists

text
[Before submission]  primary-area + keyword choice -> Area Chair + reviewer pool   (largest lever)
[First-round reviews] factual corrections, clarifying misreadings, pointing to evidence already present
[Conditional accept]  the strongest lever: a revised paper + summary-of-changes re-read by the
                      same reviewers against the required changes
[After reject]        no appeal; reroute to a sibling venue or the TVCG journal track

A response moves borderline papers when it corrects a misreading or supplies a study/analysis a reviewer said was missing; it does not move papers by arguing taste. In the second round, a required change that is neither made nor explicitly justified as declined is what turns a conditional accept into a rejection.

Reading a review packet

Weight reviews before answering. A review from the primary carries the most process weight and frames the discussion; the external often supplies the deepest domain check. A review that cites your figure and section numbers was read closely and will be re-read in the second round — its author is your likely advocate if the revision delivers. Answer each reviewer on the axis they raised (encoding rationale, evaluation, novelty, reproducibility), and treat the list of required changes as the scored contract for phase two.

Misreadings to avoid

  • Treating a conditional accept as a guaranteed accept — the second read is real; budget the revision window like a deadline.
  • Treating the response as a debate — the reviewer discussion decides; your revised paper, not your prose, carries the argument.
  • Assuming a CVPR-style single rebuttal — VIS's revision round is a full re-review, not a one-shot reply.
  • Projecting a pre-unification track model — one area-routed process, not three conferences.

Output format

text
[Process stage] pre-submission / awaiting reviews / conditional accept / second round / accepted
[Decision category] accept / conditional accept / reject, with the criterion driving it
[Area routing] primary area + Area Chair; reviewer roles (primary/secondary/external/student)
[Criterion map] each review point -> novelty | impact | evidence | methodology | encoding rationale | reproducibility
[Leverage plan] the next-stage action that can actually change the outcome
[Forbidden moves] identity leak (if double-blind) / unsupported new claims

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Files

Just SKILL.md in VIS-Skills/skills/vis-review-process of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Vis Review Process

What does Vis Review Process do?

A skill your agent uses when reasoning about how an IEEE VIS full-paper submission is evaluated, covering the two-phase review that mirrors IEEE TVCG, the primary/secondary/external (and 2026…. Vis Review Process is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when reasoning about how an IEEE VIS full-paper submission is evaluated, covering the two-phase review that mirrors IEEE TVCG, the primary/secondary/external (and 2026 student) reviewer roles, the six-area routing through Area Paper Chairs, the conditional-accept second round, and how VIS's journal-integrated process differs from a single accept/reject conference and from CHI/CVPR.

When should I use Vis Review Process?

Vis Review Process fits situations like: reasoning about how an IEEE VIS full-paper submission is evaluated; covering the two-phase review that mirrors IEEE TVCG; the primary/secondary/external (and 2026 student) reviewer roles; the six-area routing through Area Paper Chairs.

How do I install Vis Review Process in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Vis Review Process in Codex?

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

Can I use Vis Review Process 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 vis-review-process -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/vis-review-process, .gemini/skills/vis-review-process, .github/skills/vis-review-process and .opencode/skills/vis-review-process in your project.

What does Vis Review Process need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Vis Review Process is instructions for the agent only.

Does Vis Review Process 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 Vis Review Process 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 Vis Review Process use?

Vis Review Process 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 Vis Review Process use?

About 1.9k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.6k 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 Vis Review Process?

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.