A skill your agent uses when reasoning about how PVLDB reviewing actually works, covering the rolling monthly pipeline, the roughly six-week review turnaround, the accept/revise/reject outcome…

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Install Vldb Review Process

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills vldb-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/VLDB-Skills/skills/vldb-review-process .claude/skills/vldb-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
vldb-review-process
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1k tokens
SKILL.md length
419 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 PVLDB reviewing actually works, covering the rolling monthly pipeline, the roughly six-week review turnaround, the accept/revise/reject outcome…

  • Reasoning about how PVLDB reviewing actually works
  • SKILL.md covers The pipeline at a glance, What each outcome means here, Who is reading and Reading reviews on the monthly…, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Covering the rolling monthly pipeline

What it does

Vldb Review Process is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when reasoning about how PVLDB reviewing actually works, covering the rolling monthly pipeline, the roughly six-week review turnaround, the accept/revise/reject outcome space, the one-shot revision's odds, single-blind dynamics, the volume review board, and how a VLDB decision differs from batch-deadline venues.

Its SKILL.md is about 1k 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 PVLDB reviewing actually works
  • Covering the rolling monthly pipeline
  • The roughly six-week review turnaround
  • The accept/revise/reject outcome space

Example prompts

  • “/vldb-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

Vldb Review Process loads about 1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 84 tokens; SKILL.md has 419 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~84
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1k

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). 419 words, ~1,048 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/vldb-review-process/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
vldb-review-process
description
Use when reasoning about how PVLDB reviewing actually works, covering the rolling monthly pipeline, the roughly six-week review turnaround, the accept/revise/reject outcome space, the one-shot revision's odds, single-blind dynamics, the volume review board, and how a VLDB decision differs from batch-deadline venues.

VLDB Review Process

Use this to set expectations after (or before) a PVLDB submission. The process is a journal pipeline wearing a conference badge: a standing review board for the volume, decisions on a monthly cadence, and a revision outcome with teeth. Details below were verified 2026-07-08 for Vols 19/20; the live guidelines page governs.

The pipeline at a glance

text
25th: abstract  ->  1st: paper (5PM PT)  ->  ~15th next month: reviews + verdict
                                                    |
                            accept ---------------- 3 outcomes ---------------- reject
                                                    |
                                            revise (one-shot)
                                                    |
                              up to 3 months -> revised paper -> same reviewers
                                                    |
                                             accept or reject

Roughly six weeks from deadline to decision is the structural promise of the rolling model — competitive with any CS venue — and the price is that there is no rebuttal stage: your first chance to talk back is the revision, if offered.

What each outcome means here

OutcomePractical meaningYour move
AcceptPublication in an upcoming monthly issue; conference slot at the matching VLDBCamera-ready discipline (vldb-camera-ready)
ReviseReviewers believe a specific, listed set of fixes could flip themRequirement ledger + three-month plan (vldb-author-response)
RejectThe paper as framed did not convince this panelRework before any re-entry; check current re-submission rules (待核实 whether an embargo applies)

A revise verdict is genuinely positive signal — the board spends its future reviewing time only on papers it considers rescuable.

Who is reading

  • The volume operates with Editors-in-Chief (who double as the conference PC chairs — Vol 20: Boehm and Hose per secondary sources) atop a standing review board assembled for the volume.
  • Expect builder-reviewers: people who wrote storage engines, optimizers, and the baselines you measured. Implementation hand-waving and untuned competitors are caught by lived experience, not by checklists.
  • Review is single-blind: reviewers see your names. Track records cut both ways — a known group gets less benefit of the doubt for overclaiming, not more.
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Reading reviews on the monthly clock

  • The verdict letter's required-changes list is the only text that matters for a revise; reviewer musings outside it are advisory.
  • For a reject, extract the decision reason (novelty vs. evidence vs. fit) before touching the draft — rolling venues tempt authors into resubmitting cosmetically-edited papers at machine-gun pace, and review boards notice.
  • Timing tactics around "easier months" are folklore; the board is standing and the bar does not oscillate. Pick the month your evidence is ready.

Contrast with batch venues

At a batch-deadline conference a rejection costs a year and a rebuttal is a 480-word ritual; at PVLDB a rejection costs a rework cycle, and the revision is a real second review with new evidence allowed. Optimize accordingly: at this venue, holding a submission until the weakest experiment is fixed is cheap, and burning the revision on a preventable flaw is expensive.

Output format

text
[Stage] pre-submission / under review / revise / rejected / accepted
[Clock position] <deadline used, expected decision date>
[Outcome analysis] <required-changes list or decision reason>
[Panel model] <likely reviewer profile for this topic>
[Next move] <hold, revise per ledger, rework, or camera-ready>
[Rules to reverify] <re-submission terms, current escalation channel>

© 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 VLDB-Skills/skills/vldb-review-process of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Vldb Review Process

What does Vldb Review Process do?

A skill your agent uses when reasoning about how PVLDB reviewing actually works, covering the rolling monthly pipeline, the roughly six-week review turnaround, the accept/revise/reject outcome…. Vldb Review Process is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when reasoning about how PVLDB reviewing actually works, covering the rolling monthly pipeline, the roughly six-week review turnaround, the accept/revise/reject outcome space, the one-shot revision's odds, single-blind dynamics, the volume review board, and how a VLDB decision differs from batch-deadline venues.

When should I use Vldb Review Process?

Vldb Review Process fits situations like: reasoning about how PVLDB reviewing actually works; covering the rolling monthly pipeline; the roughly six-week review turnaround; the accept/revise/reject outcome space.

How do I install Vldb Review Process in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Vldb Review Process in Codex?

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

Can I use Vldb 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 vldb-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/vldb-review-process, .gemini/skills/vldb-review-process, .github/skills/vldb-review-process and .opencode/skills/vldb-review-process in your project.

What does Vldb Review Process need to run?

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

Does Vldb 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 Vldb 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 Vldb Review Process use?

Vldb 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 Vldb Review Process use?

About 1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Vldb Review Process?

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Who maintains Vldb 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.