Agent skill

Conference Proceedings Guide

by wentorai in wentorai/research-plugins

Find, access, and cite conference papers and proceedings effectively

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Conference Proceedings Guide

skills CLI
$ npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill conference-proceedings-guide -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install wentorai/research-plugins conference-proceedings-guide --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/wentorai/research-plugins.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/literature/discovery/conference-proceedings-guide .claude/skills/conference-proceedings-guide && 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
conference-proceedings-guide
GitHub stars
298
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
234 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
405
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Find, access, and cite conference papers and proceedings effectively

  • Tasks that involve Citation management
  • SKILL.md covers Major Proceedings Databases, Navigating Conference Tiers, Accessing Conference Papers and Citing Conference Proceedings
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Conference Proceedings Guide is an agent skill from wentorai/research-plugins. Find, access, and cite conference papers and proceedings effectively

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 Citation management. The repository describes itself as: 350+ academic research skills, MCP configs, and plugins for Research-Claw and AI agents. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Citation management

Example prompts

  • “/conference-proceedings-guide”

Requirements

  • Python 3

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit bf44b3c. 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 (its code samples are python and bibtex).

    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

Conference Proceedings Guide loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 24 tokens; SKILL.md has 234 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~24
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 wentorai/research-plugins at commit bf44b3c, republished under its MIT licence (© wentorai). 234 words, ~1,281 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/conference-proceedings-guide/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
conference-proceedings-guide
description
Find, access, and cite conference papers and proceedings effectively

Conference Proceedings Guide

A skill for finding, accessing, and citing conference papers and proceedings. In many fields -- especially computer science, engineering, and HCI -- conferences are the primary venue for publishing cutting-edge research. This guide covers major proceedings databases, search strategies, and citation practices.

Major Proceedings Databases

Database Overview
DatabaseCoverageAccess
ACM Digital LibraryACM conferences (CHI, SIGCOMM, KDD, etc.)Institutional or ACM membership
IEEE XploreIEEE conferences (CVPR, ICRA, INFOCOM, etc.)Institutional or IEEE membership
DBLPCS bibliography, links to proceedingsFree metadata
Springer LNCSLecture Notes in Computer Science seriesInstitutional
AAAI Digital LibraryAAAI, IJCAI proceedingsFree for AAAI papers
NeurIPS / ICML / ICLRML conference proceedingsOpenReview (free)
arXivPreprints including conference submissionsFree
Finding Conference Papers
Strategy 1 - Search by conference name:
  Google Scholar: source:"NeurIPS" "transformer" "attention"
  DBLP: Browse conference page -> search within proceedings

Strategy 2 - Search by topic across all venues:
  OpenAlex: Filter by type "proceedings-article"
  Google Scholar: Use keywords, then check venue names in results

Strategy 3 - Track specific conferences:
  Bookmark the conference proceedings page (e.g., openreview.net)
  Subscribe to DBLP RSS feeds for specific conference series
  Follow conference Twitter/social media accounts for announcements

Navigating Conference Tiers

Understanding Conference Rankings
python
def assess_conference_quality(conference_name: str) -> dict:
    """
    Framework for evaluating conference quality and reputation.

    Args:
        conference_name: Name or acronym of the conference
    """
    indicators = {
        "acceptance_rate": {
            "top_tier": "< 25%",
            "mid_tier": "25-40%",
            "lower_tier": "> 40%",
            "note": "Check conference website for historical rates"
        },
        "ranking_sources": [
            "CORE Conference Ranking (core.edu.au)",
            "CSRankings.org (CS-specific, based on publication counts)",
            "Google Scholar Metrics (h5-index for venues)",
            "CCF Ranking (Chinese Computer Federation, A/B/C tiers)"
        ],
        "quality_signals": [
            "Program committee reputation and size",
            "Keynote speaker caliber",
            "Longevity and consistency of the conference series",
            "Whether proceedings are indexed in Scopus/WoS",
            "Industry participation and sponsorship"
        ]
    }
    return indicators
Major CS Conference Tiers (Illustrative)
Tier A* (Top):  ICML, NeurIPS, CVPR, ACL, SIGCOMM, OSDI, CHI, KDD
Tier A:         AAAI, ECCV, EMNLP, ICSE, WWW, CIKM, ICDM
Tier B:         COLING, WACV, ICSME, PAKDD, AISTATS

Tiers vary by subfield. Always check the ranking relevant to your specific area.

Accessing Conference Papers

Free Access Strategies
1. Author homepages: Many researchers post preprints/camera-ready PDFs
2. arXiv: Conference-accepted papers are often on arXiv
3. OpenReview: NeurIPS, ICLR, and others host papers with reviews
4. Institutional repository: Check the authors' university repository
5. Conference website: Some conferences offer free proceedings
6. OpenAlex: Aggregates metadata and OA links from multiple sources
Workshop Papers vs. Main Conference

Workshop papers are shorter (4-8 pages), less rigorously reviewed, and represent more preliminary work. They are still citable but carry less weight. When citing, always distinguish:

# Main conference paper:
Author et al. "Title." In Proceedings of NeurIPS 2024.

# Workshop paper:
Author et al. "Title." In Workshop on X at NeurIPS 2024.

Citing Conference Proceedings

BibTeX Format
bibtex
@inproceedings{vaswani2017attention,
  title     = {Attention Is All You Need},
  author    = {Vaswani, Ashish and Shazeer, Noam and Parmar, Niki
               and Uszkoreit, Jakob and Jones, Llion and Gomez,
               Aidan N and Kaiser, Lukasz and Polosukhin, Illia},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
  volume    = {30},
  year      = {2017}
}
Common Mistakes in Conference Citations
  • Using @article instead of @inproceedings
  • Citing the arXiv preprint instead of the published proceedings version
  • Missing the conference name or year
  • Confusing the workshop name with the main conference name

Always use the official proceedings citation provided by the conference or digital library.

© wentorai, 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 skills/literature/discovery/conference-proceedings-guide of wentorai/research-plugins.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit bf44b3c

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in wentorai/research-plugins, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Conference Proceedings Guide

What does Conference Proceedings Guide do?

Find, access, and cite conference papers and proceedings effectively. Conference Proceedings Guide is an agent skill from wentorai/research-plugins.

When should I use Conference Proceedings Guide?

Conference Proceedings Guide fits situations like: tasks that involve Citation management.

How do I install Conference Proceedings Guide in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill conference-proceedings-guide -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/literature/discovery/conference-proceedings-guide in wentorai/research-plugins) into .claude/skills/conference-proceedings-guide in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Conference Proceedings Guide in Codex?

Run `npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill conference-proceedings-guide -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/literature/discovery/conference-proceedings-guide in wentorai/research-plugins) into .agents/skills/conference-proceedings-guide in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Conference Proceedings Guide 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 wentorai/research-plugins --skill conference-proceedings-guide -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/conference-proceedings-guide, .gemini/skills/conference-proceedings-guide, .github/skills/conference-proceedings-guide and .opencode/skills/conference-proceedings-guide in your project.

What does Conference Proceedings Guide need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Conference Proceedings Guide is instructions for the agent only. Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Conference Proceedings Guide 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 Conference Proceedings Guide 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 Conference Proceedings Guide use?

Conference Proceedings Guide 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 Conference Proceedings Guide use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.1k 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 Conference Proceedings Guide?

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Who maintains Conference Proceedings Guide?

wentorai (a GitHub user) maintains it in wentorai/research-plugins, which has 298 GitHub stars. The repository holds 405 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on June 19, 2026.

Source: wentorai/research-plugins on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.