Awesome Journal Skills is a collection of agent skill packs tailored to hundreds of academic journals across fields including economics, social science, medicine, science, and engineering. Researchers use the packs for tasks such as choosing topics, designing empirical strategies, preparing tables and figures, submitting papers, and responding to reviewers. The catalogue entries are the project's journal-specific skills and related plugins.
Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill acl-workflowgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-SkillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills/acl-workflow)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills/acl-workflow"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills/acl-workflow/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills/acl-workflow"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills/acl-workflow.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00059 | $0.01594 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00024 | $0.00638 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00012 | $0.00319 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00159 |
Grade A, and why
acl-workflow scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
ACL Workflow
Use this as the project-management layer for an ACL paper. Unlike one-deadline conferences, ACL runs on a cycle-and-commit rhythm: pick an ARR cycle, ride its ~10-week review train, then decide at the commitment window whether to send the package to the conference or loop back for another cycle.
ACL is a conference with rotating per-edition program committees, not a journal: there is no standing editor and no APC. Costs are registration-based, and Anthology publication is free and open access.
The 2026 rhythm as a worked anchor
ACL 2026 (64th edition, San Diego, July 2-7, 2026) drew from the ARR October 2025 and January 2026 cycles:
| Milestone | Date (verified for ACL 2026) |
|---|---|
| ARR January cycle submission | January 5, 2026 |
| Reviews + meta-reviews to authors | by March 9-10, 2026 |
| Commitment to ACL 2026 | March 14, 2026 |
| Acceptance notification | April 4, 2026 |
| Camera-ready | April 19, 2026 |
| Conference | July 2-7, 2026 |
Which cycle reaches which conference
The commitment table is the part authors get wrong, because it is set by ARR and not by
the conference: a cycle can only commit to the venues ARR lists against it, so "I will
aim for ACL" is a decision about which month to submit to ARR, often two or three
cycles ahead. As published on aclrollingreview.org/dates (re-read 2026-08-27):
| Venue | Final ARR submission | Commitment |
|---|---|---|
| EMNLP 2026 · AACL 2026 | May 25, 2026 | August 2, 2026 |
| EACL 2027 | August 3, 2026 | October 11, 2026 |
| NAACL 2027 · COLING 2027 | October 12, 2026 | December 20, 2026 |
| ACL 2027 (Kyoto, Aug 17-22, 2027) | January 2027 | not yet posted |
Two things follow that a reader working from the 2026 anchor above would get wrong. No 2026 cycle reaches ACL 2027 — the October 12 slot, the last one on the 2026 calendar, commits to NAACL and COLING. And the October 2026 cycle publishes only its submission date and its cycle end (December 20); every date in between is still TBA, so a plan that needs a known author-response window cannot use it yet.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 1mo ago First seen · 142 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 9883e9f61b5b
acl-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills (1,320 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 1,594 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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