acl-workflow

acl-workflow is a skill for Claude Code from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. It costs 59 tokens per session (1,594 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-planning guide for submitting a paper to ACL, a natural-language-processing research conference, through ACL Rolling Review (ARR), its shared review process.

In plain words
What is it for?
Choosing an ARR cycle, planning backward from deadlines, handling reviews and responses, deciding whether to commit, resubmitting, and preparing the final ACL Anthology version.
Why use it?
ACL uses review cycles and later commitment decisions rather than one direct conference deadline, making the schedule easy to misjudge.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the ACL-Skills plugin — 12 skills shipped together

Good fit Choosing an ARR cycle, planning backward from deadlines, handling reviews and responses, deciding whether to commit, resubmitting, and preparing the final ACL Anthology version.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills/acl-workflow
About the project

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.

brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills · 1,090 stars · on GitHub · copaper.ai

Install

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.

Any agent
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill acl-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ACL-Skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,594 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00059 $0.01594
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00797
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00319
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00159

Measured 11d ago against content hash 9883e9f61b5b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

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 11d 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.

ACL-Skills/skills/acl-workflow/SKILL.md · 142 lines

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.

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 lines

Changes

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.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 142 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 9883e9f61b5b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

acl-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills (1,090 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 1,594 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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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