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 asplos-submissiongit 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/asplos-submission)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills/asplos-submission"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills/asplos-submission/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/asplos-submission"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills/asplos-submission.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00081 | $0.01576 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00041 | $0.00788 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00016 | $0.00315 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00158 |
Grade A, and why
asplos-submission 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 today.
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 — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
ASPLOS Submission
This is the audit to run in the final week, against the exact PDF that will be uploaded. Every rule below is the ASPLOS 2027 cycle as verified 2026-07-08 through the CFP and the April-cycle HotCRP pages; the numbers are one edition's snapshot.
Hard-format gates
| Gate | 2027 rule | Failure mode |
|---|---|---|
| Length | ≤ 11 pages, single-spaced, two-column — the count includes all text, figures, tables, and footnotes | Rejection without review is the stated risk for violations |
| References | Excluded from the 11 pages, unlimited | — |
| Template | The provided LaTeX template is mandatory | Geometry hacks are detectable and named as reject-risk |
| Appendices | Allowed in the same file, unlimited — but the 11 pages must be self-contained; reviewers are neither required nor encouraged to read appendices | Decision-critical content parked past page 11 simply does not exist |
| Deadline | 11:59 PM AoE on the cycle date (next: September 9, 2026) | HotCRP saved-but-incomplete is not submitted |
The citation rules almost everyone gets wrong on the first try
ASPLOS imposes bibliography requirements that authors arriving from ISCA, SOSP, or PLDI habitually violate:
- Every reference entry must list the full, non-abbreviated first and last names of every co-author — "J. Smith et al." fails on both counts.
- In-text citation numbers should be hyperlinked to their reference entries.
- Each entry should carry a clickable link, preferably a DOI.
Mechanical sweep before upload:
# et-al and initials-only detection in the bibliography
grep -nE 'et al\.|\b[A-Z]\.\s*[A-Z][a-z]+' references.bib | head -40
# DOI coverage: entries without a doi/url field
grep -c '@' references.bib; grep -ciE 'doi *=|url *=' references.bib
# PDF-side: confirm links are live (count of URI annotations)
pdftk paper.pdf dump_data 2>/dev/null | grep -c URI || true
Double-blind sweep, ASPLOS flavor
- Cite your own prior work in the third person; if that is impossible, upload it as anonymized supplemental material instead.
- Do not write "removed for blind review" — the 2027 CFP disallows the placeholder itself.
- arXiv postings, tech reports, and talks are not prior publications, and the submission may ignore them to preserve anonymity — you are not obligated to cite or differentiate your own preprint.
- Sweep PDF metadata, embedded file paths, repository URLs, acknowledgments, and grant numbers. Workload traces or testbeds identifiable to one lab need neutral description.
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.
- today First seen · 125 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 570807791f4f
asplos-submission is a skill published in the GitHub repository brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills (1,109 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 1,576 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-15.
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