asplos-topic-selection

asplos-topic-selection is a skill for Claude Code from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. It costs 85 tokens per session (1,593 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to deciding whether a research project fits ASPLOS or another computer-systems conference. ASPLOS focuses on work connecting computer architecture, programming languages, and operating systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test whether each layer is essential and choose among ASPLOS, architecture, programming-languages, systems, or other research venues.
Why use it?
It helps avoid submitting single-area work to a venue whose reviewers expect a genuine connection between these areas.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the asplos-skills plugin — 12 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to test whether each layer is essential and choose among ASPLOS, architecture, programming-languages, systems, or other research venues.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills/asplos-topic-selection
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 · 1,109 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 asplos-topic-selection
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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

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Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,593 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.
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 $0.00085 $0.01593
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00796
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00319
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00159

Measured today against content hash 4b452e3bf48d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-15, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

asplos-topic-selection 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.

ASPLOS-Skills/skills/asplos-topic-selection/SKILL.md · 126 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ASPLOS Topic Selection

ASPLOS's self-description is unusually operational: it seeks work that improves the core disciplines — operating systems, programming languages, computer architecture — and their intersection, and its 2027 rapid-review round explicitly prioritizes submissions at that intersection (CFP, checked 2026-07-08). Venue fit is therefore not a prestige question here; it is a screening variable. A technically strong paper that lives cleanly inside one community can be filtered in the first round not because it is bad but because a single-community venue owns its reviewers.

The deletion test

Ask, for each layer the paper touches: if this layer's content were deleted, would a publishable paper remain?

  • Delete the software half and a full paper remains → the work is an ISCA/MICRO/HPCA candidate wearing an ASPLOS template.
  • Delete the hardware half and a full paper remains → it is a SOSP/OSDI/EuroSys or PLDI paper.
  • Delete either half and nothing defensible remains → the coupling is real; ASPLOS is a first-choice target.

The exemplars library shows what passing looks like in award-validated form: an accelerator argued from data movement, a scheduler premised on hardware heterogeneity, an interrupt-delivery boundary redrawn between hypervisor and silicon (see ../../resources/exemplars/library.md).

Routing table

If the core claim is... Stronger first target ASPLOS becomes right when...
A microarchitectural structure (predictor, cache policy, pipeline) ISCA / MICRO / HPCA The structure exists to serve a named software behavior, and software changes with it
A language design, type system, or compiler optimization PLDI / POPL / CGO / OOPSLA The compiler co-evolves with an ISA, accelerator, or OS interface
An OS/distributed-systems design on commodity hardware SOSP / OSDI / EuroSys / ATC Hardware assumptions are load-bearing: new memory technology, custom hints, near-data compute
HPC-scale performance engineering SC / PPoPP The result generalizes into an architectural or systems principle beyond one machine
ML training/serving systems on stock stacks MLSys The ML workload drives a hardware/software interface change, not just better scheduling
Security via hardware mechanisms IEEE S&P / USENIX Security / CCS The defense requires co-designed architecture + systems support and its evaluation is performance-shaped

Read the full file on GitHub · 126 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. today First seen · 126 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A 4b452e3bf48d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

asplos-topic-selection is a skill published in the GitHub repository brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills (1,109 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 1,593 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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