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 atc-topic-selectiongit 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.
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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 | $0.00096 | $0.01333 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00038 | $0.00533 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00019 | $0.00267 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00133 |
Grade A, and why
atc-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 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 — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
ATC Topic Selection
Decide the venue before drafting. ATC — the ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference, for about fifty years the USENIX Annual Technical Conference — is the systems community's broad, practical venue. It emphasizes implementations and experimental results across the whole systems stack and takes a wider slice than the more selective OSDI/SOSP flagships. The decisive question is rarely "is this systems?" but "is this a solid, useful, measured systems result — and is ATC's breadth the right home versus a more specialized or more selective venue?"
What ATC rewards
- Built and measured systems across a broad scope: operating systems, runtime systems, parallel and distributed systems, storage, networking, security and privacy, virtualization, hardware-software interaction, performance and workload characterization, reliability, availability, scalability, energy, and bug-finding / tracing / troubleshooting — "of all scales, from embedded devices to data centers and clouds."
- Useful over merely novel. A solid, well-engineered, carefully measured system that a flagship might call incremental is squarely in scope if it is real and the evaluation is honest.
- Deployed-systems / experience papers. ATC has a lane for papers about real-world deployed systems that need not present new ideas — they are judged on practical insight. (Continuity of the named track under SIGOPS is 待核实, but the appetite for experience papers is long-standing.)
Sibling-venue routing table
| Signal in your project | Better home | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Solid, useful, measured systems work of broad interest; usefulness over novelty | ATC | The broad practical-systems venue; welcomes strong engineering + honest measurement |
| A large, novel systems contribution aimed at the flagship bar | OSDI / SOSP | More selective, novelty-forward; different calendars and no extended-abstract gate |
| The contribution is a networked-systems design (dataplane, protocols, RDMA, congestion) | NSDI | Networked-systems center; its own multi-deadline model |
| Broad systems, but EuroSys's cycle lands sooner or fits the community | EuroSys | The other broad SIGOPS-family systems conference; choose by calendar/pull |
| The core is file and storage systems depth | FAST | Storage's specialized home |
| A provocative idea or early design with argument but no built system | HotOS / HotStorage / workshop | Position/early-work venues; ATC wants a built, measured system |
| A real deployed system with practical lessons but no new idea | ATC (Deployed Systems lane) | ATC explicitly values experience papers |
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 · 85 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A f450f8f7854f
atc-topic-selection is a skill published in the GitHub repository brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills (1,264 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 1,333 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-15.
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