CCS Topic Selection

CCS Topic Selection is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by brycewang-stanford in Awesome-Journal-Skills.

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Install in seconds

Install CCS Topic Selection

Copy CCS Topic Selection into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/ACM-CCS-Skills/skills/ccs-topic-selection ~/.claude/skills/ccs-topic-selection

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: ACM-CCS-Skills/skills/ccs-topic-selection/SKILL.md in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/ccs-topic-selection
Collection: One of 53 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What CCS Topic Selection does

CCS Topic Selection helps decide whether a security project fits ACM CCS or a closer venue such as IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, NDSS, PETS, or a crypto/theory venue. It also helps name the contribution type and sharpen the threat model before writing.

CCS Topic Selection is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. CCS Topic Selection comes from a repository tagged academic-research, academic-writing, agent-skills, ai-agents and anthropic.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

CCS Topic Selection

Use this before writing. ACM CCS is the SIGSAC flagship: it rewards work with a concrete attacker, a defensible threat model, and evidence that survives an adversarial program committee. Decide venue by community and contribution type, never by prestige ranking.

Fit test

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about CCS Topic Selection

What else does brycewang-stanford publish alongside CCS Topic Selection?
CCS Topic Selection is one of 53 skills that DirSkills catalogs from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AAAI Artifact Evaluation, AAAI Author Response and AAAI Camera Ready. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way CCS Topic Selection does, and is maintained by brycewang-stanford in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills page.
How does CCS Topic Selection compare to other Writing skills?
CCS Topic Selection ranks #482 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of CCS Topic Selection against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.