ccs-review-process
Use when explaining or planning around ACM CCS peer review, the two-cycle HotCRP workflow, decision categories including minor revision, the rebuttal window, the adversarial reviewer pool, ethics and disclosure scrutiny, meta-review dynamics, and ACM proceedings outcomes.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ccs-review-process --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# CCS Review Process Use this to reason about review-stage strategy. Reopen the current CFP, the cycle's HotCRP site, the reviewer guidelines if posted, and the ethics policy before making process claims. ## Process model - CCS runs two review cycles per year on HotCRP, each with abstract registration, full-paper submission, review, a rebuttal window, and notification. - Reviewers assess threat-model soundness, novelty, technical correctness, evidence quality, ethics and responsible disclosure, and significance to the security community. - Decisions are not binary: CCS 2026 used accept, minor revision (authors revise for the same cycle under a shepherd or check), and reject. A first-cycle reject cannot return that year. - An ethics or disclosure concern can sink an otherwise strong paper; the ethics reviewer's view carries weight independent of technical scores. - Accepted papers publish in the ACM Digital Library proceedings, so camera-ready and metadata compliance matter as much as the initial decision. ## Who reviews here - The pool is adversarial by training: expect at least one reviewer to attack your threat model, look for the assumption that makes the attack easy, and probe
- Process model
- Who reviews here
- Scoring leverage table
- Stage-by-stage realism
- Output format
What does the ccs-review-process skill do?
Use when explaining or planning around ACM CCS peer review, the two-cycle HotCRP workflow, decision categories including minor revision, the rebuttal window, the adversarial reviewer pool, ethics and disclosure scrutiny, meta-review dynamics, and ACM proceedings outcomes.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ccs-review-process --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.