colt-submission
Use when auditing a COLT (Conference on Learning Theory) submission for CMT readiness, the 12-page PMLR-format main body, single-PDF assembly with unlimited appendix, double-anonymous formatting, the parallel-submission ban covering journals and proceedings venues, and the ordered final-week checks before the AoE deadline.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill colt-submission --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.
# COLT Submission Run this audit before uploading a learning-theory paper to COLT. Every number below was checked against the COLT 2026 Call for Papers on 2026-07-08; reopen the current CFP at learningtheory.org before trusting any of it in a later cycle, because COLT republishes its rules from scratch each year. ## What the 2026 cycle actually required - Platform: Microsoft CMT, not OpenReview. The COLT 2026 site pointed authors to `https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/COLT2026`. COLT has used other systems in the past, so never assume the portal — follow the link in the live CFP. - Deadline: February 4, 2026, Anywhere on Earth, for the 39th edition (June 29 to July 3, 2026, San Diego). One deadline for the whole manuscript; the 2026 CFP had no separate abstract-registration step, unlike NeurIPS-style venues. Confirm each year. - Length: main body at most 12 PMLR-formatted pages excluding references, with no page limit on references and appendices, all submitted as one PDF. - Anonymity: submissions must be suitable for double-anonymous review; the official LaTeX template's `anon` option suppresses author names. - Scope: theoretical aspects of machine learning at the intersection of
- What the 2026 cycle actually required
- The single-PDF discipline
- Illustrative template skeleton
- Parallel-submission rules (verified for 2026)
- Desk-reject and severity triage
- Final-week sequence for a COLT paper
- CMT logistics worth doing early
- Cycle-volatility warnings
- Output format
What does the colt-submission skill do?
Use when auditing a COLT (Conference on Learning Theory) submission for CMT readiness, the 12-page PMLR-format main body, single-PDF assembly with unlimited appendix, double-anonymous formatting, the parallel-submission ban covering journals and proceedings venues, and the ordered final-week checks before the AoE deadline.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill colt-submission --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.