fast-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a storage project belongs at USENIX FAST or should be routed to OSDI, ATC, NSDI, EuroSys, HotStorage, MSST, SYSTOR, or a storage journal (ACM TOS), and when distinguishing FAST from general-systems siblings by storage-contribution shape, real-device evidence, and the two-deadline calendar.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill fast-topic-selection --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.
# FAST Topic Selection Decide the venue before drafting. FAST — the USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies — is the **storage-specialized** flagship: its reviewers are file-system, SSD/NVM, key-value, caching, and reliability people, and they read for a **storage contribution**, not a general systems result that happens to touch disk. A technically strong paper whose real lesson is about scheduling, networking, consensus, or an ML model is respected and then routed to OSDI, ATC, or NSDI. ## The routing question that matters most The decisive question is rarely "is this systems work?" but **"is the core lesson a *storage* lesson — about how data is laid out, written, cached, made durable, or kept consistent — that a storage reviewer would recognize as theirs?"** If yes, FAST. If the storage angle is incidental to a broader OS/distributed/networking result, a general-systems venue fits better. ## Sibling-venue routing table | Signal in your project | Better home | Why | |---|---|---| | Core lesson is storage: file system, SSD/NVM, KV/object store, cache, dedup, reliability, crash consistency, and the next FAST deadline is reachable | **USENIX FAST** | The storage-speciali
- The routing question that matters most
- Sibling-venue routing table
- Storage-contribution shapes FAST rewards
- The storage-lesson and re-label tests
- Evidence maturity, without the ladder cliché
- Cheap reconnaissance before committing
- Decision procedure
What does the fast-topic-selection skill do?
Use when deciding whether a storage project belongs at USENIX FAST or should be routed to OSDI, ATC, NSDI, EuroSys, HotStorage, MSST, SYSTOR, or a storage journal (ACM TOS), and when distinguishing FAST from general-systems siblings by storage-contribution shape, real-device evidence, and the two-deadline calendar.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill fast-topic-selection --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.