ieeesp-review-process
Use when reasoning about IEEE S&P (Oakland) peer review, including the rounds inside each cycle, early-reject notices, the rebuttal for second-round papers, the Accept/Revise/Reject decision set, the Research Ethics Committee, shepherding of accepted papers, and the one-year resubmission embargo.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ieeesp-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.
# IEEE S&P Review Process Use this to model what happens to an S&P submission after upload and where author effort still moves the outcome. The structural constant across recent cycles is a **round structure inside each cycle** ending in a three-way decision; the dates below are the verified Cycle 2 timetable for S&P 2027 (sp2027.ieee-security.org/cfpapers.html, checked 2026-07-08). ## Rounds inside a cycle | Stage | 2027 Cycle 2 date | What actually happens | |---|---|---| | Submission closes | Nov 17, 2026 | Record frozen; REC screening begins where flagged | | First round | — | A subset of the PC reads; weakest papers cut | | Early-reject notice | Jan 18, 2027 | Cut papers exit **without rebuttal** | | Reviews released | Feb 11, 2027 | Surviving papers see full reviews | | Rebuttal due | Feb 16, 2027 | ~5 days; second-round papers only | | Decision | Mar 5, 2027 | Accept / Revise / Reject | The asymmetry to plan around: **first-round papers never get to answer their reviewers.** The introduction, threat model, and evaluation summary must survive a skeptical first read on their own — that is why `ieeesp-writing-style` front-loads the adversary and the evidence map. ## The three-w
- Rounds inside a cycle
- The three-way decision, and why Revise is the signature
- The Research Ethics Committee is a separate track
- Where author leverage lives
- Reading reviews from this PC
- Process misfires
- Output format
What does the ieeesp-review-process skill do?
Use when reasoning about IEEE S&P (Oakland) peer review, including the rounds inside each cycle, early-reject notices, the rebuttal for second-round papers, the Accept/Revise/Reject decision set, the Research Ethics Committee, shepherding of accepted papers, and the one-year resubmission embargo.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ieeesp-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.