imc-submission
Use when auditing an ACM IMC submission for HotCRP readiness, covering the paper-registration step, the acmart template with BBL upload, the full/short page limits, double-blind anonymity including vantage-point details, the mandatory Ethics section, the artifact-availability declaration, cycle choice, and desk-reject triage before the AoE cutoff.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill imc-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.
# IMC Submission Run this audit before uploading to the IMC HotCRP site. IMC — the ACM Internet Measurement Conference, sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM — judges a submission on **what it measured about the real Internet and how**, so the mechanics below are where good measurement work is needlessly lost. Every number was read from the IMC 2026 call and submission instructions and the IMC 2025 call on 2026-07-09 via search renderings (see `resources/official-source-map.md`); treat them as a one-cycle snapshot and reopen the live pages first. ## Pick the cycle first IMC runs **two deadlines a year** (cycle 1 ~20 Nov 2025, cycle 2 ~29 Apr 2026). This is a real choice, not a formality: - The **One-Shot-Revision** path resubmits to the *next* deadline with the *same* reviewers, so a cycle-1 submission that earns a revision lands back in cycle 2. If your data collection finishes late, cycle 2 may be the honest target rather than rushing cycle 1. - Registration precedes submission by roughly a week (cycle 1: register ~13 Nov 2025). Miss registration and no PDF slot exists. ## Format and page budget - **ACM `acmart` template**, in the required review format, unmodified. This is the ACM path — do
- Pick the cycle first
- Format and page budget
- Double-blind sweep (including infrastructure)
- The Ethics section is a gate
- Artifact-availability declaration
- Desk-risk triage
- Final-week order of operations
- Reverify each cycle
- Output format
Mechanical pass on the submission PDF pdfinfo paper.pdf | grep -Ei 'author|creator|producer' pdftotext paper.pdf - | grep -nEi 'github\.com/[a-z0-9-]+|zenodo\.org/record|acknowledg|grant|@[a-z0-9.]*\.edu' | head
What does the imc-submission skill do?
Use when auditing an ACM IMC submission for HotCRP readiness, covering the paper-registration step, the acmart template with BBL upload, the full/short page limits, double-blind anonymity including vantage-point details, the mandatory Ethics section, the artifact-availability declaration, cycle choice, and desk-reject triage before the AoE cutoff.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill imc-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.