osdi-review-process
Use when reasoning about how an OSDI paper is reviewed and decided — the double-blind HotCRP PC pipeline with no author-response period, the two tracks, conditional acceptance with heavyweight shepherding, co-chair recusal, notification timing, and the Jay Lepreau Best Paper lineage.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill osdi-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.
# OSDI Review Process Model the pipeline the paper enters at the December deadline. The process facts below are the OSDI '26 cycle (verified 2026-07-08); OSDI re-decides its process per edition — '26 itself removed the response period — so read the current CFP's process section before predicting anything. ## The pipeline, author's-eye view ```text Dec 11 submission complete on HotCRP (osdi26.usenix.hotcrp.com) | double-blind PC review, typically multi-round: | early round -> low-scoring papers exit with fewer reviews | later round(s) -> surviving papers gather more reviews | online discussion + PC meeting | (no author-response step existed in the '26 cycle) Mar 26 notification: accept | conditional accept | reject | conditional: shepherd assigned, mandated-change list issued Jun 9 shepherd-approved final paper due (or the acceptance lapses) Jul 13 open-access proceedings live as the event opens ``` Round structure and reviewer counts are PC-internal and vary; what is stable is the consequence: **the first two or three pages decide whether the paper earns the later rounds**, because early-round reviewers triage a large pile (capped at eight submissions per author, but multiplied acr
- The pipeline, author's-eye view
- What "no response period" changes about review
- Conditional acceptance and heavyweight shepherding
- Structural facts worth knowing
- Surviving the triage round
- Reading a rejection usefully
- Decoding the decision letter
- Output format
What does the osdi-review-process skill do?
Use when reasoning about how an OSDI paper is reviewed and decided — the double-blind HotCRP PC pipeline with no author-response period, the two tracks, conditional acceptance with heavyweight shepherding, co-chair recusal, notification timing, and the Jay Lepreau Best Paper lineage.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill osdi-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.