The FOCS year is anchored in spring: the 2026 cycle closed submissions on Wednesday, April 1, 2026, 5:00 PM EDT (21:00 UTC) on focs26.hotcrp.com, for a conference in New York on November 8–11, 2026 (67th edition, checked 2026-07-08). As of that check date the cycle is in its post-submission phase: papers are with the program committee, notification and camera-ready dates were not yet published (待核实), and the workshop-proposal window is open. This skill manages both the live phases and the planning of the next attempt.
Focs Workflow is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the business-ops sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/focs-workflow/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when planning a FOCS (IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science) cycle end to end — working backward from the April 1 deadline, managing the live post-submission summer of the 2026 cycle, coordinating with the STOC beat, preparing the November conference, and scheduling a FOCS 2027 attempt.
The Focs Workflow Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 174,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/focs-workflow curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/focs-workflow/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/focs-workflow/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/focs-workflow/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/focs-workflow/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\focs-workflow\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/focs-workflow/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Focs Workflow is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the General category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{focs-workflow-2026,
author = {brycewang-stanford},
title = {Focs Workflow [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/focs-workflow/}
}Grade A · scanned 2026-08-02 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
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