Decide the venue before drafting, and decide it on the axis ITCS actually selects on. ITCS — the Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science conference — was founded (as Innovations in Computer Science, 2010) to reward conceptual novelty: a new model, a new question, a surprising connection, a direction the field had not thought to take. Its sibling flagships STOC and FOCS reward the deepest, most polished result on questions the field already agrees are hard. A technically strong paper whose real virtue is that it finally proves a known hard theorem is respected and then, often, routed away…
Itcs Topic Selection is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the general-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/itcs-topic-selection/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when deciding whether a theoretical-computer-science result belongs at ITCS or should be routed to STOC, FOCS, SODA, CCC, ICALP, TCC, or a journal, and when distinguishing ITCS from its depth-first siblings by the conceptual-novelty test — is this a new question, model, or connection worth asking, rather than the deepest theorem of the year.
The Itcs Topic Selection 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 196,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/itcs-topic-selection curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/itcs-topic-selection/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/itcs-topic-selection/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/itcs-topic-selection/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/itcs-topic-selection/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\itcs-topic-selection\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/itcs-topic-selection/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. Itcs Topic Selection 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{itcs-topic-selection-2026,
author = {brycewang-stanford},
title = {Itcs Topic Selection [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/itcs-topic-selection/}
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