Use this before writing begins. MLSys exists for work where machine learning and computer systems constrain each other — the CFP spans systems for ML (training, inference, serving, compilers, runtimes, specialized hardware, hardware-efficient methods, benchmarks and tooling) and ML for systems (learned scheduling, LLM-driven hardware design and system optimization), plus adjacent lanes like federated learning, compound AI and agent systems, privacy/security for ML, and data preparation (2026 topics list, verified 2026-07-08). Fit failures here are usually routing failures: strong work aimed…
Mlsys Topic Selection is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the science-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/mlsys-topic-selection/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when deciding whether a project belongs at MLSys rather than OSDI, SOSP, NSDI, ASPLOS, ATC, EuroSys, or the ML conferences, testing for genuine ML-systems co-design, choosing between the research and industrial tracks, and sharpening the systems-for-ML or ML-for-systems framing before writing starts.
The Mlsys Topic Selection Claude Code skill is built for researchers, data scientists, academics, and analysts working with complex data and scientific literature. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 168,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/mlsys-topic-selection curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/mlsys-topic-selection/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/mlsys-topic-selection/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/mlsys-topic-selection/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/mlsys-topic-selection/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\mlsys-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/mlsys-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. Mlsys Topic Selection is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Science & Research 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{mlsys-topic-selection-2026,
author = {brycewang-stanford},
title = {Mlsys Topic Selection [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/mlsys-topic-selection/}
}Grade A · scanned 2026-07-31 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
The scan flagged 1 of 10 categories (filesystem), including lower-severity patterns. Patterns shown inside code fences are weighted as examples rather than instructions — read the grading methodology for what this does and does not guarantee.
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