NDSS is the Internet Society's slice of the security big four, and its center of gravity is literal: security of things that are networked or distributed — protocols, the web, DNS and routing, cloud and edge infrastructure, IoT fleets, and the measurement of all of the above under attack. Work can be excellent and still be mis-routed here. Run these tests before a word is drafted; the cheapest rejection is the one you never submit into.
Ndss Topic Selection is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the threat-hunting sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/ndss-topic-selection/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when deciding whether a security project belongs at NDSS — the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium — or should route to IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, CCS, PETS, IMC, or ACSAC, applying NDSS's networked-adversary and deployment-realism tests before any writing begins.
The Ndss Topic Selection Claude Code skill is built for security engineers, penetration testers, DevSecOps practitioners, and development teams hardening codebases and infrastructure. 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/ndss-topic-selection curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/ndss-topic-selection/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/ndss-topic-selection/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/ndss-topic-selection/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/ndss-topic-selection/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\ndss-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/ndss-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. Ndss Topic Selection is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Security 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{ndss-topic-selection-2026,
author = {brycewang-stanford},
title = {Ndss Topic Selection [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/ndss-topic-selection/}
}Grade A · scanned 2026-08-02 — 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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