USENIX Security reviews in two annual cycles, each a self-contained pipeline from registration to notification. The '26 cycle mechanics below were read from usenix.org pages on 2026-07-08 (via search renderings; direct fetch 403'd), with the '25 reviewing-model page as documented history. The '27 mechanics under chairs Adam Doupé (Arizona State) and Andrei Sabelfeld (Chalmers) are only partially posted — treat everything here as one venue-generation's snapshot.
Usenixsec Review Process is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the security-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/usenixsec-review-process/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when reasoning about how a USENIX Security Symposium cycle actually decides — early-reject notifications, multi-round reviewing, the retirement of Major Revision in favor of shepherd-approval acceptances, resubmission restrictions between cycles, and what each notification email means for planning.
The Usenixsec Review Process 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 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/usenixsec-review-process curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/usenixsec-review-process/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/usenixsec-review-process/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/usenixsec-review-process/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/usenixsec-review-process/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\usenixsec-review-process\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/usenixsec-review-process/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. Usenixsec Review Process 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{usenixsec-review-process-2026,
author = {brycewang-stanford},
title = {Usenixsec Review Process [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/usenixsec-review-process/}
}Grade A · scanned 2026-09-28 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
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