The most expensive USENIX Security mistake is made before writing: submitting a paper whose center of gravity is somewhere else. USENIX Security is now USENIX's flagship summer event (USENIX ATC ended after 2025, leaving Security as the association's premier venue), and it draws a specific kind of security paper. This skill decides fit and routes the misfits before a cycle is spent.
Usenixsec Topic Selection is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the forensics sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/usenixsec-topic-selection/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when deciding whether a project belongs at the USENIX Security Symposium or a sibling venue — routing among USENIX Security, IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, NDSS, and specialty venues (PETS, SOUPS, RAID, WOOT), and confirming the work has the artifact/measurement/systems evidence USENIX Security rewards.
The Usenixsec 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/usenixsec-topic-selection curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/usenixsec-topic-selection/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/usenixsec-topic-selection/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/usenixsec-topic-selection/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/usenixsec-topic-selection/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\usenixsec-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/usenixsec-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. Usenixsec 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{usenixsec-topic-selection-2026,
author = {brycewang-stanford},
title = {Usenixsec Topic Selection [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/usenixsec-topic-selection/}
}Grade A · scanned 2026-08-02 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
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