Decide the venue and the area before drafting. IEEE VIS is the flagship of the visualization community, and since 2021 it is a single unified conference whose full papers are IEEE TVCG journal articles across six areas. Two routing questions matter: is this a visualization paper at all (versus HCI, graphics, or ML), and which of the six areas is its primary home. A technically strong paper whose real lesson is about a model, a rendering primitive, or an interaction unrelated to seeing data is respected and then rejected as out of scope.
Vis 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/vis-topic-selection/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when deciding whether a project belongs at IEEE VIS or should be routed to EuroVis, PacificVis, CHI, a graphics venue, or the IEEE TVCG journal track, and when choosing among the six VIS areas (Theoretical & Empirical, Applications, Systems & Rendering, Representations & Interaction, Data Transformations, Analytics & Decisions) by contribution type and evidence maturity.
The Vis 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 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/vis-topic-selection curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/vis-topic-selection/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/vis-topic-selection/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/vis-topic-selection/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/vis-topic-selection/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\vis-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/vis-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. Vis 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{vis-topic-selection-2026,
author = {brycewang-stanford},
title = {Vis Topic Selection [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/vis-topic-selection/}
}Grade A · scanned 2026-08-02 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
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