Use when auditing an ATC (ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference, formerly USENIX ATC) submission for HotCRP readiness — the paired two-page extended abstract plus full paper, the two-column 12/6-page budget, the double-blind anonymity sweep, ACM Open Access publication, and desk-reject triage before the early-June AoE cutoff.
SkillScore86Maintained
Automatic
◆Research pack
Last verified 8/15/2026
What it changes
Passed 19 of 22 test cases with the skill, and 11 of 22 without it.
Without skill50%
With skill86%
Checks it passed that the model alone missed
Output includes the tag [ATC submission status].
Identifies ATC 2026 as an ACM SIGOPS conference.
Notes that publication is under ACM Open Access.
and 11 more in the full report
8 fixed11 passed either way3 still failing0 broke
Pass-rate lift
+36 pp
Tokens
+50%
Agent turns
0%
Response time
-15%
Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/15/2026v119 of 22 cases passed with skill
Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.
See it in action
One of 8 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
1 of 8
Prompt
We are updating our grant report regarding where our paper will be published if accepted at ATC 2026. Is ATC still published by USENIX, and what is the publication access model?
What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked
Without skill
With skill
Identifies ATC 2026 as an ACM SIGOPS conference.
Missed
Passed
Notes that publication is under ACM Open Access.
Missed
Passed
case-15 · gemini-3.6-flash · 8/15/2026 · answers are capped and redacted
What's inside
The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.
SKILL.md99 linessingle file
ATC Submission
Run this audit before uploading to the ATC HotCRP site (atc26.hotcrp.com). ATC 2026 is the first
ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference — the continuation of the former USENIX ATC — so the
process changed in the handover: a new two-round, extended-abstract review, a June deadline,
a Hong Kong / November conference, and ACM Open Access publication. Every number below was
read from the ATC 2026 SIGOPS call and the USENIX ATC '25 pages on 2026-07-09 via search renderings
(see resources/official-source-map.md); treat them as a one-cycle snapshot and reopen the live
call first.
The paired upload (the thing authors miss)
ATC's first review round judges a two-page extended abstract, uploaded together with the full
paper in one HotCRP submission:
The extended abstract gives the motivation and contribution and is for review only — it is not
published.
It must stand on its own: a round-one reviewer may read only the abstract, and a round-two
reviewer may read only the paper. Neither may assume the other.
A copy of the introduction can serve as the abstract only if it fits two pages and reads
self-contained — usually it needs tightening, not just truncation.
If your submission has a strong paper but a weak, dependent abstract, you can be cut in round one
before anyone opens the PDF. Audit the abstract as hard as the paper.
Format and page budget
Two-column format: text block 178 × 229 mm (7 × 9 in), 10-point Times Roman (or
similar) on 12-point single-spaced leading, A4 or US letter. This is the classic USENIX systems
layout; whether the SIGOPS edition mandates the USENIX template file or an ACM equivalent is
待核实 — confirm on the call.
Page budget:full papers ≤ 12 pages, short papers ≤ 6 pages, excluding references and
appendices but including all text, figures, tables, and footnotes.
Reviewers are not required to read appendices; nothing that decides acceptance may live only
in an appendix (see atc-supplementary).
Double-blind sweep
ATC review is double-blind: reviewer and author identities are mutually concealed. Because
systems papers lean on code, testbeds, and system names, the leak surface is wide:
Use when auditing an ASE (IEEE/ACM Automated Software Engineering) research-track submission for HotCRP readiness, covering the ACM acmart sigconf template and the 10+2 page budget, double-anonymous review, the mandatory Data Availability Statement, the early-rejection stage before rebuttal, and desk-reject triage before the deadline.