Use when planning an ACM CCS project timeline across the two HotCRP review cycles, from venue fit through abstract registration, full-paper upload, rebuttal, notification, revision, artifact evaluation, ACM camera-ready, and in-person presentation, with backward-planning offsets and the security big-four deadline-hopping calendar.
SkillScore83Maintained
Automatic
◆Project Management pack
Last verified 8/15/2026
What it changes
Passed 19 of 23 test cases with the skill, and 6 of 23 without it.
Without skill25%
With skill83%
Checks it passed that the model alone missed
Identifies the current stage as writing.
Classifies the current stage as building.
Identifies drafting ethics section and initiating disclosure as the 4-week milestone.
and 6 more in the full report
20 fixed1 passed either way0 still failing2 broke
Pass-rate lift
+58 pp
Tokens
+29%
Agent turns
0%
Response time
-26%
Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/15/2026v121 of 23 cases passed with skill
Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.
See it in action
One of 20 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
1 of 20
Prompt
Our research group is brainstorming initial concepts for a new hardware enclave attack for CCS, but no code or prototype exists yet. What stage value should be assigned in our project tracker? Output the response using the 5-key bracketed format.
What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked
Without skill
With skill
Classifies the current stage as idea.
Passed
Passed
Includes line prefixes `[Current stage]`, `[Cycle]`, `[Critical path]`, `[Risk register]`, and `[Owner map]`.
Missed
Passed
case-16 · 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.md72 linessingle file
CCS Workflow
Use this as the project-management skill for a CCS submission. CCS is a conference, not a
journal: it has no editor-in-chief and no article-processing charge. The rotating leadership
is the per-edition General Chairs and Program Co-Chairs (CCS 2026 Program Co-Chairs: Véronique
Cortier and Zhiqiang Lin, reported 2026-07-08; verify against the organizing-committee page).
Replace every date below with the current cycle's HotCRP deadlines and work backward.
The dual-deadline cycle
CCS runs two review cycles per year into one conference. A paper enters one cycle only; work
rejected in the first cycle may not be resubmitted (even revised) to the second cycle of the
same year. Pick the cycle from readiness, not hope — a thin first-cycle submission burns the
year at this venue.
CCS 2026 (The Hague, Netherlands, Nov 15-19, 2026) Cycle A: abstract registration Jan 7,
full paper Jan 14, rebuttal Mar 17-20, notification Apr 9, 2026 (verify).
CCS 2026 Cycle B: abstract registration Apr 22, full paper Apr 29, rebuttal Jun 29-Jul 1,
notification Jul 17, 2026 (verify). Camera-ready reported Aug 21, 2026.
Both 2026 deadlines have passed as of 2026-07-08; treat them as a template and read the
CCS 2027 CFP when posted (CCS 2027 host city was still under steering-committee selection).
Milestones
Venue fit: confirm the contribution is a broad security result for the SIGSAC PC.
Evidence lock: freeze threat model, attack/defense implementation, adaptive evaluation,
measurement validation, and the ethics/disclosure posture.
Abstract registration: mandatory title, authors, abstract, and topics in HotCRP before the
registration deadline; no paper without a registered abstract.
Full-paper deadline: upload the anonymized 12-page ACM sigconf PDF plus appendices.
Rebuttal window: respond to reviews in the short author-response period.
Notification: accept, minor revision (revise within the cycle), or reject.
Artifact evaluation: submit artifacts after acceptance for ACM badges if you opt in.
Camera-ready and registration: ACM proceedings version, then in-person presentation.
Backward plan from the full-paper deadline
Weeks out (heuristic)
Attack-plus-defense milestone
10+
Threat model frozen, attack primitive working end to end