jss-software-engineering-skill

Overview

This skill acts as a comprehensive router for academic publishing in top software engineering venues. It provides modular guidelines, templates, and checks for various paper types (empirical, tool/system, SLR, etc.), tasks (manuscript writing, polishing, LaTeX formatting, open science packaging, and reviewer responses), and languages (including Chinese-to-English academic translation). By using a progressive disclosure pattern via manifest files and references, it minimizes context overhead while offering rigorous journal-first advice.

Capabilities

• ▸Manuscript strategy and section drafting
• ▸Academic prose polishing and Chinese-to-English translation for SE venues
• ▸Journal targeting and transfer decisions (JSS, TSE, TOSEM, EMSE, IST)
• ▸LaTeX and source-file packaging checks
• ▸Publication figure and results table planning
• ▸Open science packaging and artifact verification
• ▸Reviewer response letter and rebuttal drafting
• ▸Rejection-risk and desk-reject audit

Best for

Auditing a draft software engineering manuscript for desk-reject risks and novelty gaps before submission., Translating and refining Chinese academic text into polished, high-impact English prose for JSS or TSE., Preparing point-by-point response letters and revision roadmaps for conditional acceptance reviews., Structuring open-science artifact packages, data/code availability statements, and software citations.

Works with

Security considerations

The skill executes structural verification scripts via Python, which should be run in a trusted environment. It avoids hallucinating sensitive academic data or fake citations.

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