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Use when an author expects an artifact-evaluation or badge track at ACM PODC and needs redirecting — PODC has NO artifact track and no ACM badges. This skill converts artifact-culture instincts into what PODC actually evaluates: proof-appendix completeness, model/assumption rigor, and the honest, optional role of any simulation.

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# PODC Artifact Evaluation (there isn't one — read this)

If you arrived here expecting an Artifacts-Available / Functional / Reusable / Reproduced badge
process, stop: **PODC has no artifact-evaluation track and no ACM badge program.** It is a
proofs venue. The object that is "evaluated" is your **theorem and its proof**, and the honesty of
your **model and assumptions**. This skill redirects artifact energy into the three things that
actually decide a PODC paper's technical standing.

## Why PODC has no artifact track

A PODC contribution is a **model, a theorem, and a proof**, not a running system or a dataset. There
is nothing for evaluators to install and run to confirm the claim — the claim is confirmed by
**reading the proof**. Importing a badge workflow here is a category error: it would evaluate an
artifact that is, at most, an optional illustration. (Contrast this with software-engineering or
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