paperlint 2.0.0 → 2.1.0

package/skills/render-paper/SKILL.md.spec.ts

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ That list was replaced on 2026-08-03; nothing about the toolchain below changed.
 ## Toolchain (one command, not a checklist)
 - **Compiler:** TeX Live, installed by paperlint with exactly the packages the venue profiles declare:
   \`\`\`
-  npx paperlint toolchain            # into ~/.cache/rpp/texlive (RPP_TEXLIVE_DIR overrides); idempotent
+  npx paperlint toolchain            # into ~/.cache/paperlint/texlive (PAPERLINT_TEXLIVE_DIR overrides); idempotent
   npx paperlint toolchain --check    # report what is missing, change nothing
   \`\`\`
   Measured 2026-09-24: 3 min from an empty directory, 269 MB, TeX Live 2026, 47 packages verified
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ That list was replaced on 2026-08-03; nothing about the toolchain below changed.
   package gets it there — never in a script, never here. A TeX Live without \`libertine\` builds an
   acmart paper GREEN in Computer Modern; that is why the files are checked, not the exit code.
 - **Reading the PDF** needs nothing installed: \`paperlint build\` and \`extract-pdf-facts.mjs\` use pdf.js,
-  which comes with rpp. Page size, columns and font sizes come from banal (HotCRP's page-geometry
+  which comes with paperlint. Page size, columns and font sizes come from banal (HotCRP's page-geometry
   script), which \`npx paperlint toolchain\` installs and which runs on pdf.js output — it needs \`perl\`,
   and no poppler. Without banal those facts are \`null\` and the build says so.
 - **Renderer:** \`pip install --quiet pymupdf\` (system rasterizers and ghostscript are often missing or

package/skills/render-paper/extract-pdf-facts.harness.mjs

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ const check = (label, cond, detail = "") => {
   n++;
 };
 
-const root = realpathSync(mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "rpp-extract-")));
+const root = realpathSync(mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "paperlint-extract-")));
 /**
  * Run the shim from `root`, with no banal anywhere unless `env` names one. `HOME` is the temp root:
  * without it Node falls back to the account's home, where `paperlint toolchain` may have installed banal.
@@ -59,8 +59,8 @@ try {
   mkdirSync(paper, { recursive: true });
   cpSync(join(FIX, "t3-mixed.pdf"), join(paper, "paper.pdf"));
   writeFileSync(
-    join(paper, "venue.json"),
-    JSON.stringify({ venue: "agenticdev", kind: "short" }),
+    join(paper, "paperlint.json"),
+    JSON.stringify({ extends: "paperlint:agenticdev", kind: "short" }),
   );
   const factsFile = join(paper, "_build", "paper.facts.json");
 
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ try {
   );
   const facts = JSON.parse(readFileSync(factsFile, "utf8"));
   check(
-    "the facts are schema 2, about paper.pdf, for the venue venue.json declares",
+    "the facts are schema 2, about paper.pdf, for the venue paperlint.json declares",
     facts.schema === 2 &&
       facts.pdf === "paper.pdf" &&
       facts.venue === "agenticdev" &&
@@ -148,8 +148,8 @@ try {
   );
 
   writeFileSync(
-    join(paper, "venue.json"),
-    JSON.stringify({ venue: "x", pdf: "build/other.pdf" }),
+    join(paper, "paperlint.json"),
+    JSON.stringify({ pdf: "build/other.pdf" }),
   );
   const missing = shim([paper, "--strict"], { BANAL: fake });
   check(

package/skills/render-paper/extract-pdf-facts.mjs

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  * it compiles a paper. This file is a composition root: it reads the environment and builds the real
  * adapters (`dist/adapters/node/`), and it owns the `--strict` policy. This
  * script exists for two callers the build does not serve: a PDF paperlint did not build (a paper that
- * declares its artifact elsewhere in `venue.json`), and CI steps that name this script by path.
+ * declares its artifact elsewhere in `paperlint.json`), and CI steps that name this script by path.
  * It reaches the package's compiled code through `../../dist/`, resolved from this file's real
  * location, so it works the same from a checkout, from `node_modules` and through a symlink.
  *
@@ -48,14 +48,14 @@ import {
 import { whyNoGeometry } from "../../dist/domain/geometry.js";
 import { exitCodeFor } from "../../dist/exit-code.js";
 
-/** The paper's `venue.json`, read from disk. */
+/** The venue the paper's `paperlint.json` declares, read from disk. */
 export const declaredVenue = (paperDir) => declaredIn(nodeFiles, paperDir);
 
 const ROOT = process.env.CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR || process.cwd();
 
 /**
  * Accept either a path to a PDF or a PAPER DIRECTORY — and in the second case find the artifact on
- * its own: the path the paper declares in the `pdf` field of `venue.json`, else `paper.pdf` beside
+ * its own: the path the paper declares in the `pdf` field of `paperlint.json`, else `paper.pdf` beside
  * it. A paper written in markdown and built by its own script into `build/acl_latex.pdf` would
  * otherwise be skipped silently. The facts ALWAYS go into `<paper directory>/_build/`, not next to
  * the PDF, where neither a rule's glob nor a human looks.
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ if (isMain(import.meta.url)) {
     finish(
       "no-artifact",
       strict,
-      `🛑 no artifact ${pdf} — the paper declared it in venue.json, but it is not built`,
+      `🛑 no artifact ${pdf} — the paper declared it in paperlint.json, but it is not built`,
     );
   // The composition root: banal as the measurer, wired from this process's environment.
   const settings = parseBanalSettings(process.env, hostDirs());

package/skills/study-accepted-papers/SKILL.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ context: fork
 allowed-tools: [Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob, Bash, WebSearch, WebFetch, Agent]
 ---
 
-<!-- vigiles:sha256:eb77acd927708132 compiled from skills/study-accepted-papers/SKILL.md.spec.ts -->
+<!-- vigiles:sha256:177ca8805990361e compiled from skills/study-accepted-papers/SKILL.md.spec.ts -->
 
 # study-accepted-papers — learn the venue's bar from its own accepted corpus, then lever your draft up
 
@@ -196,6 +196,7 @@ label on it.
 - `verify-citations` — consumes the Step-4 citation gaps.
 - `extend-paper` — the natural home for every EXPENSIVE lever this skill surfaces.
 - `submit-paper` venue data card (`submit-paper/references/venues/<venue>.md`) — save durable venue-bar findings there as data, not as a new skill per venue.
+- the paper's `<paper>/paperlint.json` (`{ "extends": "paperlint:<venue>", "kind": "<kind>" }`) — which venue preset the `pdf/*` rules check the built PDF against; a venue with no shipped preset extends a family (`paperlint:acm-sigconf`) or the project's own `./venues/<name>.jsonc`. Findings about the venue's page limit or format belong in that preset, with their source quote.
 
 ## Provenance
 Built from the **AISec 2026 @ ACM CCS** polish run (2026-07): the "Safety Theater in Agentic Coding /

package/skills/study-accepted-papers/SKILL.md.spec.ts

@@ -212,6 +212,7 @@ label on it.
 - \`verify-citations\` — consumes the Step-4 citation gaps.
 - \`extend-paper\` — the natural home for every EXPENSIVE lever this skill surfaces.
 - \`submit-paper\` venue data card (\`submit-paper/references/venues/<venue>.md\`) — save durable venue-bar findings there as data, not as a new skill per venue.
+- the paper's \`<paper>/paperlint.json\` (\`{ "extends": "paperlint:<venue>", "kind": "<kind>" }\`) — which venue preset the \`pdf/*\` rules check the built PDF against; a venue with no shipped preset extends a family (\`paperlint:acm-sigconf\`) or the project's own \`./venues/<name>.jsonc\`. Findings about the venue's page limit or format belong in that preset, with their source quote.
 
 ## Provenance
 Built from the **AISec 2026 @ ACM CCS** polish run (2026-07): the "Safety Theater in Agentic Coding /

package/skills/submit-paper/SKILL.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ description: End-to-end playbook for submitting a peer-reviewed paper to a doubl
 allowed-tools: [Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob, Bash, WebSearch, WebFetch, Skill]
 ---
 
-<!-- vigiles:sha256:6befc6c0f3e910bd compiled from skills/submit-paper/SKILL.md.spec.ts -->
+<!-- vigiles:sha256:4a42424fd18098e5 compiled from skills/submit-paper/SKILL.md.spec.ts -->
 
 # submit-paper — get a reviewed paper from "done" to "ready for review"
 
@@ -36,6 +36,14 @@ skill with `name:`/`description:`). This preserves the "save the exact venue ins
 keeping the skill namespace from proliferating one card per venue. The *mechanics* stay here; the venue
 file is only the facts.
 
+**The card is prose; the machine-checked format is a PRESET beside it.** A paper declares its venue
+in `<paper>/paperlint.json`: `{ "extends": "paperlint:<venue>", "kind": "<kind>" }`, and the
+`pdf/*` lint rules judge the built PDF against that preset (page limit per kind, fonts, page size,
+columns, font sizes). A venue with no shipped preset extends a family — `paperlint:acm-sigconf`
+for an ACM venue — or a preset of the project's own, `./venues/<name>.jsonc` (paperlint's
+`docs/rules.md`, "Writing your own venue preset"). Put the page limits you fetched from the CFP in
+the preset's `format.kinds`, each with its quote.
+
 ## Publisher specifics — one level ABOVE the venue
 Camera-ready mechanics belong to the **publisher**, not the venue: ACM eRights, the submit-vs-final
 preamble swap, the copyright block, CCS 2012 codes and the mandatory Source-files upload are identical

package/skills/submit-paper/SKILL.md.spec.ts

@@ -52,6 +52,14 @@ skill with \`name:\`/\`description:\`). This preserves the "save the exact venue
 keeping the skill namespace from proliferating one card per venue. The *mechanics* stay here; the venue
 file is only the facts.
 
+**The card is prose; the machine-checked format is a PRESET beside it.** A paper declares its venue
+in \`<paper>/paperlint.json\`: \`{ "extends": "paperlint:<venue>", "kind": "<kind>" }\`, and the
+\`pdf/*\` lint rules judge the built PDF against that preset (page limit per kind, fonts, page size,
+columns, font sizes). A venue with no shipped preset extends a family — \`paperlint:acm-sigconf\`
+for an ACM venue — or a preset of the project's own, \`./venues/<name>.jsonc\` (paperlint's
+\`docs/rules.md\`, "Writing your own venue preset"). Put the page limits you fetched from the CFP in
+the preset's \`format.kinds\`, each with its quote.
+
 ## Publisher specifics — one level ABOVE the venue
 Camera-ready mechanics belong to the **publisher**, not the venue: ACM eRights, the submit-vs-final
 preamble swap, the copyright block, CCS 2012 codes and the mandatory Source-files upload are identical

package/skills/submit-paper/references/venues/acm-sigconf.jsonc

@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+// ACM `acmart` sigconf — the TEMPLATE FAMILY: everything the ACM template decides, whatever the
+// venue. A venue preset extends it ("extends": "paperlint:acm-sigconf") and adds what its call for
+// papers sets: the page limit of each kind of paper, and the rules its producer implies.
+//
+// The numbers were measured on acmart sigconf builds (banal + pdf.js, 2026-08-26) and quoted from
+// the Conference Publishing author instructions for ACM (2026-08-25), which state ACM's own
+// requirements. A paper may extend this family directly for an ACM venue nobody has profiled:
+// page size, columns and fonts are checked; with no kinds, the page limit is not.
+{
+  "template": "acmart",
+
+  // TeX Live packages the acmart template needs ON TOP OF tex-base.jsonc, each with the files that
+  // prove it is present (checked with kpsewhich after every install). Read by `paperlint toolchain` and
+  // `paperlint build`; the shape is venue-profile.schema.json.
+  //   libertine · inconsolata (zi4) · newtx — acmart.cls checks ALL THREE and, if ANY is missing,
+  //     silently falls back to Computer Modern: the PDF compiles, looks normal, is set in the wrong
+  //     font, and the other metric gives another pagination. A submitted paper went out that way.
+  //   kastrup (binhex.tex) — pulled in by newtx. Missing it is a HARD stop, so adding the fonts
+  //     without it breaks a build that worked.
+  //   fancyhdr — required by acmart itself; present on most images by accident, absent on a
+  //     minimal one ("File `fancyhdr.sty' not found", measured on TinyTeX, issue #37).
+  //   the rest — pulled in by acmart ITSELF, not by the paper, so reading \usepackage never finds
+  //     them. Found 2026-09-01 by the loop build → missing file → tlmgr search --file → install.
+  "tex": {
+    "packages": {
+      "acmart": ["acmart.cls"],
+      "amscls": ["amsart.cls"],
+      "libertine": ["libertine.sty"],
+      "inconsolata": ["zi4.sty"],
+      "newtx": ["newtxmath.sty"],
+      "kastrup": ["binhex.tex"],
+      "fancyhdr": ["fancyhdr.sty"],
+      "totpages": ["totpages.sty"],
+      "environ": ["environ.sty"],
+      "preprint": ["balance.sty"],
+      // acmart's `pbalance` option (the vendor's first fix for an unbalanced last page, which the
+      // optional rule `pdf/last-page-balance` recommends) loads pbalance, which needs filehook and
+      // zref. Measured 2026-09-25 on an acmart sigconf camera-ready: without them the option stops
+      // the build; with them the last page went from 639.6 / 224.1 to 424.4 / 439.2 pt, same page count.
+      "pbalance": ["pbalance.sty"],
+      "filehook": ["filehook.sty"],
+      "zref": ["zref-abspage.sty"],
+      "xstring": ["xstring.sty"],
+      "everyshi": ["everyshi.sty"],
+      "hyperxmp": ["hyperxmp.sty"],
+      "ncctools": ["manyfoot.sty"],
+      "cmap": ["cmap.sty"],
+      "float": ["float.sty"],
+      "comment": ["comment.sty"],
+      "upquote": ["upquote.sty"],
+      "doclicense": ["doclicense.sty"],
+      "textcase": ["textcase.sty"],
+    },
+  },
+
+  "format": {
+    // 8.5 x 11 in
+    "page_size": "letter",
+    "page_w_in": 8.5,
+    "page_h_in": 11.0,
+
+    // «text width must not exceed 18 cm»
+    "textblock_w_in": 7.087,
+    // «text height must not exceed 23.5 cm»
+    "textblock_h_in": 9.252,
+    // Last-page balance is NOT a format field: it is the optional rule pdf/last-page-balance, which
+    // a VENUE preset turns on in its `rules` when its producer asks (see agenticdev.jsonc).
+
+    "columns": 2,
+
+    // «font size is 9 pt for all body text»
+    "body_pt": 9,
+    // banal measures the MODE of the rendered text, not the declared size (measured 08-26: 9.30 at
+    // acmart's declared 9). Hence the tolerance — and hence why body size stays a nudge, not a gate.
+    "body_pt_tol": 0.5,
+
+    // «font size of the references can be from 7 pt to 9 pt»
+    "ref_pt_min": 7,
+    "ref_pt_max": 9,
+
+    // «text must be in serif font (Libertine)»
+    "fonts_text": "LinLibertine",
+    // «The title must be in sans-serif font (Biolinum)»
+    "fonts_title": "LinBiolinum",
+  },
+}

package/skills/submit-paper/references/venues/agenticdev.jsonc

@@ -1,108 +1,40 @@
-// Venue format profile — DATA read by the `pdf/profile` rule in eslint-rules/pdf-facts.mjs.
-// Prose about the venue is in agenticdev.md nearby.
-// Source for the numbers: the Conference Publishing author instructions 2026-08-25 + ACM's
-// requirements.
-//
-// 🔴 Why JSONC and not YAML (decided 08-26). I had this in YAML, justifying it with "JSON has no
-// comments, and every number here carries a quote from the instructions." That objection turned
-// out to be false: @eslint/json ships three languages — json, jsonc, json5 — and jsonc is exactly
-// JSON with comments. So the quotes stay in place, the file is read by a real parser
-// (@humanwhocodes/momoa, already a transitive dependency), AND it's linted by the same engine as
-// everything else. One extra dependency (js-yaml on this path) goes away.
+// AgenticDev (an ASE workshop) — a VENUE preset over the ACM sigconf family. Prose about the venue
+// is in agenticdev.md nearby. Everything the ACM template decides (page size, columns, fonts, font
+// sizes, TeX packages) comes from acm-sigconf.jsonc; this file adds what AgenticDev's call for
+// papers sets.
+// Source for the numbers: the Conference Publishing author instructions 2026-08-25.
 {
-  "template": "acmart",
-
-  // TeX Live packages the acmart template needs ON TOP OF tex-base.jsonc, each with the files that
-  // prove it is present (checked with kpsewhich after every install). Read by `paperlint toolchain` and
-  // `paperlint build`; the shape is venue-profile.schema.json.
-  //   libertine · inconsolata (zi4) · newtx — acmart.cls checks ALL THREE and, if ANY is missing,
-  //     silently falls back to Computer Modern: the PDF compiles, looks normal, is set in the wrong
-  //     font, and the other metric gives another pagination. A submitted paper went out that way.
-  //   kastrup (binhex.tex) — pulled in by newtx. Missing it is a HARD stop, so adding the fonts
-  //     without it breaks a build that worked.
-  //   fancyhdr — required by acmart itself; present on most images by accident, absent on a
-  //     minimal one ("File `fancyhdr.sty' not found", measured on TinyTeX, issue #37).
-  //   the rest — pulled in by acmart ITSELF, not by the paper, so reading \usepackage never finds
-  //     them. Found 2026-09-01 by the loop build → missing file → tlmgr search --file → install.
-  "tex": {
-    "packages": {
-      "acmart": ["acmart.cls"],
-      "amscls": ["amsart.cls"],
-      "libertine": ["libertine.sty"],
-      "inconsolata": ["zi4.sty"],
-      "newtx": ["newtxmath.sty"],
-      "kastrup": ["binhex.tex"],
-      "fancyhdr": ["fancyhdr.sty"],
-      "totpages": ["totpages.sty"],
-      "environ": ["environ.sty"],
-      "preprint": ["balance.sty"],
-      // acmart's `pbalance` option (the vendor's first fix for an unbalanced last page, which the
-      // optional rule `pdf/last-page-balance` recommends) loads pbalance, which needs filehook and
-      // zref. Measured 2026-09-25 on an acmart sigconf camera-ready: without them the option stops
-      // the build; with them the last page went from 639.6 / 224.1 to 424.4 / 439.2 pt, same page count.
-      "pbalance": ["pbalance.sty"],
-      "filehook": ["filehook.sty"],
-      "zref": ["zref-abspage.sty"],
-      "xstring": ["xstring.sty"],
-      "everyshi": ["everyshi.sty"],
-      "hyperxmp": ["hyperxmp.sty"],
-      "ncctools": ["manyfoot.sty"],
-      "cmap": ["cmap.sty"],
-      "float": ["float.sty"],
-      "comment": ["comment.sty"],
-      "upquote": ["upquote.sty"],
-      "doclicense": ["doclicense.sty"],
-      "textcase": ["textcase.sty"],
+  "extends": "paperlint:acm-sigconf",
+
+  "format": {
+    // The limits are a property of the paper's TYPE at this venue, not of the venue itself.
+    // A given paper's type is stated in its <paper-dir>/paperlint.json (`kind`).
+    "kinds": {
+      "short": {
+        "body_pages_max": 5,
+        // «up to 2 extra pages of references»
+        "ref_pages_max": 2,
+      },
+      "full": {
+        // «Full ≤10pp (mature)»
+        "body_pages_max": 10,
+        "ref_pages_max": 2,
+      },
+      "demo": {
+        "body_pages_max": 5,
+        "ref_pages_max": 2,
+      },
     },
   },
 
-  // 8.5 x 11 in
-  "page_size": "letter",
-  "page_w_in": 8.5,
-  "page_h_in": 11.0,
-
-  // «text width must not exceed 18 cm»
-  "textblock_w_in": 7.087,
-  // «text height must not exceed 23.5 cm»
-  "textblock_h_in": 9.252,
-  // Last-page balance is NOT a profile field. It is the optional lint rule pdf/last-page-balance,
-  // which a consumer turns on for the papers whose publisher asks (Conference Publishing bounced
-  // an accepted paper for it on 08-29: "Please correct the last page balancing") — see
-  // docs/optional-rules.md.
-
-  "columns": 2,
-
-  // «font size is 9 pt for all body text»
-  "body_pt": 9,
-  // banal measures the MODE of the rendered text, not the declared size (measured 08-26: 9.30 at
-  // acmart's declared 9). Hence the tolerance — and hence why body size stays a nudge, not a gate.
-  "body_pt_tol": 0.5,
-
-  // «font size of the references can be from 7 pt to 9 pt»
-  "ref_pt_min": 7,
-  "ref_pt_max": 9,
-
-  // «text must be in serif font (Libertine)»
-  "fonts_text": "LinLibertine",
-  // «The title must be in sans-serif font (Biolinum)»
-  "fonts_title": "LinBiolinum",
-
-  // The limits are a property of the paper's TYPE at this venue, not of the venue itself.
-  // A given paper's type is stated in its <paper-dir>/venue.json.
-  "kinds": {
-    "short": {
-      "body_pages_max": 5,
-      // «up to 2 extra pages of references»
-      "ref_pages_max": 2,
-    },
-    "full": {
-      // «Full ≤10pp (mature)»
-      "body_pages_max": 10,
-      "ref_pages_max": 2,
-    },
-    "demo": {
-      "body_pages_max": 5,
-      "ref_pages_max": 2,
-    },
+  // The proceedings are produced by Conference Publishing Consulting — agenticdev.md takes its
+  // numbers from their author instructions — which require "balanced columns on the last page, if
+  // the page is not filled" and sent an accepted camera-ready back for it on 2026-08-29, the day
+  // after AgenticDev's camera-ready deadline ("Please correct the last page balancing"). So every
+  // AgenticDev paper gets the optional rule; a paper can still turn it off in its own
+  // paperlint.json. 120 pt is the rule's default, measured: the balanced build ended 2.7 pt apart,
+  // the returned one 321.4 pt apart (docs/optional-rules.md).
+  "rules": {
+    "pdf/last-page-balance": ["error", { "tolerancePt": 120 }],
   },
 }

package/skills/submit-paper/references/venues/aisec.jsonc

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-// AISec @ ACM CCS format profile. Data for the `pdf/*` rules over `_build/paper.facts.json`.
+// AISec @ ACM CCS — a VENUE preset over the ACM sigconf family. Data for the `pdf/*` rules over
+// `_build/paper.facts.json`.
 // Prose about the venue and tracks is in `aisec.md` nearby.
 //
 // PAGE LIMITS — verbatim from https://aisec.cc/ (verified 2026-08-26, not from memory):
@@ -14,88 +15,26 @@
 // a 13th page. That's deliberate: the case is rare, and automation that knows "sometimes it's
 // fine" is worse than a plain rejection a human clears by eye.
 //
-// GEOMETRY AND FONTS are inherited from `acmart sigconf` — the same class as agenticdev, and
-// measured the same way (banal + pdffonts, 08-26). AISec points to the "main ACM CCS'26 formatting
-// instructions" and does not publish its own numbers.
+// GEOMETRY, FONTS AND TeX PACKAGES come from acm-sigconf.jsonc: AISec points to the "main ACM
+// CCS'26 formatting instructions" and does not publish its own numbers.
+//
+// NO `rules` HERE, on purpose: nothing in aisec.md says who produces the AISec proceedings or
+// whether they require a balanced last page (Sheridan does for CCS itself — docs/optional-rules.md —
+// but that is the main conference). Turn pdf/last-page-balance on in the paper's paperlint.json if
+// the camera-ready instructions ask for it.
 {
-  "template": "acmart",
-
-  // TeX Live packages the acmart template needs ON TOP OF tex-base.jsonc, each with the files that
-  // prove it is present (checked with kpsewhich after every install). Read by `paperlint toolchain` and
-  // `paperlint build`; the shape is venue-profile.schema.json.
-  //   libertine · inconsolata (zi4) · newtx — acmart.cls checks ALL THREE and, if ANY is missing,
-  //     silently falls back to Computer Modern: the PDF compiles, looks normal, is set in the wrong
-  //     font, and the other metric gives another pagination. A submitted paper went out that way.
-  //   kastrup (binhex.tex) — pulled in by newtx. Missing it is a HARD stop, so adding the fonts
-  //     without it breaks a build that worked.
-  //   fancyhdr — required by acmart itself; present on most images by accident, absent on a
-  //     minimal one ("File `fancyhdr.sty' not found", measured on TinyTeX, issue #37).
-  //   the rest — pulled in by acmart ITSELF, not by the paper, so reading \usepackage never finds
-  //     them. Found 2026-09-01 by the loop build → missing file → tlmgr search --file → install.
-  "tex": {
-    "packages": {
-      "acmart": ["acmart.cls"],
-      "amscls": ["amsart.cls"],
-      "libertine": ["libertine.sty"],
-      "inconsolata": ["zi4.sty"],
-      "newtx": ["newtxmath.sty"],
-      "kastrup": ["binhex.tex"],
-      "fancyhdr": ["fancyhdr.sty"],
-      "totpages": ["totpages.sty"],
-      "environ": ["environ.sty"],
-      "preprint": ["balance.sty"],
-      // acmart's `pbalance` option (the vendor's first fix for an unbalanced last page, which the
-      // optional rule `pdf/last-page-balance` recommends) loads pbalance, which needs filehook and
-      // zref. Measured 2026-09-25 on an acmart sigconf camera-ready: without them the option stops
-      // the build; with them the last page went from 639.6 / 224.1 to 424.4 / 439.2 pt, same page count.
-      "pbalance": ["pbalance.sty"],
-      "filehook": ["filehook.sty"],
-      "zref": ["zref-abspage.sty"],
-      "xstring": ["xstring.sty"],
-      "everyshi": ["everyshi.sty"],
-      "hyperxmp": ["hyperxmp.sty"],
-      "ncctools": ["manyfoot.sty"],
-      "cmap": ["cmap.sty"],
-      "float": ["float.sty"],
-      "comment": ["comment.sty"],
-      "upquote": ["upquote.sty"],
-      "doclicense": ["doclicense.sty"],
-      "textcase": ["textcase.sty"],
+  "extends": "paperlint:acm-sigconf",
+
+  "format": {
+    // Four tracks (original research · position/open-problem · SoK · benchmark) — the limits are
+    // the SAME for all of them, the venue doesn't split them. The keys are kept separate so a
+    // paper's `paperlint.json` can name its own track: not for the numbers, but so it's visible which
+    // track it was submitted under.
+    "kinds": {
+      "research": { "body_pages_max": 10, "ref_pages_max": 2 },
+      "benchmark": { "body_pages_max": 10, "ref_pages_max": 2 },
+      "position": { "body_pages_max": 10, "ref_pages_max": 2 },
+      "sok": { "body_pages_max": 10, "ref_pages_max": 2 },
     },
   },
-
-  "page_size": "letter",
-  "page_w_in": 8.5,
-  "page_h_in": 11.0,
-
-  "textblock_w_in": 7.087,
-  "textblock_h_in": 9.252,
-  // Last-page balance is NOT a profile field. It is the optional lint rule pdf/last-page-balance,
-  // which a consumer turns on for the papers whose publisher asks (Conference Publishing bounced
-  // an accepted paper for it on 08-29: "Please correct the last page balancing") — see
-  // docs/optional-rules.md.
-
-  "columns": 2,
-
-  "body_pt": 9,
-  // banal measures the rendered text's mode, not the declared size (measured: 9.30 at a
-  // declared 9).
-  "body_pt_tol": 0.5,
-
-  "ref_pt_min": 7,
-  "ref_pt_max": 9,
-
-  "fonts_text": "LinLibertine",
-  "fonts_title": "LinBiolinum",
-
-  // Four tracks (original research · position/open-problem · SoK · benchmark) — the limits are
-  // the SAME for all of them, the venue doesn't split them. The keys are kept separate so a
-  // paper's `venue.json` can name its own track: not for the numbers, but so it's visible which
-  // track it was submitted under.
-  "kinds": {
-    "research": { "body_pages_max": 10, "ref_pages_max": 2 },
-    "benchmark": { "body_pages_max": 10, "ref_pages_max": 2 },
-    "position": { "body_pages_max": 10, "ref_pages_max": 2 },
-    "sok": { "body_pages_max": 10, "ref_pages_max": 2 },
-  },
 }

package/skills/submit-paper/references/venues/realm.jsonc

@@ -28,54 +28,56 @@
     },
   },
 
-  "page_size": "a4",
-  "page_w_in": 8.27,
-  "page_h_in": 11.69,
+  "format": {
+    "page_size": "a4",
+    "page_w_in": 8.27,
+    "page_h_in": 11.69,
 
-  "columns": 2,
+    "columns": 2,
 
-  // ACL's stated body size is 11pt; banal measures the render's mode and gives 11.3.
-  "body_pt": 11,
-  "body_pt_tol": 0.5,
+    // ACL's stated body size is 11pt; banal measures the render's mode and gives 11.3.
+    "body_pt": 11,
+    "body_pt_tol": 0.5,
 
-  // ⚠️ The range is derived from a SINGLE measurement (10.3), not from ACL's spec — I could not
-  // find ACL's own numbers for the reference size. So it's set wide: for an `error`-level rule, a
-  // false positive is worse than a miss. Narrow it once a primary source turns up.
-  "ref_pt_min": 9,
-  "ref_pt_max": 11,
+    // ⚠️ The range is derived from a SINGLE measurement (10.3), not from ACL's spec — I could not
+    // find ACL's own numbers for the reference size. So it's set wide: for an `error`-level rule, a
+    // false positive is worse than a miss. Narrow it once a primary source turns up.
+    "ref_pt_min": 9,
+    "ref_pt_max": 11,
 
-  // The Times clone from the ACL template. Headings are NOT gated: the build also contains
-  // NimbusSanL-Bold, but a `pdffonts` measurement can't establish exactly what the heading is set
-  // in — it only says a typeface IS present in the file, not where it's applied.
-  "fonts_text": "NimbusRomNo9L",
+    // The Times clone from the ACL template. Headings are NOT gated: the build also contains
+    // NimbusSanL-Bold, but a `pdffonts` measurement can't establish exactly what the heading is set
+    // in — it only says a typeface IS present in the file, not where it's applied.
+    "fonts_text": "NimbusRomNo9L",
 
-  // 🔴 PAGE LIMITS ARE NOT GATED HERE, AND THAT IS A MEASUREMENT, NOT LAZINESS.
-  //
-  // banal classifies pages by content and counts Limitations and Ethics as part of the BODY.
-  // ACL excludes them from the limit. Measured 08-26 on our own paper: banal said "body 13," the
-  // build's own counter said "body pages: 9," and both are right — they're just counting
-  // different things (the body ends at Conclusion on p.9; pp.10-13 are Limitations/Ethics; the
-  // bibliography starts at 14).
-  //
-  // A gate on banal's number would give 13 against a limit of 8 and would redden on a paper that
-  // is within the limit. For an `error`-level rule that is the worst outcome. The limit stays
-  // owned by the counter inside `build-submission.sh`: it reads the markdown source and therefore
-  // KNOWS where the body ends, which the PDF does not.
-  //
-  // The numbers below are DATA for that counter and for humans, not an input to the rule. Source:
-  // `realm.md`, verified by directly fetching the 2026-08-02/03 CFP.
-  "page_limits_not_gated": {
-    "_": "8 at submission, 9 at camera-ready (+1 page). Both numbers are CURRENTLY hardcoded in build-submission.sh — 8 in the header, 9 in the run — which reads like a mismatch even though these are different STAGES. The script should pull them from here instead.",
-    "long_submission": 8,
-    "long_camera_ready": 9,
-    "short_submission": 4,
-    "short_camera_ready": 5,
-    "refs_and_appendices": "unlimited",
-    "limitations_and_ethics": "not counted (ACL rule)",
-  },
+    // 🔴 PAGE LIMITS ARE NOT GATED HERE, AND THAT IS A MEASUREMENT, NOT LAZINESS.
+    //
+    // banal classifies pages by content and counts Limitations and Ethics as part of the BODY.
+    // ACL excludes them from the limit. Measured 08-26 on our own paper: banal said "body 13," the
+    // build's own counter said "body pages: 9," and both are right — they're just counting
+    // different things (the body ends at Conclusion on p.9; pp.10-13 are Limitations/Ethics; the
+    // bibliography starts at 14).
+    //
+    // A gate on banal's number would give 13 against a limit of 8 and would redden on a paper that
+    // is within the limit. For an `error`-level rule that is the worst outcome. The limit stays
+    // owned by the counter inside `build-submission.sh`: it reads the markdown source and therefore
+    // KNOWS where the body ends, which the PDF does not.
+    //
+    // The numbers below are DATA for that counter and for humans, not an input to the rule. Source:
+    // `realm.md`, verified by directly fetching the 2026-08-02/03 CFP.
+    "page_limits_not_gated": {
+      "_": "8 at submission, 9 at camera-ready (+1 page). Both numbers are CURRENTLY hardcoded in build-submission.sh — 8 in the header, 9 in the run — which reads like a mismatch even though these are different STAGES. The script should pull them from here instead.",
+      "long_submission": 8,
+      "long_camera_ready": 9,
+      "short_submission": 4,
+      "short_camera_ready": 5,
+      "refs_and_appendices": "unlimited",
+      "limitations_and_ethics": "not counted (ACL rule)",
+    },
 
-  "kinds": {
-    "long": {},
-    "short": {},
+    "kinds": {
+      "long": {},
+      "short": {},
+    },
   },
 }

package/skills/submit-paper/references/venues/tex-base.jsonc

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 // The TeX Live packages EVERY paper gets — and ALL a paper gets when its venue is unknown (no
-// venue.json, or a venue.json naming a venue with no profile here). A venue's own `tex.packages`
+// paperlint.json, or a paperlint.json naming a venue with no profile here). A venue's own `tex.packages`
 // is added on top of this set, never instead of it.
 //
 // Read by `paperlint toolchain` (it installs this set plus every venue's) and by `paperlint build` (it checks