paperlint 6.3.0 → 7.0.0

package/presets/realm.md

@@ -0,0 +1,166 @@
+---
+title: "REALM @ EMNLP — venue card"
+---
+
+# REALM @ EMNLP
+
+The card of the venue preset `paperlint:realm` ([`realm.jsonc`](realm.jsonc)): what the venue asks
+for, in prose. The numbers a machine checks live in the preset; the section at the end is generated
+from it. The `submit-paper` skill reads this card for the venue's specifics.
+
+**Family: ACL.** What is ACL-wide (the appendix rule, Limitations and Ethics outside the limit,
+anonymity, OpenReview mechanics) lives in `paper-pipeline/references/acl-venue-rules.md`; only
+REALM's own facts are here. ACL's template is not a class — `acl_latex.tex` loads `acl.sty` into
+`\documentclass[11pt]{article}` — so this preset extends no family and carries the template's
+numbers itself.
+
+Sources: the call for papers,
+[realm-workshop.github.io/call_for_papers](https://realm-workshop.github.io/call_for_papers)
+(fetched 2026-08-02 and 2026-08-03), and the OpenReview invitation schema.
+🔴 **Re-verify every cycle** — dates, limits and tracks move between editions.
+
+## The venue (2026 edition, the 2nd)
+
+| field                      | value                                                                                                         |
+| -------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| full name                  | REALM — workshop at EMNLP 2026                                                                                |
+| edition                    | **2nd** (the 1st edition's accepted papers exist — mine them with `study-accepted-papers`)                    |
+| direct submission deadline | **Wednesday 5 August 2026**, 23:59 **AoE** (= 6 August 11:59 UTC)                                             |
+| ARR commitment deadline    | 31 August 2026, same AoE convention                                                                           |
+| archival                   | optional at submission; archival → **ACL Anthology proceedings**                                              |
+| blind                      | **double-blind** — names and affiliations omitted                                                             |
+| preprints                  | allowed at any time, provided the PDF does not link to de-anonymized information                              |
+| portal                     | `openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/REALM`                                                           |
+| format                     | **PDF only**                                                                                                  |
+| mandatory sections         | none beyond ACL's Limitations; _"authors are expected to attest to the ethical considerations in their work"_ |
+| venue mode                 | hybrid; Thursday 29 October, 9:00–17:30, Room P1                                                              |
+
+## Paper kinds and limits
+
+| kind    | at submission | at camera-ready | references and appendices |
+| ------- | ------------: | --------------: | ------------------------: |
+| `long`  |       8 pages |         9 pages |                 unlimited |
+| `short` |       4 pages |         5 pages |                 unlimited |
+
+🔴 **The page limit is not gated by the preset**, and that is a measurement: banal counts
+Limitations and Ethics as body, which ACL excludes from the limit, so a gate on its count reports a
+paper inside the limit. The numbers sit in the preset's `page_limits_not_gated`, as data for a
+counter that knows where the body ends; the two kinds exist so a paper can name its own.
+
+## What else the preset encodes
+
+- **The template**: `\documentclass[11pt]{article}` (`tex/template`), A4, two columns, Times at
+  11 pt, references between 9 and 11 pt — measured on a build, not copied from ACL's text.
+- **TeX packages** `acl.sty` needs: lineno, and the Times, Helvetica, Courier, Symbol and Zapf
+  Dingbats fonts (without them: "Font ptmr8t not loadable" and no PDF).
+- **Names**: `REALM` and `EMNLP`, what `tex/venue-leftover` looks for in another venue's paper.
+
+## 🔴 The submission form has no supplementary field
+
+From `api2.openreview.net/invitations?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/REALM/-/Submission`, the form's
+**complete** field list:
+
+```
+title · authors · authorids · keywords · TLDR · abstract · pdf ·
+archival · cross_submission_to · serve_as_reviewer · venue · venueid
+```
+
+There is no Responsible NLP Checklist and no supplementary upload. So:
+
+1. **Host the artifact externally and anonymously**, with the URL inside the PDF — a submission
+   blocker, and an artifact reviewer refuses the Available badge without a resolving URL.
+2. **Do not confuse this route with ARR**, whose portal does have the checklist and separate
+   software and data uploads.
+3. **No checklist means no LLM-disclosure field here**: put the disclosure in Limitations or Ethical
+   considerations, both outside the page limit
+   (`paper-pipeline/references/acl-venue-rules.md`, §GenAI / LLM disclosure).
+
+`keywords` is a form field, so a keyword line does **not** belong in the typeset PDF.
+
+## The submission form, field by field
+
+What the live form shows, in order. Help text is quoted.
+
+| #   | field                   | required | type                                         | what goes in                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
+| --- | ----------------------- | -------- | -------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| 1   | **Title**               | ✱        | one line                                     | _"Add TeX formulas using $In-line$ or $$Block$$"_ — plain text otherwise. **Must match the PDF's title exactly**; a late title edit in the paper means re-uploading the PDF _and_ retyping this                                                |
+| 2   | **Authors**             | ✱        | profile search                               | pre-filled with the submitting author. _"All authors must have an OpenReview profile prior to submitting"_ — a co-author without an active profile blocks the whole submission                                                                 |
+| 3   | **Keywords**            | ✱        | comma-separated                              | free text, no controlled vocabulary. 🔴 **Because this is a form field, the keyword line does NOT belong in the typeset PDF**                                                                                                                  |
+| 4   | **TL;DR**               | —        | one sentence, 🔴 **hard max 250 characters** | _"a short sentence describing your paper"_. The limit is **not in the help text** — it rejects on submit. Optional, but it is the first thing a bidding reviewer reads: name the mechanism, not the topic. Count the characters before pasting |
+| 5   | **Abstract**            | ✱        | markdown + TeX, Write/Preview tabs           | paste the paper's abstract. Markdown emphasis renders; `**bold**` survives. Backticks render as code                                                                                                                                           |
+| 6   | **PDF**                 | ✱        | file upload                                  | _"Upload a PDF file that ends with .pdf"_. No supplementary field anywhere on the form — see above                                                                                                                                             |
+| 7   | **Archival**            | ✱        | radio: Archival / Non-archival               | Archival → **ACL Anthology**. _"If your paper is a cross-submission (currently under review or already published at another venue), it cannot be archival, per ACL policies."_ Changeable at camera-ready                                      |
+| 8   | **Cross Submission To** | —        | one line                                     | leave **empty** unless the paper is genuinely under review elsewhere. Filling it forfeits archival                                                                                                                                             |
+| 9   | **Serve As Reviewer**   | ✱        | profile search                               | _"reciprocal reviewing practice… nominate at least one author to serve as a reviewer using their OpenReview profile ID (e.g. ~First_Last1)"_. **A solo author nominates themself** — the field is required and there is nobody else            |
+| 10  | License                 | ✱        | fixed chip                                   | **CC BY 4.0**, not editable                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
+| 11  | Readers                 | ✱        | fixed chips                                  | `EMNLP 2026 Workshop REALM` + `authorids`                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
+| 12  | Signatures              | ✱        | fixed chip                                   | the submitting author                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
+
+Then **Submit** / Cancel.
+
+🔴 **The displayed deadline is not when writes stop.** An OpenReview invitation carries two dates
+and the interface shows only the first:
+
+| field                                                          | 2026 edition, UTC |
+| -------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------- |
+| `duedate` — printed everywhere as the deadline                 | 2026-08-06 11:59  |
+| `expdate` — when the invitation actually stops accepting edits | 2026-08-06 12:29  |
+
+A 30-minute window, undocumented in the call and invisible on the form. Read it before the last
+hour:
+
+```
+curl -sS "https://api2.openreview.net/invitations?id=<VENUE-PATH>/-/Submission" \
+  | python3 -c "import json,sys,datetime;[print(k, datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(i[k]/1000)) \
+    for i in json.load(sys.stdin)['invitations'] for k in ('duedate','expdate') if i.get(k)]"
+```
+
+Do not plan around it — a venue may set `expdate == duedate`. It is room to recover from a defect
+found at the deadline, not a schedule.
+
+## Traps
+
+- **The title lives in two places, and they diverge silently.** Change the paper first, rebuild,
+  then fill the form — never the other way round.
+- **"Serve As Reviewer" enrols the nominee.** The day after submission the program chairs assign
+  papers and set a review deadline (2026: submissions 5 August, reviews due 21 August AoE, sixteen
+  days). ACL's AI policy applies to the reviews, verbatim from the chairs' email: _"the use of
+  generative AI tools to write an entire review is prohibited. While such tools may be used for
+  minor editing (e.g., grammar or clarity), the content and assessment must be the reviewer's
+  own."_ The sanction lands on submissions to the next ARR cycle. Price the reviewing window in
+  before submitting, and check whether a decision about reviewing was already made before filling
+  a required field.
+- **Keywords are a form field, not paper content.** Keep the list in a non-typeset comment in the
+  source and paste it here.
+- **The abstract field accepts markdown**, so paste the source abstract. Extracting it from the
+  built PDF is a mistake: on a line-numbered build the extractor interleaves the margin numbers and
+  drops paragraphs.
+- **The deadline's time zone is stated in a different sentence** of the call than the date. Read
+  the whole page, then convert.
+- **OpenReview profile moderation is the critical path.** An author with no institutional email and
+  no DBLP record has no expedite route; start the profile weeks ahead.
+- The workshop's hybrid status comes from REALM's own root page, not EMNLP's general one.
+
+## The ARR route is not a free fallback
+
+The 31 August "ARR commitment" deadline commits a paper **already reviewed by ACL Rolling Review**.
+A paper never submitted to ARR needs an ARR submission first, on ARR's own cycle.
+
+## Sources
+
+- `realm-workshop.github.io/call_for_papers` — the call (fetched 2026-08-02, 2026-08-03)
+- `realm-workshop.github.io/` — the root page, hybrid confirmation
+- `api2.openreview.net/invitations?id=…/-/Submission` — the live form schema
+
+## What the preset resolves to
+
+<!-- paperlint:preset-rules -->
+<!-- prettier-ignore-start -->
+<!-- Generated from realm.jsonc by `npx eslint --fix` (rule preset/card-rules). Edit the preset, not this section. -->
+
+**`paperlint:realm`** — venue preset for REALM · call for papers: <https://realm-workshop.github.io/call_for_papers>
+
+No preset of this chain sets a rule: under it, every rule keeps paperlint's default.
+
+<!-- prettier-ignore-end -->
+<!-- /paperlint:preset-rules -->

package/presets/tex/agenticdev.tex

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 % agenticdev.tex — venue numbers for the guards IN THE PREAMBLE. LaTeX doesn't read YAML, so the
-% values are duplicated from venues/agenticdev.jsonc (the source of truth — read by the
+% values are duplicated from presets/agenticdev.jsonc (the source of truth — read by the
 % `pdf/profile` rule, see eslint-rules/pdf-facts.mjs:128). in = inches.
 %
 % 🔴 THIS USED TO SAY `venues/agenticdev.yaml`, AND NO SUCH FILE EXISTS (fixed 2026-09-12). The

package/presets/tex-base.jsonc

@@ -14,7 +14,13 @@
 //   cm-super — without it pdflatex silently RASTERIZES Computer Modern in some contexts (a Type 3
 //     bitmap font in the PDF; measured 2026-09-01 on an ACL paper: 1 Type 3 font before, 0 after).
 //     ACM and ACL both reject such a PDF, and the build does not complain.
+//
+// Its card, in prose: `tex-base.md` beside this file.
 {
+  // The base set: not a venue and not a template family. No preset extends it — every paper gets it
+  // anyway, under whatever it extends — so it holds `tex` and nothing else (the schema says so).
+  "type": "base",
+
   "tex": {
     "packages": {
       "latex": ["latex.ltx", "article.cls"],

package/presets/tex-base.md

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+---
+title: "The TeX base set — card"
+---
+
+# The TeX base set
+
+The card of [`tex-base.jsonc`](tex-base.jsonc): the TeX Live packages **every** paper gets, and all
+a paper gets when it extends no preset. It is neither a venue nor a template family, and no preset
+extends it — a venue's or a family's `tex.packages` is added on top of it, never instead of it.
+`paperlint toolchain` installs it with every preset's packages; `paperlint build` checks it is
+present before building.
+
+What it is for: a plain `article` paper with the usual tools, typeset in Type 1 fonts. Each package
+names the files that prove it is installed — `kpsewhich` must find them after an install, because
+an installer's exit code is not the criterion. `cm-super` is there because without it pdflatex
+silently rasterizes Computer Modern in some contexts, a bitmap font that ACM and ACL both reject.
+`texcount` and `checkcites` are programs the skills run, not files LaTeX loads.
+
+## What the preset resolves to
+
+<!-- paperlint:preset-rules -->
+<!-- prettier-ignore-start -->
+<!-- Generated from tex-base.jsonc by `npx eslint --fix` (rule preset/card-rules). Edit the preset, not this section. -->
+
+**`tex-base.jsonc`** — the TeX base set: every paper gets it, whatever it extends, and no preset extends it
+
+No preset of this chain sets a rule: under it, every rule keeps paperlint's default.
+
+<!-- prettier-ignore-end -->
+<!-- /paperlint:preset-rules -->

package/presets/venue-profile.schema.json

@@ -11,11 +11,21 @@
       "type": "string",
       "minLength": 1
     },
+    "type": {
+      "description": "What this file is. `venue`: one venue's call for papers, and it must say which venue (`name`) and where its call is (`url`). `family`: a publisher's template (acm-sigconf, ieee-conference) that venue presets extend; it names no venue, so it has neither `name` nor `url`. `base`: the TeX packages every paper gets (tex-base.jsonc); it holds only `tex` and nothing extends it.",
+      "type": "string",
+      "enum": ["venue", "family", "base"]
+    },
     "name": {
-      "description": "A display name for messages; the file name otherwise.",
+      "description": "A venue's name as its call for papers spells it (`AgenticDev`). Required on a venue, refused on a family. The label of messages, and one of the names `tex/venue-leftover` looks for.",
       "type": "string",
       "minLength": 1
     },
+    "url": {
+      "description": "A venue's call for papers or author instructions: the page its numbers are quoted from. Required on a venue, refused on a family.",
+      "type": "string",
+      "pattern": "^https://[^\\s/]+[^\\s]*$"
+    },
     "tex": {
       "$ref": "#/definitions/tex"
     },
@@ -336,6 +346,7 @@
       }
     }
   },
+  "required": ["type"],
   "allOf": [
     {
       "if": {
@@ -346,6 +357,34 @@
       "then": {
         "required": ["tex"]
       }
+    },
+    {
+      "if": {
+        "required": ["type"],
+        "properties": { "type": { "const": "venue" } }
+      },
+      "then": {
+        "required": ["name", "url"]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "if": {
+        "required": ["type"],
+        "properties": { "type": { "const": "family" } }
+      },
+      "then": {
+        "properties": { "name": false, "url": false }
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "if": {
+        "required": ["type"],
+        "properties": { "type": { "const": "base" } }
+      },
+      "then": {
+        "required": ["type", "tex"],
+        "maxProperties": 2
+      }
     }
   ],
   "definitions": {

package/skills/find-venue/SKILL.md

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 ---
 name: find-venue
-description: "Discover and rank real venues for a given paper, scored by authorship credit not just prestige. Fetch candidate CFPs (WebSearch/WebFetch), capture deadline / page limit / paper-type fit / indexing (ACM DL / IEEE Xplore / archival vs non-archival) / double-blind / remote-attendance / selectivity, then rank by credit-weight (peer-reviewed + indexed + parent-venue prestige) × topic fit × accept-probability × deadline feasibility × remote-friendliness. Emit a comparison table and a keep/switch recommendation. Encodes: workshop newness does NOT hurt authorship; non-archival workshops rank LOW; the prestige move is to EXTEND the accepted paper later, not hold out. Compose with research-ideate (upstream), plan-paper-timeline, the submit-paper venue data cards (submit-paper/references/venues/<venue>.md), and extend-paper."
+description: "Discover and rank real venues for a given paper, scored by authorship credit not just prestige. Fetch candidate CFPs (WebSearch/WebFetch), capture deadline / page limit / paper-type fit / indexing (ACM DL / IEEE Xplore / archival vs non-archival) / double-blind / remote-attendance / selectivity, then rank by credit-weight (peer-reviewed + indexed + parent-venue prestige) × topic fit × accept-probability × deadline feasibility × remote-friendliness. Emit a comparison table and a keep/switch recommendation. Encodes: workshop newness does NOT hurt authorship; non-archival workshops rank LOW; the prestige move is to EXTEND the accepted paper later, not hold out. Compose with research-ideate (upstream), plan-paper-timeline, the venue cards (presets/<venue>.md in the paperlint package), and extend-paper."
 allowed-tools: [Read, Write, Grep, Glob, WebSearch, WebFetch, Agent]
 ---
 
-<!-- vigiles:sha256:bfda3e840d81d95d compiled from skills/find-venue/SKILL.md.spec.ts -->
+<!-- vigiles:sha256:8b332cbc072b46ee compiled from skills/find-venue/SKILL.md.spec.ts -->
 
 # find-venue — rank real venues by what earns the credit, then keep or switch
 
@@ -81,9 +81,10 @@ rank = credit-weight × topic-fit × accept-probability × deadline-feasibility
   `{ "extends": "paperlint:<venue>", "kind": "<kind>" }` — a shipped preset, else a family
   (`paperlint:acm-sigconf`) or the project's own `./venues/<name>.jsonc`; the `pdf/*` rules then
   check the built PDF against its page limit and format.
-- `submit-paper` venue data cards (`submit-paper/references/venues/<venue>.md`, e.g. `agenticdev.md`,
-  `aisec.md`) — the winner gets a venue-specific data card with its HotCRP quirks; save a new one per
-  venue as plain data, not a new skill.
+- the venue cards, `presets/<venue>.md` in the paperlint package beside each venue preset (e.g.
+  `agenticdev.md`, `aisec.md`) — the winner gets a card with its HotCRP quirks beside its preset;
+  for a venue with no shipped preset, the project's own `./venues/<name>.md` beside its
+  `./venues/<name>.jsonc`. Plain data, not a new skill.
 - `extend-paper` — the prestige-upgrade target this skill names but defers.
 
 ## Provenance

package/skills/find-venue/SKILL.md.spec.ts

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import { experimental_skill } from "vigiles/spec";
 export default experimental_skill({
   name: "find-venue",
   description:
-    "Discover and rank real venues for a given paper, scored by authorship credit not just prestige. Fetch candidate CFPs (WebSearch/WebFetch), capture deadline / page limit / paper-type fit / indexing (ACM DL / IEEE Xplore / archival vs non-archival) / double-blind / remote-attendance / selectivity, then rank by credit-weight (peer-reviewed + indexed + parent-venue prestige) × topic fit × accept-probability × deadline feasibility × remote-friendliness. Emit a comparison table and a keep/switch recommendation. Encodes: workshop newness does NOT hurt authorship; non-archival workshops rank LOW; the prestige move is to EXTEND the accepted paper later, not hold out. Compose with research-ideate (upstream), plan-paper-timeline, the submit-paper venue data cards (submit-paper/references/venues/<venue>.md), and extend-paper.",
+    "Discover and rank real venues for a given paper, scored by authorship credit not just prestige. Fetch candidate CFPs (WebSearch/WebFetch), capture deadline / page limit / paper-type fit / indexing (ACM DL / IEEE Xplore / archival vs non-archival) / double-blind / remote-attendance / selectivity, then rank by credit-weight (peer-reviewed + indexed + parent-venue prestige) × topic fit × accept-probability × deadline feasibility × remote-friendliness. Emit a comparison table and a keep/switch recommendation. Encodes: workshop newness does NOT hurt authorship; non-archival workshops rank LOW; the prestige move is to EXTEND the accepted paper later, not hold out. Compose with research-ideate (upstream), plan-paper-timeline, the venue cards (presets/<venue>.md in the paperlint package), and extend-paper.",
   tools: ["Read", "Write", "Grep", "Glob", "WebSearch", "WebFetch", "Agent"],
   body: `
 # find-venue — rank real venues by what earns the credit, then keep or switch
@@ -87,9 +87,10 @@ rank = credit-weight × topic-fit × accept-probability × deadline-feasibility
   \`{ "extends": "paperlint:<venue>", "kind": "<kind>" }\` — a shipped preset, else a family
   (\`paperlint:acm-sigconf\`) or the project's own \`./venues/<name>.jsonc\`; the \`pdf/*\` rules then
   check the built PDF against its page limit and format.
-- \`submit-paper\` venue data cards (\`submit-paper/references/venues/<venue>.md\`, e.g. \`agenticdev.md\`,
-  \`aisec.md\`) — the winner gets a venue-specific data card with its HotCRP quirks; save a new one per
-  venue as plain data, not a new skill.
+- the venue cards, \`presets/<venue>.md\` in the paperlint package beside each venue preset (e.g.
+  \`agenticdev.md\`, \`aisec.md\`) — the winner gets a card with its HotCRP quirks beside its preset;
+  for a venue with no shipped preset, the project's own \`./venues/<name>.md\` beside its
+  \`./venues/<name>.jsonc\`. Plain data, not a new skill.
 - \`extend-paper\` — the prestige-upgrade target this skill names but defers.
 
 ## Provenance

package/skills/paper-pipeline/SKILL.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ description: The orchestrator for writing a research paper end-to-end, from idea
 allowed-tools: [Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob, Bash, WebSearch, WebFetch, Agent, Skill]
 ---
 
-<!-- vigiles:sha256:805b94a3515406d7 compiled from skills/paper-pipeline/SKILL.md.spec.ts -->
+<!-- vigiles:sha256:a8a20289badf1fa8 compiled from skills/paper-pipeline/SKILL.md.spec.ts -->
 
 # paper-pipeline — the conductor for the whole organism
 
@@ -27,10 +27,9 @@ of that — who is filing what, and when — stays in the author's own private n
   grades, open findings, submit-ready verdict). Copied into `<paper-dir>/PIPELINE-STATUS.md`.
 - `references/acl-venue-rules.md` — what holds at **every** ACL-family venue and workshop: the
   page-limit map, the appendix rule and the trap inside it, Limitations/Ethics as free-but-restricted
-  space, anonymity, OpenReview mechanics. Fetch once, not per paper. Venue-specific facts stay in
-  `submit-paper/references/venues/<venue>.md`. (No prose equivalent yet for ACM or IEEE — write one
-  when the next paper goes there. ACM's machine-checked format already exists: the
-  `paperlint:acm-sigconf` preset, `presets/acm-sigconf.jsonc` in the package.)
+  space, anonymity, OpenReview mechanics. Fetch once, not per paper. Venue-specific facts stay in the
+  venue's card, `presets/<venue>.md` in the package. The ACM and IEEE templates have family cards
+  beside their presets, `presets/acm-sigconf.md` and `presets/ieee-conference.md`.
 
 ## The readiness scorecard (which boxes are checked)
 Stages run in subagents and report into chat, which evaporates — so "did everything run?" becomes
@@ -151,7 +150,7 @@ Ordered, because each really does gate the next. Two pairs run in parallel; that
 | **Validate the idea** | **`research-ideate`** | Is it a reusable method (survives review) in your lane, and does it feed the credit criteria? Go/no-go + the MVP finding. |
 | **Map the competition** ‖ | **`map-prior-work`** | 🔴 **Who already did this?** Multi-angle sweep; date each hit against your submission (5 months = prior, not concurrent); triage by which layer of your claim it threatens; deep-read the dangerous ones. Output: **what you can still claim** + a related-work skeleton. *Added 2026-07-27 after a five-month-older paper surfaced at T−10 days on a finished draft.* |
 | **Pick the venue** ‖ | **`find-venue`** | Rank by credit-weight (peer-reviewed + indexed) × fit × accept-odds × deadline × remote. |
-| **Learn the venue's bar** | **`study-accepted-papers`** | 🔴 **What does an ACCEPTED paper look like HERE?** Measure the venue's whole accepted volume, deep-read 8–12 of your contribution type, and extract what made them strong: evidence scale, figures, artifact release, how the abstract is built. File the venue card (`submit-paper/references/venues/<venue>.md`) and confirm family rules (`references/acl-venue-rules.md`). *Promoted to its own step 2026-08-03: on `compile-rules-2026` every judgement of the paper's quality — rubric, persona, simulated panel, accept probability — came from instruments this pipeline itself generated, with no external grounding, and the author had to say so at T−3 days. A closed loop optimises against its own model of a reviewer.* |
+| **Learn the venue's bar** | **`study-accepted-papers`** | 🔴 **What does an ACCEPTED paper look like HERE?** Measure the venue's whole accepted volume, deep-read 8–12 of your contribution type, and extract what made them strong: evidence scale, figures, artifact release, how the abstract is built. File the venue card (`presets/<venue>.md` in the package, or the project's own beside its preset) and confirm family rules (`references/acl-venue-rules.md`). *Promoted to its own step 2026-08-03: on `compile-rules-2026` every judgement of the paper's quality — rubric, persona, simulated panel, accept probability — came from instruments this pipeline itself generated, with no external grounding, and the author had to say so at T−3 days. A closed loop optimises against its own model of a reviewer.* |
 | 🔴 **Can you physically submit?** | **`plan-paper-timeline`** | **The step that owns the question no stage used to own.** Create the portal account NOW; drive the profile to **ACTIVE**, not "pending moderation"; confirm the form's fields and the artifact-hosting requirement. OpenReview moderation runs **up to two weeks**, and an author with no institutional email has no expedite route. Scorecard row `access`. *Added 2026-08-03, when this was the sole critical-path item on a finished paper at T−4 days: the science was done and there was nowhere to put it.* |
 | **Schedule it** | **`plan-paper-timeline`** | Deadlines → calendar with buffers, in the author's own zone (AoE − 12h ≠ your clock). Space papers apart. |
 | 🔴 **State the claim** | **`argument-arc`** (frame mode) | **One paragraph: what will this paper claim, and what would have to be true?** Before any run. The frame decides which results matter, and reframing after the data is collected is how experiments get thrown away — observed on `compile-rules-2026`, and the reason `argument-arc` has a rebuild mode at all. Costs a paragraph; saves a study. Scorecard row `frame`. |

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

@@ -44,10 +44,9 @@ of that — who is filing what, and when — stays in the author's own private n
   grades, open findings, submit-ready verdict). Copied into \`<paper-dir>/PIPELINE-STATUS.md\`.
 - \`references/acl-venue-rules.md\` — what holds at **every** ACL-family venue and workshop: the
   page-limit map, the appendix rule and the trap inside it, Limitations/Ethics as free-but-restricted
-  space, anonymity, OpenReview mechanics. Fetch once, not per paper. Venue-specific facts stay in
-  \`submit-paper/references/venues/<venue>.md\`. (No prose equivalent yet for ACM or IEEE — write one
-  when the next paper goes there. ACM's machine-checked format already exists: the
-  \`paperlint:acm-sigconf\` preset, \`presets/acm-sigconf.jsonc\` in the package.)
+  space, anonymity, OpenReview mechanics. Fetch once, not per paper. Venue-specific facts stay in the
+  venue's card, \`presets/<venue>.md\` in the package. The ACM and IEEE templates have family cards
+  beside their presets, \`presets/acm-sigconf.md\` and \`presets/ieee-conference.md\`.
 
 ## The readiness scorecard (which boxes are checked)
 Stages run in subagents and report into chat, which evaporates — so "did everything run?" becomes
@@ -168,7 +167,7 @@ Ordered, because each really does gate the next. Two pairs run in parallel; that
 | **Validate the idea** | **\`research-ideate\`** | Is it a reusable method (survives review) in your lane, and does it feed the credit criteria? Go/no-go + the MVP finding. |
 | **Map the competition** ‖ | **\`map-prior-work\`** | 🔴 **Who already did this?** Multi-angle sweep; date each hit against your submission (5 months = prior, not concurrent); triage by which layer of your claim it threatens; deep-read the dangerous ones. Output: **what you can still claim** + a related-work skeleton. *Added 2026-07-27 after a five-month-older paper surfaced at T−10 days on a finished draft.* |
 | **Pick the venue** ‖ | **\`find-venue\`** | Rank by credit-weight (peer-reviewed + indexed) × fit × accept-odds × deadline × remote. |
-| **Learn the venue's bar** | **\`study-accepted-papers\`** | 🔴 **What does an ACCEPTED paper look like HERE?** Measure the venue's whole accepted volume, deep-read 8–12 of your contribution type, and extract what made them strong: evidence scale, figures, artifact release, how the abstract is built. File the venue card (\`submit-paper/references/venues/<venue>.md\`) and confirm family rules (\`references/acl-venue-rules.md\`). *Promoted to its own step 2026-08-03: on \`compile-rules-2026\` every judgement of the paper's quality — rubric, persona, simulated panel, accept probability — came from instruments this pipeline itself generated, with no external grounding, and the author had to say so at T−3 days. A closed loop optimises against its own model of a reviewer.* |
+| **Learn the venue's bar** | **\`study-accepted-papers\`** | 🔴 **What does an ACCEPTED paper look like HERE?** Measure the venue's whole accepted volume, deep-read 8–12 of your contribution type, and extract what made them strong: evidence scale, figures, artifact release, how the abstract is built. File the venue card (\`presets/<venue>.md\` in the package, or the project's own beside its preset) and confirm family rules (\`references/acl-venue-rules.md\`). *Promoted to its own step 2026-08-03: on \`compile-rules-2026\` every judgement of the paper's quality — rubric, persona, simulated panel, accept probability — came from instruments this pipeline itself generated, with no external grounding, and the author had to say so at T−3 days. A closed loop optimises against its own model of a reviewer.* |
 | 🔴 **Can you physically submit?** | **\`plan-paper-timeline\`** | **The step that owns the question no stage used to own.** Create the portal account NOW; drive the profile to **ACTIVE**, not "pending moderation"; confirm the form's fields and the artifact-hosting requirement. OpenReview moderation runs **up to two weeks**, and an author with no institutional email has no expedite route. Scorecard row \`access\`. *Added 2026-08-03, when this was the sole critical-path item on a finished paper at T−4 days: the science was done and there was nowhere to put it.* |
 | **Schedule it** | **\`plan-paper-timeline\`** | Deadlines → calendar with buffers, in the author's own zone (AoE − 12h ≠ your clock). Space papers apart. |
 | 🔴 **State the claim** | **\`argument-arc\`** (frame mode) | **One paragraph: what will this paper claim, and what would have to be true?** Before any run. The frame decides which results matter, and reframing after the data is collected is how experiments get thrown away — observed on \`compile-rules-2026\`, and the reason \`argument-arc\` has a rebuild mode at all. Costs a paragraph; saves a study. Scorecard row \`frame\`. |

package/skills/paper-pipeline/references/acl-venue-rules.md

@@ -139,4 +139,4 @@ year.
 
 Page counts per track · archival vs non-archival · ARR commitment route and its deadline · the
 submission portal URL and its form fields · anonymity period · attendance requirements · the review
-criteria. All of that lives in `submit-paper/references/venues/<venue>.md`.
+criteria. All of that lives in the venue's card, `presets/<venue>.md` in the paperlint package.

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:e199b342e4e98338 compiled from skills/study-accepted-papers/SKILL.md.spec.ts -->
+<!-- vigiles:sha256:b68bde442319a605 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
 
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ It answers a different question than the neighboring skills:
 
 Grounding: the authorship criterion — why a *strong* accept at an indexed venue is
 worth more to the dossier than a borderline one — reviewer enthusiasm shows up in the acceptance and in
-letters), and the venue data card `../submit-paper/references/venues/<venue>.md` if one exists.
+letters), and the venue's card `presets/<venue>.md` in the paperlint package if one exists.
 
 ## Step 1 — pin the venue's stated bar (fetch, don't guess)
 
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ short enough that it survives being loaded into every session.
 - `pc-panel-review` / `paper-adversarial-review` — run those to red-team the draft; run this to learn the bar the red-team should hold it to. Complementary, not redundant.
 - `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 venue card (`presets/<venue>.md` in the paperlint package, or the project's own `./venues/<name>.md` beside its preset) — 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

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

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ It answers a different question than the neighboring skills:
 
 Grounding: the authorship criterion — why a *strong* accept at an indexed venue is
 worth more to the dossier than a borderline one — reviewer enthusiasm shows up in the acceptance and in
-letters), and the venue data card \`../submit-paper/references/venues/<venue>.md\` if one exists.
+letters), and the venue's card \`presets/<venue>.md\` in the paperlint package if one exists.
 
 ## Step 1 — pin the venue's stated bar (fetch, don't guess)
 
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ short enough that it survives being loaded into every session.
 - \`pc-panel-review\` / \`paper-adversarial-review\` — run those to red-team the draft; run this to learn the bar the red-team should hold it to. Complementary, not redundant.
 - \`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 venue card (\`presets/<venue>.md\` in the paperlint package, or the project's own \`./venues/<name>.md\` beside its preset) — 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

package/skills/submit-paper/SKILL.md

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 ---
 name: submit-paper
-description: End-to-end playbook for submitting a peer-reviewed paper to a double-blind venue (HotCRP workshops/conferences) — from a hardened draft to "ready for review." Covers building and anonymously hosting a reproduction artifact, HotCRP profile + form mechanics, double-blind hygiene, and the authorship/credential angles for an independent researcher. Use when the paper is drafted and reviewed and it's time to actually submit. Compose with pc-panel-review / paper-adversarial-review (harden first), and with the venue data card (references/venues/<venue>.md) for venue specifics.
+description: End-to-end playbook for submitting a peer-reviewed paper to a double-blind venue (HotCRP workshops/conferences) — from a hardened draft to "ready for review." Covers building and anonymously hosting a reproduction artifact, HotCRP profile + form mechanics, double-blind hygiene, and the authorship/credential angles for an independent researcher. Use when the paper is drafted and reviewed and it's time to actually submit. Compose with pc-panel-review / paper-adversarial-review (harden first), and with the venue card (presets/<venue>.md in the paperlint package) for venue specifics.
 allowed-tools: [Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob, Bash, WebSearch, WebFetch, Skill]
 ---
 
-<!-- vigiles:sha256:767a4757d1df67d3 compiled from skills/submit-paper/SKILL.md.spec.ts -->
+<!-- vigiles:sha256:8f53cae32633b002 compiled from skills/submit-paper/SKILL.md.spec.ts -->
 
 # submit-paper — get a reviewed paper from "done" to "ready for review"
 
@@ -12,26 +12,30 @@ Assumes the paper is already hardened (run `pc-panel-review` — incl. its venue
 `paper-adversarial-review` first). This skill is the submission mechanics — the part that bit us with
 avoidable friction the first time. Distilled from the AgenticDev 2026 submission.
 
-## Venue specifics — a DATA card, not a skill
+## Venue specifics — a CARD beside the venue's preset, not a skill
 The venue-specific facts (deadline, page limits, tracks, PC-member conflict list, blind model, format
-quirks, whether a supplementary-upload field exists, the extension target) live as **plain reference
-data files** under `references/venues/<venue>.md`:
-- `references/venues/agenticdev.md` — AgenticDev @ ASE (workshop; ACM DL/IEEE Xplore).
-- `references/venues/aisec.md` — AISec @ ACM CCS (security workshop; ACM DL; harder bar).
-
-**The pattern (follow it for every new venue):** when you fetch a venue's exact submission instructions,
-save them as a new **data file** `references/venues/<venue>.md` (short `title:` frontmatter only — NOT a
-skill with `name:`/`description:`). This preserves the "save the exact venue instructions" rule while
-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
+quirks, whether a supplementary-upload field exists) live in the venue's **card**, `presets/<venue>.md`
+in the paperlint package, beside the preset `presets/<venue>.jsonc` that the lint rules check a
+paper against:
+- `presets/agenticdev.md` — AgenticDev @ ASE (workshop; ASE workshop proceedings).
+- `presets/aisec.md` — AISec @ ACM CCS (security workshop; ACM DL; harder bar).
+- `presets/aidc.md` — AIDC @ IEEE ACSAC (workshop; IEEE template, LLM Usage Statement).
+- `presets/realm.md` — REALM @ EMNLP (ACL family, OpenReview).
+
+**The card is prose; the machine-checked format is the 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.
+columns, font sizes). The card's last section — what the preset is, its call for papers, the rules it
+sets and where each comes from — is generated from the preset, so read the numbers there, not from
+memory.
+
+**The pattern (follow it for every new venue):** when you fetch a venue's exact submission
+instructions, write the numbers into a preset with their quotes and the rest into a card beside it.
+A venue with no shipped preset extends a family — `paperlint:acm-sigconf` for an ACM venue — in a
+preset of the project's own, `./venues/<name>.jsonc`, with its card `./venues/<name>.md` next to
+it (paperlint's `docs/rules.md`, "Writing your own venue preset"). A venue preset declares
+`"type": "venue"`, the venue's `name` and the `url` of its call for papers. The *mechanics*
+stay here; the card is only the facts.
 
 ## Publisher specifics — one level ABOVE the venue
 Camera-ready mechanics belong to the **publisher**, not the venue: ACM eRights, the submit-vs-final
@@ -148,9 +152,9 @@ convention with no reader.
 ## Compose with
 - Harden first: `pc-panel-review` (incl. its venue-fit mode), `paper-adversarial-review`, `render-paper`.
 - Publisher mechanics (camera-ready): `references/publishers/<publisher>.md`.
-- Venue specifics: the matching data card `references/venues/<venue>.md` (e.g.
-  `references/venues/agenticdev.md`) for deadlines, page limits, PC-member conflict lists, whether
-  supplementary upload exists, and the extension target.
+- Venue specifics: the venue's card `presets/<venue>.md` in the paperlint package (e.g.
+  `presets/agenticdev.md`) for deadlines, page limits, PC-member conflict lists, and whether a
+  supplementary upload exists.
 
 ## Provenance
 Written from the AgenticDev 2026 @ ASE submission (2026-07-13): PC-panel-reviewed, self-checking