paperlint 6.3.0 → 7.1.0

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"
     },
@@ -24,6 +34,16 @@
       "type": "string",
       "minLength": 1
     },
+    "template_forbids": {
+      "description": "Class options the venue's call forbids in the \\documentclass line (`[\"compsoc\", \"compsocconf\"]`: MSR's «without including the compsoc or compsocconf options»). `tex/template` reports each one a paper's class line carries. Read with the `template` of the same file, and only with it: a child's `template` replaces both.",
+      "type": "array",
+      "minItems": 1,
+      "uniqueItems": true,
+      "items": {
+        "type": "string",
+        "minLength": 1
+      }
+    },
     "blind": {
       "description": "The venue reviews double-blind: its call says submissions must be anonymized. Read by `anonymity/identity`, which then requires the paper's `identity` and finds none of it in the PDF. Set only where the venue says so, with the quote. A child's value replaces its parent's.",
       "type": "boolean"
@@ -37,6 +57,11 @@
         "minLength": 1
       }
     },
+    "mentions": {
+      "description": "When the venue's `name` and `aliases` count as naming it in a paper's text (`tex/venue-leftover`). Absent: any whole-word use. `with-year`: only with a year beside the name — `MSR 2027`, `MSR'27`, `MSR~2027` — for a name that is also a common acronym (MSR: Microsoft Research, or an acronym a paper defines), where a bare use names something else far more often than the venue. A child's value replaces its parent's.",
+      "type": "string",
+      "enum": ["with-year"]
+    },
     "portal": {
       "description": "Where the venue takes submissions, read by `paperlint submission`: the portal's kind (an adapter exists for `hotcrp`) and the site's base URL, the one its pages and `/api/` hang off. A paper says which submission is its own with `submission: { id }` in its paperlint.json. A child's value replaces its parent's.",
       "type": "object",
@@ -76,6 +101,9 @@
       "description": "What the venue's call for papers sets. Every key is optional; a child preset's key replaces its parent's, and a child's kind replaces that kind.",
       "type": "object",
       "additionalProperties": false,
+      "dependencies": {
+        "appendix_in_body": ["body_ends_at"]
+      },
       "properties": {
         "page_size": {
           "type": "string",
@@ -130,6 +158,10 @@
           "type": "string",
           "enum": ["references"]
         },
+        "appendix_in_body": {
+          "description": "With `body_ends_at: references`: the venue counts its appendices in the body limit and allows reference pages that hold only references (MSR: «10 pages for the main text, inclusive of all figures, tables, appendices, etc. Two more pages containing only references are permitted.»). `format/page-limit` then counts as body the pages up to the references and, when the appendix starts after them, every page from the appendix (found by hyperref's anchor) to the last; the pages between are the reference pages, judged against `ref_pages_max`. An appendix before the references is body and ends nothing.",
+          "type": "boolean"
+        },
         "page_limits_not_gated": {
           "type": "object"
         },
@@ -336,6 +368,10 @@
       }
     }
   },
+  "required": ["type"],
+  "dependencies": {
+    "template_forbids": ["template"]
+  },
   "allOf": [
     {
       "if": {
@@ -346,6 +382,34 @@
       "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/camera-ready/SKILL.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ description: On acceptance, turn the anonymized-for-review paper into the de-ano
 allowed-tools: [Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob, Bash, WebSearch, WebFetch]
 ---
 
-<!-- vigiles:sha256:5c85ef4004c31956 compiled from skills/camera-ready/SKILL.md.spec.ts -->
+<!-- vigiles:sha256:1c9ad89e55c3e89a compiled from skills/camera-ready/SKILL.md.spec.ts -->
 
 # camera-ready — de-anonymize an accepted paper into the final proceedings version
 
@@ -94,6 +94,13 @@ and going over is a hard reject at the proceedings stage. Recompile
 If tight, ACM allows references to spill into the reference-only extra pages.
 
 ## 5. Ship
+- **Before the final PDF goes up, hand the last check to the author, in plain words.** Tell them that
+  paperlint passing is not the venue or the publisher accepting the format, and ask them to open the
+  exact PDF they are about to upload and check it against the venue's call for papers and its
+  camera-ready instructions themselves — the page count and what counts toward the limit (the
+  camera-ready's extra page, if any), the template and its class options, the author block and
+  acknowledgements now de-anonymized, and that every figure, table and reference renders. Upload once
+  they say they have looked.
 - Rebuild the final PDF, upload to the camera-ready system (often the same HotCRP, or an ACM eRights /
   TAPS pipeline — follow the copyright email).
 - Complete the **ACM/IEEE eRights** copyright form → paste the returned copyright block + DOI into the

package/skills/camera-ready/SKILL.md.spec.ts

@@ -109,6 +109,13 @@ and going over is a hard reject at the proceedings stage. Recompile
 If tight, ACM allows references to spill into the reference-only extra pages.
 
 ## 5. Ship
+- **Before the final PDF goes up, hand the last check to the author, in plain words.** Tell them that
+  paperlint passing is not the venue or the publisher accepting the format, and ask them to open the
+  exact PDF they are about to upload and check it against the venue's call for papers and its
+  camera-ready instructions themselves — the page count and what counts toward the limit (the
+  camera-ready's extra page, if any), the template and its class options, the author block and
+  acknowledgements now de-anonymized, and that every figure, table and reference renders. Upload once
+  they say they have looked.
 - Rebuild the final PDF, upload to the camera-ready system (often the same HotCRP, or an ACM eRights /
   TAPS pipeline — follow the copyright email).
 - Complete the **ACM/IEEE eRights** copyright form → paste the returned copyright block + DOI into the

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/submission-portal/SKILL.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ description: "Read or change a paper's submission on the venue's HotCRP portal v
 allowed-tools: [Read, Grep, Glob, Bash]
 ---
 
-<!-- vigiles:sha256:deb3d74f5c3f93a8 compiled from skills/submission-portal/SKILL.md.spec.ts -->
+<!-- vigiles:sha256:4b3a8c0b51ebe206 compiled from skills/submission-portal/SKILL.md.spec.ts -->
 
 # submission-portal — read and update the submission on the portal, then prove it landed
 
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ supported; for any other portal the command says so and the upload is done by ha
 ## What must be in place
 
 - **The venue preset declares the portal**: `"portal": { "kind": "hotcrp", "url": "<the site>" }`
-  (`paperlint:aidc` has it). For your own venue preset, add it there.
+  (`paperlint:aidc` and `paperlint:msr` have it). For your own venue preset, add it there.
 - **The paper's `paperlint.json` names its submission**: `"submission": { "id": <number> }` — the
   number HotCRP shows for the paper.
 - **A token in `HOTCRP_TOKEN`**, created by the author on the HotCRP site under Account settings →

package/skills/submission-portal/SKILL.md.spec.ts

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ supported; for any other portal the command says so and the upload is done by ha
 ## What must be in place
 
 - **The venue preset declares the portal**: \`"portal": { "kind": "hotcrp", "url": "<the site>" }\`
-  (\`paperlint:aidc\` has it). For your own venue preset, add it there.
+  (\`paperlint:aidc\` and \`paperlint:msr\` have it). For your own venue preset, add it there.
 - **The paper's \`paperlint.json\` names its submission**: \`"submission": { "id": <number> }\` — the
   number HotCRP shows for the paper.
 - **A token in \`HOTCRP_TOKEN\`**, created by the author on the HotCRP site under Account settings →

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:sha256:81d5777962c2864a compiled from skills/submit-paper/SKILL.md.spec.ts -->
 
 # submit-paper — get a reviewed paper from "done" to "ready for review"
 
@@ -12,26 +12,31 @@ 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/msr.md` — MSR Technical Papers (conference; IEEE template from 2027, appendices count in the page limit).
+- `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
@@ -106,6 +111,13 @@ Many workshop HotCRPs have **no supplementary-upload field** — check first; if
   An independent researcher with no ties usually checks **none** — that's honest.
 
 ## 5. Submit
+- **Before the PDF goes up — and before every Replace — hand the last check to the author, in plain
+  words.** Tell them that paperlint passing is not the venue accepting the format: the preset is
+  transcribed from a call that can change, and any check can miss something. Ask them to open the
+  exact PDF they are about to upload and check it against the venue's call for papers themselves —
+  the page count and what counts toward the limit (appendices, references), the template and its
+  class options, anonymity, and that every figure, table and reference renders. Upload once they say
+  they have looked. (`paperlint submission update` prints the same request before it sends.)
 - **Save and submit**, then **mark it "ready for review."** A saved draft alone is NOT evaluated — this
   is the step people miss.
 - You can edit until the deadline: use **Replace** on the Submission field to swap the PDF for a late
@@ -148,9 +160,9 @@ 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

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

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import { experimental_skill } from "vigiles/spec";
 export default experimental_skill({
   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.',
+    '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.',
   tools: [
     "Read",
     "Write",
@@ -28,26 +28,31 @@ Assumes the paper is already hardened (run \`pc-panel-review\` — incl. its ven
 \`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/msr.md\` — MSR Technical Papers (conference; IEEE template from 2027, appendices count in the page limit).
+- \`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
@@ -122,6 +127,13 @@ Many workshop HotCRPs have **no supplementary-upload field** — check first; if
   An independent researcher with no ties usually checks **none** — that's honest.
 
 ## 5. Submit
+- **Before the PDF goes up — and before every Replace — hand the last check to the author, in plain
+  words.** Tell them that paperlint passing is not the venue accepting the format: the preset is
+  transcribed from a call that can change, and any check can miss something. Ask them to open the
+  exact PDF they are about to upload and check it against the venue's call for papers themselves —
+  the page count and what counts toward the limit (appendices, references), the template and its
+  class options, anonymity, and that every figure, table and reference renders. Upload once they say
+  they have looked. (\`paperlint submission update\` prints the same request before it sends.)
 - **Save and submit**, then **mark it "ready for review."** A saved draft alone is NOT evaluated — this
   is the step people miss.
 - You can edit until the deadline: use **Replace** on the Submission field to swap the PDF for a late
@@ -164,9 +176,9 @@ 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

package/skills/submit-paper/references/publishers/acm.md

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ tags: [publisher, acm, camera-ready, erights, ccs]
 # ACM: what camera-ready requires
 
 > This is the **publisher** level, not the venue level. Identical for AgenticDev@ASE, AISec@CCS,
-> and any other ACM conference. The venue card (`../venues/<venue>.md`) holds only what's its own:
+> and any other ACM conference. The venue card (`presets/<venue>.md` in the paperlint package) holds only what's its own:
 > dates, page limit, its own DOI/ISBN, blind model.
 >
 > Captured 2026-08-24 from the live AgenticDev #20 HotCRP form — field by field, not from memory.