paper-new

paper-new

Create a new academic LaTeX paper project: collect PaperConfig, write .paper-config.yml, scaffold main.tex / sections/ / figures/ / scripts/ / references.bib / Makefile, then hand off to the structure_architect agent for outline design.

This skill is disable-model-invocation: true. The user must invoke it explicitly via /paper-new [venue] [subfield]. Auto-trigger is intentionally disabled because creating a project has filesystem side effects.

What this skill does

1. Parse $ARGUMENTS for optional venue (string) and subfield (enum: ML, CV, NLP, systems, architecture, other).
2. If .paper-config.yml already exists in the cwd, ask the user whether to reinitialize. If yes, back up the old file as .paper-config.yml.bak.
3. Walk the user through the PaperConfig collection wizard:
   • venue (if not from argument)
   • venue_type (auto-detect from venue name when possible)
   • subfield (if not from argument)
   • page_limit (default by venue: NeurIPS 9, IEEE TPAMI null)
   • word_target (default by venue: NeurIPS 8000, IEEE TPAMI 12000)
4. Derive template and citation_style from venue (no user input):
   • NeurIPS / ICML -> neurips_2026 + natbib
   • CVPR / ICCV -> cvpr_2026 + natbib
   • IEEE TPAMI -> IEEEtran + IEEE
   • ACL / EMNLP -> acl_2026 + natbib
   • other -> article + natbib
5. Write .paper-config.yml with schema_version: 3 and the v2 superset fields documented in docs/superpowers/specs/2026-04-11-academic-paper-plugin-design.md section 3.4.1.
6. Scaffold the project tree:

   <project>/
   +-- main.tex
   +-- sections/
   |   +-- introduction.tex
   |   +-- related_work.tex
   |   +-- method.tex
   |   +-- experiments.tex
   |   +-- results.tex
   |   +-- discussion.tex
   |   +-- conclusion.tex
   +-- figures/
   +-- scripts/
   +-- references.bib (empty)
   +-- Makefile
   

7. Delegate to the structure_architect agent (via Skill or Task) to design the section outline. Pass the freshly written .paper-config.yml path so the agent can read it.

Project config loading

This skill is the one that CREATES .paper-config.yml, so it does not require an existing config. Steps 1-6 above produce the config. Step 7 starts using it.

Handoff schemas

structure_architect produces StructureOutline (see references/handoff_schemas.md).

Next steps

After scaffolding, common follow-ups:

• /paper-draft introduction to write the first section
• /paper-figure bar comparing methods to add figures
• /paper-cite add Vaswani 2017 attention to add citations