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name: venue-adapt description: adapt stable writing choices while forcing current-year official checks

venue-adapt

Purpose: adapt stable writing choices while forcing current-year official checks.

Source capability: .agent/capabilities/venue-adapt.yaml. Read this file first and treat it as the contract for this run.

Inputs

• state/ccfa.yaml
• state/conference-template.yaml
• state/venue-profile.yaml
• paper/venue_preamble.tex
• paper/style/compat.sty
• scripts/export-venue-template.sh

Declared Outputs

• state/venue-profile.yaml
• state/conference-template.yaml
• state/ccfa.yaml
• release/venue/

Validators

• scripts/check-capability-parity.py
• scripts/check-conference-template.py
• scripts/check-anonymity.py
• scripts/check-latex.sh

Venue Conversion (compat.sty shim)

paper/style/compat.sty reimplements the paper/style/ccfa-paper.sty Class API (\parahead, \headbf, \figref/\tabref/\algref/\eqnref, \tablestyle, \cmark/\xmark, compact column types) on packages an official venue class already loads, so paper/sections/*.tex compiles unmodified under CVPR/ICCV/NeurIPS/etc.

scripts/export-venue-template.sh --mode anonymous|camera-ready [--raw-template <local-kit-path>] copies paper/ sources plus compat.sty and the user-supplied official kit (never fetched from the network) into release/venue/<venue>-<year>-<mode>/, generates a main.tex bound to the official class, and independently compiles it. It never edits paper/, paper/refs.bib, or the official kit files. release/venue/ is gitignored — regenerate it, do not hand-edit or commit it. In anonymous mode, run scripts/check-anonymity.py after export; it scans generated *-anonymous/ venue exports for leaked author names and emails in addition to the three release surfaces.

Real-kit compile receipt (#17)

Compiling against the real kit is a hard gate, not something to remember: a crash under the official class (missing package, macro conflict, undefined command) fails export-venue-template.sh immediately; a missing TeX toolchain prints an explicit UNVERIFIED line and records no receipt (never a silent false pass). On a successful compile, a receipt is appended to state/conference-template.yaml under realkit_receipts: venue/year/mode, the kit's checksum, a combined compat.sty + paper/ source fingerprint, the verifying commit, and a timestamp. The camera-ready-check gate (via scripts/check-conference-template.py, run inside check-writing-harness.py) refuses to pass once a real raw_template is configured and the paper is populated unless a matching, fresh receipt exists for the venue/year/mode currently declared in state/ccfa.yaml — editing compat.sty or paper/ sources after the receipt was recorded makes it stale and re-blocks until export-venue-template.sh is rerun.

Human Gates

• current-year-official-rules: required when Recording or changing current-year venue, anonymity, page-limit, or template rules. Record in state/conference-template.yaml.
• scope-change: required when A needed edit is outside allowed_paths, a forbidden_path must change, or facts are missing from repository sources. Record in human/decisions/README.md.

Operating Steps

1. Read .agent/capabilities/venue-adapt.yaml and confirm the requested work matches this capability, its read_only_paths, allowed_paths, and forbidden_paths.
2. Read the declared inputs from the repository. Never infer paper facts from chat, memory, or prior conversation when the repo lacks evidence.
3. If a required input, evidence item, result, citation, venue rule, or human approval is missing, stop and record the blocker in memory/current-status.md or human/inbox/README.md.
4. Update declared outputs only. Do not edit capability specs, adapters, registry files, or unrelated paper state while executing this workflow.
5. Run the declared validators that match the touched outputs. Capture each command and whether it passed.
6. Finish only when the completion contract is met: changed files are declared outputs, validators passed or blockers are recorded, and the handoff names every remaining risk.

Completion Contract

• Source capability reviewed: .agent/capabilities/venue-adapt.yaml
• Output contract: all successful edits are limited to the declared outputs above.
• Validator contract: run at least one declared validator and every validator relevant to touched outputs.
• Blocker contract: missing evidence, approvals, or path authority is recorded before handoff.
• Fact contract: never infer paper facts from chat; cite repository paths instead.