What problem does it solve? A hand-maintained paper tracker drifts out of sync with the actual manuscripts on disk, making it hard to know which submissions are active, stale, or missing from the record. This Skill compares the tracker workbook against the papers repository and git history so the workbook becomes derived from ground truth rather than remembered. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Tracker-to-repo reconciliation: Reads a tracker in .xlsx or .csv format, matches each row to a manuscript directory, and reports status alongside the last git commit date. - Drift and staleness detection: Flags rows where repo activity postdates the tracker, reports tracker age, and suppresses per-row flags when the whole workbook is outdated. - Unmatched and orphan reporting: Lists tracker rows with no directory and in-progress directories with no tracker row, with an aliases.json escape hatch for ambiguous matches. - Use Case: Ask where your papers stand before a meeting, and get a ranked report of recent manuscript activity, stale tracker entries, and untracked work in progress. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to run the manuscript pipeline status report to reconcile your paper tracker against the papers repository.
