What problem does it solve? Academic submission requirements change every year and differ by venue, track, and stage, so relying on remembered page limits or outdated templates leads to desk rejections and compliance failures. This Skill enforces a verification-first workflow that checks official author instructions before formatting manuscripts, proposals, and posters. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Verification-First Compliance: Guides you to identify the exact venue, year, track, and stage, then record the official source URL and date checked before applying any page-limit or anonymity rule. - Bundled LaTeX Scaffolds: Provides clearly labeled drafting templates for Nature-style articles, PLOS ONE, NeurIPS 2026 (wrapper requiring the official style file), Elsevier elsarticle variants, NSF proposals, NIH Specific Aims, and beamerposter posters. - Helper Scripts: Includes Python tools to list and query bundled templates, copy and customize scaffolds with title/author/affiliation placeholders, and inspect submission PDFs for page counts and embedded fonts. - Use Case: When preparing an ICML 2026 submission, use this Skill to confirm the 8-page main-body limit and anonymity rules from the official author instructions, download the official style package, and validate the final PDF's page count and fonts before submitting. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to help prepare a manuscript for a specific venue and year, for example by requesting help formatting a paper for NeurIPS 2026 main track using the official template and current submission rules.
