Aris Paper Writing

Workflow 3: Paper Writing Pipeline

Orchestrate a complete paper writing workflow for: $ARGUMENTS

Overview

This skill chains five sub-skills into a single automated pipeline:

/aris-paper-plan → /aris-paper-figure → /aris-paper-write → /aris-paper-compile → /aris-auto-paper-improvement-loop
  (outline)     (plots)        (LaTeX)        (build PDF)       (review & polish ×2)

Each phase builds on the previous one's output. The final deliverable is a polished, reviewed paper/ directory with LaTeX source and compiled PDF.

In this hybrid pack, the pipeline itself is unchanged, but aris-paper-plan and aris-paper-write use Orchestra-adapted shared references for stronger story framing and prose guidance.

Constants

• VENUE = ICLR — Target venue. Options: ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ACL, AAAI, ACM, IEEE_JOURNAL (IEEE Transactions / Letters), IEEE_CONF (IEEE conferences). Affects style file, page limit, citation format.
• MAX_IMPROVEMENT_ROUNDS = 2 — Number of review→fix→recompile rounds in the improvement loop.
• REVIEWER_MODEL = gpt-5.4 — Model used via Codex MCP for plan review, figure review, writing review, and improvement loop.
• AUTO_PROCEED = true — Auto-continue between phases. Set false to pause and wait for user approval after each phase.
• HUMAN_CHECKPOINT = false — When true, the improvement loop (Phase 5) pauses after each round's review to let you see the score and provide custom modification instructions. When false (default), the loop runs fully autonomously. Passed through to /aris-auto-paper-improvement-loop.

Override inline: /aris-paper-writing "NARRATIVE_REPORT.md" — venue: NeurIPS, human checkpoint: true IEEE example: /aris-paper-writing "NARRATIVE_REPORT.md" — venue: IEEE_JOURNAL

Inputs

This pipeline accepts one of:

1. NARRATIVE_REPORT.md (best) — structured research narrative with claims, experiments, results, figures
2. Research direction + experiment results — the skill will help draft the narrative first
3. Existing PAPER_PLAN.md — skip Phase 1, start from Phase 2

The more detailed the input (especially figure descriptions and quantitative results), the better the output.

Pipeline

Phase 1: Paper Plan

Invoke /aris-paper-plan to create the structural outline:

/aris-paper-plan "$ARGUMENTS"

What this does:

• Parse NARRATIVE_REPORT.md for claims, evidence, and figure descriptions
• Build a Claims-Evidence Matrix — every claim maps to evidence, every experiment supports a claim
• Design section structure (5-8 sections depending on paper type)
• Plan figure/table placement with data sources
• Scaffold citation structure
• GPT-5.4 reviews the plan for completeness

Output: PAPER_PLAN.md with section plan, figure plan, citation scaffolding.

Checkpoint: Present the plan summary to the user.

📐 Paper plan complete:
- Title: [proposed title]
- Sections: [N] ([list])
- Figures: [N] auto-generated + [M] manual
- Target: [VENUE], [PAGE_LIMIT] pages

Shall I proceed with figure generation?

• User approves (or AUTO_PROCEED=true) → proceed to Phase 2.
• User requests changes → adjust plan and re-present.

Phase 2: Figure Generation

Invoke /aris-paper-figure to generate data-driven plots and tables:

/aris-paper-figure "PAPER_PLAN.md"

What this does:

• Read figure plan from PAPER_PLAN.md
• Generate matplotlib/seaborn plots from JSON/CSV data
• Generate LaTeX comparison tables
• Create figures/latex_includes.tex for easy insertion
• GPT-5.4 reviews figure quality and captions

Output: figures/ directory with PDFs, generation scripts, and LaTeX snippets.

Scope: Auto-generates ~60% of figures (data plots, comparison tables). Architecture diagrams, pipeline figures, and qualitative result grids must be created manually and placed in figures/ before proceeding. See /aris-paper-figure SKILL.md for details.

Checkpoint: List generated vs manual figures.

📊 Figures complete:
- Auto-generated: [list]
- Manual (need your input): [list]
- LaTeX snippets: figures/latex_includes.tex

[If manual figures needed]: Please add them to figures/ before I proceed.
[If all auto]: Shall I proceed with LaTeX writing?

Phase 3: LaTeX Writing

Invoke /aris-paper-write to generate section-by-section LaTeX:

/aris-paper-write "PAPER_PLAN.md"

What this does:

• Write each section following the plan, with proper LaTeX formatting
• Insert figure/table references from figures/latex_includes.tex
• Build references.bib from citation scaffolding
• Clean stale files from previous section structures
• Automated bib cleaning (remove uncited entries)
• De-AI polish (remove "delve", "pivotal", "landscape"...)
• GPT-5.4 reviews each section for quality

Output: paper/ directory with main.tex, sections/*.tex, references.bib, math_commands.tex.

Checkpoint: Report section completion.

✍️ LaTeX writing complete:
- Sections: [N] written ([list])
- Citations: [N] unique keys in references.bib
- Stale files cleaned: [list, if any]

Shall I proceed with compilation?