Homepage Generator

/homepage-generator — fact-checked academic homepage from CV

The only personal-site generator that fact-checks your CV before publishing. Cross-model adversarial review: the LLM that drafts your homepage never grades it. A deterministic Python pass checks your publication claims against DBLP on every render; an optional fresh Codex thread then reviews the prose and framing.

When to use

Generate a single-file HTML academic homepage. Optimized for PhD candidates, postdocs, and early-career researchers with public publications. v1 ships the theory-minimal persona (text-heavy academic page in the Zhxie / Avicenna lineage); active-researcher (paper thumbnails + news ticker variant) is planned.

Use when the user says 做个学术主页 · from CV generate homepage · aris-homepage · PhD personal site · GitHub Pages homepage.

Do NOT use for: portfolio sites needing image galleries; newsletter-funnel sites needing audience metrics; pure blog sites (use Jekyll/Hugo); tenured-faculty pages with student/teaching as top-level sections (use academicpages).

Public demo

A real-world dogfood example: https://wanshuiyin.github.io/ — homepage generated by this skill from a CV + the maintainer's previous manual page. Use it as a style and capability reference; do not copy any names, affiliations, advisors, awards, paper titles, or filenames into your own examples or tests (see Privacy below).

Quick start

This repo ships no installer — there is no aris-homepage executable on any platform. Every invocation is python <path>/aris_homepage.py, and the path is relative to wherever you are standing (note the cd ./site below). On Windows also read WINDOWS_en.md / WINDOWS.md.

# Step 1 — bootstrap workspace from CV
python tools/aris_homepage.py init --from-cv ./cv.pdf --out ./site
cd ./site

# Step 2 — calling LLM agent (Claude / your agent) reads .aris-homepage/EXTRACTION_HANDOFF.md,
#          then writes the extraction JSON to .aris-homepage/extraction.json.
#          This step is NOT automated by the CLI — it's a designed handoff so the agent
#          can use richer context (manual homepage URL, asset folder, your judgement).

# Step 3 — persist the extracted JSON into editable source files
#          (we cd'd into ./site above, so the script is one level up now)
python ../tools/aris_homepage.py finalize

# Step 4 — review + tweak
$EDITOR profile.yml publications.bib bio.md news.md EXTRACTION_REVIEW.md

# Step 5 — render with fact-check (writes index.html + audit-report.md)
python ../tools/aris_homepage.py render --persona theory-minimal

Windows note. Beyond the invocation form above, Windows has its own traps: the python3 alias stub, silent .py file association, non-ASCII pdftotext paths, and the SSL certificate store. WINDOWS_en.md / WINDOWS.md walk through all of them.

Input model — three sources for the LLM agent

The init CLI only handles the CV → text conversion. The other two inputs are consumed by the calling LLM agent when it fills extraction.json. Recommend supplying all three for best results:

Reconciliation rule: the CV is authoritative for facts (paper venues, dates, author lists), the manual homepage is authoritative for how you present yourself (what to group, what to surface, what voice), and the assets folder provides visuals. If the three sources conflict, do not silently merge — write the conflict to EXTRACTION_REVIEW.md for user resolution.

If you have no manual homepage yet: skip it. The generator falls back to CV-only structure with sensible academic defaults.

Coming in v1.1: native CLI flags --manual-homepage URL and --assets-dir PATH will fetch + stage these inputs automatically. For v1, the calling agent handles them.

Commands

init and doctor run from anywhere; the paths below assume the repo root. finalize, render and check act on the site workspace — cd into it first, which is why the script is one level up in those lines.

python tools/aris_homepage.py init --from-cv <file> [--from-repos owner/repo,...] [--include-private] [--out DIR] [--force|--merge]
  # Step 1. Extract CV to plain text (via textutil / python-docx / pdftotext).
  # Step 1b. (v1.1) If --from-repos given, snapshot each repo via `gh` CLI
  #          (GraphQL metadata + REST README, truncated 20KB) →
  #          .aris-homepage/github_repos.json. Private repos skipped unless
  #          --include-private.
  # Step 2.  Emit .aris-homepage/EXTRACTION_HANDOFF.md describing what the calling
  #          LLM agent should write to .aris-homepage/extraction.json
  #          (handoff doc auto-includes guidance on github_repos.json if present).
  # --force: backup *.bak-TIMESTAMP and overwrite.
  # --merge is parsed but not implemented — it exits with a clear message.
  # NOTE: --manual-homepage / --assets-dir do not exist yet; for now the
  #       calling agent handles those sources via prompt context.

python ../tools/aris_homepage.py finalize        # or from elsewhere: --out DIR
  # Ingest .aris-homepage/extraction.json → profile.yml + publications.bib +
  # bio.md + news.md + EXTRACTION_REVIEW.md.

python ../tools/aris_homepage.py render --persona theory-minimal [--out index.html] [--override-all] [--no-audit] [--offline]
  # Run fact-check (unless --no-audit) and render. Hard-fail blocks ship unless
  # --override-all (loudly logged in audit-report.md).

python ../tools/aris_homepage.py check [--strict]
  # Fact-check only; updates audit-report.md. --strict treats WARN as FAIL.

python tools/aris_homepage.py doctor
  # Environment + dependency diagnostic (Python, pyyaml, textutil, DBLP reachability).

Generated editable source files

After finalize, your working dir contains these editable files. Edit them in your IDE; they are the source of truth — re-run render after each change.

Schema reference

profile.yml has many optional fields; the complete reference lives in PROFILE_SCHEMA.md in this skill directory. Keep that as the single source of truth for fields.

Core schema groups (read PROFILE_SCHEMA.md for the exact field shapes):

• identity: name, name_native (bilingual), title, email, wechat, office, photo (local path or remote URL)
• affiliations: current + past arrays with role / institution / department / start / end
• education · research (summary + interests) · links (scholar / github / dblp / orcid / etc.)
• featured_projects: first-class section for flagship OSS work — logo, stats grid, link cluster, sub-projects, open problems
• awards · talks · teaching · blogs_tutorials (rendered combined with talks)
• professional_services: conference reviewer / journal reviewer / editorial board list
• selected_publications: flat list OR ordered topic groups ([{group: "Topic Title", keys: [bibkey1, ...]}])
• publications: preamble (intro sentence before first H3)
• publications_meta.<bibkey>: thumbnail, description (blue blurb box), awards (list of badges), co_first (equal-contribution markers), links (arXiv / paper / code / slides / openreview / etc. — any key supported)
• audit.overrides.<bibkey>: per-paper bypass — any non-empty, unexpired object skips that paper's DBLP checks. reason is recorded, not enforced; expires: YYYY-MM-DD becomes a hard failure once past
• ship: persona, accent_color, lang, awards_heading (override "Awards" → custom string)

Fact-check protocol

Runs automatically during every render (unless --no-audit). Three outcomes per claim:

Override two-layer:

• Per-paper in profile.yml: audit.overrides.<bibkey> — any non-empty, unexpired override object skips the DBLP checks for that paper entirely (it is not enforced per-field). reason: is recorded in the report but not required; expires: is, once past, a hard failure
• CLI emergency: python ../tools/aris_homepage.py render --override-all (every override loudly logged)

Honest scope of fact-check: DBLP lookups cover only the papers listed in selected_publications; the award-badge sweep covers every entry in publications_meta. It catches venue/year mismatch and award badges asserted without a link. It does not check author lists at all, and it never compares the title DBLP returned — the title is only the search query. Does NOT verify: workshop papers without DBLP entries, industry tech reports, blog/talk content, OSS star counts, or arbitrary claims in the bio. Treat the audit as a diagnostic floor, not a guarantee.