Use when auditing an ACL submission before an ACL Rolling Review cycle deadline, covering long/short paper page budgets, the mandatory Limitations section, Responsible NLP checklist, anonymized PDFs and supplements, preprint declarations, dual-submission rules, resubmission linking, and ARR desk-reject triggers on OpenReview.
SkillScore95Maintained
Automatic
◆Research pack
Last verified 8/15/2026
What it changes
Passed 21 of 22 test cases with the skill, and 19 of 22 without it.
Without skill86%
With skill95%
Checks it passed that the model alone missed
Flags resubmitting within six months of a score 1 meta-review without wholesale revision as a desk-reject risk.
Notes that dataset availability upon request is permitted if checklist explanations detail reproduction honestly.
2 fixed19 passed either way1 still failing0 broke
Pass-rate lift
+9 pp
Tokens
+29%
Agent turns
0%
Response time
-34%
Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/15/2026v121 of 22 cases passed with skill
Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.
See it in action
One of 2 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
1 of 2
Prompt
Our previous ARR submission received a meta-review score of 1. Three months later, we want to resubmit to the next cycle with minor cosmetic edits and typo fixes. Audit this resubmission strategy using the six required section tags.
What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked
Without skill
With skill
Flags resubmitting within six months of a score 1 meta-review without wholesale revision as a desk-reject risk.
Missed
Passed
case-15 · gemini-3.6-flash · 8/15/2026 · answers are capped and redacted
What's inside
The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.
SKILL.md117 linessingle file
ACL Submission
Run this audit before uploading to an ACL Rolling Review (ARR) cycle on OpenReview.
ACL papers are not submitted to the conference directly: they enter an ARR cycle,
collect reviews and a meta-review, and are later committed to ACL. Reopen the
current ARR CFP at aclrollingreview.org/cfp and the target conference's call
before trusting any number below.
Two-step reality check
Confirm which ARR cycles feed your target ACL edition. ACL 2026 accepted work
from the October 2025 and January 2026 cycles; committing requires a complete
review package, so the last eligible cycle is earlier than the conference date
suggests.
The ARR deadline is the hard one. Commitment is a separate, later form with its
own deadline (March 14, 2026 for ACL 2026) — see acl-workflow for the calendar.
All ARR deadlines run 11:59 pm UTC-12 (anywhere on Earth).
Format gate
Long papers: up to 8 content pages. Short papers: up to 4. Both get unlimited
pages for references, plus unlimited space after the conclusion for the
required Limitations section and an optional ethics statement.
A missing Limitations section or overlength content is an explicit desk-reject
condition under the ARR CFP — this is the most common self-inflicted rejection.
Use the official ACL LaTeX/Word style files unmodified; margin, font, or
spacing tampering is treated as a length violation.
Appendices go after references in the same PDF; reviewers are not obliged to
read them, so the 8 or 4 content pages must carry the whole argument.
Anonymity gate
The submission itself must be fully anonymized: no names, affiliations,
acknowledgements, or self-revealing "we previously showed" citations.
Since January 2024 there is no anonymity period: you may post a
non-anonymous preprint at any time. But you must declare preprint status at
submission, and choosing "no non-anonymous preprint" earns award eligibility
and priority for borderline decisions — then posting one anyway before
meta-review release is a desk-reject offense.
Supplementary archives, repo links, and dataset pages must be anonymized too;