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Paper Compile: LaTeX to Submission-Ready PDF · brycewang-stanford | DecimalAI

documentationby brycewang-stanford

Paper Compile: LaTeX to Submission-Ready PDF

brycewang-stanford/paper-compile

Source brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills ↗License NOASSERTION

Compile LaTeX paper to PDF, fix errors, and verify output.

SkillScore73Maintained

Automatic

Research pack

Last verified 8/8/2026

What it changes

Passed 14 of 19 test cases with the skill, and 10 of 19 without it.

Without skill50%

With skill73%

Checks it passed that the model alone missed

The response specifies a maximum of 3 compilation attempts.
The response recommends executing pdffonts on the compiled PDF.
The response sets the minimum valid PDF size threshold to 100KB.

and 4 more in the full report

5 fixed11 passed either way6 still failing0 broke

Pass-rate lift: +23 pp
Tokens: +90%
Agent turns: 0%
Response time: -33%

Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/8/2026v116 of 22 cases passed with skill · 19 comparable

Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.

Use this skill

Save it into your project's skills folder. Claude Code picks it up in its next session.

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/brycewang-stanford-paper-compile/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/brycewang-stanford-paper-compile/SKILL.md

Want it pinned and updatable? pip install "decimalai>=0.15", then decimalai skills add brycewang-stanford-paper-compile, and start Claude Code with claude --plugin-dir "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/.agents"

1 · One-time — install the CLI (docs ↗)

pip install "decimalai>=0.15"

2 · Get the skill — writes .agents/skills/brycewang-stanford-paper-compile/ and pins it in .decimal/skills.lock

decimalai skills add brycewang-stanford-paper-compile

No CLI? Get the same file — curl · raw file

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/brycewang-stanford-paper-compile/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/brycewang-stanford-paper-compile/SKILL.md

Raw file: /s/brycewang-stanford-paper-compile/SKILL.md ↗ · machine-readable summary at /s/brycewang-stanford-paper-compile.json ↗

Safety checks: 3 of 3 passed

Code scan CleanIntent PassedContent Clean

See it in action

One of 5 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.

1 of 5

Prompt

Conference submission portals often reject PDF files if non-embedded fonts are present. What command line tool and filtering option should be executed on the output PDF file to confirm that all fonts are fully embedded?

What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked	Without skill	With skill
The response recommends executing pdffonts on the compiled PDF.	Missed	Passed
The response specifies filtering pdffonts output with grep -v yes to check font embedding.	Missed	Passed

case-09 · gemini-3.6-flash · 8/8/2026 · answers are capped and redacted

What's inside

The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.

SKILL.md247 linessingle file

Paper Compile: LaTeX to Submission-Ready PDF

Compile the LaTeX paper and fix any issues: $ARGUMENTS

Constants

COMPILER = latexmk — LaTeX build tool. Handles multi-pass compilation automatically.
ENGINE = pdflatex — LaTeX engine. Options: pdflatex (default), xelatex (for CJK/custom fonts), lualatex.
MAX_COMPILE_ATTEMPTS = 3 — Maximum attempts to fix errors and recompile.
PAPER_DIR = paper/ — Directory containing LaTeX source files.
MAX_PAGES — Page limit. ML conferences: main body to Conclusion end (excluding references & appendix). ICLR=9, NeurIPS=9, ICML=8. IEEE venues: references ARE included in page count. IEEE journal ≈ 12-14 pages, IEEE conference ≈ 5-8 pages (all inclusive).

Workflow

Step 1: Verify Prerequisites

Check that the compilation environment is ready:

# Check LaTeX installation
which pdflatex && which latexmk && which bibtex

# If not installed, provide instructions:
# macOS: brew install --cask mactex-no-gui
# Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install texlive-full
# Server: conda install -c conda-forge texlive-core

Verify all required files exist:

# Must exist
ls $PAPER_DIR/main.tex

# Should exist
ls $PAPER_DIR/references.bib
ls $PAPER_DIR/sections/*.tex
ls $PAPER_DIR/figures/*.pdf 2>/dev/null || ls $PAPER_DIR/figures/*.png 2>/dev/null

Track record

Benchmark

14 / 19

test cases passed, vs 10 / 19 without

Adoption

Users: 2
Times used: 29

Safety and source details

SkillSafety

✓ 3 of 3 passed

Code scan15 of 15 checks clean

0 critical · 0 warning · 0 info — scanner v4 — 8/2/2026

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IntentSafe

LLM judge · does the skill do what it claims

ContentClean

LLM judge · policy & harmful-content review

Source

Imported

brycewang-stanford / Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills

skills/42-wanshuiyin-ARIS/skills/paper-compile/SKILL.md

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License NOASSERTIONImported 8/9/2026Version v1

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Paper Compile: LaTeX to Submission-Ready PDF

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Step 1: Verify Prerequisites

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