Paper Plan: From Review Conclusions to Paper Outline

Paper Plan: From Review Conclusions to Paper Outline

Generate a structured, section-by-section paper outline from: $ARGUMENTS

Constants

• REVIEWER_MODEL = gpt-5.4 — Model used via a secondary Codex agent for outline review. Must be an OpenAI model.
• TARGET_VENUE = ICLR — Default venue. User can override (e.g., /paper-plan "topic" — venue: NeurIPS). Supported: ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ACL, AAAI, ACM, IEEE_JOURNAL (IEEE Transactions / Letters), IEEE_CONF (IEEE conferences).
• MAX_PAGES — Page limit. For ML conferences: main body to Conclusion end (excluding references, appendix). ICLR=9, NeurIPS=9, ICML=8. For IEEE venues: references ARE included in page count. IEEE journal Transactions ≈ 12-14 pages total, Letters ≈ 4-5 pages total; IEEE conference ≈ 5-8 pages total (including references).

Inputs

The skill expects one or more of these in the project directory:

1. NARRATIVE_REPORT.md or STORY.md — research narrative with claims and evidence
2. GPT54_AUTO_REVIEW.md — auto-review loop conclusions
3. Experiment results — JSON files in figures/, screen logs, tables
4. IDEA_REPORT.md — from idea-discovery pipeline (if applicable)
5. CLAIMS_FROM_RESULTS.md — structured claim judgment from /result-to-claim (preferred if available)

If none exist, ask the user to describe the paper's contribution in 3-5 sentences.

Orchestra-Guided Writing Overlay

Keep the existing workflow and outputs, but use the shared references below to improve the quality of the story and outline:

• Read ../shared-references/writing-principles.md when framing the Abstract, Introduction, Related Work, or hero figure
• Read ../shared-references/venue-checklists.md before freezing the outline for a specific venue
• Load these references only when they help; they are support material, not a new workflow phase

Workflow

Step 1: Extract Claims and Evidence

First check for CLAIMS_FROM_RESULTS.md — if it exists, use it as the starting point for claims and merge it with any additional evidence from the narrative documents below.

Read all available narrative documents and extract:

1. Core claims (3-5 main contributions)
2. Evidence for each claim (which experiments, which metrics, which figures)