PaperSpine
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PaperSpine is a contribution-first paper and report writing skill for Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, and Hermes CLI. It researches the target scene, confirms the controlling contribution and motivation with the user, then writes/rewrites/ builds end to end with LaTeX/PDF/Word output. The methodology is enforced by gates: Contribution-First (confirmed_contribution.md), Results-as- Validation (results_validation.md), Reviewer-Aware (reviewer_audit.md). Motivation is still required, but it supports the confirmed contribution. Version: 4.0.0 (canonical: dist/paperspine_version.json, auto-propagated to .claude-plugin/plugin.json and marketplace.json by the sync script). V4 collapsed the old…
We split this CLAUDE.md into the rules it gives an agent
2 rules. About 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
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- Distinctive: line 60
Write LaTeX/Markdown templates as literal file content, not built up from pieces in Python.
- Very specific: line 74
Do not push to GitHub unless explicitly asked.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 25,680 CLAUDE.md files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
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PaperSpine Project Memory (V4)
Project Purpose
PaperSpine is a contribution-first paper and report writing skill for Claude
Code, Codex, OpenClaw, and Hermes CLI. It researches the target scene, confirms
the controlling contribution and motivation with the user, then writes/rewrites/
builds end to end with LaTeX/PDF/Word output. The methodology is enforced by
gates: Contribution-First (confirmed_contribution.md), Results-as-
Validation (results_validation.md), Reviewer-Aware (reviewer_audit.md).
Motivation is still required, but it supports the confirmed contribution.
Version: 4.0.0 (canonical: dist/paperspine_version.json, auto-propagated to
.claude-plugin/plugin.json and marketplace.json by the sync script).
Architecture: ONE skill
V4 collapsed the old 12-skill flat suite into a single paper-spine skill —
an orchestrator with 12-stage routing inside SKILL.md, references/ playbooks
for each stage, and agents/ role cards for parallel sub-agents. There are no
longer separate worker skills.
Single source of truth: src/
src/skill/SKILL.md— orchestrator + command/stage routing tablessrc/skill/references/*.md— per-stage playbooks (intake, research, citation, rewrite, build, humanize, latex, audit, translate, submission, respond, resume, contribution, results-validation, reviewer-audit, scenarios, …)src/skill/agents/*— role cards for fan-out agents (research scene/sota/ exemplar, reviewer method/evidence/writing) +openai.yamlsrc/scripts/*.py— deterministic gate/check scripts (standard library only):sync_local_installs.py,contribution_check.py,results_validation_check.py,reviewer_audit_check.py,progress_check.py,submission_check.py,respond_check.py,citation_verification_en.py,latex_guard.py,humanize_check.py,style_metrics.py, etc.src/adapters/{claude,codex,hermes}— per-host frontmatter/manifest overlays
Generated: dist/ (never hand-edit)
dist/ is fanned out from src/ by sync_local_installs.py for 4 hosts:
dist/claude/skills/paper-spine(+/paperspinecommand)dist/codex/skills/paper-spine(+/paperspineprompt)dist/openclaw/skills/paper-spinedist/hermes/skills/academic-writing/paper-spine
Install entry points: python install.ps1 (Windows) / bash install.sh
(macOS/Linux) — thin wrappers delegating to src/scripts/sync_local_installs.py;
PS5.1-safe; they never touch settings.json.
Acceptance harness: examples/v4_acceptance.py.
DISCIPLINE — rules guarded by tests
- Single source of truth. Edit
src/only; never hand-editdist/copies. Regenerate withpython src/scripts/sync_local_installs.py --dist-only(project-internal) or--clean-legacy(full sync to install dirs). A dist-sync guard test fails ifdist/drifts fromsrc/. - Never author backslash/LaTeX markdown via Python string concatenation. Write LaTeX/Markdown templates as literal file content, not built up from pieces in Python. A control-char corruption test guards this.
- Home isolation. Any code touching
~/.claude/~/.codex/hermesmust take directory arguments (install-dir overrides) and must never touchsettings.json. Guarded by validate_repo / install tests. - Standard library only for
src/scripts/Python.
Before claiming ready
python -m pytest tests # expect 197 passed
ruff check src/scripts testsDo not push to GitHub unless explicitly asked. Keep README.md (Chinese) and
README.en.md (English) content-equivalent.
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