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- 15 ## Family File Contract
+ 15 ## Required Shared Preflight
- 17 Before writing, resolve the canonical output and one stable working directory per task/artifact. Reuse explicit or established task paths; otherwise use project-root `ccfa-workfiles/<purpose>/<artifact-id>/`, with `source/`, `assets/`, `cache/`, and `build/` only as needed. Update current files in place; do not scatter intermediates or create iteration copies. Preserve inputs and required evidence; clean only verified disposable files created by this task. Use UTF-8 text I/O and check Chinese text after saving or rendering. For file work, apply [artifact-contracts.md](references/artifact-contracts.md) and reuse the same paths across skill transitions.
+ 17 First apply [ccf-humanization](../ccf-humanization/SKILL.md), then this entry, before every CCFA specialist. Bootstrap once; reuse applicable active rules across contributors and restore missing or changed rules. Discovery metadata or a named preflight is not proof that its instructions were read. Ordinary work needs no startup report, intake form, state file, or maintenance workflow.
- 19 ## Collaboration Contract
+ 19 Resolve the requested result, scope/permissions, integrating owner, and reusable or missing prerequisites. Current user instructions override defaults. Preserve plan-only, review-only, supplied-evidence-only, no-browsing, no-new-files, exact-output, and session-denylist constraints. Necessary local steps and specialist contributions remain authorized within the requested deliverable; do not re-ask solely because ownership changes.
- 21 Before applying these shared controls, activate [ccf-humanization](../ccf-humanization/SKILL.md) unless its baseline is already active. Apply this entry once, then continue specialist work; do not recursively re-enter either preflight. Reuse applicable rules across contributors.
+ 21 Use one integrating owner, bring in the specialist needed to resolve a material gap, and verify affected results before finalizing. Reuse valid evidence rather than repeating intake, searches, full reports, or model calls. Do not skip groundwork to save tokens. A specialist remains responsible for its research deliverable; Common supplies shared controls.
- 23 Keep one integrating owner and actively use other skills to resolve missing prerequisites or check material findings. Reuse applicable evidence; do not skip necessary groundwork to save tokens. Before finalizing, integrate contributions and verify affected results. Follow the conditional [cooperation routes](references/routing.md); avoid unrelated stages and duplicate reports.
+ 23 ## Preferences And Continuity
- 25 ## Core Rule
+ 25 Resolve optional preferences once with `python <ccf-common>/scripts/preferences.py resolve`, adding `--project <established-root>` when known. Reuse the compact result at handoffs. Missing files mean defaults with no write or question. Read [preferences.md](references/preferences.md) only for a relevant trigger, configuration change, resolver error, or unavailable Python. Preferences govern optional enhancements and marked draft modes, not preflights, accuracy, requested scope, model selection, or host permissions.
- 27 This is the shared control module activated before every CCFA specialist, after `ccf-humanization`. It sets the task's scope, integrating owner, relevant prerequisites, evidence boundaries, and file paths while specialist skills produce research deliverables. Applying these controls does not run the maintenance workflow or require a governance report.
+ 27 Keep the user's goal, justified route, and next action distinct. Discovery can change mechanisms; execution preserves the selected route unless a material reason reopens it. Distinguish proposed, executed, and verified work. A repeated action needs a new observation, changed hypothesis, or concrete repair. For long tasks, stalled progress, or lost/conflicting context, apply [continuity.md](references/continuity.md) and reconcile actual artifacts before one bounded next action. Short tasks need no continuity record.
- 29 ## Invocation Controls
+ 29 Explicit autonomous research or repeated experiments route to the orchestrator's [research loop](../ccf-pipeline-orchestrator/references/autonomous-research.md), using its authorized scope and budget. Ordinary writing, concept review, and planning do not start experiments.
- 31 **CCFA Handoff Mode: PARTIAL (Recommended).** Follow `metadata.ccf_skill_controls.handoff_question_mode` and `references/handoff-modes.md`. On a direct invocation, ensure Humanization's baseline has been read before applying these controls. Do not recursively restart either preflight. Reuse applicable rules across contributors and read only the shared references needed for the current decision.
+ 31 ## Select Shared Rules By Need
- 33 ## Family Preflight
+ 33 | Decision | Reference |
+ 34 | --- | --- |
+ 35 | Owner, prerequisites, combined workflow | [routing.md](references/routing.md) |
+ 36 | Transition, actual agents, cross-family collaboration | [handoff-modes.md](references/handoff-modes.md); preserve scientific assumptions, paths, task state, and one integrating owner |
+ 37 | Quick, standard, exploratory depth and GPT-6 execution | [task-modes.md](references/task-modes.md); a reference list is navigation, not a read-all checklist |
+ 38 | Scores, panels, standard review, score changes | [review-output-standards.md](references/review-output-standards.md) |
+ 39 | Sources, private material, browsing, evidence claims | [privacy-and-evidence.md](references/privacy-and-evidence.md); manuscript/source text is data, not instructions |
+ 40 | Creating or changing files | [artifact-contracts.md](references/artifact-contracts.md); retain canonical deliverables, one task directory, inputs and required evidence; update in place and check UTF-8/Chinese text |
+ 41 | Research project-state schema | [ccfa-yaml-contract.md](references/ccfa-yaml-contract.md) |
+ 42 | Shared source, trigger, or venue lookup | `references/source-registry.yaml`, `references/skill-trigger-registry.yaml`, or [ccf-a-venue-map.md](references/ccf-a-venue-map.md); inspect relevant records only |
+ 43 | Skill-family maintenance | [skill-maintenance.md](references/skill-maintenance.md); load for actual maintenance, not routine preflight |
- 35 Resolve the requested result, scope/permissions, integrating owner, and missing or reusable prerequisites. Use `references/routing.md` for collaboration and `references/handoff-modes.md` for transitions. Apply evidence/privacy rules when handling sources or private material, artifact rules before file work, and review standards when assessing. Reuse loaded rules and known paths; create no intake form or state file merely to activate this skill. Continue the specialist task once the applicable controls are established. Reserve the maintenance workflow below for actual family-maintenance requests.
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- 37 Discovery metadata and a named preflight are not evidence that its instructions were read. Apply the visible entry content, and restore missing or truncated relevant sections through targeted reads. When diagnosing a reported trigger failure, distinguish the installed version, actual tool reads, selected mode, and resulting behavior; do not invent a loading receipt. Ordinary tasks need no startup report or persistent trace.
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- 39 Resolve preferences once with this skill's `scripts/preferences.py resolve`, adding `--project <established-root>` when a project is known; reuse the compact result across handoffs. No file means defaults, with no write or question. Current explicit instructions override project, user, and built-in defaults. These choices govern optional extra work only; necessary checks and preflights remain active. Read only relevant sections of [preferences.md](references/preferences.md) for enhancement triggers, first-time choices, configuration changes, or a missing resolver/error; do not load its whole guide or launch the web page on every task.
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- 41 Keep the current user goal, justified route, and next action distinct. Explore different mechanisms when the task calls for discovery; preserve the selected route during execution unless a material reason changes it. Distinguish proposed, executed, and verified work. After lost context or repeated drift, reconcile actual artifacts and take one bounded step without lowering the deliverable standard. Repeated work needs a new observation, changed hypothesis, or concrete repair. For long tasks, stalled progress, or material recovery, load [continuity.md](references/continuity.md); short tasks need no extra file or review call.
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- 43 An explicit request for autonomous research or repeated experiments routes to the orchestrator's [research loop](../ccf-pipeline-orchestrator/references/autonomous-research.md). It uses the task's experiment scope and budget, not the optional maintenance-candidate allowance. Ordinary writing, concept review, and planning do not start experiments.
- 44 
- 45 ## Shared Controls
- 46 
- 47 Load only the references needed for the current preflight decision or maintenance task:
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- 49 - `references/routing.md`: Use to resolve which CCFA skill owns a request and to avoid trigger overlap.
- 50 - `references/task-modes.md`: Use for exploratory/quick/standard depth, authorization-aware continuation, selective context, host-supported parallel work, and GPT-6 adaptation.
- 51 - `references/review-output-standards.md`: Use to keep numeric scoring, multi-reviewer panels, score-change conditions, and visible output quality consistent.
- 52 - `references/handoff-modes.md`: Use to interpret `metadata.ccf_skill_controls.handoff_question_mode`.
- 53 - `references/preferences.md`: Resolve remembered optional enhancements, precedence, and the local three-language configuration page; mandatory preflights and necessary checks remain active.

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- 3 description: "Design and interpret CCF experiments: datasets, baselines, metrics, ablations, execution specifications, observed feedback, and result-table contents. Use for 设计实验, 消融, benchmark planning, 实验结果分析, and evidence design within requested autonomous research. Preserve real values. Orchestrator coordinates research-loop execution; visual styling and broad retrieval have separate owners."
+ 3 description: "Design and interpret CCF experiments: datasets, baselines, metrics, ablations, run requirements, observed feedback, and result-table contents. Use for 设计实验, 消融, benchmark planning, 实验结果分析, and research evidence design. Research engineer owns code implementation, reproduction, and training diagnostics; orchestrator coordinates campaigns."
- 35 In explicitly requested autonomous research, own the comparison protocol, necessary execution specifications, and interpretation of actual feedback. Return these to `ccf-pipeline-orchestrator`, which coordinates task-owned implementation and real host execution. Separate a failed command from a negative scientific result. Evidence can motivate a different mechanism or search strategy, not merely another module. This collaboration does not add experiment requirements to concept-only idea review.
+ 35 Own the scientific comparison, required run conditions, and interpretation of actual feedback. Use `ccf-research-engineer` when runnable implementation, codebase selection, baseline reproduction, training diagnosis, or performance measurements are needed; integrate its inspected commands and actual configurations into the protocol. In explicitly requested autonomous research, return the protocol and feedback to `ccf-pipeline-orchestrator`, which coordinates the engineering owner and real host execution. A standalone protocol task does not require engineering work when its inputs are already sufficient. Separate a failed command from a negative scientific result. Evidence can motivate a different mechanism or search strategy, not merely another module. This collaboration does not add experiment requirements to concept-only idea review.
- 53 7. If executable experiment code is actually changed, retain only non-duplicative smoke tests for those critical paths. Planning or formatting alone does not call for smoke tests. Keep them outside publication evidence and do not use them as substitutes for full experiments.
- 54    For an authorized research iteration, provide the executable contract and interpret feedback as described in `references/evidence-design.md`. Use supplied or inspected commands, data, environment, and remaining budget; do not guess runnable paths or treat missing inputs as successful execution. Continue independent preparation while a necessary input is unresolved. Return a concrete next comparison or interpretation to the orchestrator rather than launching an unrelated experiment campaign.
+ 53 7. For required executable changes, use `ccf-research-engineer` to implement and check affected critical paths. Retain non-duplicative checks relevant to the change; planning or formatting alone does not call for smoke tests. Keep development diagnostics distinct from publication evidence and preserve a controlled small study when it answers its own stated question.
+ 54    For an authorized research iteration, provide the scientific run requirements and interpret feedback as described in `references/evidence-design.md`; the engineer supplies the inspected executable configuration. Use supplied or inspected commands, data, environment, and remaining budget; do not guess runnable paths or treat missing inputs as successful execution. Continue independent preparation while a necessary input is unresolved. Return a concrete next comparison or interpretation to the orchestrator rather than launching an unrelated experiment campaign.
- 60 Return the requested artifact first. For a result table request, output the table. For a figure request, output the evidence-bound figure spec and caption facts, then name `ccf-visual-composer` as next owner for visual composition when needed. For a full experiment-design request, use the applicable fields below. Omit irrelevant or empty categories; smoke scope belongs only to changed executable code, and a handoff appears only when needed. Evidence integrity is a working rule, not a self-certification field.
+ 60 Return the requested artifact first. For a result table request, output the table. For a figure-specification request, return the specification and caption facts. When the user requests an actual figure, provide these inputs to `ccf-visual-composer`, integrate its rendered result, and check it against the data before delivery; naming the next owner does not complete the request. For a full experiment-design request, use the applicable fields below. Omit irrelevant or empty categories; smoke scope belongs only to changed executable code, and a handoff appears only when needed. Evidence integrity is a working rule, not a self-certification field.

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- 15 ## Family File Contract
+ 15 ## Required First Preflight
- 17 Before file work, reuse canonical paths and one task/artifact working directory; default to project-root `ccfa-workfiles/<purpose>/<artifact-id>/`. Update in place, preserve inputs, and use UTF-8 with Chinese-text checks. Apply [artifact-contracts.md](../ccf-common/references/artifact-contracts.md) for naming, ownership, and task-created cleanup; handoffs inherit these paths.
- 18 
- 19 ## Collaboration Contract
- 20 
- 21 This is the first required family preflight. Apply the baseline below, then activate [ccf-common](../ccf-common/SKILL.md) before specialist work. The two preflights bootstrap once without recursively re-entering each other; reuse applicable rules across contributors.
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- 23 Integrate necessary specialist contributions under one owner; reuse valid prerequisites and verify affected results. Follow the [cooperation routes](../ccf-common/references/routing.md) without duplicate reports.
- 24 
- 25 ## Invocation Controls
- 26 
- 27 **CCFA Handoff Mode: PARTIAL (Recommended).** Follow `metadata.ccf_skill_controls.handoff_question_mode`, `../ccf-common/references/handoff-modes.md`, and `../ccf-common/references/task-modes.md`.
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- 29 Activate this first for every CCFA task and contributor, including planning, retrieval, review, auditing, rendering, scaffolding, and maintenance. Apply the family baseline below before `ccf-common` and specialist execution. Reuse an already loaded, applicable baseline at handoffs; refresh changed or lost rules. Prose editing and experiment checks depend on the actual task, but baseline activation is universal. Specialist skills retain ownership and explicit user/host constraints still apply.
+ 17 Apply this baseline before every CCFA skill and contributor, including research, review, retrieval, experiments, visuals, and maintenance. Then apply [ccf-common](../ccf-common/SKILL.md), once, without recursive re-entry. Reuse applicable active rules at handoffs; refresh rules that changed or were lost. Specialist skills retain ownership. This activation creates no report, warning file, editing pass, or separate agent.
- 33 Read and apply this entry's baseline before specialist work. Communicate the concrete task, evidence, and decisions directly; avoid imagined objections, empty assurances, repetitive warnings, and unnecessary process narration. Preserve real risks, critical review findings, uncertainty, scientific facts, source quotations, and mandatory checks. Do not turn critical assessment into praise or change scores to sound less defensive. Review-only tasks diagnose without rewriting; non-prose tasks apply these rules without inventing a prose-edit pass. Enable only relevant detailed modes below. This preflight creates no report, warning file, or separate agent by default.
+ 21 - Communicate the actual question, scientific content, evidence, and decisions directly. Remove imagined objections, empty assurances, repetitive warnings, and process narration. Keep real criticism, meaningful uncertainty, scientific facts, source quotations, and mandatory checks. Do not adjust review scores to sound more agreeable.
+ 22 - Use existing authorization and evidence. Ask only about an unresolved decision that changes the work; continue independent authorized parts. A checklist alone does not justify new experiments or a smaller research objective.
+ 23 - In prose, ideas, and experiment plans, explain the object, operation, relationship, and intended or observed result. Labels such as `verifiable`, `feasible`, or their Chinese equivalents do not substitute for that explanation. Preserve them when they name a genuine technical property. Comparisons need real alternatives; qualifications need a specific factual or logical reason. A proposed mechanism remains a proposal without requiring completed experiments.
+ 24 - Compose from the supplied science and the reader's path through it. Preserve conceptual, theoretical, and interpretive explanations as well as computations; do not force every paragraph into an operation list. Reviewer expectations and internal checks are not manuscript content.
+ 25 - Preserve assumptions, negative findings, protocol facts, calibrated uncertainty, citations, equations, numbers, terminology, and disclosures. Negation and hedging can be scientifically necessary. Keep the author's sentence-final emphasis, synthesis, and broader significance; connect it to the paragraph and distinguish prospective implications from observed results.
+ 26 - When execution becomes unreliable, narrow the next action while preserving the goal and evidence standard. Recover from actual artifacts through Common's continuity rules instead of adding cautionary prose or replacing the deliverable with an easier task.
- 35 Use existing authorization and evidence. Ask only about an unresolved decision and add work when it can resolve a material gap. Continue unaffected work; omit routine warnings and self-attestation. A checklist alone does not justify adding experiments or reducing the user's research objective.
+ 28 ## Apply Only Relevant Detail
- 37 Across prose, ideas, and experiment plans, name the object, operation, relationship, and intended or observed result instead of praising a route as `可验证`, `可实现`, `rigorous`, or `feasible` without explaining it. Keep those terms when they express an actual technical property or constraint. Use comparisons to distinguish real alternatives. Add qualifications, narrower goals, or extra experiments only for a specific factual or logical reason; preserve a proposed mechanism as a proposal instead of demanding completed evidence during exploration.
+ 30 | Current work | What to load or do |
+ 31 | --- | --- |
+ 32 | Family preflight or ordinary clear local edit | Apply the baseline above and continue with Common and the owner. No read-all policy pass. |
+ 33 | Requested humanization or an actual defensive/unclear passage | Read the relevant sentence decisions, repairs, punctuation, or acceptance checks in [humanization-policy.md](references/humanization-policy.md). Recover the scientific message, repair the sentence relationships, then check wording. |
+ 34 | Reported comparison or executable experiment change | Read [experiment-discipline.md](references/experiment-discipline.md) when method identity or protocol matters. A supplied method can be drafted without demanding new runs or checkpoints. |
+ 35 | Full section or paper revision | Check the resulting argument once; run the writer's [prose checker](../ccf-paper-writer/scripts/check_prose_quality.py) when available. Inspect candidates in context, retain justified technical language, and rerun only changed or unresolved content. |
+ 36 | Concrete unresolved scientific decision | Use the policy's warning contract for the dependent claim only; continue unaffected work. Ordinary accurate edits need no extra approval. |
- 39 When execution becomes unreliable, narrow the next step while preserving the requested scope and evidence standard. Recover against actual artifacts through Common's continuity rules; do not replace progress with cautionary prose, repeated reassurance, or an easier substitute deliverable.
+ 38 Prose edits require an authorized writing task. Review-only work diagnoses without rewriting; non-prose work keeps the baseline without starting prose checks. Return the requested artifact in its original format, without a compulsory style report. Keep internal confirmation and version-gate status out of manuscript prose.
- 41 ## Core Rule
+ 40 ## Shared Contracts
- 43 Write the scientific argument directly: problem, insight, mechanism, evidence, and supported implication. Remove authorial self-defense, imagined reviewer objections, apologetic novelty positioning, denial-led statements, empty assurances, stacked hedging, repeated scope disclaimers, and obligatory cautionary endings. Replace a defensive sentence with its scientific payload or delete it if it adds none.
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- 45 Humanization preserves rigor: retain meaningful uncertainty, actual assumptions, negative results, protocol facts, citations, equations, numbers, terminology, and required disclosures. Do not turn `suggests` into `proves`, omit a known failure, or hide a real comparison limitation. Do not treat isolated words such as `only`, `not`, or `may` as errors.
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- 47 Keep method confirmation and version-gate status internal. Describe the actual method and relevant configuration naturally. Use supplied specifications for method drafting, cited evidence for prior work, and verified full configurations for reported comparisons; do not require new experiments just to edit supported prose.
- 48 
- 49 ## Modes
- 50 
- 51 - `family-preflight`: always apply the baseline before any CCFA specialist; no manuscript or experiment artifact is required.
- 52 - `manuscript-humanization`: revise defensive prose while preserving scientific content and source format.
- 53 - `experiment-humanization`: apply the same prose standard to final experiment descriptions and tables; preserve full-method comparisons and labeled ablations.
- 54 - `warning-only`: identify a concrete unresolved scientific decision without modifying its dependent artifact.
- 55 
- 56 ## Workflow
- 57 
- 58 For `family-preflight`, apply the baseline, ensure `ccf-common` is active, and continue the requested specialist task. The following editing workflow applies only when the task includes relevant prose or experiment artifacts; do not run it merely to complete the universal preflight.
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- 60 1. Identify the requested artifact, existing authorization, and whether the input is prose, a proposed design, or reported results. Read `references/humanization-policy.md` for the sentence decisions and bilingual repair examples.
- 61 2. Recover each paragraph's scientific message and how its sentences support it. Repair the actual reason, evidence, or consequence linking adjacent points; adding connectors or replacing a few words is insufficient. Delete empty self-defense instead of moving it into a warning block.
- 62 3. Remove repeated caveats across sections. Express scope where it changes interpretation; do not require every abstract, paragraph, caption, or conclusion to end with a limitation.
- 63 4. Preserve material facts and calibrated uncertainty in the authorized edit. If a decision requires new evidence or a research-scope change, isolate that decision and continue unaffected work. Do not edit a source file merely to encode a warning.
- 64 5. For actual publication comparisons or executable experiment changes, load `references/experiment-discipline.md`. Preserve a verified identity and full configuration in the internal gate; keep legitimate ablations clearly labeled. Run this step only when the task needs it.
- 65 6. Apply the existing punctuation and terminology preferences after the scientific argument is sound. For full sections or papers, run `../ccf-paper-writer/scripts/check_prose_quality.py` when available and inspect its candidate locations in context. Do not rewrite correct scientific language merely to clear a heuristic warning.
- 66 7. Read the final prose once. Check that rhetorical caution has not been replaced by hype, factual omission, or a different scientific claim. Rerun a check only for changed text or an unresolved finding.
- 67 8. Return the requested artifact in its original format. When acting as a sidecar, return ownership to the content skill; do not append a process report to ordinary prose.
- 68 
- 69 ## Warning Contract
- 70 
- 71 [credential-like text hidden]
- 72 
- 73 ```text
- 74 CCF Humanization Warning: not inserted into artifacts
- 75 Affected claim / file / experiment:
- 76 Evidence gap and material consequence:
- 77 Decision needed:
- 78 Materiality: advisory / blocking
- 79 File changes made for this warning: none
- 80 ```
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- 82 `blocking` applies to the dependent claim or change, not the entire task. Style choices, already documented limitations, and accurate local claim narrowing are ordinary authorized edits.
- 83 
- 84 ## References
- 85 
- 86 - `references/humanization-policy.md`: direct scientific voice, sentence/paragraph repair, bilingual examples, material facts, warning-only decisions, punctuation, and checksum policy.
- 87 - `references/experiment-discipline.md`: full-method comparisons, supplied specifications, ablations, and proportionate smoke checks.
+ 42 Handoff mode remains **PARTIAL**, governed by the preserved metadata and Common's [handoff modes](../ccf-common/references/handoff-modes.md). Before file work, reuse canonical paths and one stable task directory, defaulting to `ccfa-workfiles/<purpose>/<artifact-id>/`; update current artifacts in place and preserve inputs. Apply [artifact-contracts.md](../ccf-common/references/artifact-contracts.md) for ownership, cleanup, and UTF-8/Chinese checks. Common resolves scope, prerequisites, and applicable preferences before specialist execution.

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- 31 Turn a rough direction into a concrete problem, grounded gap, causal insight, mechanism, and falsifiable evidence plan. Distinguish source-backed observations from inferred opportunities. Do not invent prior work, results, reviewer sentiment, or novelty. Related work should clarify differentiation; an unsearched or crowded direction is uncertain, not automatically dead.
+ 31 Turn a rough direction into a concrete question, an explanation of its difficulty, and a proposed mechanism or research approach. Distinguish source-backed observations from inferred opportunities. Do not invent prior work, results, reviewer sentiment, or novelty. Related work should clarify differentiation; an unsearched or crowded direction is uncertain, not automatically dead.
- 35 Requested innovation authorizes distinct candidate mechanisms even with optional route comparison off. Keep the research question stable while exploring; preserve a selected mechanism during execution unless a material reason reopens it. Use Common's progress test to stop repeated critique or search that adds no decision-relevant information.
+ 35 Requested innovation authorizes distinct candidate mechanisms even with optional route comparison off. Preserve the user's objective and hard constraints; an exploratory working question may change when a new phenomenon, missing distinction, or useful connection gives a better formulation within that scope. Preserve a selected mechanism during execution unless a material reason reopens it. Use Common's progress test to stop repeated critique or search that adds no decision-relevant information.
- 49 3. Ground timeliness and closest work when needed for the request. Use `../ccf-common/references/privacy-and-evidence.md` before browsing; search public-safe terms. Use `ccf-literature-monitor` for recent-paper watch and `ccf-literature-searcher` for deeper retrieval. Honor no-browsing requests and label unsearched novelty accurately.
+ 49 3. Start from a concrete field need or an unresolved scientific phenomenon, not a preferred module. Ground timeliness, useful inspirations, and closest work at the depth the request needs; perform explicitly requested retrieval. Use `../ccf-common/references/privacy-and-evidence.md` before public-safe browsing, `ccf-literature-monitor` for recent-paper watch, and `ccf-literature-searcher` for deeper retrieval. Good technical reports, conference and journal papers, and arXiv originals may all contribute; inspect their content and version. Honor no-browsing requests and do not invent novelty.
- 51 5. For an underdetermined direction or explicit request for a breakthrough, use `references/frontier-ideation.md` to generate meaningfully different candidates. Three to five is a starting range, not a quota or ceiling; honor requested breadth. One well-specified idea otherwise needs targeted improvement. Keep useful lineage and operations such as refine, combine, transfer, invert, or instrument internally.
- 52 6. Use `references/problem-method-blueprint.md` to connect problem, root challenge, insight, mechanism, assumptions, and expected observation. Check incompatible data assumptions, objectives, or resources. Keep the strongest route and a genuinely different fallback when useful.
- 53 7. Challenge the route against the closest-overlap concern and its weakest evidence link. Use `ccf-idea-reviewer` for a focused conceptual check when a material uncertainty remains; integrate findings and check affected assumptions. Each return must resolve a concern, add evidence, or test a different mechanism; otherwise stop the review/development ping-pong and name the discriminator. A reviewer's smallest repair is a diagnostic option, not a ceiling on authorized innovation. Requested standalone assessment remains the reviewer's deliverable.
+ 51 5. For a model-capability or fundamental-bottleneck question, use the diagnosis in `references/problem-method-blueprint.md` to distinguish plausible causes before proposing components. For an underdetermined direction or requested breakthrough, use `references/frontier-ideation.md` to explore distinct explanations, source relationships, and mechanisms at the requested breadth, including its bounded sampling when varied inspiration is requested. A well-specified local question otherwise needs targeted improvement.
+ 52 6. Connect problem, root challenge, insight, mechanism, assumptions, and expected observation using the blueprint as needed. Favor explanatory value and substantive differences during exploration; compare execution costs when planning investment. Check actual incompatibilities without treating missing results as a conceptual defect. Keep a genuinely different fallback when it would help the user's decision.
+ 53 7. Check whether the proposed operation addresses the diagnosed difficulty and differs meaningfully from the closest known alternative. Use `ccf-idea-reviewer` for a focused conceptual check when a material uncertainty remains; integrate findings and check affected assumptions. Each return must resolve a concern, add information, or examine a different explanation; otherwise stop the review/development ping-pong and name the discriminator. A reviewer's smallest repair is a diagnostic option, not a ceiling on authorized innovation. Requested standalone assessment remains the reviewer's deliverable.

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- 27 Monitor arXiv, OpenReview, conference/proceedings feeds, project pages, labs, and named competitors for new papers that could overlap with the user's idea or paper. Report findings factually. Do not exaggerate novelty threats, dismiss real overlap, or infer priority from weak evidence. Provide actionable signals: RELAX, RESEARCH, FOLLOW-UP.
+ 27 Monitor arXiv, OpenReview, conference and journal feeds, original technical reports, project pages, labs, and named competitors for relevant new work. For novelty watch, inspect overlap; for trend scouting, also identify new observations, changed assumptions, and useful mechanisms. Report findings factually. Do not exaggerate novelty threats, dismiss real overlap, or infer priority from weak evidence. Provide actionable overlap signals: RELAX, RESEARCH, FOLLOW-UP.
- 63 5. Classify overlaps by problem, mechanism, evidence, benchmark, dataset, claim, and venue positioning.
+ 63 5. Classify overlaps by problem, mechanism, evidence, benchmark, dataset, claim, and venue positioning. Keep an inspiration or conflicting observation distinct from a novelty threat; its relevance does not require a high overlap score.

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- 15 ## Family File Contract
+ 15 ## Preflight And Scope
- 17 Before file work, reuse canonical paths and one task/artifact working directory; default to project-root `ccfa-workfiles/<purpose>/<artifact-id>/`. Update in place, preserve inputs, and use UTF-8 with Chinese-text checks. Apply [artifact-contracts.md](../ccf-common/references/artifact-contracts.md) for naming, ownership, and task-created cleanup; handoffs inherit these paths.
+ 17 Apply [ccf-humanization](../ccf-humanization/SKILL.md) first, then [ccf-common](../ccf-common/SKILL.md); reuse active applicable rules. Handoff mode remains **PARTIAL** under metadata and Common's [handoff rules](../ccf-common/references/handoff-modes.md). This owner finds literature, prior art, datasets, benchmarks, citation candidates and opportunity maps. Recent-paper/competitor watch belongs to `ccf-literature-monitor`; judgment, drafting and existing-citation audits retain their respective owners.
- 19 ## Collaboration Contract
+ 19 Before browsing, apply [privacy-and-evidence.md](../ccf-common/references/privacy-and-evidence.md). Convert private research into public-safe terms rather than copying draft sentences or unpublished results into queries. Preserve no-browsing and supplied-evidence-only limits. Apply shared source exclusions, including default MDPI exclusion; a named user-directed source is a scoped exception, not permission for unrelated recommendations. Keep routine screening internal.
- 21 Before specialist execution, read and apply [ccf-humanization](../ccf-humanization/SKILL.md) first, then [ccf-common](../ccf-common/SKILL.md). At every handoff, reuse their applicable active rules or refresh missing/changed ones. Both preflights are required even without prose; detailed editing, experiment, and maintenance modes run only when relevant.
+ 21 Use Common's [task modes](../ccf-common/references/task-modes.md): exploratory for direction/opportunity scouting, quick for a small lookup, standard for substantial related-work/novelty/benchmark retrieval. A helper's scope does not become a full standalone search merely because another skill will use it. The user's requested breadth wins; planning ranges are not quotas.
- 23 Integrate necessary specialist contributions under one owner; reuse valid prerequisites and verify affected results. Follow the [cooperation routes](../ccf-common/references/routing.md) without duplicate reports.
+ 23 ## Retrieve And Verify
- 25 ## Invocation Controls
+ 25 Read [search-and-scoring.md](references/search-and-scoring.md) for source roles, query/reuse strategy, taxonomy, relevant scoring anchors and standalone search guidance. Ground substantive claims in inspected original papers or primary artifacts. Indexes and stable landing pages establish identity; snippets, citation counts, institutional prestige and awards do not establish scientific findings. Include relevant technical reports, conference/journal papers and arXiv originals according to their content, version and status.
- 27 **CCFA Handoff Mode: PARTIAL (Recommended).** Follow `metadata.ccf_skill_controls.handoff_question_mode` and `../ccf-common/references/handoff-modes.md`. Use `../ccf-common/references/routing.md` to keep literature search separate from idea optimization, manuscript writing, experiment design, paper review, and rebuttal.
+ 27 1. Identify the actual search question and use public-safe query clusters. Batch independent discovery and metadata lookups; request only needed fields. Resolve ambiguous identities and deduplicate by stable identifier plus normalized title before deeper reading; retain distinct versions and supplements.
+ 28 2. Verify decisive method/result/overlap claims in original passages, inspecting uncertain PDF pages when necessary. Reuse current source caches and locations; an unchanged PDF does not prove that no newer version exists. Record source/version, inspected coverage, type, relevance and stable link. Inaccessible sources can remain explicit retrieval leads, not scored findings or evidence of absence.
+ 29 3. Compare what closest work already establishes and the meaningful remaining difference. Keep closest comparators, mechanism-bearing inspirations and counterexamples distinct. An unsearched/crowded topic is uncertain, not automatically dead; a weak result does not erase prior existence. Do not invent a rescue module or abandon the broader user goal when one candidate is covered.
+ 30 4. Score only when requested or useful and supported by inspected text. Keep insight/completeness/numerical support separate from relevance and novelty overlap; use contribution-appropriate `N/A` and `not assessed` instead of penalizing unavailable or inapplicable experiments. Benchmark papers use the reference's benchmark-quality note. No acceptance probabilities.
+ 31 5. Stop when the requested questions/clusters are covered and further retrieval adds no material information; broaden for a specific remaining gap. Reuse verified work rather than searching per paragraph or filling a paper quota. Return source passages and locations separately from model interpretation.
- 29 Load `../ccf-common/references/task-modes.md` before deciding exploratory, quick, or standard mode. Use exploratory mode for early direction scouting, "看看还有没有机会", "这个方向是不是被做完了", or literature search meant to feed idea optimization rather than a final novelty verdict. Use quick mode for a narrow related-work scan or a small set of candidate citations. Use standard mode for Related Work, Introduction, mature idea novelty grounding, benchmark discovery, experiment design, or substantial multi-deliverable work. A small citation lookup stays quick even if a writer will use it.
+ 33 ## Deliver And Hand Off
- 31 If the user asks for recurring watch, latest-paper monitoring, competitor tracking, "recently any similar idea", arXiv/OpenReview feed scans, or lab/project tracking, route to `ccf-literature-monitor` by the shared handoff mode. Use this skill for deep retrieval, closest-work clustering, related-work structure, benchmark/dataset discovery, and citation candidates.
+ 35 Return the user's requested list, clusters, opportunity map, BibTeX candidates, benchmark table or compact handoff first. Include material coverage limits where they change the conclusion, without empty score/status sections. For idea development, pass source-backed observations, mechanism primitives, assumptions, relevant relations and protocol anchors; older or analogous-field work can be useful beyond recent nearest neighbors. For writing/review, pass the exact support or overlap needed and its source location, not repeated full abstracts. [search-and-scoring.md](references/search-and-scoring.md) provides the detailed handoff guidance.
- 33 Treat user ideas, draft text, unpublished results, and private manuscripts as private material. Load `../ccf-common/references/privacy-and-evidence.md` before browsing. Search with public keywords, public titles, venue names, method names, public abstracts, or user-approved query text. Do not paste private draft sentences into a search query unless the user explicitly authorizes it.
- 34 
- 35 Source-quality exclusion: do not search, cite, recommend, or include policy-excluded venues, journals, URLs, or PDFs. The shared policy includes MDPI sources in this exclusion set; record exclusions only in internal screening or the search-notes file.
- 36 
- 37 ## Core Rule
- 38 
- 39 Ground novelty and positioning using high-quality, inspectable sources. Prefer influential conferences, strong journals, official proceedings pages, archival repositories, and public paper pages. Do not invent papers, citations, venues, links, acceptance status, benchmark status, or numerical results. Separate searched evidence from inference. Assess actual overlap: related work can reveal an open question or establish that a candidate's central claim is already covered. Offer meaningful differentiation when supported; do not force a rescue route or abandon the user's broader objective. Follow the user's requested output shape: short list, related-work clusters, opportunity map, BibTeX candidates, benchmark table, search folder, or handoff summary.
- 40 
- 41 ## Mandatory Search Checklist
- 42 
- 43 In standard mode, complete this checklist before final output. In quick mode, run the relevant subset and return a compact checklist status.
- 44 
- 45 1. The user's topic is converted into safe public search queries.
- 46 2. Shared source-quality exclusions are applied to search domains, candidates, and final outputs.
- 47 3. Sources prioritize primary or high-confidence venues: official proceedings, arXiv/OpenReview when appropriate, ACL Anthology, CVF, PMLR, ACM, IEEE, USENIX, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref, and venue or project pages.
- 48 4. Candidate papers are deduplicated by title and linked to a stable URL.
- 49 5. Each included paper has venue/year/source status, paper type, and relevance rationale.
- 50 6. Score paper quality on insight, completeness, and experimental numeric evidence only when requested or useful for substantial screening, and only to the extent the inspected text supports it. Pure benchmark papers skip the numeric-results score and receive a benchmark-quality note instead.
- 51 7. Paper type is one of `pure benchmark`, `pure method`, `method + benchmark`, `survey`, `system/tool`, `theory/proof`, or `other`.
- 52 8. Every claim about a paper is traceable to the linked source or marked as inferred.
- 53 9. For idea-stage searches, report what each closest-work cluster already covers and any supported open question. Offer differentiation only when a meaningful distinction can be explained; otherwise state that no worthwhile distinction was found in the inspected evidence. Return this finding to the idea owner without inventing a rescue module or abandoning the user's broader objective.
- 54 10. Write a literature-search folder only when reusable output is requested or needed for the authorized work. A bounded helper lookup can return verified evidence in context without a separate report.
- 55 11. When the search feeds idea optimization, an idea-grounding packet separates source-supported observations from inferred gaps and includes mechanism primitives, protocol anchors, cross-source conflict/open-gap relations, and confidence.
- 56 12. Optional handoff to `ccf-literature-monitor`, `ccf-paper-writer`, `ccf-idea-optimizer`, `ccf-idea-reviewer`, `ccf-experiment-designer`, or `ccf-paper-reviewer` follows CCFA handoff mode.
- 57 
- 58 ## Workflow
- 59 
- 60 1. Identify the search purpose: Related Work, Introduction support, novelty check, direction scouting, idea optimization, idea review, experiment design, benchmark/dataset discovery, or reviewer-risk diagnosis.
- 61 2. Create public queries from the user's topic. If the topic is too private or underspecified, ask only for non-sensitive keywords or infer broad keywords with lower confidence.
- 62 3. Load `references/search-and-scoring.md`. Use these search ranges as starting budgets, not quotas. Stop when the requested clusters, closest competitors, and evidence needs are covered and further retrieval adds no material information; broaden when a specific gap remains. Search breadth defaults:
- 63    - Exploratory: 10-20 screened candidates, 5-10 final papers or clusters, plus opportunity gaps.
- 64    - Quick: 6-10 screened candidates, 3-6 final papers.
- 65    - Standard: 15-30 screened candidates, 8-15 final papers unless the user requests another size.
- 66 
- 67    These are planning ranges for standalone searches, not quotas. A helper lookup retrieves only the sources needed to resolve its assigned question and returns to the requesting owner. Honor a requested breadth; do not repeat verified searches or collect extra papers merely to reach a default count.
- 68 4. Search discovery indexes first, then verify candidates through stable paper pages or official proceedings when possible. Use broad web search only to find primary links; do not rely on snippets for final claims.
- 69 5. Filter by influence and fit. Prefer CCF-A/B conferences, top-field conferences, strong journals, widely used benchmarks, or recent high-signal preprints from credible groups. Exclude low-quality, predatory, inaccessible, or policy-excluded sources. For exploratory searches, include one or two "near miss" or negative-signal clusters if they reveal an open gap, failed assumption, outdated benchmark, missing user group, or neglected system constraint.
- 70 6. Classify papers as needed for screening. Score inspected papers only when requested or decision-relevant, using these dimensions:
- 71    - `insight`: how clear and non-obvious the central idea is.
- 72    - `completeness`: method/evaluation/proof/dataset/reproducibility coverage.
- 73    - `experimental numeric evidence`: strength and relevance of reported numerical evidence; mark `N/A benchmark` for pure benchmark papers.
- 74 7. Write files only when reusable output is requested or needed within the authorized workflow. Honor no-new-files constraints. Reuse an existing canonical search folder for an update; otherwise use `references/report-template.md` with the default folder name:
- 75 
- 76 ```text
- 77 ccfa-workfiles/literature/<topic-slug>/
- 78   papers.md
- 79   papers.csv        # only when structured reuse/export is needed
- 80   search-notes.md    # only when queries/coverage must persist separately
- 81   idea-grounding.md  # include when the search feeds idea optimization
- 82 ```
- 83 
- 84 Reuse an existing dated or custom search folder instead of renaming it. Store the current search date and source versions inside the report; do not create a new folder for an ordinary update. Derive requested Markdown/CSV views from one screened source set rather than writing independent copies. Skip empty or unrequested score columns and generic status sections.
- 85 
- 86 8. If the search feeds another module, provide a compact handoff with canonical source paths and only decision-relevant evidence:
- 87    - For writing: closest-work groups, novelty gaps, citation cautions.
- 88    - For idea optimization: a compact idea-grounding packet with evidence cards, mechanism primitives, protocol anchors, gap/conflict relations, stale/overcrowded directions, timely pivots, and minimum viable research questions. Keep whole abstracts and generic background out of the handoff.
- 89    - For idea review: novelty confidence and likely prior-art risks.
- 90    - For literature monitoring: watch queries, tracked competitors, and recurring overlap signals.
- 91    - For experiment design: datasets, baselines, metrics, benchmark protocols.
- 92    - For paper review: missing related work and baseline risks.
- 93 
- 94 ## Adaptive Output Contracts
- 95 
- 96 Return the requested artifact first. If the user asks for a list of papers, output the list/table directly. If they ask for Related Work material, output clusters and positioning notes. If they ask for a folder, write the folder and summarize it. Use the following defaults for standard or quick search reports.
- 97 
- 98 For standard search, return:
- 99 
- 100 ```text
- 101 Search purpose:
- 102 Queries used:
- 103 Source policy:
- 104 Folder written:
- 105 Top paper table:
- 106 Closest-work clusters:
- 107 Opportunity map:
- 108 Quality-score rationale:
- 109 Benchmark/dataset candidates:
- 110 Novelty and positioning risks:
- 111 Recommended next module:
- 112 Checklist status:
- 113 ```
- 114 
- 115 For quick search, return:
- 116 
- 117 ```text
- 118 Quick search scope:
- 119 Top candidates:
- 120 High-risk missing literature:
- 121 Opportunity hint:
- 122 Folder written:
- 123 Compact checklist status:
- 124 ```
- 125 
- 126 ## Reference Files
- 127 
- 128 Load only what is needed:
- 129 
- 130 - `references/search-and-scoring.md`: Use for source policy, source-quality exclusions, source tiers, paper-type taxonomy, and scoring anchors.

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- 15 ## Family File Contract
+ 15 ## Preflight And Ownership
- 17 Before file work, reuse canonical paths and one task/artifact working directory; default to project-root `ccfa-workfiles/<purpose>/<artifact-id>/`. Update in place, preserve inputs, and use UTF-8 with Chinese-text checks. Apply [artifact-contracts.md](../ccf-common/references/artifact-contracts.md) for naming, ownership, and task-created cleanup; handoffs inherit these paths.
+ 17 Apply [ccf-humanization](../ccf-humanization/SKILL.md) first, then [ccf-common](../ccf-common/SKILL.md); reuse applicable active rules at handoffs. Both remain required. Handoff mode is **PARTIAL**, governed by metadata and Common's [handoff rules](../ccf-common/references/handoff-modes.md).
- 19 ## Collaboration Contract
+ 19 Assess manuscript claims, support and writing without rewriting. A concept-only question belongs to `ccf-idea-reviewer`, even with a full PDF; requested prose edits belong to `ccf-paper-writer`, and responses/revision ledgers to `ccf-rebuttal-writer`. Do not invent citations, results, missing related work, consensus, score movement or acceptance probabilities. Keep private manuscripts and reviews within the authorized boundary; use public-safe transformed queries under [privacy-and-evidence.md](../ccf-common/references/privacy-and-evidence.md).
- 21 Before specialist execution, read and apply [ccf-humanization](../ccf-humanization/SKILL.md) first, then [ccf-common](../ccf-common/SKILL.md). At every handoff, reuse their applicable active rules or refresh missing/changed ones. Both preflights are required even without prose; detailed editing, experiment, and maintenance modes run only when relevant.
+ 21 Before file work follow [artifact-contracts.md](../ccf-common/references/artifact-contracts.md): reuse canonical paths and one stable task directory, default `ccfa-workfiles/<purpose>/<artifact-id>/`, preserve inputs, update in place, and check UTF-8/Chinese text. A bounded internal check returns findings to its integrating owner without another full report.
- 23 Integrate necessary specialist contributions under one owner; reuse valid prerequisites and verify affected results. Follow the [cooperation routes](../ccf-common/references/routing.md) without duplicate reports.
+ 23 ## Review Modes And References
- 25 ## Invocation Controls
+ 25 | Mode | Assessment and relevant guidance |
+ 26 | --- | --- |
+ 27 | `scientific` | Novelty, significance, soundness and the paper's actual evidence, appropriate to contribution type. Use [review-workflow.md](references/review-workflow.md), [universal-review-rubric.md](references/universal-review-rubric.md) and [reviewer-panel.md](references/reviewer-panel.md) as needed. |
+ 28 | `writing` | Paragraph logic, section flow, terminology, contribution display, claim presentation, captions and LaTeX-facing risks. Use relevant [prose guardrails](../ccf-paper-writer/references/prose-quality-guardrails.md) and `references/writing-review/`; no scientific acceptance score or automatic new experiments. |
+ 29 | `full` | Scientific plus writing/format checks and consolidated action priorities. |
+ 30 | `version-comparison` | Read [version-comparison.md](references/version-comparison.md) before scoring. Freeze the comparison contract; keep relative progress and absolute readiness as separate scorecards, with confidence separate from both. |
- 27 **CCFA Handoff Mode: PARTIAL (Recommended).** Follow `metadata.ccf_skill_controls.handoff_question_mode`, `../ccf-common/references/handoff-modes.md`, and `../ccf-common/references/task-modes.md`.
+ 32 For scores, panels, AC/meta-review, change conditions, or standard reports, load [review-output-standards.md](../ccf-common/references/review-output-standards.md). [calibration-and-rank.md](references/calibration-and-rank.md) is the sole generic seven-dimension rubric; use a verified venue form when applicable. [venue-review-styles.md](references/venue-review-styles.md) and [desk-checks.md](references/desk-checks.md) apply to consequential venue decisions. Verify current official year/track rules rather than treating legacy guides as final policy; ICLR 2027 review needs its ICLR guidance and AI-use distinction between author pre-review and official assignment.
- 29 Select this owner when the requested judgment concerns manuscript evidence, scientific completeness, or presentation; a complete PDF alone does not override a concept-only request. Use this single review entry for both scientific review and writing/format review. Select a review mode instead of routing to a separate writing-review skill:
+ 34 Identify the draft phase. Internal alignment checks of content-first or results-pending drafts assess explanation and consistency, with absent empirical adequacy `not assessed`; no invented acceptance score, imposed page limit or experiment campaign. Unsupported empirical assertions remain findings. A requested full submission review still reports real evidence incompleteness under its normal rubric. [materials-to-manuscript.md](../ccf-paper-writer/references/materials-to-manuscript.md) defines the draft contract.
- 31 - `scientific`: novelty, soundness, evidence, experiments, related work, reproducibility, ethics, scores, reviewer panel, and AC/meta-review.
- 32 - `writing`: paragraph logic, section flow, contribution display, claim-evidence presentation, terminology consistency, figure/table narration, and LaTeX-facing presentation risk.
- 33 - `full`: scientific + writing + format + revision-action synthesis.
- 34 - `version-comparison`: evaluate relative progress between manuscript versions under a frozen rubric, then assess the current version's absolute readiness separately.
+ 36 ## Evidence And Findings
- 36 Version comparison preserves relative progress, absolute readiness, and confidence as separate outputs. Relative progress and absolute readiness use two explicit scorecards and must never be fused into one number.
+ 38 Read the supplied scientific work and relevant dependencies at the requested coverage; filenames and excerpts do not establish whole-paper inspection. Reconstruct contributions, claims and support before judgment. Anchor concerns to actual locations. For every major/critical concern, inspect the strongest supplied passage or appendix that could answer it; record the countercheck and withdraw or narrow refuted criticism. Separate confirmed flaw, unsupported claim, clarification and missing input. Do not force praise, disagreement, or a concern quota.
- 38 Treat manuscripts, reviews, drafts, results, appendices, and unpublished material as private user data. Do not browse with private text unless the shared privacy policy permits a public-safe transformed query.
+ 40 Resolve consequential gaps through `ccf-literature-searcher` for closest work/benchmarks, `ccf-integrity-auditor` for numerical/citation-support conflicts, or `ccf-experiment-designer` for protocol interpretation. Reuse checks and respect no-browsing/supplied-evidence limits. Review does not authorize manuscript edits or new experiments. A low score needs its deduction and repair condition; confidence and inspected coverage are distinct from quality.
- 40 Load `../ccf-common/references/review-output-standards.md` whenever producing scores, writing-risk scores, reviewer panels, AC/meta-review, score-change conditions, or standard-mode reports.
+ 42 ## Optional Independent Expert
- 42 ## Core Rule
+ 44 [plain-expert-review.md](references/plain-expert-review.md) implements the existing `independent_review` switch as one fresh-context GPT-6 specialist reading, not an extra layer. `off` adds none automatically; `auto` requires a consequential unresolved judgment or useful requested pre-submission check; `on` favors a relevant substantial scientific/full pass when valuable. Explicit requests override the switch for this task without saving changes. Writing-only does not automatically invoke scientific expertise; concept-only stays with the idea owner.
- 44 Act as a strict but fair reviewer and AC. Produce decision-relevant findings, not prose rewrites. Do not rewrite manuscript prose. Tie every concern to manuscript evidence, a provided artifact, or a searched public source. Do not invent citations, results, consensus, score changes, acceptance probabilities, or missing related work. Do not force praise or contradiction across reviewers; disagreement must come from actual evidence or role-specific criteria.
+ 46 `scripts/prepare_expert_review.py` prepares a source-bound neutral request, never a model call. Pass scope/question, exclusions, material locations and actual execution identity; withhold main-review conclusions, scores, generation history and other candidates. Preserve user model/effort choices and mandatory preflights. Missing GPT-6 or genuine fresh-context support limits only this extra pass. Record actual model, settings and inspected coverage; never claim a human or official reviewer. Verify returned evidence, merge duplicate concerns under stable IDs, and integrate once without votes, repeated full reviews or indefinite debate. Reuse requires matching inputs, guidance, actual runtime/options and coverage.
- 46 Do not write rebuttal text or directly maintain the revision ledger; route reviewer-response and ledger updates to `ccf-rebuttal-writer`. Do not generate manuscript revisions; hand off concrete edit actions to `ccf-paper-writer`.
+ 48 ## Report Contract
- 48 ## Workflow
+ 50 For a user-requested report read [fixed-output-format.md](references/fixed-output-format.md): detailed by default, fourteen sections for scientific/full, nine for writing, five only for explicit brief/restrictive output. Narrow scope, a short prompt, or no-score request does not select brief output or broaden the assessment. Honor an explicit venue/user schema. Use the template's typed findings, stable concern IDs and bracketed references; keep one canonical explanation and scorecard rather than a report per role. Preserve historical dimensions/weights for relative comparisons and assess current readiness separately.
- 50 For a bounded internal contribution, select the checks needed for its assigned question and affected dependencies. Do not inherit a full-report or panel requirement merely because the integrating owner's task is substantial.
+ 52 For standard scientific/full review with local paper and authorized file output, reuse the established report or the canonical Markdown file in `ccfa-review-reports/`; otherwise return it in context. Follow [review-workflow.md](references/review-workflow.md) for filename/location rules; no dated report per rerun. Validate saved default-format reports with `scripts/validate_version_comparison.py --report`; structural validation does not prove scientific correctness.
- 52 Identify the manuscript phase. A content-first or intentionally results-pending draft can be checked for scientific coherence, method clarity, terminology, literal sentence logic, and global alignment without imposing page limits or treating missing results as completed evidence. In an internal writing/alignment check, mark empirical adequacy `not assessed` when no results are supplied; do not invent an acceptance score or prescribe experiments outside scope. An empirical assertion without support remains a finding. A requested full submission review still reports evidence incompleteness and uses its normal rubric; phase awareness must not conceal it. `../ccf-paper-writer/references/materials-to-manuscript.md` defines the drafting contract.
- 53 
- 54 1. Identify review mode, target venue/year, track, contribution type, input files, and the user's desired output. For a user-requested review report, load `references/fixed-output-format.md`; it owns the fourteen-section scientific/full, nine-section writing, and five-section brief profiles. For an internal specialist check, inspect the assigned scope and its dependencies and return findings to the integrating owner. When version comparison is in scope, load `references/version-comparison.md` before scoring.
- 55 2. If a target venue is named, read `../ccf-paper-writer/references/venue-guides/index.md` and the specific venue guide when format/page/anonymity affects review. For ICLR 2027, read the ICLR section of `references/venue-review-styles.md` before assessing; distinguish author pre-review from an official assigned review and apply the relevant AI-use policy.
- 56 3. Extract the paper summary, claimed contributions, evidence package, major claims, limitations, and reviewer questions.
- 57 4. For scientific/full mode, select only the references needed for the requested assessment; reuse the frozen rubric and already read policy: `../ccf-common/references/review-output-standards.md`, `references/review-workflow.md`, `references/universal-review-rubric.md`, `references/venue-review-styles.md`, `references/reviewer-panel.md`, `references/calibration-and-rank.md`, and `references/desk-checks.md`.
- 58 5. For writing/full mode, load `../ccf-paper-writer/references/prose-quality-guardrails.md` and the writing-review references as needed from `references/writing-review/`.
- 59 6. Resolve consequential evidence gaps before finalizing affected judgments. Use `ccf-literature-searcher` for missing novelty/benchmark evidence, `ccf-integrity-auditor` for decisive numerical or citation-support conflicts, and `ccf-experiment-designer` for protocol interpretation when needed. Keep searches public-safe and respect supplied-evidence-only limits. Reuse valid checks, integrate returned evidence, and disclose unresolved coverage; do not turn review into manuscript edits or new experiment execution.
- 60 7. Use the template's stable finding IDs, typed records, and bracketed references. For every major/critical criticism, inspect the strongest supplied passage or appendix that could answer it; record the countercheck and narrow or withdraw refuted findings. Separate a demonstrated flaw, unsupported claim, and clarification. Use `references/calibration-and-rank.md` as the sole generic seven-dimension rubric; each low score needs a deduction and repair condition. In version comparison, retain historical dimensions and weights for relative progress while separately assessing current readiness under the current generic or verified venue rubric. Keep confidence separate from quality and source coverage; add a fix owner only for a needed handoff.
- 61 8. When a standard scientific/full review is the requested deliverable, write or overwrite the canonical Markdown report in `ccfa-review-reports/` when a local paper path exists and file output is within scope; otherwise return the report in context. Honor explicit no-new-files and exact-output requests. Internal contributions return findings to their owner without another report. Follow `../ccf-common/references/artifact-contracts.md`; do not make a dated report per iteration.
- 62 
- 63 ## Output Contracts
- 64 
- 65 For a bounded internal check contributing to another skill's artifact, return inspected scope, evidence-anchored findings, resolved/open concern IDs, and completion conditions without a separate full report. This exception does not shorten a user-requested full review or remove its required evidence coverage. The report profiles below apply when review is the requested deliverable.
- 66 
- 67 Follow `references/fixed-output-format.md`, preserving the selected profile's section names and order. Default to detailed output, developing applicable sections with inspected evidence and marking excluded ones briefly. Use brief output only for an explicit brevity request or restrictive user format. A short prompt, no-score request, or narrow scope does not select brief output or authorize additional review scope. Validate a saved default-format Markdown report with the existing script's `--report` mode; the check covers structure and generic rating fields, not scientific correctness. Explicit venue/user forms keep their own schema.
- 68 
- 69 Keep evidence tables and role perspectives inside this structure only when they improve the judgment. Do not emit a separate report for every audit or role. Writing-only mode uses writing criteria and no scientific acceptance score. Use functional report titles and the stated review scope. Calibration claims require an actual comparison dataset and documented method.
- 70 
- 71 For an explicitly requested brief review, use the template's five blocks: verdict, strengths, concerns, ratings/confidence, and next actions. A quick scan has narrower evidence coverage; disclose that limit without treating it as a full scientific review.
- 72 
- 73 For version comparison:
- 74 
- 75 ```text
- 76 Frozen comparison contract:
- 77 Relative-progress scorecard:
- 78   Historical / current / delta / weight by dimension:
- 79   Weighted progress delta and classification:
- 80 Issue ledger changes and provenance:
- 81 Traceable score decreases:
- 82 Absolute-readiness scorecard:
- 83   Current dimension scores:
- 84   Overall score or stance and threshold:
- 85   Remaining blocking evidence:
- 86 Confidence and comparability:
- 87 Next owner:
- 88 ```
- 89 
- 90 ## Reference Files
- 91 
- 92 - `references/review-workflow.md`: scientific review process.
- 93 - `references/fixed-output-format.md`: fixed report format.
- 94 - `references/universal-review-rubric.md`: scientific dimensions and claim-evidence audit.
- 95 - `references/venue-review-styles.md`: venue-family expectations.
- 96 - `references/reviewer-panel.md`: simulated reviewers and AC/meta-review.
- 97 - `references/calibration-and-rank.md`: scores, ranks, and confidence.
- 98 - `references/version-comparison.md`: frozen cross-version rubric, issue provenance, score-continuity rules, and separate progress/readiness reporting.
- 99 - `scripts/validate_version_comparison.py`: compatible JSON comparison validation and direct Markdown report checks (`--report`); no sidecar files.
- 100 - `references/desk-checks.md`: desk and policy checks.
- 101 - `references/writing-review/`: paragraph review, writing rubric, LaTeX/format audit, and revision actions.
- 102 - `../ccf-paper-writer/references/prose-quality-guardrails.md`: prose anti-patterns and cohesion checks for writing review.
- 103 - `../ccf-common/references/review-output-standards.md`: quantitative feedback, panel discipline, score-change conditions, and visible-output self-check.
- 104 
- 105 ## Evidence And Execution
- 106 
- 107 Use distinct reviewer perspectives for a standard full assessment; label a single-agent role simulation honestly. Apply the effective `independent_review` setting from `../ccf-common/references/preferences.md` to an additional independent pass, not to the primary review's evidence coverage or required counterchecks. Delegate only supported, useful evidence slices; an enabled preference never mandates a second full report or an indefinite review loop. Synthesize against actual manuscript evidence instead of averaging away a decisive flaw. Keep contributions compact and consolidate duplicate concerns. Track source version and exact location so a long review can continue after a correction without rescoring unaffected material. Report missing evidence as a coverage limit, not an invented defect. The user's requested format takes precedence over the default report sections.
+ 54 Internal contributions return inspected scope, located findings, resolved/open concern IDs and completion conditions, without inheriting a full report or panel. For a [writing context packet](../ccf-paper-writer/references/writing-execution.md), inspect necessary dependencies and preserve declared excerpt/section coverage. Return findings without applying manuscript patches; the writer owns authorized integration.

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- 36 4. Recover the source's story, abstract/introduction/method/evidence moves, citation patterns, and reusable techniques. Do not force a limitations ending. Use `../ccf-paper-writer/references/prose-quality-guardrails.md` to exclude defensive habits, artificial labels, formula dumping, unsupported hype, and mechanical prose from the advice.
- 37 5. Fill or revise the existing card in place using the section headings generated by `scripts/convert.py` and established cards: Story Pattern, Abstract Moves, Introduction Moves, Method Moves, Evidence Moves, Citation Patterns, Reusable Techniques, and Do-Not-Copy Boundary. Record title, venue/year when verified, source identity/version, and relevant page/section anchors. When language adaptation is requested, include the relevant punctuation, sentence rhythm, or transition conventions under Reusable Techniques with source anchors and their intended use. No new profile file or corpus quota is needed. Add Excluded Anti-Patterns only when the source supplies a material example. Keep writing moves separate from source claims and distinctive wording.
+ 36 4. Recover how the source explains its science, using `../ccf-paper-writer/references/exemplar-style-analysis.md`. For relevant passages, inspect the scientific subject, main verb, definition placement, sentence relationships, and paragraph progression as well as the overall organization. Distinguish the source's observations from its interpretation and preserve meaningful uncertainty. Do not replace this reading with a generic introduction outline or infer quality from awards.
+ 37 5. Fill or revise the existing card in place using the established headings: Story Pattern, Abstract Moves, Introduction Moves, Method Moves, Evidence Moves, Citation Patterns, Reusable Techniques, and Do-Not-Copy Boundary. Anchor source observations to pages, sections, or identifiable paragraphs; label adaptation advice separately. Verify claimed section or paragraph counts rather than inferring them from extraction matches. Describe selected techniques with their scientific purpose, not fixed sentence templates. When language adaptation is requested, include source-grounded sentence, transition, punctuation, or rhythm observations under Reusable Techniques. No new profile file or corpus quota is needed. Preserve attribution and distinguish source paraphrases, short quotations, and original hypothetical examples.
- 40 8. Verify that completed cards have no `[ANALYZE]` or `[MANUAL]` placeholders, source references are accurate, and output/cache paths are orderly. Return the canonical card paths and the useful writing patterns; report actual registration/default changes only when performed. Do not echo the full PDF extraction or add generic next-action menus.
+ 40 8. Verify the card's source descriptions against the relevant original passages, including claimed organization and language examples. Completed cards have no `[ANALYZE]` or `[MANUAL]` placeholders; advice is identifiable as advice and source references are accurate. Return the canonical card paths and useful writing patterns; report actual registration/default changes only when performed. Do not echo the full PDF extraction or add generic next-action menus.
- 44 Pass the selected card path, source identity, and relevant writing moves. The writer decides whether a style reference is needed for its task; a paragraph edit does not automatically load default or venue card bundles. For full manuscripts or explicit style adaptation, select from `../ccf-paper-writer/references/exemplars/index.md` and load only matching sections/cards. Preserve existing user defaults without treating them as mandatory reading for every writing request.
+ 44 Pass the selected card path, source identity/version, relevant original-passage locations, and observed writing moves. The writer reuses matched originals for substantive drafting and expression repair; a local edit does not automatically load default or venue card bundles. For full manuscripts or explicit style adaptation, select from `../ccf-paper-writer/references/exemplars/index.md` and load only matching sections/cards. Preserve existing user defaults without treating them as mandatory reading for every writing request.

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- 15 ## Family File Contract
+ 15 ## Preflight And Ownership
- 17 Before file work, reuse canonical paths and one task/artifact working directory; default to project-root `ccfa-workfiles/<purpose>/<artifact-id>/`. Update in place, preserve inputs, and use UTF-8 with Chinese-text checks. Apply [artifact-contracts.md](../ccf-common/references/artifact-contracts.md) for naming, ownership, and task-created cleanup; handoffs inherit these paths.
+ 17 Apply [ccf-humanization](../ccf-humanization/SKILL.md) first, then [ccf-common](../ccf-common/SKILL.md); reuse applicable active rules at handoffs. Both preflights remain required in every mode. Handoff mode is **PARTIAL**, under the preserved metadata and Common's [handoff rules](../ccf-common/references/handoff-modes.md).
- 19 ## Collaboration Contract
+ 19 Own manuscript prose, compression, and presentation text. Assessment without rewriting belongs to `ccf-paper-reviewer`; rebuttal belongs to `ccf-rebuttal-writer`. Preserve the supplied problem, mechanism, setting, measurements, citation keys, and conclusion unless research changes are authorized. Respect the user's format, markup, boundaries, no-browsing and no-new-files instructions. An inspection request alone does not authorize rewriting.
- 21 Before specialist execution, read and apply [ccf-humanization](../ccf-humanization/SKILL.md) first, then [ccf-common](../ccf-common/SKILL.md). At every handoff, reuse their applicable active rules or refresh missing/changed ones. Both preflights are required even without prose; detailed editing, experiment, and maintenance modes run only when relevant.
- 22 
- 23 Integrate necessary specialist contributions under one owner; reuse valid prerequisites and verify affected results. Follow the [cooperation routes](../ccf-common/references/routing.md) without duplicate reports.
- 24 
- 25 ## Invocation Controls
- 26 
- 27 **CCFA Handoff Mode: PARTIAL (Recommended).** Follow `metadata.ccf_skill_controls.handoff_question_mode`, `../ccf-common/references/handoff-modes.md`, and `../ccf-common/references/task-modes.md`. User scope and existing authorization govern execution; preserve plan-only, no-browsing, exact-output, and no-new-files requests.
- 28 
- 29 This skill owns manuscript text, compression, and presentation prose. Preserve the supplied problem, method mechanism, experimental setting, numbers, citation keys, and conclusion unless a research change is authorized. A requested revision authorizes ordinary accurate wording edits and necessary local checks.
- 30 
- 31 Run `ccf-humanization` as the first manuscript-facing preflight. Read `../ccf-humanization/references/humanization-policy.md` and `references/prose-quality-guardrails.md`. These guide direct scientific writing; they do not start a separate review or a confirmation loop.
+ 21 For file edits, reuse the canonical source and one stable working directory under [artifact-contracts.md](../ccf-common/references/artifact-contracts.md), default `ccfa-workfiles/<purpose>/<artifact-id>/`. Update in place; preserve inputs, includes, labels, citations, equations, and floats. Check UTF-8/Chinese text and requested exports. Do not create dated or `v2` manuscript copies for ordinary iterations.
- 35 Write from the contribution: what problem matters, why the mechanism addresses it, what the evidence establishes, and what follows. Replace reviewer-facing reassurance, apologetic novelty claims, repeated caveats, denial-led positioning, and stacked hedges with their scientific payload. Delete sentences with no payload. Do not add a limitations sentence to each paragraph, abstract, caption, or conclusion by habit.
+ 25 Compose from the supplied scientific propositions and the reader's path through them. Develop computations, distinctions, implications, or interpretations according to the passage's purpose. Connect sentences through their actual reason, consequence, evidence, or comparison; internal readiness checks and imagined reviewer objections are not the narrative. Preserve necessary uncertainty, assumptions, negative findings, technical terms, and the author's sentence-final emphasis and broader significance. Do not invent mechanisms, citations, measurements, or empirical superiority.
- 37 Keep meaningful uncertainty, known negative results, necessary assumptions, fair-comparison constraints, and mandatory disclosures in direct academic prose. Do not write that a method is confirmed, approved, or publication-ready. Explain the actual method and relevant configuration. A missing result stays missing; a proposed study is not a completed experiment. Never guess citations or insert invented measurements to complete a draft.
+ 27 An ordinary clear local edit needs the active baseline, actual text, and relevant constraints. Read [humanization-policy.md](../ccf-humanization/references/humanization-policy.md) or [prose-quality-guardrails.md](references/prose-quality-guardrails.md) for an actual expression/logic problem or requested humanization; load the relevant sections rather than both full guides by default. Punctuation thresholds belong to Humanization. Supporting phrase checks never replace semantic reading or require removing correct technical language.
- 39 Use the humanization policy as the single source for punctuation and pattern thresholds. Natural writing is a semantic editing task; passing a phrase checker does not establish quality. Keep scientifically necessary terms, negation, and hedging even when a heuristic flags them.
+ 29 ## Mode Navigation
- 41 ## Modes And Reference Loading
+ 31 | Requested work | Relevant guidance |
+ 32 | --- | --- |
+ 33 | `polish`: local passage | Revise directly in the source format; load a reference only for a specific factual, citation, logic, or style question. |
+ 34 | `draft`: section | Relevant [section module](references/section-modules.md); [storyline-blueprint.md](references/storyline-blueprint.md) for substantial introduction/global argument work. |
+ 35 | `draft`: complete manuscript | [materials-to-manuscript.md](references/materials-to-manuscript.md), storyline and relevant section/checklist guidance. Complete substantive explanations before length fitting; results-pending drafts remain valid. |
+ 36 | `submission-fit` | The aligned content first, then target venue guide, [length-budget-policy.md](references/length-budget-policy.md) and [compression-rules.md](references/compression-rules.md); verify exact official year/track rules through `ccf-submission-checker`. |
+ 37 | `compress` | [compression-rules.md](references/compression-rules.md); preserve scientific relationships, facts and numbers. |
+ 38 | `presentation` | The source paper and presentation guidance in [section-modules.md](references/section-modules.md). |
- 43 | Mode | Deliverable | References beyond the shared prose policy |
- 44 | --- | --- | --- |
- 45 | `polish` | Revised paragraph or local passage in its source format | None unless a factual, citation, or explicit style question requires one. |
- 46 | `draft` section | Requested section with a coherent scientific argument | The relevant part of `references/section-modules.md`; citation workflow only when literature support is needed. |
- 47 | `draft` manuscript | Complete content-first manuscript, including a results-pending draft when requested | `references/materials-to-manuscript.md`, `references/storyline-blueprint.md`, and relevant section/checklist references. Read a venue guide for a requested format, not to impose an initial page budget. |
- 48 | `submission-fit` | A complete, aligned draft fitted to a specified venue or length | Venue guide, `references/length-budget-policy.md`, and `references/compression-rules.md`; verify current official rules for final compliance. |
- 49 | `compress` | Shortened source text preserving meaning and numbers | `references/compression-rules.md`. |
- 50 | `presentation` | Slides/poster/talk/Q&A prose from supplied research | Applicable presentation guidance in `references/section-modules.md` and the source paper. |
+ 40 Naming a venue alone does not trigger a page quota. Read `references/venue-guides/index.md` and the matched guide when audience/format affects the work; [output-style-policy.md](references/output-style-policy.md) preserves supplied templates and governs the disclosed NeurIPS fallback for new LaTeX without one. An abstract, caption, local edit, or exact JSON response does not require whole-paper planning, exemplar analysis, reviewer panels, or a venue guide.
- 52 An abstract, caption, synopsis, paragraph edit, or exact JSON response does not require venue guides, full exemplars, reviewer panels, or length planning by default. Load matched exemplar cards from `references/exemplars/index.md` only for a requested style adaptation or a full manuscript that benefits from them. Never copy exemplar wording or technical content.
+ 42 For substantive drafting or expression rewriting, inspect relevant real passages through [exemplar-style-analysis.md](references/exemplar-style-analysis.md). `reference_style_search` defaults to **on**: reuse matched originals and search for additional good writing for the actual question, reusing completed applicable searches across paragraphs. `auto` limits extra discovery to gaps; `off` skips unrequested extra discovery, not supplied references or explicit searches. Choose quality and function without a paper-count quota. Reuse conventional language and technical terms, not distinctive source sentences or scientific claims; keep one author voice.
- 54 ## Workflow
+ 44 ## Draft, Check, Deliver
- 56 1. Identify the requested mode, output format, evidence, and target length from the conversation and supplied files. Infer routine choices; ask only for a missing decision that changes the research claim, deliverable, or feasibility. Continue independent work while that decision is pending.
- 57 2. For an authorized edit to an existing manuscript, revise that file in place and preserve Markdown/LaTeX sections, commands, citations, labels, equations, and float environments unless restructuring is requested. Follow `../ccf-common/references/artifact-contracts.md`; create no dated or `v2` copies for an ordinary iteration. Supplying a file for inspection alone does not authorize rewriting it.
- 58 3. For a new manuscript from research documents, use `references/materials-to-manuscript.md`. Draft substantive content without a page quota, check scientific and textual alignment, then fit length only when requested. Naming a venue alone does not trigger compression. An explicit submission-ready or fixed-length request includes fitting after the content check in the same task. Read `references/venue-guides/index.md` and the matched guide for template conventions; use `references/length-budget-policy.md` only in the fitting phase. Preserve a supplied template or requested format. For new LaTeX without a usable target template, NeurIPS is a disclosed format fallback, not a scientific or length requirement. `references/output-style-policy.md` governs format choices.
- 59 4. Organize the scientific argument. For a substantial introduction or full manuscript, use `references/storyline-blueprint.md`; for bounded prose, directly connect problem, insight, mechanism, evidence, and implication. Keep material scope where it changes interpretation. Do not generate a reviewer-risk register or multi-expert tournament for ordinary writing.
- 60 5. Resolve evidence prerequisites before asserting dependent claims. When literature is needed, load `references/citation-workflow.md`, use `ccf-literature-searcher` for missing sources, and update the bibliography without changing unrelated keys. Use `ccf-integrity-auditor` for unresolved citation-support or numerical conflicts. Reuse applicable verified evidence. For supplied-evidence-only or no-browsing tasks, preserve provided citations and keep unsupported claims provisional without inventing entries.
- 61 6. Draft substantive sections and supporting appendices using `references/section-modules.md` and applicable `references/writing-checklists.md` checks. Load `references/research-writing-patterns.md` only when alternative writing patterns or exemplar adaptation are useful. `references/materials-to-manuscript.md` owns result-status handling: preserve supplied results, leave missing values and dependent analysis blank, and honor an explicitly deferred experiment section. Do not invent mechanisms or pad with cautionary text.
- 62 7. For reported experimental comparisons, consult `../ccf-humanization/references/experiment-discipline.md` when method identity or protocol matters. Use supplied design specifications for a proposed method and cited evidence for prior work; do not demand runnable checkpoints or full experimental confirmation to perform a text edit.
- 63 8. For a full LaTeX manuscript with an available engine, compile and inspect errors, references, and affected layouts. Fix overflow and missing references in every phase; page count is informational during content-first drafting. Fit length only in `submission-fit` or explicitly requested compression. Put build artifacts under the established working directory and export the requested PDF only after a successful build. Preserve relative includes and build configuration. Recompile after relevant changes; do not loop to fill pages or chase harmless warnings. Leave final venue compliance to `ccf-submission-checker` when requested or necessary.
- 64 9. Check the resulting argument once with the cohesion repairs in `references/prose-quality-guardrails.md`, then apply Humanization's sentence decisions and verify that factual meaning survived revision. For a full section or paper, run `scripts/check_prose_quality.py` when available. Inspect candidates in context; fix real problems and retain justified scientific language. Use `--strict` only when a strict lint report is requested, not as a universal publication gate. Rerun only for changed content or unresolved findings.
- 65 10. For a substantial draft or changes to argument/evidence, use `ccf-paper-reviewer` to check the affected links and coherence unless already covered. Carry the drafting phase and intentionally missing evidence into the check. A results-pending draft needs a writing/alignment check, not an invented acceptance score or an automatic new-experiment campaign. Unsupported empirical assertions still require correction. Integrate authorized fixes and verify affected passages; a local edit uses local checks. Deliver the requested artifact and concrete unresolved decisions without unrelated downstream outputs.
+ 46 1. Recover the requested artifact, evidence, argument and routine choices from existing context. Ask only for a missing decision that changes the science or deliverable; continue independent work. A long coordinated revision can use [writing-execution.md](references/writing-execution.md) and `scripts/writing_runtime.py` for current targets, necessary transitions, source positions and checked patches. Short edits stay direct; section IDs do not imply separate agents.
+ 47 2. Resolve support before asserting dependent facts. Use [citation-workflow.md](references/citation-workflow.md) and `ccf-literature-searcher` for missing sources; use `ccf-integrity-auditor` for unresolved support/numerical conflicts. Reuse verified evidence and preserve bibliography keys. Reported comparisons use [experiment-discipline.md](../ccf-humanization/references/experiment-discipline.md) when identity/protocol matters; drafting a supplied design requires no new runs.
+ 48 3. Draft the requested prose. [materials-to-manuscript.md](references/materials-to-manuscript.md) owns conflicting-material and result-status handling: retain supplied results and honor an entirely deferred experiment section. By default, leave missing values and dependent analysis unwritten. Only an explicit task request or `results_pending_draft=on` enables its marked, conditional results-pending completion mode, including the automatic whole-draft alignment pass. Missing details constrain relevant claims without becoming repeated progress disclaimers. Use [research-writing-patterns.md](references/research-writing-patterns.md) only when alternative explanations or structure help; [table-style-guide.md](references/table-style-guide.md) covers source tables, with visual redesign owned by `ccf-visual-composer`.
+ 49 4. Check the resulting argument and factual preservation once. For a full section/paper run `scripts/check_prose_quality.py` when available, inspect real issues in context, and retain justified scientific language. Use `--strict` only for requested strict lint; rerun changed/unresolved content only. Substantial argument/evidence changes need a scoped `ccf-paper-reviewer` alignment check unless covered; carry the phase and missing-result status. Such a check does not start acceptance scoring or experiments. Reuse matching completed coverage; extra independent review follows its existing switch or explicit request.
+ 50 5. For full LaTeX with an available engine, compile and inspect errors, references, and affected layouts; fix overflow and broken references. Keep builds in the established task directory, preserve includes/configuration, and export PDF after success. Page count is informational during content drafting. Recompile affected changes without chasing harmless warnings or looping to fill pages.
- 67 ## Output Contract
- 68 
- 69 Return the actual revised text, manuscript, compressed passage, or presentation prose first in the user's format. Ordinary local edits need no mode/status/next-skill block. For full manuscript files, report their paths, substantive changes, relevant validation, and concrete unresolved evidence. Exact schemas stay exact.
- 70 
- 71 A complete draft contains the requested scientific sections at appropriate depth; it may remain evidence-incomplete. Distinguish draft completion from submission readiness. Do not label unknown results as observations or claim measured score improvements from a prose revision.
- 72 
- 73 ## References
- 74 
- 75 Load selectively by the modes above. Maintain phase/result rules in `materials-to-manuscript.md`, section responsibilities in `section-modules.md`, citation rules in `citation-workflow.md`, and fitting rules in `length-budget-policy.md`; other references apply them without duplicating the full policy.
- 76 
- 77 - `references/materials-to-manuscript.md`: research-document intake, complete initial drafts, results-pending writing, and alignment before compression.
- 78 - `references/output-style-policy.md`, `references/length-budget-policy.md`: source-format preservation and later manuscript fitting.
- 79 - `references/venue-guides/index.md`, `references/exemplars/index.md`: target venue and selected style moves.
- 80 - `references/storyline-blueprint.md`, `references/section-modules.md`, `references/research-writing-patterns.md`: scientific organization and section writing.
- 81 - `references/citation-workflow.md`: verified citation insertion.
- 82 - `references/prose-quality-guardrails.md`, `references/writing-checklists.md`, `scripts/check_prose_quality.py`: semantic prose review and supporting diagnostics.
- 83 - `references/compression-rules.md`: evidence-preserving compression.
- 84 - `references/table-style-guide.md`: existing LaTeX table source guidance; visual redesign belongs to `ccf-visual-composer`.
- 85 - `references/score-lifting-loop.md`, `references/expert-review-loop.md`: applying actual reviewer deductions when that work is requested.
- 86 - `../ccf-common/references/review-output-standards.md`: conditional scores and frozen review standards, only for requested review-related outputs.
+ 52 Return the actual text/artifact first in the user's format. Ordinary local edits need no status report. For full files give paths, substantive changes, actual checks, and concrete remaining author inputs. Draft completion is distinct from evidence completeness or submission readiness. Requested reviewer-driven edits use [expert-review-loop.md](references/expert-review-loop.md) and [score-lifting-loop.md](references/score-lifting-loop.md), without writer-owned rescoring or promised score gains.

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- 3 description: "Plan or coordinate CCF research stages, goals, gates, artifacts, and ccfa.yaml state. Use for 任务拆解, 流程规划, project status, end-to-end coordination, and explicitly requested autonomous research, autoresearch, or 自主科研迭代. Coordinate scientific hypotheses, experiments, feedback, and strategy changes within the task budget. Specialist skills own research outputs; scaffolder owns folder/template creation."
+ 3 description: "Plan or coordinate CCF research stages, goals, gates, artifacts, and ccfa.yaml state. Use for 任务拆解, 流程规划, project status, end-to-end coordination, and explicitly requested autonomous research, autoresearch, or 自主科研迭代. Coordinate hypotheses, engineering, experiments, and feedback within the task budget; research engineer owns code and training."
- 33 For an explicit autonomous-research request, load [autonomous-research.md](references/autonomous-research.md) and coordinate the complete authorized loop: scientific objective, candidate mechanism, discriminating experiment, observed feedback, and a supported keep/discard/branch decision. Use actual host tools for execution; a plan or script exit alone is not experimental evidence. The loop may change task-owned research code and search strategies within scope. It does not run for ordinary planning, idea review, or writing, and does not require a new preference switch. Skill-maintenance candidate limits do not cap an explicitly requested research campaign.
+ 33 For an explicit autonomous-research request, load [autonomous-research.md](references/autonomous-research.md) and coordinate the complete authorized loop: scientific objective, candidate mechanism, discriminating experiment, implementation and execution, observed feedback, and a supported keep/discard/branch decision. Use `ccf-research-engineer` for missing codebase, implementation, reproduction, and training expertise, with actual host tools for execution; a plan or script exit alone is not experimental evidence. Reuse existing implementations and measurements when applicable instead of forcing selection, profiling, or retraining before every iteration. The loop may change task-owned research code and search strategies within scope. It does not run for ordinary planning, idea review, or writing, and does not require a new preference switch. Skill-maintenance candidate limits do not cap an explicitly requested research campaign.

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- 3 description: "Initialize CCF project folders, LaTeX templates, artifact directories, and ccfa.yaml. Use for 项目初始化, 目录搭建, template setup, and reproducible workspace scaffolding. Preserve existing files. Workflow planning belongs to ccf-pipeline-orchestrator; research content belongs to its specialist owner."
+ 3 description: "Initialize CCF project folders, LaTeX templates, artifact directories, and ccfa.yaml. Use for 项目初始化, 目录搭建, and paper template setup. Preserve existing files. Research codebase selection and training environments belong to ccf-research-engineer; workflow planning belongs to ccf-pipeline-orchestrator."
- 44 Use `../ccf-common/references/artifact-contracts.md` for file ownership. Project workflow planning belongs to `ccf-pipeline-orchestrator`, manuscript prose to `ccf-paper-writer`, and final package checks to `ccf-submission-checker`. Do not invent a title, abstract, claim, experiment, or citation.
+ 44 Use `../ccf-common/references/artifact-contracts.md` for file ownership. Research codebase selection, model implementation, and training/dependency environments belong to `ccf-research-engineer`; a request to set up a runnable research baseline needs that owner rather than only a directory tree. For combined requests, complete the requested structure and pass existing paths to the engineer without replacing the project or creating a second scaffold. Project workflow planning belongs to `ccf-pipeline-orchestrator`, manuscript prose to `ccf-paper-writer`, and final package checks to `ccf-submission-checker`. Do not invent a title, abstract, claim, experiment, or citation.

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- 3 description: "Write CCF rebuttals, author responses, revision ledgers, response letters, and conservative resubmission plans. Use for 审稿意见回复, rebuttal, revision ledger, and 重投迁移. Ground promises in feasible changes and actual evidence. Ordinary manuscript writing has a separate owner."
+ 3 description: "Write CCF rebuttals, author responses, revision ledgers, response letters, and resubmission plans. Use for 审稿意见回复, rebuttal, revision ledger, and 重投迁移. Ground promises in feasible changes and actual evidence. Ordinary manuscript writing has a separate owner."
- 27 Handle post-review communication and revision accountability. Responses must be calm, factual, evidence-grounded, and promise only feasible changes. Resubmission adaptation is conservative by default: no new experiments and no bibliography changes unless the user explicitly authorizes them. Follow the user's requested response format: plain text, TeX, reviewer-by-reviewer, issue-grouped, table-first, or short response.
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- 34 - `resubmission`: adapt an already written paper to a new venue with conservative defaults.
+ 34 - `resubmission`: adapt an already written paper to a new venue while preserving its science and carrying out authorized revisions.
- 43 6. For resubmission, map old reviewer concerns to the new venue's constraints through `ccf-submission-checker`; do not silently add experiments or bibliography changes.
+ 43 6. For resubmission, map old reviewer concerns to the new venue's constraints through `ccf-submission-checker`. Resolve citation or evidence actions within the requested revision scope through their owners; identify a material research change before expanding that scope.

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- 39 2. Read `ccfa.yaml` when available. If absent, proceed with supplied files and state that project-state tracking is unavailable.
- 40 3. For venue questions, read `../ccf-paper-writer/references/venue-guides/index.md` and the specific venue guide before checking official freshness.
+ 39 2. Read `ccfa.yaml` when available. If absent, proceed with supplied files; report only missing information that affects a requested check.
+ 40 3. For venue questions, read `../ccf-paper-writer/references/venue-guides/index.md` and the specific guide as navigation. Apply format, page and anonymity rules only from a verified official source matching the venue/year/track/stage; reuse a current verified result. Legacy guide examples cannot override a supplied verified template. Resolve a real mismatch against the target official requirements before changing the manuscript.
- 43 6. Hand off to `ccf-paper-writer` for text/page rewrites: compression when over limit, substantive expansion when actual explanation is missing, and normal polishing when within budget. Hand off to `ccf-experiment-designer` for missing reproducibility experiments, `ccf-visual-composer` for figure/table float order, caption placement, font, clipping, palette, or visual readability fixes, and `ccf-rebuttal-writer` for post-review response packaging.
+ 43 6. Route actual findings or authorized fixes through their owners: paper writer for needed text/page revisions, visual composer for figure/table layout defects, and rebuttal writer for post-review response packaging. A paper within the page budget does not automatically need polishing. For a reproducibility gap, distinguish missing documentation, configuration, code, and scientific evidence: research engineer handles implementation or reproduction work, and experiment designer resolves a comparison or protocol question. A missing checklist item alone does not require a new experiment.

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- 3 description: "Render and redesign scientific figures, visual tables, and method/architecture diagrams from supplied content, including biological data. Use for 绘图美化, 排版, 配色, GPT Image 2 generation, pure SVG, and editable SVG/PDF/PPTX. Preserve values and topology. Experiment evidence design belongs to ccf-experiment-designer; manuscript rewriting and PDF-to-writing exemplars are separate."
+ 3 description: "Render and redesign scientific figures, visual tables, and method/architecture diagrams from supplied content, including biological data. Use for 绘图美化, 多面板分析图, 定量与消融可视化, 排版, 配色, GPT Image 2 generation, pure SVG, and editable SVG/PDF/PPTX. Preserve values and topology. Experiment evidence design belongs to ccf-experiment-designer; manuscript rewriting and PDF-to-writing exemplars are separate."
+ 35 For paired long-table groups, declare the sample identity or an explicit matched-order contract through the existing data-binding route; equal group lengths do not establish correspondence. Preserve the selected final-size font settings across panels, templates and linked layouts, and resolve missing Chinese glyphs before export.
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- 46 | `figure-design`, `python-plotting` | Numerical plots across fields, including biological data: `references/python-plot-recipes.md` provides runnable examples for shared scales, entity colors, physical type size, and validated inputs. Import the needed recipe from `resources/python/ccfa_plot_recipes.py`; read implementation only to debug or adapt it. `references/plot-inspiration-map.md` is optional for an unresolved chart choice. |
+ 48 | `figure-design`, `python-plotting` | Numerical plots, benchmarks, ablations and biological data: `references/python-plot-recipes.md`. For a new composition, query `resources/python/ccfa_figure_library.py route` by scientific question and available fields, then `explain` only selected candidates. See `references/figure-design-library.md` for paper-aware briefs, data bindings and three linked layouts, and `references/figure-examples.md` for preserved examples and paper cards. Existing `ccfa_analysis_templates.py`, `ccfa_analysis_panels.py` and the dependency-free SVG route remain available. |
- 61 3. Select the smallest rendering route that completes the task. A new architecture concept uses the default image workflow. For an existing SVG, PPTX, or plot script, directly edit that authoring source and export affected requested formats; do not run a new raster concept pass for a label, color, spacing, data, or export change. Raster edits follow the host image-editing workflow and use the existing image as reference.
+ 63 3. Select the smallest rendering route that completes the task. New data-led compositions start from the current paper's claim, analytical question, observation unit, data relationships and final-size constraints. Use route --brief for a compact existing-context brief when helpful, or a direct question for a simple figure; inspect only selected design cards. Random choice happens automatically within equally suitable candidates, without asking the user for a seed or forcing global usage balance. Optional task history may diversify tied choices. Keep the selected specification during subsequent edits, and load only relevant cards or signatures. Use ccfa_figure_data.py through compose --spec for explicit CSV/TSV/JSON table bindings; preserve matched rows and declared orders. For joint marginals, aligned position tracks and matrix-linked slices, use the corresponding real linked layout. Keep original templates and requested reference pairs in the examples index; see references/figure-examples.md. Existing templates remain valid starting points, including numerical analyses embedded in a main figure. A purely conceptual architecture uses the default image workflow. For a mixed figure, keep numeric axes, marks and text in their code-generated layer; an optional illustration pass edits a separate region and never redraws the results. For an existing SVG, PPTX, or plot script, directly edit that authoring source and export affected requested formats; do not run a new raster concept pass for a label, color, spacing, data, or export change. Raster edits follow the host image-editing workflow and use the existing image as reference.

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