AI agent skill · by @TokenRhythm

Paper Length Gate

Deterministic artifact-backed manuscript readiness gate for meta-paper-write. Validates the workspace LaTeX artifact before compilation while leaving final page-count enforcement to compile_pdf.

Archived 2026-10-23 · Source updated 2026-09-17 · License: Apache-2.0. Check the original repository for the latest version.

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# Paper length gate

Internal deterministic pre-compile readiness check. The JSON input contains a
paper contract and the compact manuscript manifest. For full manuscripts the
manifest must point to a non-empty `.tex` file inside the active workspace.
Compact and repair packages retain an inline-LaTeX compatibility path.

This gate checks document structure, citation presence, and a language-aware
minimum body scale that grows with `TARGET_PAGES`. Its report-only preflight is
used solely to drive one bounded authoring repair; a second fail-closed run must
pass before compilation. It does **not** claim that the requested number of
pages was produced. `compile_pdf` remains authoritative and counts pages from
the compiled PDF with `pypdf`.