Paper Workspace

This directory now has two distinct roles:

• Manuscript source and build tooling live under paper/arxiv/.
• Research-facing paper planning and claim-boundary docs stay at the top level:
  • paper/AGENTS.md
  • paper/priority.md
  • paper/vlmaxxing-rlt-stage-cost-edit-plan.md
  • paper/framing.md
  • paper/claim-matrix.md
  • paper/publishability-status.md
  • paper/terminology.md
  • paper/narrative-rules.md

The manuscript is not meant to directly copy those markdown files into a paper. They are source material for humans and agents. The LaTeX source should distill them into reader-facing prose for AI/VLM researchers.

For paper work, use paper/AGENTS.md as the paper-local router. Its source-of-truth order is stricter than the repo root because the manuscript has already outgrown the older single-note framing.

For the VLMaxxing + RLT update, use vlmaxxing-rlt-stage-cost-edit-plan.md as the active integration plan: foreground stage-cost accounting plus RLT-as-cheap-C-VISION, keep query-aware routing as boundary/future work, and avoid treating token count as a speedup claim.

Use terminology.md and narrative-rules.md when editing prose. They capture the wording contract: keep denominators visible, distinguish local mechanism evidence from the scale-out streaming lane, and avoid turning internal agent labels into paper jargon.

Use these commands from the repo root:

make paper-doctor
make paper-sync
make paper-build
make paper-bundle

paper-sync is the safe first step. It regenerates automated manuscript inputs without needing a TeX installation.