outline-agent

Outline Agent (Step 1)

Faithful implementation of the Outline Agent from PaperOrchestra (Song et al., 2026, arXiv:2604.05018, App. F.1, pp. 40–44).

Cost: 1 LLM call.

Your task

Read four input files from the workspace and produce a single JSON object at workspace/outline.json with three top-level keys:

• plotting_plan — array of figure objects
• intro_related_work_plan — object with introduction_strategy and related_work_strategy
• section_plan — array of section objects, each with section_title and subsections[]

How to do it

1. Read the verbatim prompt at references/prompt.md. This is the exact Outline Agent system prompt from the paper. Use it as your system message.
2. Prepend the Anti-Leakage Prompt from ../paper-orchestra/references/anti-leakage-prompt.md.
3. Read the four input files:
   • workspace/inputs/idea.md
   • workspace/inputs/experimental_log.md
   • workspace/inputs/template.tex
   • workspace/inputs/conference_guidelines.md
4. Synthesize across all four — the global instruction in the prompt is "Do not analyze inputs in isolation. You must synthesize information across all provided documents for every step."
5. Emit a single JSON object following the schema in references/outline-schema.md. Cross-check against references/outline_schema.json (machine-readable).
6. Save to workspace/outline.json.
7. Validate:

   python skills/outline-agent/scripts/validate_outline.py workspace/outline.json
   

   If validation fails, fix the JSON and re-validate. Do not proceed to Step 2 or Step 3 with an invalid outline — every downstream agent depends on this schema.

Hard rules from the prompt (do not violate)

These are excerpted from references/prompt.md. The validator enforces them.

Plotting plan (Directive 1)

• plot_type MUST be exactly one of "plot" or "diagram".
• data_source MUST be exactly one of "idea.md", "experimental_log.md", or "both".
• aspect_ratio MUST be exactly one of: "1:1", "1:4", "2:3", "3:2", "3:4", "4:1", "4:3", "4:5", "5:4", "9:16", "16:9", "21:9".
• figure_id MUST be a semantically meaningful snake_case identifier (e.g., fig_framework_overview, fig_ablation_study_parameter_sensitivity).
• figure_id MUST NOT contain the word "Figure".