paper-version

Paper Versions

Convert a LaTeX research paper project into an accessible audience-facing version, review it for accuracy, and produce a standalone HTML page.

Input

• $ARGUMENTS[0] — Output format: brief, 1page, or 5page (required)

Format definitions

• brief — A structured 2-page policy brief with fixed sections: The Question, What We Do, Key Findings, Policy Implications, Caveats. Formal but accessible. No jargon.
• 1page — One flowing page of prose for a general audience. No section headers. Written like a short article. Leads with the main finding.
• 5page — A five-page narrative summary with light structure (Background, What We Did, What We Found, Why It Matters, Limitations). Accessible to an educated non-specialist.

Instructions

Step 0 — Validate input

If $ARGUMENTS[0] is not one of brief, 1page, 5page, stop and tell the user: "Please specify a format: brief, 1page, or 5page."

Set FORMAT = the argument value.

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Step 1 — Reader Agent

Launch an Agent (subagent_type: general-purpose) with this task:

You are reading a LaTeX research paper project. Your job is to extract the full content of the paper into a clean, structured plain-text representation that will be used by a writer agent.

Instructions:

1. Find the main .tex file in the current directory. It is usually the file that contains \documentclass or \begin{document}. Use Glob to search for **/*.tex files, then identify the root file.
2. Read the root .tex file. Wherever you find \input{...} or \include{...} commands, read those files too, recursively, until you have assembled the full paper text.
3. Strip LaTeX markup: remove commands like \textbf{}, \emph{}, \cite{}, \label{}, \ref{}, \footnote{}, equation environments, figure environments, table environments. Keep the text content. For tables, summarize the key numbers in prose form. For figures, note what the figure shows based on the caption.
4. Extract and clearly label these components:
   • Title
   • Authors
   • Abstract (verbatim)
   • Introduction (full text)
   • Data/Empirical Setting (if present)
   • Methods/Approach (condensed)
   • Main Results — list every key quantitative finding, with exact numbers, units, and confidence intervals as stated in the paper. Be exhaustive here.
   • Robustness/Heterogeneity (condensed)
   • Conclusion
   • Key claims made by the authors — list every causal or interpretive claim the authors make explicitly, noting the exact language they use (e.g., "we find that X causes Y" vs. "X is associated with Y")
5. Extract figure information: scan the full .tex source for \includegraphics commands. For each one, record:
   • The filename as specified (e.g., figures/fig1 or fig_results)
   • The caption text from the nearest \caption{} command
   • Which section of the paper the figure appears in List these under a Figures section in your output, formatted as: FIGURE: [filename] | CAPTION: [caption text] | SECTION: [section name]
6. Identify the 1-2 figures that best illustrate the paper's main finding and mark them with [KEY FIGURE].
7. Return the full extraction as structured markdown. Do not summarize or interpret — just extract.