law-revise

LAW Revise

Implement revision items from the paper's todo.md, rebuilding and committing after each change.

Workflow

Step 1: Read todo.md

Read the paper's todo.md to understand which items to implement and their priority.

If the item is marked ⏳ WAITING ON DATA or requires experiments (code execution, data collection, hardware access), do not attempt to implement it. Tell the user: "This item requires experiments the agent cannot run. Use law-call4expr to create an experiment guide if one doesn't already exist."

Step 2: Implement one item at a time

For each item the user asks to implement:

1. Read the relevant .tex file(s) from sections/
2. Make the change described in the todo.md item
3. Run law-build to rebuild the paper
4. If build succeeds: commit with message [R{n}] {item-code}: {description}
5. If build fails: stop immediately and report the error to the user. Do NOT continue to the next item.

Step 3: Cross-section items

If an item affects multiple sections (e.g., "R1-3: Fix convergence proof (§4.2, §7.2)"), edit ALL affected files before rebuilding and committing. Do not commit partial changes.

Step 4: After all items

Produce a summary:

• Items completed
• Items deferred (not asked to implement)
• Any build failures encountered
• Remind user to run law-verify if it wasn't already run by law-build

Commit message format

[R{n}] {item-code}: {short description}

Example:

[R1] R1-1: add coherence model subsection to §4.3

Agent decides commit granularity. If a change is simple (one paragraph), one commit. If a change touches multiple files and is conceptually one item, also one commit. If the changes are logically separate, separate commits.

Safety rules

• Never implement items the user did not explicitly ask for
• Never create new citations — use ~\cite{} with empty braces if a citation is needed
• Never modify section labels (\label{}) unless the item explicitly requires it
• Never change the document class or style files
• If an item says "add a figure" but the figure doesn't exist, use figs/placeholder.png and add \textcolor{red}{TODO: add figure} to the text
• After build failure: show the user the error from temp/main.log, do not guess at fixes