arxiv-preflight SKILL.md skillA
arxiv-preflight from mathews-tom/armory is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add mathews-tom/armory/arxiv-preflight@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- mathews-tom/armory
- Path
skills/arxiv-preflight/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed May 3, 2026
- Size
- 8,237 bytes
- Repository stars
- 334
- License
- MIT
Pre-submission validation audit for arXiv papers across TeX source, PDF, figures, metadata, bibliography, file organization, and common-error scans. Produces pass/fail report with specific fixes per arXiv requirement. Triggers on: "check my arXiv submission", "validate for arXiv", "arXiv preflight", "ready for arXiv", "arxiv check", "arxiv submission readiness". Companion to manuscript-review (prose), manuscript-provenance (code), arxiv-figures, arxiv-package.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# arXiv Preflight Check **Pipeline position:** Phase 3a (submission readiness). Runs after Phase 2 fixes and PDF recompilation. Gate for arxiv-figures and arxiv-package. See `/manuscript-pipeline` for full execution order. ## Purpose Systematically validate a TeX/LaTeX project (or PDF submission) against all arXiv submission requirements, producing a structured pass/fail report with specific fixes for every violation found. Companion skills: - `manuscript-review` — audits prose quality, structure, and claims - `manuscript-provenance` — audits computational reproducibility - `arxiv-figures` — optimizes figures for arXiv - `arxiv-package` — packages the submission tarball This skill focuses exclusively on arXiv technical compliance — not prose quality or scientific content. ## Workflow ### 1. Ingest Identify the submission directory. Locate: - Main `.tex` file(s) - All included files (figures, `.bbl`, `.bst`, style files, subdirectories) - Any `00README.XXX` file - Any `anc/` directory - Compiled PDF (if available) ``` Read references/guidelines.md ``` ### 2. Validation Passes Execute all passes. For each check: - **PASS** — requirement met …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add mathews-tom/armory/arxiv-preflight@sha256:1ffb9534e53619ebThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 3, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8237 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
mathews-tom/armory · 334 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_o34h5gizf4p7lt5s GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mathews-tom/armory/arxiv-preflight GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1ffb9534e53619ebdb46cfe526a4feeea9c11d7b77f5926185c49dcab9899bf2
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