Provides guidance for positioning QEC manuscripts for Physical Review venues and Quantum, with explicit venue-fit reasoning and conservative treatment of submission-policy details.
Use this skill when a QEC paper needs venue-specific positioning:
Use this skill after the basic claim-and-evidence structure already exists.
Use writing-qec-papers first when the task is still about defining the paper itself.
Do not use this skill to encode exact submission rules, page limits, or style policies as if they were stable. Always verify current author instructions before submission.
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Expected outputs:
Assumptions to make explicit:
references/venue-positioning.md.templates/venue-positioning-brief.template.md before changing the title or abstract.Before closing work:
Problem: the paper is framed for maximum prestige rather than actual fit.
Fix: downgrade the target venue until the claims, evidence, and audience line up cleanly.
Problem: a tooling or formalization paper is written as if the main story were a broad physics result.
Fix: retune the introduction so the first-page framing matches the actual contribution class and audience.
Problem: the draft hardcodes formatting or submission assumptions that may change.
Fix: keep venue guidance at the level of narrative fit and add an explicit reminder to verify current official instructions.