# Common rules for manuscript writers (Agent L instances), WP44

Repository: /Users/simon-pierreboucher/Desktop/UQO/Recherche/Recherche-UQO/informatique/wp44 . Read CLAUDE.md §1, §9, §10 and RESEARCH_PLAN.md first. The manuscript is manuscript/main.tex (UQO template, natbib author-year, \bibliographystyle{aer}, \part{} already declared in main.tex — you write \section/\subsection content only, in the file assigned to you).

Style (CLAUDE.md §10): formal academic English, critical, precise, no promotional language, no repetitive AI prose (vary sentence structure, no "In this section we…" openers in every subsection, no bullet lists in body prose except where a list is the natural structure), real mathematical notation where it carries meaning, assumptions and limitations explicit. Length: the target page count for your part is given in your brief; do not pad.

Citations: \citep{key} / \citet{key}. You may cite only keys that exist in manuscript/references.bib (being built by another agent — check it) OR keys you add to YOUR OWN bib file manuscript/references_<part>.bib, every entry verified by a Crossref/OpenAlex/arXiv single lookup (curl -s "https://api.crossref.org/works/<DOI>?mailto=spbou4@icloud.com", https://api.openalex.org/works/https://doi.org/<DOI>, https://export.arxiv.org/api/query?id_list=<id>), recorded in manuscript/references_verification_<part>.csv (key, doi_or_arxiv, verified_via, verified_title, match). Never invent a reference. If you cannot verify, do not cite. Keys: surnameYYYYkeyword. Main-bib keys you reuse: do not redefine them.

Numbers: never type a corpus number. Use the macros of manuscript/tables/numbers.tex (generated; list them with grep newcommand manuscript/tables/numbers.tex). If a number you need has no macro, write \pending{macro name} and list it in your report. Results sections are written by others; do not describe empirical findings of WP44 beyond the macros.

Integrity: no causal claim about ChatGPT; preprints are "preprints"; what you know only from an abstract is said so; no "largest review ever". Deliverable = your .tex file(s), your bib + verification CSV, and a report ≤ 20 lines (what you wrote, word count, citations added, pending macros, anything uncertain). Compile check: cd manuscript && latexmk -pdf -interaction=nonstopmode main.tex may fail on other parts — check only that YOUR file has no LaTeX syntax errors (e.g. with lacheck or by including it alone in a scratch document).