Find Venue

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name: find-venue
description: "Discover and rank real venues for a given paper, scored by authorship credit not just prestige. Fetch candidate CFPs (WebSearch/WebFetch), capture deadline / page limit / paper-type fit / indexing (ACM DL / IEEE Xplore / archival vs non-archival) / double-blind / remote-attendance / selectivity, then rank by credit-weight (peer-reviewed + indexed + parent-venue prestige) × topic fit × accept-probability × deadline feasibility × remote-friendliness. Emit a comparison table and a keep/switch recommendation. Encodes: workshop newness does NOT hurt authorship; non-archival workshops rank LOW; the prestige move is to EXTEND the accepted paper later, not hold out. Compose with research-ideate (upstream), plan-paper-timeline, the venue cards (presets/<venue>.md in the paperlint package), and extend-paper."
allowed-tools: [Read, Write, Grep, Glob, WebSearch, WebFetch, Agent]
---

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# find-venue — rank real venues by what earns the credit, then keep or switch

Takes a paper (or the candidate venue *types* from `research-ideate`) and finds the best real place to
submit it. "Best" here means **best for the publication record**, which is not the same as most prestigious —
an indexed workshop you can actually hit beats a top conference whose deadline already closed. This
skill produces a ranked table and a keep/switch call; it does NOT do the submission mechanics (that's
`submit-paper` + the venue card).

Grounding: the authorship criterion — why archival + indexed is the whole game.

## Gather candidates (fetch, don't guess)

`WebSearch` / `WebFetch` the open CFPs for the paper's topic + the current cycle. For EACH candidate
capture, from the actual CFP page:
- **Deadline** (in AoE; convert to your local time for feasibility).
- **Page limit** and required format (ACM sigconf / IEEE / other) — a full-paper limit vs a
  short/WIP/workshop limit changes what you must produce.
- **Paper-type fit** — does the CFP call for measurement/benchmark/short/WIP/full papers of this shape?
- **Indexing** — the single most load-bearing field. Does acceptance land in **ACM DL / IEEE Xplore /
  archival proceedings** (counts for authorship) or is it **non-archival** (talk-only, no indexed
  proceedings — does NOT count)?
- **Double-blind?** — determines anonymization work (see `anonymization.md`).
- **Remote attendance** — can the author present/attend without international travel?
- **Selectivity / prestige** — the parent venue's tier (workshop @ CCS/ASE/FSE inherits weight).

## Rank

Score each candidate by:

```
rank = credit-weight × topic-fit × accept-probability × deadline-feasibility × remote-friendliness
```

- **credit-weight** = (peer-reviewed? — required) × (indexed/archival? — required) × parent-venue
  prestige (a bonus, not a gate). **Non-archival ⇒ credit-weight ≈ 0** — it earns no authorship credit,
  so it sinks to the bottom no matter how nice the CFP reads.
- **topic-fit** — how squarely the paper matches the CFP scope (a stretch fit raises reject risk).
- **accept-probability** — realistic odds given the paper's maturity and the venue's bar.
- **deadline-feasibility** — can the paper (and artifact) be ready by the deadline? A great venue you
  miss is a zero.
- **remote-friendliness** — remote-OK is a real weight here, not a footnote.

### Facts to encode while ranking
- **Workshop newness does NOT hurt the authorship criterion.** A brand-new workshop's indexed
  proceedings count the same; venue prestige only matters at final merits, never for authorship. Do not
  down-rank a venue just for being new.
- **Non-archival workshops rank LOW for authorship** — no indexed proceedings, no credit. A great talk
  slot with no DOI is worth little to the dossier.
- **Prestige is a later move, not a hold-out.** Do NOT sit on a finished paper waiting for a fancier
  venue. Ship to the best-fit archival venue open now, then **EXTEND** the accepted paper (≥30% new) to
  a higher-prestige venue as a *second, stronger* publication — see `extend-paper`. Two indexed papers
  (workshop → conference) beat one that missed its window.

## Output

1. **Comparison table** — one row per candidate: venue, parent, deadline (AoE + local), page limit,
   type fit, **indexed? (Y/N + where)**, double-blind, remote, selectivity, computed rank.
2. **Keep/switch recommendation** — the top-ranked venue with the one-line reason, and (if the paper
   already has a target) an explicit **keep** or **switch** verdict against it. Note the intended
   `extend-paper` upgrade target for later.

## Rules
- Fetch every CFP fact from the real page; never invent a deadline, page limit, or indexing status.
- Indexed + peer-reviewed is a gate, not a tiebreaker — a non-archival venue cannot win on charm.
- Don't hold a finished paper hostage to prestige; ship archival now, extend later.
- A missed deadline is a zero — weight feasibility honestly against the paper's real readiness.
- Convert deadlines to your local time so `plan-paper-timeline` can schedule against them.

## Compose with
- `research-ideate` (upstream) — consumes its candidate venue *types* and sharpest framing.
- `plan-paper-timeline` — feed it the chosen deadline to back-plan the work.
- once a venue is chosen, the paper declares it in `<paper>/paperlint.json`:
  `{ "extends": "paperlint:<venue>", "kind": "<kind>" }` — a shipped preset, else a family
  (`paperlint:acm-sigconf`) or the project's own `./venues/<name>.jsonc`; the `pdf/*` rules then
  check the built PDF against its page limit and format.
- the venue cards, `presets/<venue>.md` in the paperlint package beside each venue preset (e.g.
  `agenticdev.md`, `aisec.md`) — the winner gets a card with its HotCRP quirks beside its preset;
  for a venue with no shipped preset, the project's own `./venues/<name>.md` beside its
  `./venues/<name>.jsonc`. Plain data, not a new skill.
- `extend-paper` — the prestige-upgrade target this skill names but defers.

## Provenance
The **AgenticDev 2026 @ ASE** venue decision was made by a **9-agent analysis** that checked every open
venue against this exact rubric. It **kept AgenticDev** — nothing open beat it on fit × archival ×
timeline: NeurIPS Eval had already **closed**, and FSE/MSR each needed a **full paper** (wrong type /
too much scope for the deadline). The prestige upgrade was deliberately deferred to an **extension to
MSR/NeurIPS 2027**, not a switch — proving the rule: ship the best-fit archival venue open now, extend
later. **AISec 2026 @ ACM CCS** confirmed the archival-weight logic at a top-tier security bar. Both
papers are indexed proceedings; neither was down-ranked for the workshop's newness.