Paper News Generation Workflow

Use this workflow when generating _paper_news/YYYY-MM-DD.md from a daily AI paper report.

Goal

The page should read like a research brief, not a pipeline log. The first screen must answer:

What is the strongest research signal today?
Which paper should a researcher open first?
Why does it matter now?
What should the reader be skeptical about?

Required File Path

Create the English issue at:

_paper_news/YYYY-MM-DD.md

Create the Chinese issue at:

_paper_news/YYYY-MM-DD-zh.md

Required Front Matter

Every new English issue should use this front matter schema:

---
layout: paper-news
title: "Daily AI Paper Report (YYYY-MM-DD)"
date: YYYY-MM-DD
permalink: /paper-news/YYYY-MM-DD/
author_profile: false
brief_title: "Concise information-bearing headline."
brief_dek: "One sentence explaining the main research pattern and why it matters."
lead_paper:
  title: "Paper title"
  url: "https://arxiv.org/abs/..."
  pdf: "https://arxiv.org/pdf/....pdf"
  why: "Why this paper should be opened first."
  skepticism: "The most important limitation or caveat."
  tags:
    - short tag
    - short tag
signals:
  - label: "Signal"
    title: "Short claim."
    text: "Evidence or implication in one sentence."
  - label: "Tension"
    title: "Short tension."
    text: "Why this is unresolved or risky."
  - label: "Bet"
    title: "Short bet."
    text: "What direction seems promising."
top_papers:
  - title: "Paper title"
    url: "https://arxiv.org/abs/..."
    pdf: "https://arxiv.org/pdf/....pdf"
    why: "Why a researcher should spend time on it."
    why_now: "Why this is timely."
    skepticism: "Main caveat."
---

Writing Rules

brief_title should be short and information-bearing. Aim for 3-6 words.
Avoid vague titles like “What should I read today?” or “Today’s AI paper digest.”
Good title pattern: “AI reliability gets real.”
brief_dek carries the nuance. Keep it to one sentence.
lead_paper.why should describe the paper’s research value, not its score.
lead_paper.skepticism is mandatory; researchers trust pages that show judgment.
signals should summarize the day’s intellectual structure, not paper categories.
top_papers should contain 3-5 papers. The template currently displays the first 3.
Keep telemetry such as candidates, selected count, and deepread completion inside the report body, not the front-page headline.

Body Order

After the front matter, keep the current long report body format:

Language link.
Optional run stats/details block.
# AI Paper Insight Brief.
Executive takeaways.
Key themes.
Technical synthesis.
Top papers.

The paper-news layout renders the structured front matter first, then renders the full Markdown report below it.

Chinese Pages

Chinese pages can keep the existing layout: single until the Chinese brief schema is added. If adding a Chinese structured version, use translated field values and layout: paper-news.

Di Tang