autoacad-prepare

# AutoAcad Prepare ## Overview Use this stage to establish the paper project's ground truth before any literature or experiment work. ## Workflow 1. Read the project docs first: abstract draft, experiment design notes, whole-paper concept notes, and any constraints file. 2. Inventory code, data, examples, and docs that the paper must describe faithfully. 3. Detect hardware constraints early. Record whether the project is CPU-only, CUDA, or Apple MPS. 4. Identify missing prerequisites: absent docs, missing dataset paths, missing template, or missing baseline implementations. 5. Initialize the canonical project tree with `../scripts/init_paper_project.py` if the project is not structured yet. 6. Write the first stage plan and the initial `PROGRESS.md` entry before moving on. 7. If the idea requires reference codebases, follow `../references/prepare-reference-selection.md` and record the resulting `reference_codebases`, `reference_paths`, and `reference_papers` in `PROGRESS.md`. ## Required Outputs - A concise source-of-truth inventory. - A list of blocked inputs and assumptions. - A confirmed project tree rooted at `<project>-paper/`. - A first-pass environment note in `PROGRESS.md`. - If applicable, `reference_codebases`, `reference_paths`, and `reference_papers` per `../references/prepare-reference-selection.md`.