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Best practices for project-isolated environment setup. All installations must be local to the project, never global.
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Strategies for fitting a paper to a venue's page limit without destroying content quality. Applies to any phase that modifies paper content.
Rules for maintaining figure and table data integrity. All visual data must trace to result files — never invented or modified for convenience.
How to submit SLURM jobs on the SANDS Lab ROCS testbed cluster (KAUST). Covers GPU GRES selection (v100/a100 — p100 is off-policy), QoS caps, conda env activation, multi-node DeepSpeed, preemptible spot jobs, and the watchdog that kills jobs with <15% GPU utilization. Use for any project whose compute_backend is slurm and whose cluster nodes are named `mcnode*`.
Protocol for requesting human intervention when an agent encounters a blocker it cannot resolve autonomously.
Containerized isolation via Apptainer for reproducible experiments. Use whenever the project executes third-party code (agent frameworks, browser agents, codegen tools, benchmark harnesses), runs GPU workloads via Slurm on a shared cluster, needs a reproducible runtime environment for paper claims, or isolates untrusted/adversarial inputs from the host. Broadly applicable to measurement, benchmark, and systems papers — not only to malicious-code experiments.
Rules for maintaining research integrity. No simulation, no fabrication, no shortcuts.
| name | env-isolation |
| description | Best practices for project-isolated environment setup. All installations must be local to the project, never global. |
| tags | ["system","environment","isolation","conda","npm"] |
Every project runs in its own isolated environment. Installations must NEVER pollute the global system or affect other projects.
which <tool> — is it on PATH?<tool> --version — what version?ps aux | grep <service> — is a daemon already running?.env/ directory)conda run --prefix .env pip install <package>pip install (installs to global site-packages)npm install <package> (no -g flag)npx <tool> instead of global installnpm install -g — it pollutes the shared Node.js installationresults/needs_human.json
and request human intervention rather than running sudo apt installAfter installation, always verify: