# KORA First Paper Submission Readiness

## Current Status

Manuscript v0.4 submission-candidate draft exists but is not submission-ready.

The current paper track has a thesis, manuscript v0.4 submission-candidate draft, claim-boundary docs, reviewer questions, evidence summaries, and local/no-network validation context. It still needs final bibliography normalization, final figures, finalized tables, and a clean reproduction transcript before arXiv or workshop-style release.

The reference scaffold now exists, and the first verified reference pass has collected 10 citation candidates across the major related-work categories. Manuscript v0.2 integrates those verified references as preliminary citation labels. No fake citations or unverified BibTeX entries have been added.

Citation audit v0.1 exists and maps preliminary references to manuscript use, traceability status, and claim boundaries.

Additional reference verification pass 2 has collected 8 more verified references for remaining bibliography gaps. These references are recorded in the tracker and audit, but manuscript integration is deferred.

Manuscript v0.3 reference integration planning exists for [R11] through [R18]. Manuscript v0.3 has been created with [R11], [R12], and [R13] integrated. [R14] through [R18] remain optional, deferred, or tracker/audit-only according to the integration plan.

The benchmark-construction reference verification pass has added 6 verified tracker/audit entries as [R19] through [R24]. These entries cover benchmark-suite construction, holistic and multi-metric evaluation, software-engineering task benchmarks, agent benchmarks, dynamic benchmarking, and behavior-oriented test design. They are not integrated into manuscript v0.3 and do not provide production benchmark evidence for KORA.

The citation style decision exists. The working strategy keeps stable [Rxx] labels, requires metadata audit and normalized bibliography work before BibTeX, and defers BibTeX until metadata fields are verified.

Metadata audit v0.1 exists for [R01] through [R24]. It checks metadata completeness and source traceability before normalized bibliography work. BibTeX is still pending.

Normalized bibliography v0.1 exists for [R01] through [R24]. High-risk metadata gaps and BibTeX are still pending.

Metadata gap resolution v0.1 exists. It classifies high-risk metadata blockers before BibTeX preparation. BibTeX and final bibliography review are still pending.

Preliminary BibTeX v0.1 exists for the ready subset only: [R01], [R06], [R08], [R11], [R14], [R21], and [R24]. Full BibTeX and final bibliography review are still pending because blocked records remain excluded.

Ready-subset BibTeX key normalization is complete. Full BibTeX and blocked metadata/style resolution are still pending, and the paper remains not submission-ready.

Final ready-subset BibTeX audit v0.1 exists. Full BibTeX and blocked metadata/style resolution are still pending, and the paper remains not submission-ready.

Docs/repo style resolution v0.1 exists for `[R03]`, `[R04]`, `[R07]`, `[R09]`, and `[R15]`. Full BibTeX and final bibliography review are still pending, and the paper remains not submission-ready.

Artifact guidance style resolution v0.1 exists for `[R10]`, `[R17]`, and `[R18]`. Full BibTeX and final bibliography review are still pending, and the paper remains not submission-ready.

Paper/preprint style resolution v0.1 exists for `[R02]`, `[R05]`, `[R12]`, `[R13]`, `[R16]`, `[R19]`, `[R20]`, `[R22]`, and `[R23]`. Full BibTeX and final bibliography review are still pending, and the paper remains not submission-ready.

Final blocked metadata review v0.1 exists. It consolidates remaining blocked records and identifies the later expanded-BibTeX candidate subset, deferred records, and still-not-eligible records. Full BibTeX and final bibliography review are still pending, and the paper remains not submission-ready.

Expanded preliminary BibTeX candidate audit v0.1 exists for `[R03]`, `[R04]`, `[R05]`, `[R07]`, `[R09]`, `[R10]`, `[R12]`, `[R13]`, and `[R16]`. Expanded BibTeX remains preliminary, and the paper remains not submission-ready.

Final bibliography and claim audit v0.1 exists. It confirms that preliminary BibTeX includes only the ready subset and expanded candidate subset, deferred and still-not-eligible records remain excluded, full BibTeX remains incomplete, and the paper remains not submission-ready.

Submission readiness gate v0.1 exists. It records required and optional blockers before any submission package and confirms the paper remains not submission-ready.

Manuscript v0.4 submission-candidate draft exists. It synchronizes manuscript citations with current preliminary BibTeX by removing still-not-eligible `[R02]` from background-only manuscript text. Full BibTeX remains incomplete, and the paper remains not submission-ready.

Submission package readiness packet v0.1 exists. It adds a venue-neutral package checklist, final human review packet, reproduction transcript checklist, and artifact package inventory. These documents organize remaining blockers and user-owned decisions; they do not mark the paper as submission-ready.

arXiv-style package draft v0.1 exists. It records the first target direction as an arXiv-style technical report / preprint, marks endorsement as already obtained and not blocking, keeps arXiv category compatibility pending, records supplied author metadata, preserves conservative bibliography scope, and defers later conference/workshop/journal scanning. It does not submit to arXiv or mark the paper as submission-ready.

## Ready

- Thesis.
- Initial manuscript skeleton.
- Manuscript v0.2 with first verified reference integration.
- Manuscript v0.3 with selected [R11] through [R13] integration.
- Manuscript v0.4 submission-candidate draft with current preliminary BibTeX citation synchronization.
- Deterministic-heavy benchmark evidence.
- Customer-support local/no-network validation evidence.
- Claim boundary docs.
- Reviewer questions.
- Manuscript review checklist.
- Figure and table planning docs.
- Reference scaffold.
- First verified reference pass.
- Additional reference verification pass 2.
- Benchmark-construction reference verification pass.
- Citation style decision.
- Metadata audit v0.1.
- Normalized bibliography v0.1.
- Metadata gap resolution v0.1.
- Preliminary BibTeX v0.1 for ready records only.
- Ready-subset BibTeX key normalization.
- Final ready-subset BibTeX audit v0.1.
- Docs/repo style resolution v0.1.
- Artifact guidance style resolution v0.1.
- Paper/preprint style resolution v0.1.
- Final blocked metadata review v0.1.
- Expanded preliminary BibTeX candidate audit v0.1.
- Final bibliography and claim audit v0.1.
- Submission readiness gate v0.1.
- Manuscript bibliography sync v0.1.
- Manuscript claim-to-evidence audit v0.1.
- Submission-candidate status v0.1.
- Submission package readiness packet v0.1.
- Final human review packet v0.1.
- Reproduction transcript checklist v0.1.
- Artifact package inventory v0.1.
- arXiv metadata checklist v0.1.
- arXiv bibliography scope v0.1.
- arXiv-style package readiness v0.1.
- Future venue scan placeholder v0.1.
- Citation audit v0.1.
- Manuscript v0.3 reference integration plan.

## Needed Before arXiv / Workshop Submission

- More references collected and verified.
- Decide whether selected benchmark-construction references should be integrated if the evaluation-methodology section is expanded.
- More direct deterministic-heavy synthetic workload construction references if needed.
- Confirm arXiv category compatibility and license.
- Resolve first-package bibliography formatting using the conservative included subset.
- Final bibliography entries normalized.
- Full BibTeX completion remains pending beyond the conservative first-package subset.
- Final citation audit review completed.
- Figure drafts created.
- Tables finalized.
- Clean reproduction transcript captured.
- Reproduction instructions checked on clean checkout.
- Final human review packet resolved.
- Artifact package inventory reviewed for the selected submission context.
- Expanded workload optional but outside first arXiv-style package scope.
- Latency p50/p95 optional but valuable.
- Final claim review completed.

## Not Required For First Submission

- OpenAI/Claude API-cost study.
- Production traffic.
- Energy measurement.
- KORA Studio implementation.
- Real customer data.

## Suggested Submission Type

- arXiv technical report.
- Workshop-style systems paper.
- Open-source technical preview paper.

These are suggested formats only. This document does not claim acceptance, endorsement, formal validation, production validation, or external review.

## Reference Status

The first verified reference pass is complete, manuscript v0.2 integrates the first-pass verified references as preliminary citation labels and a preliminary references section, citation audit v0.1 exists, additional reference verification pass 2 has added 8 verified tracker entries, manuscript v0.3 integrates [R11], [R12], and [R13] as preliminary related-work references, manuscript v0.4 exists as a submission-candidate draft synchronized to current preliminary BibTeX citations, the benchmark-construction reference pass has added [R19] through [R24] as tracker/audit entries, the working citation style decision selects stable [Rxx] labels, metadata audit v0.1 exists, normalized bibliography v0.1 exists, metadata gap resolution v0.1 exists, preliminary BibTeX v0.1 exists for ready records, ready-subset BibTeX keys are normalized, expanded preliminary BibTeX exists for the candidate subset that passed final field check, final bibliography and claim audit v0.1 exists, submission readiness gate v0.1 exists, submission package readiness packet v0.1 exists, and arXiv-style package draft v0.1 exists. The paper is still not submission-ready because arXiv category compatibility and license remain pending, [R17] and [R18] remain deferred, [R02], [R15], [R19], [R20], [R22], and [R23] remain excluded from BibTeX, [R19] through [R24] remain tracker/audit-only for the first arXiv-style package, production benchmark evidence is still not available, final bibliography formatting is not complete, final reproduction transcript and artifact package review are incomplete, final export decisions remain unresolved, and final human review has not been completed.

No fake citations were added. Future citation work should use only verified tracker entries and should not support production, API-cost, energy, production-validation, broad superiority, or cited-system superiority claims.
