Mark Eaton
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Six independent fixes addressing the Anti-Communist Formations of LIS real-draft test findings (chunk 2c). Four are bug fixes for issues that destroyed user data or wasted API calls; two are polish quality improvements revisited from the deferred list. src/cmos/note_formatter.py — empty input guard (fix #1) Empty / whitespace-only input now short-circuits the API entirely and returns the input verbatim. Surfaced by note [66] in the Anti-Communist draft, where GPT-5 broke character on empty input and returned a conversational meta-reply ("Please paste the citation entry...") that then got substituted into the document. Whitespace preserved so cli.reformat_notes is byte-exact on empty notes. v2 only. src/cmos/note_formatter.py — deprecated Latin guard (fix #2) New Python guard catches the full CMOS-18-deprecated Latin citation set (ibid, idem, id., op. cit., loc. cit.) and returns input verbatim before the API call. Rule 10 in the prompt also rewritten: explicitly says "return verbatim" instead of the old "return cleanest possible full-form note", which the model interpreted as "return empty when there's no information", silently destroying the marker. Surfaced by note [61] = "Ibid.". v2 only. src/cmos/runtime_validator.py — shortened-form carve-out (fix #3) The "must contain italics" check is now skipped when the candidate looks like a CMOS shortened-form note (author last name, optional page, no italic content). Surfaced by ~30 of 107 notes in the Anti-Communist draft that were correctly returned as shortened forms ("Rosen, 7.", "Mitchell, 197.") but rejected by the validator's strict italic check, firing the full retry budget on valid output (~60 wasted API calls per run). The carve-out is conservative: name-token regex + terminal period; doesn't match unstructured prose. Shared infrastructure — affects v1 and v2, no-op in v1's normal workflow because v1 outputs always have italics. src/cmos/note_formatter.py — substantive prose pass-through (fix #4) Long discursive prose with no citation skeleton markers now short-circuits the API and returns the input verbatim. Surfaced by notes [8] (689 chars), [9] (893 chars), [75] (163 chars) in the Anti-Communist draft — substantive notes that the formatter was extracting a single citation from and silently discarding the surrounding commentary. CMOS 14.39 explicitly allows substantive notes; preserving them is the user's explicit policy ("preserve all free text as long as that does not break other formatting"). Detection: length > 150 chars AND no citation skeleton markers (parenthesized year, URL, vol./no./pp., DOI, terminal page or terminal year). Conservative — does not false-positive on legitimate first-occurrence notes. v2 only. src/cmos/formatter.py + note_formatter.py — month/season preservation (polish #5) Both v1 rule 10 (journal article format) and v2 rule 5 (journal article note form) now explicitly instruct the model to preserve (Month YEAR) and (Season YEAR) parentheticals when the source provides them. Surfaced by entries in both Reading_Disrepair and Anti-Communist where (Spring, 1993) and August 1952 were silently collapsed to (1993) and 1952. Both forms are valid CMOS but month/season is more informative when the source has it. Affects v1 and v2 in mirror. src/cmos/note_formatter.py — government documents rule 19 (polish #7) v2 now has an explicit rule mirroring v1's rule 27: government bodies, institutional reports, and similar standalone documents get italicized titles and book-form treatment, NOT quoted-article treatment. Includes the Anti-Communist Senate of California Tenth Report and a hypothetical GAO example. Implicit handling worked in chunk 2c, but explicit rule provides regression protection. v2 only. Tests: +14 net new (across test_note_formatter.py, test_formatter.py, test_runtime_validator.py). Total suite 150/150 (was 136 before this chunk). All v1 tests still passing. Path B status: formatter.py and runtime_validator.py edits cross the v1/v2 boundary, but only by user-explicit approval per the relevant fix discussions. The shared validator was always shared; the v1 formatter rule 10 mirror is a small additive edit that doesn't affect the v1 prompt's existing behavior on its existing inputs.
cmos — Chicago Manual of Style 18 bibliography reformatter
A Python tool that reformats the bibliography section of an English-language markdown draft to CMOS 18th edition, notes-and-bibliography form.
Accuracy-first, iterative, built with a karpathy/autoresearch-style dev loop.
See program.md for the goal specification and
/home/claudecode1/.claude/plans/pure-mixing-yao.md for the implementation plan.
Quick start
uv sync
uv run pytest
uv run cmos format path/to/draft.md > out.md
Layout
src/cmos/formatter.py— the iterable artifact (edited every loop iteration).src/cmos/parser.py— extracts the bibliography section from a draft.src/cmos/linter.py— deterministic CMOS 18 rule checks (versioned).src/cmos/cli.py—cmos formatentry point.harness/score.py,harness/diff.py— frozen scoring.exemplars/— TOML test corpus.tests/— pytest suite (linter, parser, formatter, cli).rough_drafts/— user-supplied messy drafts for ad-hoc iteration.logs/— per-run scores, model ids, linter version hashes.