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Add a new paper to the WarpX science highlights documentation (`Docs/source/highlights.rst`).

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New Paper Highlight

Add a new paper to the WarpX science highlights documentation (Docs/source/highlights.rst).

Step 1 — Get the paper URL

If the user has provided a paper URL (e.g. as $ARGUMENTS), use it. Otherwise, ask the user:

Please provide a URL or DOI link for the paper you want to add.

Step 2 — Extract paper metadata

Fetch the URL with the WebFetch tool and extract:

Authors: last name + initials, comma-separated (e.g. Smith J, Doe A B)
Title: full paper title
Journal: abbreviated journal name (match abbreviation style used in the file, e.g. Phys. Rev. Lett., Physics of Plasmas, The Astrophysical Journal)
Volume: journal volume number (bold it in RST with **vol**)
Issue / Article number / Pages: whatever is available
Year: publication year
DOI: the DOI string (e.g. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.045002)

If the page returns a 403 or is otherwise inaccessible, try fetching via https://doi.org/<DOI> if you can extract the DOI from the URL. If still unavailable, ask the user to paste the relevant bibliographic information.

Step 3 — Choose the highlights section

Read Docs/source/highlights.rst to remind yourself of the available sections and their descriptions:

Section	Description
Plasma-Based Acceleration	Laser-plasma and beam-plasma acceleration
Laser-Plasma Interaction	Laser-ion acceleration and laser-matter interaction
Particle Accelerator & Beam Physics	Particle and beam modeling
Astrophysical Plasma Physics	Astrophysical plasma modeling
Microelectronics	ARTEMIS / microelectronics
High-Performance Computing and Numerics	HPC, applied mathematics, numerics
Nuclear Fusion and Plasma Confinement	Fusion and plasma confinement
Plasma Thrusters and Spacecraft Physics	Hall thrusters, spacecraft

Pick the most appropriate section based on the paper's abstract, keywords, and journal. If a paper could fit two sections, choose the most specific one. Show the user your choice and reasoning in one sentence.

Step 4 — Format the RST entry

Format the new entry following the style already used in the file:

#. LastName1 F, LastName2 A B, LastName3 C.
   **Full paper title here**.
   Journal Name **volume**, article-or-page, year.
   `DOI:10.xxxx/xxxxx <https://doi.org/10.xxxx/xxxxx>`__

Formatting rules:

Author list: LastName Initials separated by commas, last author uses and before the name (e.g. Smith J, Doe A and Jones B). No and needed if there is only one author.
Title: sentence case (capitalise only the first word and proper nouns), wrapped in **...**.
Journal: use standard abbreviations consistent with the rest of the file.
Volume in bold: **27**.
Omit fields that are not available (e.g. no issue number if not present).
If a preprint link is also available, add it as a separate inline link before the DOI link: `preprint <https://arxiv.org/abs/...>`__, followed by the DOI link.
New entries go at the top of the chosen section (after the section heading and its description line), so they appear in reverse-chronological order.

Step 5 — Create a git branch and edit the file

Make sure the local development branch is up to date:
```
git fetch origin development
```
Create and check out a new branch named new_paper from development:
```
git checkout -b new_paper origin/development
```
If a branch called new_paper already exists, append a short slug from the paper title or DOI, e.g. new_paper_smith2025.
Edit Docs/source/highlights.rst using the Edit tool to insert the formatted entry at the top of the chosen section.
Show the user a diff of the change (use git diff Docs/source/highlights.rst).

Step 6 — Offer to open a PR

Ask the user:

Would you like me to push this branch and open a pull request against development?

If the user agrees:

Commit the change and push the user's personal fork:

Open the PR with gh:

source ~/miniconda3/etc/profile.d/conda.sh && conda activate base && \
gh pr create \
  --base development \
  --title "Doc: new paper in highlights – <Short title or first author + year>" \
  --body "$(cat <<'EOF'
## Summary

- Adds **<Paper title>** by <First author> et al. (<year>) to the *<Section name>* section of the science highlights.
- DOI: https://doi.org/<DOI>

🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)
EOF
)"

Return the PR URL to the user.