Preprint Deposition — Pick a Server, Prepare the Submission, Link the Published Version

The write/deposit side of preprinting. Given a finished manuscript, this skill turns "I want to post a preprint" into a concrete, server-specific plan: which server fits the field, what metadata and category to enter, which license to choose (and what it commits you to), how versioning and the preprint DOI work, whether the target journal even allows a preprint, and how to link the preprint to the article once it is published.

It is deliberately the deposit-side complement to the read-side connectors alterlab-arxiv and alterlab-biorxiv (which search and fetch preprints) and to alterlab-open-science (which chooses data repositories and writes DMPs). This skill does not reimplement their search/metadata code — it calls them.

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