Desk-Reject Risk (rt-desk-reject-risk)

Desk rejection is the modal outcome at a strong venue, it arrives before any referee reads the paper, and it costs weeks for reasons that are almost always documented in advance. This repository already carries those reasons — 456 of 743 indexed venues (61%) publish an explicit desk-reject section in their pack — but nothing turned them into a check a paper could be scored against.

rt-submission-readiness answers "is the manuscript mechanically complete?". This answers the different and harder question: "given this specific venue's stated triggers, what will get this desk-rejected, and what is the cheapest fix?"

When to trigger

• A target venue is chosen and the paper is near-final.
• An author asks "will this survive the editor?" or "why did the last one get desked?"
• Immediately after rt-venue-reframe, to score the reframed draft against its new home.
• Before a resubmission up the ladder, where the previous desk reject is evidence.