diff --git a/manuscript/README.md b/manuscript/README.md
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+# Manuscript workspace
+
+```text
+manuscript/
+  ICASSP2026_Paper_Templates/  # official template assets; keep unmodified
+  main/                        # editable paper source and isolated build
+```
+
+The active source is [`main/main.tex`](main/main.tex). Compile it with:
+
+```bash
+cd manuscript/main
+make
+```
+
+The generated PDF is `main/build/main.pdf`. Build artifacts are ignored by
+Git. The repository currently contains the ICASSP 2026 author kit; the paper
+source is labeled as an ICASSP 2027 draft and must be checked against the 2027
+kit when it becomes available.
diff --git a/manuscript/main/.gitignore b/manuscript/main/.gitignore
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+/build/
diff --git a/manuscript/main/Makefile b/manuscript/main/Makefile
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+++ b/manuscript/main/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+LATEXMK ?= latexmk
+TEMPLATE_DIR := $(abspath ../ICASSP2026_Paper_Templates)
+
+export TEXINPUTS := $(TEMPLATE_DIR):
+export BSTINPUTS := $(TEMPLATE_DIR):
+
+.PHONY: all clean
+
+all:
+	mkdir -p build
+	$(LATEXMK) -pdf -interaction=nonstopmode -halt-on-error -outdir=build main.tex
+
+clean:
+	$(LATEXMK) -C -outdir=build main.tex
diff --git a/manuscript/main/README.md b/manuscript/main/README.md
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+# Main ICASSP manuscript
+
+This is the editable paper directory. It uses the unmodified official ICASSP
+2026 LaTeX assets stored in `../ICASSP2026_Paper_Templates/`. When the ICASSP
+2027 author kit is released, replace or add the official template and update
+`TEMPLATE_DIR` in the Makefile only after checking the new instructions.
+
+Compile from this directory:
+
+```bash
+make
+```
+
+The PDF and all intermediate files are written to `build/`; only source files
+belong in Git.
+
+Current source layout:
+
+```text
+main/
+  main.tex
+  references.bib
+  Makefile
+  README.md
+  build/            # generated, ignored
+```
+
+The author/affiliation, final results, Method, Experimental Setup, Results and
+Conclusion are still explicit TODOs. Do not turn planned experiments into
+reported findings.
diff --git a/manuscript/main.tex b/manuscript/main/main.tex
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rename from manuscript/main.tex
rename to manuscript/main/main.tex
index cef284c..ef5a4b8 100644
--- a/manuscript/main.tex
+++ b/manuscript/main/main.tex
@@ -1,16 +1,17 @@
-% Draft ICASSP 2027 manuscript.
-% Compile from this directory with:
-%   pdflatex main && bibtex main && pdflatex main && pdflatex main
+% Draft ICASSP 2027 manuscript using the official ICASSP 2026 template
+% currently bundled in this repository. Replace the template when the ICASSP
+% 2027 author kit is released.
+% Compile from this directory with: make
 \documentclass{article}
-\usepackage{ICASSP2026_Paper_Templates/spconf}
+\usepackage{spconf}
 \usepackage{amsmath,graphicx,hyperref}
 
 \title{NOT EVERY TURN IS MINE: ADDRESSEE-GROUNDED FLOOR-ENTRY PROJECTION IN EGOCENTRIC MULTIPARTY CONVERSATION}
 
-% TODO: Replace these placeholders after the ICASSP 2027 review policy and
-% author list are finalized.
-\name{Author Name(s)}
-\address{Author Affiliation(s)}
+% TODO: Insert the final author list and affiliations after the ICASSP 2027
+% review policy and author order are finalized.
+\name{Internal Manuscript Draft}
+\address{}
 
 \begin{document}
 \ninept
@@ -31,8 +32,8 @@ exchanges and measures false entries at matched response recall, together with
 decision latency. Wrong-person and time-shifted visual controls test whether
 any improvement follows correct social grounding rather than additional model
 capacity. Experiments on EasyCom, with Ego4D as an activity-forecasting
-generalization set, show \textbf{[TODO: insert the final matched-recall and
-latency results]}.
+generalization set, will evaluate this hypothesis under a strictly causal
+protocol.
 \end{abstract}
 
 \begin{keywords}
@@ -43,8 +44,8 @@ audio-visual learning
 \section{Introduction}
 \label{sec:intro}
 
-Low-latency conversational agents must continuously decide whether to speak or
-to keep listening. In a dyadic exchange, a pause or an apparent end of turn is
+Conversational agents must continuously decide whether to speak or keep
+listening. In a dyadic exchange, a pause or an apparent end of turn is
 often treated as an invitation to respond. This assumption fails in
 multiparty interaction: one participant may finish an utterance addressed to
 another participant, and an egocentric agent that reacts only to acoustic
@@ -104,7 +105,7 @@ extra feature capacity or globally conservative predictions.
 % TODO: Add Method, Experimental Setup, Results, and Conclusion after the
 % event protocol and person-aligned model are frozen.
 
-\bibliographystyle{ICASSP2026_Paper_Templates/IEEEbib}
+\bibliographystyle{IEEEbib}
 \bibliography{references}
 
 \end{document}
diff --git a/manuscript/references.bib b/manuscript/main/references.bib
similarity index 100%
rename from manuscript/references.bib
rename to manuscript/main/references.bib