ChairingTool status flip puzzles IJCAI authors

This looks more like conference-ops noise than a meaningful change in the paper’s fate.

• –IJCAI’s 2026 submission pages and FAQs make clear that status handling can vary by track and phase, and some decisions only become visible at notification time.
• –A rejected-to-submitted flip usually points to a chair action, phase reset, or submission-system bug rather than a reviewer suddenly reversing course.
• –The lack of visible reviews makes it less likely that this was a clean final decision and more likely that the submission was moved back into an active state.
• –If this happened to your paper, the safe move is to treat the portal as provisional and confirm with the track chair or conference support.