paper-quality-gate

name	paper-quality-gate
description	Deterministic pre-compile gate for meta-paper-write. Enforces length/citation verdicts and rejects unsupported empirical-result claims when no user evidence was supplied.
user-invocable	false
disable-model-invocation	true
provenance	{"origin":"opensquilla-original","license":"Apache-2.0"}
metadata	{"requires":{"anyBins":["python","python3"]}}
entrypoint	{"command":"python {baseDir}/scripts/audit.py","stdin":"{{ with.payload }}","parse":"text","timeout":30}

Paper quality gate

Internal deterministic gate used after bounded LaTeX sanitization and immediately before compilation. Input is a JSON object containing paper_contract, length_gate, citation_gate, and manuscript_package. The preceding sanitizer may normalize safe punctuation and replace detected forecast magnitudes with explicit placeholders, but this gate remains an independent fail-closed audit of the resulting artifact.

The command exits non-zero when an upstream LLM gate blocks, when a required verdict marker is absent, when the manuscript artifact cannot be read, or when an evidence-free manuscript presents empirical findings as completed results. It also rejects concrete English or Chinese predicted outcome numbers (for example, an anticipated 12% improvement) when evidence is absent. Experimental setup parameters remain allowed; a predefined metric target such as 50% accuracy is also allowed when the unknown time-to-target remains nonnumeric. Explicitly conditional claims and planned significance thresholds are not treated as observed findings. Unknown outcomes must use TBD / 待实验确定 instead of invented point estimates.

Every figure/table caption is audited independently when evidence is absent. Categorical outcome claims such as "the proposed method achieves lower cost" or "所提方法保持最低通信成本" are blocked. Neutral planned placeholders and explicit hypotheses/future tests remain valid, including captions that state concrete setup values.

The gate also rejects literal Unicode Greek math glyphs, Unicode en dashes, and single Latin-style em dashes in the manuscript. Paired Chinese em dashes (——) remain valid native-language punctuation. Authors should use named LaTeX math macros such as \(\alpha\) / \(\varepsilon\) and LaTeX -- / --- punctuation, avoiding silent missing-glyph degradation in XeLaTeX.