Audit/regression checks for the evidence-first survey pipeline: citation health, per-section coverage, placeholder leakage, and template repetition.
**Trigger**: auditor, audit, regression test, quality report, 审计, 回归测试.
**Use when**: `output/DRAFT.md` exists and you want a deterministic PASS/FAIL report before LaTeX/PDF.
**Skip if**: you are still changing retrieval/outline/evidence packs heavily (audit later).
**Network**: none.
**Guardrail**: do not change content; only analyze and report.
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name: pipeline-auditor
description: |
Audit/regression checks for the evidence-first survey pipeline: citation health, per-section coverage, placeholder leakage, and template repetition.
**Trigger**: auditor, audit, regression test, quality report, 审计, 回归测试.
**Use when**: `output/DRAFT.md` exists and you want a deterministic PASS/FAIL report before LaTeX/PDF.
**Skip if**: you are still changing retrieval/outline/evidence packs heavily (audit later).
**Network**: none.
**Guardrail**: do not change content; only analyze and report.
---
# Pipeline Auditor (draft audit + regression)
Purpose: a deterministic “regression test” for the writing stage.
It answers:
- did we leak placeholders or planner talk?
- did citation scope drift?
- did the draft fall back to generator voice (navigation/narration templates)?
- is citation density/health sufficient for a survey-like draft?
This skill is analysis-only. It does not edit content. For `survey`/`deep`, style/citation-shape violations are blocking by default.
## Inputs
- `output/DRAFT.md`
- `outline/outline.yml`
- Optional (recommended):
- `outline/evidence_bindings.jsonl`
- `citations/ref.bib`
## Outputs
- `output/AUDIT_REPORT.md`
## What it checks (deterministic)
A150++ citation targets (used by the auditor):
- Per-H3: >=12 unique citations (deep: >=14).
- Global: >=150 unique citations across the full draft (recommended target: 165; deep floor: 165).
- Placeholder leakage: ellipsis (`...`, `…`), TODO markers, scaffold tags.
- Outline alignment: section/subsection order vs `outline/outline.yml`.
- Survey tables (survey deliverable): require >=2 Markdown tables in the merged draft (index tables live in `outline/tables_index.md`) (inserted by `section-merger` from `outline/tables_appendix.md`).
- Paper voice anti-patterns:
- narration templates (`This subsection ...`, `In this subsection ...`)
- slide navigation (`Next, we move ...`, `We now turn to ...`)
- pipeline voice (`this run`, “pipeline/stage/workspace” in prose)
- Evidence-policy disclaimer spam: repeated “abstract-only/title-only/provisional” boilerplate inside H3 bodies.
- Meta survey-guidance phrasing: `survey synthesis/comparisons should ...`.
- Synthesis stem repetition: repeated `Taken together, ...` and similar high-signal generator stems.
- Numeric claim context: numbers without minimal evaluation context tokens (benchmark/dataset/metric/budget/cost).
- Citation health (if `citations/ref.bib` exists): undefined keys, duplicates, basic formatting red flags.
- Citation-shape hard gate (`survey`/`deep`): no adjacent citation blocks (`[@a] [@b]`), no duplicate keys inside one block (`[@a; @a]`), and per-H3 mid-sentence citation ratio >=30%.
- Citation scope (if `outline/evidence_bindings.jsonl` exists): citations used per H3 should stay within the bound evidence set.
## How to use the report (routing table)
Treat `output/AUDIT_REPORT.md` as a “what to fix next” router.
Common FAIL families -> responsible stage/skill:
- Placeholders / leaked scaffolds
- Fix: C2–C4 artifacts are not clean. Route to `subsection-briefs` / `evidence-draft` / `writer-context-pack`, then rewrite affected sections.
- Missing overview tables (draft has <2 tables)
- Fix: ensure `table-schema` + `appendix-table-writer` produced `outline/tables_appendix.md` (>=2 tables, citation-backed, no placeholders), then rerun `section-merger` (tables insert as an Appendix block by default).
- Planner talk in transitions / narrator bridges
- Fix: rerun `transition-weaver` (and ensure briefs include `bridge_terms` / `contrast_hook`), then re-merge.
- Narration templates / slide navigation inside H3
- Fix: rewrite the failing `sections/S*.md` via `writer-selfloop` (local, section-level) or `subsection-polisher`.
- Evidence-policy disclaimer spam
- Fix: keep evidence policy once in Intro/Related Work (front matter), delete repeats in H3 (use `draft-polisher` or local section rewrites).
- Citation scope drift (out-of-scope bibkeys)
- Fix: either (a) rewrite the subsection to stay in-scope, or (b) fix mapping/bindings (`section-mapper` → `evidence-binder`) and regenerate packs.
- Global unique citations too low
- Fix: `citation-diversifier` → `citation-injector` (NO NEW FACTS), then `draft-polisher`.
- Intro/Related Work too thin / too few cites
- Fix: rewrite the corresponding `sections/S<sec_id>.md` front-matter file via `writer-selfloop` (front-matter path) using dense positioning + method paragraph.
## Prevention guidance (what upstream writers should do)
If you want the auditor to PASS *without* a heavy polish loop:
- Start each H3 with a content claim + thesis (avoid narration templates).
- Use explicit contrasts and at least one evaluation anchor paragraph.
- Embed citations per claim (avoid trailing cite dumps).
- Put evidence-policy limitations once in the front matter, not in every H3.
## Script
### Quick Start
- `python .codex/skills/pipeline-auditor/scripts/run.py --help`
- `python .codex/skills/pipeline-auditor/scripts/run.py --workspace workspaces/<ws>`
### All Options
- `--workspace <dir>`
- `--unit-id <U###>` (optional; for logs)
- `--inputs <semicolon-separated>` (rare override; prefer defaults)
- `--outputs <semicolon-separated>` (rare override; default writes `output/AUDIT_REPORT.md`)
- `--checkpoint <C#>` (optional)
### Examples
- Run audit after `global-reviewer` and before LaTeX/PDF:
- `python .codex/skills/pipeline-auditor/scripts/run.py --workspace workspaces/<ws>`
## Troubleshooting
### Issue: audit fails due to undefined citations
Fix:
- Regenerate citations with `citation-verifier` and ensure `citations/ref.bib` contains every cited key.
### Issue: audit fails due to narration-style navigation phrases
Fix:
- Rewrite as argument bridges (content-bearing handoffs, no navigation commentary) in the failing `sections/*` files, then re-merge.
### Issue: audit fails due to "unique citations too low"
Fix:
- Run `citation-diversifier` to produce `output/CITATION_BUDGET_REPORT.md`.
- Apply it via `citation-injector` (edits `output/DRAFT.md`, writes `output/CITATION_INJECTION_REPORT.md`).
- Then run `draft-polisher` → `global-reviewer` → auditor.