paper-quality-gate

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.