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.
