Research Architect Audit

Research Architect Audit

Use this branch before declaring the first draft complete.

Inputs

Read all available artifacts under:

paper_output/

Especially:

project_config.json
exemplar_logic_profile.md
exemplar_adaptation_plan.md
confirmed_research_spine.md
study_design_brief.md
study_component_registry.md
evidence_bank.md
claim_register.md
evidence_display_map.md
citation_support_bank.md
section_blueprints.md
writing_rationale_matrix.md
first_draft/main.md

Use compatible legacy artifacts when the canonical file is absent.

Required outputs

Create:

paper_output/audit_report.md
paper_output/revision_queue.md

Audit gates

| Gate | Blocking Failure Examples | |---|---| | Target-reference logic | target paper summarized without extracting load-bearing research moves or strengths | | Adaptation validity | topic nouns changed while design assumptions, context, or evidence needs remain unexamined | | Research spine clarity | no bounded phenomenon/tension/question/contribution/scope | | Feasibility | claim depends on evidence, access, participants, sources, or warrants that are unavailable and unplanned | | Literature grounding | sources are listed without mapping concepts, theories, debates, methods, evidence standards, or gaps | | Design-family fit | validity criteria or manuscript logic come from an incompatible research tradition | | Study-design validity | selection, evidence generation, analysis, comparison/warrant, credibility, or inference boundary is missing | | Evidence traceability | central claims lack evidence IDs, citation IDs, locators, or explicit limitation language | | Evidence-display logic | display has no argument function, hides context, or states a stronger claim than the evidence permits | | Citation integrity | citation is invented, unverifiable, irrelevant, or used beyond its support | | Non-copying | wording, source-specific claims, data, display content, or rhetorical sequence is too close to the exemplar | | Draft completeness | the design family requires methods, positionality, source criticism, integration, counterargument, limitations, or findings that are absent | | Inference-boundary control | causal, prevalence, transfer, theoretical, normative, mechanistic, or policy claims exceed the available warrant |

Audit report schema

| Gate | Status | Evidence Checked | Problem Found | Required Fix | Upstream Owner | Severity | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|

Severity values:

• BLOCKED: required before the draft can be used;
• MAJOR: weakens the central research logic or claim;
• MINOR: improves clarity, transparency, or presentation;
• PASS: no issue found.

Revision queue schema

| Priority | Fix | Affected Section | Required Upstream Artifact | Owner/Next Action | Verification Criterion | |---|---|---|---|---|---|

Rules

• Route structural failures to the artifact that owns the decision.
• Weak target-paper analysis returns to research-architect-literature.
• Superficial or infeasible adaptation returns to research-architect-literature or research-architect-brainstorm.
• Weak design-family logic returns to research-architect-design.
• Weak evidence or claims return to research-architect-evidence.
• Weak citation support returns to research-architect-citation.
• Prose revision follows upstream correction.

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: mmTheBest
• Source: mmTheBest/Research-Architect
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.