# Round 4/5 Quality Gate

Round 4 freezes author-facing arguments and section designs; Round 5 drafts from those freezes. Neither round creates evidence. Decision value and manuscript design outrank procedural volume.

## Entry gate — coordinator packet
- [ ] Exact unit, round, output decision and file are named.
- [ ] Exact controlling reads and accepted dated author feedback are listed.
- [ ] Available material/artifact inventory distinguishes text-, data-, script-, panel- and dependency-readiness.
- [ ] Target words/pages and section/manuscript share are stated.
- [ ] Paragraph jobs and closing bridge form an argument, not an inventory.
- [ ] Concrete display layout gives count, panel geometry, placement, job, owner, source, readiness and fallback.
- [ ] Imports, exports, exclusions and exact bounded questions are explicit.

A subagent failing this gate is not launched to rediscover the project.

## Process gate — continuation and routing
- [ ] When prior decisions matter, agent begins with targeted Nowledge memory/thread recall, then verifies against repository authorities; memory never overrides artifacts.
- [ ] Repository tools handle internal evidence. Undermind is literature-only after `get_orientation` and `list_workspaces`.
- [ ] Read-only scripts/derivations use a designated conda environment discovered from authority/listing; no environment is guessed.
- [ ] No CFD, training, artifact generation or expensive analysis ran without authorization.
- [ ] Coverage ledger is compact and limited to controlling reads/gaps (`read`, `mapped`, `not-covered`, `external-inaccessible`).

## Section design/freeze gate
- [ ] Recommendation answers the exact author-facing question and explains consequence/trade-off.
- [ ] Length/share, paragraph progression, display cadence and evidence density are credible.
- [ ] Claims retain owner, chain/configuration, Reynolds convention, role, comparator, metric/estimand, ROI/window and authority.
- [ ] Imports stay brief; exports and deletion owners prevent duplication.
- [ ] Displays/equations state what they establish and do not establish; text readiness is separate from artifact readiness.
- [ ] Author choices remain `discuss`/`blocked` or receive an accepted decision; safe defaults are not falsely frozen.
- [ ] Kan99b K2 stays exactly `partial pass`; the mean-lift sign difference is attributed to CFD coordinate/force-direction convention, never unresolved physics or suspected wrong rotation.
- [ ] Fixed SR/CCD/OID/steady/experiment and cross-chain/estimand cautions pass.

## Two-section cadence and second audit
1. Coordinator presents two detailed packets together.
2. Author responds to both; coordinator records accepted, provisional and open feedback.
3. Coordinator launches two tightly scoped continuation agents in parallel.
4. Coordinator re-reads both outputs and controlling authorities, checks interfaces/duplication/claims/displays/choices, and records a second audit.
5. Only then may R4 become `frozen` or R5 prose become drafting-ready.

## Statuses
- `researching`: a named controlling read is incomplete.
- `discuss`: a bounded author choice is decision-ready.
- `revise`: targeted argument/design/interface correction is needed.
- `frozen`: coordinator second audit locked the R4 text contract.
- `blocked`: required authority, material, role, comparator, decision or conflict resolution is absent.

Final Round-4 audit checks the paired sections in the whole-manuscript order, ownership, bridges, claim ladder, display/equation inventory, accepted author decisions and Round-5 handoff. Optional omitted panels do not block text when a safe fallback preserves the argument.