DynamisLab/docs/JFM_WYQ/ROUND4_TOP_DOWN/00_QUALITY_GATE.md

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.