Preconditions

• rigor_profile is submission.
• All Qx reached G5.
• Final consistency and completeness audits exist.

Audit Dimensions

1. Workflow integrity

   • G1–G5 passed per Qx.
   • Human judgments trace to the decision ledger.
   • Main/baseline/fallback execution respected approved scope.

2. Evidence integrity

   • No fabricated data, references, experiments, metrics, or figures.
   • Main claims trace to frozen numbers and robustness evidence.
   • Limitations and uncertainty are visible.

3. Method quality

   • Baseline is usable.
   • Assumptions, units, objectives, constraints, and solution steps are coherent.
   • Output concentration/degeneracy and failure triggers were addressed.

4. Paper quality

   • Problem, method, results, and conclusions align.
   • Claims are proportional to tested comparisons.
   • Human-owned physical meaning and contribution are present.

5. Presentation

   • Required figures/tables exist and passed render checks.
   • Figure types are used correctly.
   • References are real, complete, and consistently cited.
   • AI-use disclosure follows the current contest profile and verified rules.

Workflow

1. Read the two earlier audits and unresolved blockers.
2. Sample canonical sources directly; do not trust summaries alone.
3. Record blocking and nonblocking findings with artifact paths and repair owners.
4. Save paper/qa_report.md.
5. Set verdict:
   • PASSED
   • FAILED
   • NOT_RUN

Rules

• Do not approve on partial audits.
• Do not use artifact count or bullet count as a proxy for quality.
• Do not repair issues inside QA.
• Do not hide uncertainty or downgrade a blocker silently.
• Do not claim compliance with time-varying contest rules without verification.

Verification

• All five audit dimensions were evaluated.
• Blocking findings are explicit and actionable.
• QA verdict agrees with consistency/completeness verdicts and sampled evidence.
• Final assembly is recommended only when all three audits pass.