CCF Integrity Auditor

Core Rule

Trace each important claim to supplied evidence, each number to supplied results, and each citation to a real cited work and a supported citation context. Mark unsupported items instead of repairing them by invention.

Modes

• claim-audit: claim-support and result-to-claim consistency.
• numeric-audit: numbers, units, table/figure/text agreement, deltas, and metric direction.
• citation-audit: already cited papers, BibTeX metadata, duplicate keys, DOI/arXiv/venue sanity, and citation-context support.
• full: all integrity checks.

Workflow

1. Identify supplied manuscript, figures/tables/results, bibliography, ccfa.yaml, and requested audit mode.
2. Build a claim-evidence matrix and mark each claim as supported, partially supported, unsupported, overstated, or unclear.
3. Cross-check the reported values within the requested scope across text, tables, figures, captions, abstracts, and conclusions. Use deterministic arithmetic for deltas, units, metric direction, and rounding. Distinguish not comparable from inconsistent.
4. For citation audit, verify the identity and context support of existing citations through primary sources; metadata existence alone does not establish support. Batch independent identifiers when possible. Seek new literature only when requested; broad discovery belongs to ccf-literature-searcher.
5. For any questionable citation, separate metadata problems from context-support problems.
6. Hand off to ccf-paper-reviewer for full scientific judgment and to ccf-paper-writer for safe wording edits.
7. If the numbers and claims are consistent but the figure/table layout, caption placement, palette, float order, or rendered readability is weak, hand off to ccf-visual-composer.

Output Contract

Mode:
Artifacts checked:
Claim-evidence matrix:
Numeric consistency findings:
Citation metadata findings:
Citation-context findings:
Severity:
Safe edit suggestions:
Next CCFA owner:
No-invention status:

Execution Boundaries

Follow ../ccf-common/references/handoff-modes.md, ../ccf-common/references/task-modes.md, and ../ccf-common/references/privacy-and-evidence.md. Finish the checkable portions when an attachment or source is missing. Report exact file/page/table locations, affected values or claims, evidence, and severity; mark unverified coverage separately from failures. An audit request does not authorize manuscript rewriting. Use existing authorization for explicitly requested fixes and preserve raw measurements.

For file outputs, follow ../ccf-common/references/artifact-contracts.md: resolve existing project paths first, keep generated working files under one stable task/artifact directory, and update canonical files in place. Load this shared policy only when files are written and it is not already in context.