paper-citation-integrity-gate

Run a deterministic audit script that parses the citation map's SUMMARY line and compares total cited keys against the CITATION_TARGET declared in the paper contract. It returns a pass verdict only when coverage meets the target and no entries are weak or invalid.

The gate reads a JSON object from stdin containing a citation_map string with exactly one machine-readable SUMMARY line, plus a paper_contract or paper_preferences field containing CITATION_TARGET as an integer. Missing or malformed fields produce a block verdict.

No, unused bibliography entries are reported as warnings, not blockers. The audit only blocks when cited keys fall below target, when entries are classified weak or invalid, or when the SUMMARY fields are missing or inconsistent.

Weak or invalid cited keys indicate unreliable sources, so the gate treats any nonzero weak or invalid count as a blocker regardless of total coverage. This enforces citation quality, not just quantity, before the paper draft proceeds.

The CITATION_TARGET must be a machine-readable integer between 1 and 500; values outside that range cause a block. The check is purely numeric and structural, so it does not assess the actual scholarly relevance of cited sources.