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Audit research-corpus induction quality — depth bands (stub/compact/good/full/deep), structural integrity (analysis doc + sidecar + PDF, honoring audit-exclude conventions), and per-source-type required sections (a blog isn't flagged for missing Benchmark Results). Plus additive frontmatter backfill for legacy docs. Runs via `aiwg corpus induction-audit` / `aiwg corpus frontmatter-backfill`.

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Induction Audit & Frontmatter Backfill

Quality + depth audit for inducted references, and an additive frontmatter backfill for legacy analysis docs. The audit is source-type-aware: required sections come from the source-type registry (source-types skill / #1509), so a blog is checked for "Practical Relevance" and a repo for "Architecture", not for "Benchmark Results".

How to run

# Audit a REF range
aiwg corpus induction-audit --start 599 --end 635

# Audit one REF
aiwg corpus induction-audit --ref REF-394

# Audit the whole corpus
aiwg corpus induction-audit

# Backfill minimal frontmatter (ref_id/title/year/pdf_hash) into legacy docs
aiwg corpus frontmatter-backfill            # dry-run
aiwg corpus frontmatter-backfill --write    # write (additive; skips docs that already have frontmatter)

What the audit reports

  • Structural issues (the actionable failures): MISSING-ANALYSIS-DOC, MISSING-SIDECAR, MISSING-PDF (honoring audit-exclude-missing-pdf + legacy excluded types redirect/gap-note/chapter), PDF-PRESENT-BUT-MARKED-EXCLUDED, below-80-line-stub-threshold.
  • Depth bands by analysis line count: STUB (<80), compact (80–149), good (150–249), full (250–399), deep (400+).
  • Per-type section completeness (informational): for each ref's normalized source type, which of that type's required sections are absent. This is a completeness signal, not a hard issue — the registry's required set is the type's full template, which real inductions don't always fill.

Reconciliation with the quality skills

SkillQuestion it answers
induction-audit (this)Is the induction structurally complete + deep enough, with the sections its source type expects?
research-quality-auditHow strong is the evidence (GRADE)?
best-practices-auditDoes the corpus follow framework best practices broadly?
sidecar-lintAre the citation sidecars structurally valid?

They compose; none duplicates the others. Run induction-audit after a batch induction to catch stubs/missing artifacts and per-type section gaps; run the quality skills to assess evidence strength.

Triggers

  • "audit inductions"
  • "check induction depth / quality"
  • "find stub inductions"
  • "backfill frontmatter"
  • "induction audit"

Notes

  • TS-native (src/artifacts/corpus-tools/induction-audit.ts) — port of section9 audit_inductions.py + backfill_frontmatter.py.
  • The per-type required sections come from the source-type registry (aiwg corpus source-types); override types per-corpus at documentation/source-types.yaml.