Aiwg research-quality-audit

Audit research corpus for shallow stubs, incomplete sections, missing source files, and doc depth issues. Detects docs written from abstracts rather than full papers and optionally auto-dispatches expansion agents.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/jmagly/aiwg

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/jmagly/aiwg "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/.agents/skills/research-quality-audit" ~/.claude/skills/jmagly-aiwg-research-quality-audit && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: .agents/skills/research-quality-audit/SKILL.md

source content

Research Quality Audit

Audit the research corpus for shallow stubs, incomplete documentation, and missing source files. Detects analysis docs written from abstracts alone (the root cause of the 88-stub incident) and reports doc depth metrics across the corpus.

Triggers

"audit research quality"
"check for stubs"
"find shallow docs"
"research quality audit"
"how deep are the analysis docs?"
```
/research-quality-audit
```

Parameters

--range REF-XXX:YYY

(optional)

Audit a specific range of REF identifiers. Default: entire corpus.

--fix

(optional)

Auto-dispatch expansion agents to deepen stubs. Each stub gets a focused agent that reads the full PDF/source and rewrites the analysis doc.

--threshold N

(optional)

Minimum line count for a doc to be considered non-stub. Default: 80.

--format

(optional)

Output format:

full

(default),

summary

, or

json

--pdf-check

(optional)

Also verify that each REF has an actual PDF or source file, not just metadata.

Execution Flow

Phase 1: Corpus Scan

Glob all finding docs:

.aiwg/research/findings/REF-*.md

(and/or

documentation/references/REF-*.md

depending on corpus layout)

For each doc, collect:
- Line count (total lines)
- Content lines (non-empty, non-frontmatter, non-heading lines)
- Section count (number of
```
##
```
  headings)
- Key quote count (blockquotes or inline quotes)
- Source availability — does the PDF exist at the referenced
```
pdf_location
```
  ?
- Full text available — does
```
sources/text/REF-XXX.txt
```
  exist?
- Frontmatter completeness — required fields present?

Phase 2: Classification

Classify each doc into quality tiers:

Tier	Content Lines	Sections	Quotes	Verdict
Full	>= 150	>= 8	>= 3	Comprehensive analysis
Adequate	80-149	>= 5	>= 1	Meets minimum depth
Stub	40-79	>= 3	0	Written from abstract — needs expansion
Skeleton	< 40	any	0	Placeholder only — needs full rewrite

Additional flags:

No PDF: analysis exists but source PDF is missing
No full text: PDF exists but text extraction was not run
Abstract-only indicators: doc mentions "abstract" but no methodology/results sections

Phase 3: Report

Research Quality Audit
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Corpus: 372 documents
Threshold: 80 content lines

Quality Distribution:
  Full (150+):      124 (33%)  ████████████████░░░░░░░░░░
  Adequate (80-149): 89 (24%)  ████████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░
  Stub (40-79):      98 (26%)  █████████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░
  Skeleton (<40):    61 (16%)  ████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░

Statistics:
  Mean content lines:  112
  Median:              94
  Min:                 12 (REF-299)
  Max:                 591 (REF-018)

Source Availability:
  PDF present:         348 / 372 (94%)
  Full text extracted:  201 / 372 (54%)
  Missing PDF:          24 papers
  Missing text:        171 papers

Stubs Requiring Expansion (159):
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  REF-253  22 lines  skeleton  No PDF    "Agentic Design Patterns"
  REF-254  35 lines  skeleton  Has PDF   "Multi-Agent Debate"
  REF-255  45 lines  stub      Has PDF   "Language Agent Tree Search"
  REF-256  48 lines  stub      No text   "ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning"
  ...

Top 10 Shallowest (candidates for immediate expansion):
  1. REF-299  12 lines  skeleton  "Toolformer: Language Models Can..."
  2. REF-312  15 lines  skeleton  "WebArena: A Realistic Web..."
  3. REF-253  22 lines  skeleton  "Agentic Design Patterns..."
  ...

Phase 4: Auto-Fix (if --fix)

When

--fix

is specified:

Filter fixable stubs — only expand docs that have a PDF or full text available
Batch by priority — shallowest docs first, batch into groups of 10
Dispatch expansion agents — each agent:
- Reads the full PDF/extracted text for the source
- Rewrites the analysis doc with comprehensive content
- Target: 150+ content lines with methodology, findings, limitations, key quotes
Re-audit after expansion — run Phase 1-3 again to verify improvements
Report — docs expanded, mean line improvement, remaining stubs

Auto-Fix Results:
  Dispatched: 10 expansion agents (batch 1 of 16)
  Expanded: 10 / 10
  Mean improvement: 77 → 161 lines (+109%)
  Remaining stubs: 149

  Run again with --fix to process next batch.

Integration Points

Component	Relationship
`induct-research`	Quality audit should auto-run after batch induction
`corpus-snapshot`	Gates on stub rate > 10% (#814)
`research-lint`	`ref-frontmatter` rule catches incomplete metadata; quality-audit catches shallow content
`research-status`	Doc depth is a component of corpus health scoring
`research-acquire`	For stubs with missing PDFs, triggers acquisition before expansion

Distinction from Other Tools

Tool	What it checks
`research-lint`	Structural — frontmatter fields, naming, references resolve
`research-quality-audit`	Depth — is the content substantive? Was the source actually read?
`research-quality`	Evidence — GRADE assessment of the source's research quality
`corpus-health`	Aggregate — overall corpus metrics including depth, structure, coverage

Examples

# Full corpus audit
/research-quality-audit

# Audit specific range
/research-quality-audit --range REF-253:372

# Auto-expand stubs (batch of 10)
/research-quality-audit --fix

# Strict threshold (120 lines minimum)
/research-quality-audit --threshold 120

# Check source file availability
/research-quality-audit --pdf-check

# JSON for programmatic use
/research-quality-audit --format json

References

@$AIWG_ROOT/agentic/code/frameworks/research-complete/skills/induct-research/SKILL.md — Source of stubs when acquisition is skipped
@$AIWG_ROOT/agentic/code/frameworks/research-complete/skills/research-acquire/SKILL.md — Acquires PDFs for stub expansion
@$AIWG_ROOT/agentic/code/frameworks/research-complete/skills/research-lint/SKILL.md — Structural validation (complementary)
@$AIWG_ROOT/agentic/code/frameworks/research-complete/skills/research-quality/SKILL.md — GRADE evidence assessment (complementary)
@$AIWG_ROOT/agentic/code/frameworks/research-complete/skills/research-status/SKILL.md — Health scoring includes depth metrics

Aiwg research-quality-audit

Research Quality Audit

Triggers

Parameters

`--range REF-XXX:YYY`
(optional)

`--fix`
(optional)

`--threshold N`
(optional)

`--format`
(optional)

`--pdf-check`
(optional)

Execution Flow

Phase 1: Corpus Scan

Phase 2: Classification

Phase 3: Report

Phase 4: Auto-Fix (if --fix)

Integration Points

Distinction from Other Tools

Examples

References