Audit: QRS - Akarkara for Health & Longevity
Audit conducted on 22/09/2026 16:12 using AI4L / Opus 5
Summary
| Items | Count |
|---|---|
| Total | 94 |
| Passed | 88 |
| Failed | 0 |
| N/A | 6 |
| Pass Rate | 100.00% |
- Total = Passed + Failed + N/A
- Pass Rate = Passed / (Passed + Failed) × 100
- N/A items are excluded from the pass rate calculation
1. General Rules
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1 | Every claim, magnitude, label, recommendation, and statement in the QRS is literally supported by content in the source ER. | 🟢 | Spot-checked every cell against the ER: protocol doses (ER line 344), time-to-effect (line 390), gates (lines 294-322), tiers (lines 142-208, 232-276), biomarker table (lines 422-429), qualitative list (lines 433-437). |
| 1.2 | Where the ER uses cautious phrasing (“not formally studied”, “None documented in human trials to date”, “theoretical concern”, “data are limited”), the QRS uses the same phrasing. | 🟢 | Hedges carried through: “no human study has tested the root alone for any internal effect”, “No established target for this herb”, “Epilepsy, where it would replace prescribed antiepileptic therapy”. |
| 1.3 | The QRS never strengthens an ER claim (e.g., “not formally studied” → “not required”) or softens one (e.g., “do not use during pregnancy” → “use with caution during pregnancy”). | 🟢 | |
| 1.4 | The QRS does not relabel an ER fact under a different decision category. A “Benefit-Modifying Factor” from ER section is not surfaced as a “Caution”; a “Risk-Modifying Factor” is not surfaced as a “Side Effect”; etc. | 🟢 | Contraindications come only from the ER “Populations who should avoid Akarkara” list; Key Interactions only from the ER interaction bullets; Benefit-/Risk-Modifying Factors are not surfaced anywhere. |
| 1.5 | PubMed IDs, study citations, expert names, clinical trial identifiers (NCT*), and brand names appear in the QRS only if they appear in the source ER for the same fact. | 🟢 | No PMIDs, author names, NCT identifiers, or brand names appear; the herb and drug names used (diazepam, tacrolimus, Tribulus terrestris, echinacea) are all ER interaction-bullet content. |
| 1.6 | The QRS does not introduce new attributions. | 🟢 |
2. Focus, Tone & Audience
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.1 | The QRS follows the tone of the ER, which is determined by the ER’s own language, phrasing, and framing. | 🟢 | |
| 2.2 | The tone of the QRS is simultaneously expert, accessible, objective, and data-driven, but also empowering and encouraging | 🟢 | |
| 2.3 | The QRS reads as a trusted, knowledgeable guide rather than a prescriptive doctor | 🟢 | |
| 2.4 | The QRS avoids language that implies medical or clinical advice | 🟢 | |
| 2.5 | The QRS “presents information” instead of “providing guidance”, “recommending”, or “advising” | 🟢 | |
| 2.6 | The QRS never addresses “the reader” directly — it presents evidence, not guidance | 🟢 | |
| 2.7 | The QRS is written in plain language, avoiding unnecessary medical jargon | 🟢 | |
| 2.8 | Information is presented in a concise and very compact manner | 🟢 | |
| 2.9 | It DOES NOT address the reader directly | 🟢 | |
| 2.10 | The target audience is health- and longevity-oriented adults who are risk-aware, proactive, and actively seeking to optimize health or apply the intervention under review. | 🟢 | |
| 2.11 | The target audience is willing to employ lifestyle and behavioral changes as well as follow protocols that may be inconvenient, costly, or require effort. | 🟢 | |
| 2.12 | The document is NOT written for the general population, who are unwilling to employ lifestyle and behavioral changes or follow protocols that may be inconvenient, costly, or require effort. | 🟢 | |
| 2.13 | Framing, takeaways, and risk/benefit weighting throughout the document reflect this audience, including where an intervention’s signal for the average person differs from its signal for this audience. | 🟢 | |
| 2.14 | The document’s own voice frames usage in longevity terms, not “anti-aging” (e.g., “anti-aging clinics”, “anti-aging community”, “anti-aging medicine”). Proper names that contain “anti-aging” (e.g., “American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine”) are quoted verbatim. | 🟢 | No “anti-aging” phrasing anywhere in the sheet. |
| 2.15 | The document’s own voice uses formal clinical and scientific terminology, not colloquial or consumer-grade language (e.g., “oral medication” not “pill(s)”; “oral” / “administered orally” not “taken by mouth” / “given by mouth”; “injection” not “shot”; “adverse event” not “bad reaction”). This holds on EVERY surface, including the QRS lede — the stricter plain-language bar (see 2.7) does not license lay phrasing for route of administration. Direct quotes from sources are exempt. | 🟢 | Route of administration is expressed clinically (“Oral contact”, “Root powder daily”, “Topical or dental anaesthetics”); no consumer-grade substitutes. |
3. Template Integrity
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | The following labels and headings on the QRS are fixed and not modified: Card and section headings: “Protocol”, “Time to effect”, “Benefits”, “Risk & Side Effects”, “Monitoring”, “Qualitative Assessment”; Gate headings: “Contraindications”, “Key Interactions”; Tier labels: “High”, “Medium”, “Low”, “Speculative”; Table column headers in Monitoring: “Marker”, “Target”, “Why” | 🟢 | All fixed headings verified against the template: “Protocol”, “Time to effect”, “Benefits”, “Risk & Side Effects”, “Monitoring”, “Qualitative Assessment”, “Contraindications”, “Key Interactions”, “Marker”/”Target”/”Why”, and the Low/Speculative/Medium tier labels. |
| 3.2 | All “…” from the [qrs_template] are present in the the QRS. | 🟢 | All 63 template spans are present; marker_#* is expanded to marker_1..marker_8 and qualitative_item# to qualitative_item_1..5. |
| 3.3 | Spans that are not addressed in a checklist item are left unchanged | 🟢 | A diff of the QRS against the template over the doctype/head/CSS region shows only the page_title substitution; the website=”evidence_review” / “audit” / “full_review” spans and the footer are byte-identical to the template. |
4. Formatting
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.1 | When the source ER section is empty, the QRS uses the ER’s own empty-state phrasing verbatim. Typical phrasings are “None documented in human trials to date” and “Not formally studied” | N/A | The tiered Benefits/Risks sub-sections that are empty in the ER are governed by the more specific items 12.5 and 13.5 (span hidden, not filled); no other ER section feeding the QRS is empty. |
| 4.2 | Where the ER presents a bulleted item as “Label: content”, the QRS uses the ER’s bold label verbatim as the cell or row label. | 🟢 | Protocol cell labels are the ER bold labels verbatim: “Traditional whole-root approach”, “Timing within the day”, “Half-life and dose splitting” (ER lines 344, 350, 352). |
| 4.3 | Labels are not paraphrased, abbreviated, or invented. | 🟢 | |
| 4.4 | The QRS DOES NOT use emoji indicators (no 🟩, 🟥, 🟨, etc.). Color and emphasis are conveyed through CSS and bold labels. | 🟢 | No 🟩/🟥/🟨 in the file; the ER “⚠️ Conflicted” marker on Semen Parameters was correctly dropped. |
| 4.5 | The QRS is designed to render on one A4 page. Any section that has more content in the ER than fits the per-section budget is condensed by the LLM, not extended onto a second page. | 🟢 |
5. Metadata
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.1 | The metadata is placed inside a single HTML comment that is the first element after “<!doctype html>” and before any other comment, head, or body content. | 🟢 | |
| 5.2 | Inside that HTML comment the YAML block is delimited by a line “—” opening and a line “—” closing. Text before the opening “—” is permitted but is not parsed as YAML. | 🟢 | |
| 5.3 | The metadata is not visible in any rendered view of the QRS and is not surfaced by any other element on the sheet. | 🟢 | |
| 5.4 | All frontmatter values are trimmed: no leading or trailing whitespace, no surrounding quotes unless the value contains a colon, bracket, or leading special character that requires YAML quoting. | 🟢 | Only duration: "00:02" is quoted, which YAML requires because the value contains a colon; no leading/trailing whitespace on any line. |
| 5.5 | The filename of the source ER is stated as “er_filename: [er_filename]” | 🟢 | |
| 5.6 | Version of the QRS.md file used to create the document is stated as “qrs_prompt_version: [Version of QRS.md]” | 🟢 | |
| 5.7 | Creation date and time of the document is stated as “qrs_creation_date: [YYYY-MMDD-HHMM]” (e.g., 2026-0501-1430) | 🟢 | |
| 5.8 | The nickname of the AI used to create the document is stated as “qrs_creator_ai_nickname: [qrs_creator_ai_nickname]” | 🟢 | |
| 5.9 | The nickname of the AI is just a single word model name without version, etc. (e.g., Opus, Sonnet, Grok, Gemini, ChatGPT) | 🟢 | |
| 5.10 | The full name of the AI used to create the document is stated as “qrs_creator_ai_fullname: [qrs_creator_ai_fullname]” | 🟢 | |
| 5.11 | The full name of the AI consists of the [qrs_creator_ai_nickname] and the model version number and no additional qualifier (e.g., Opus 4.6, Sonnet 3.2, Grok 4.5, Gemini 3.1, ChatGPT 5.4) | 🟢 | |
| 5.12 | The filename of the document is stated as “qrs_filename: [filename of this document]” | 🟢 | |
| 5.13 | All frontmatter values are trimmed: no leading or trailing whitespace, no surrounding quotes unless the value contains a colon, bracket, or leading special character that requires YAML quoting. | 🟢 |
6. Page Title & Header
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.1 | [page_title] is set to the [canonical_topic] of the ER frontmatter followed by “ - Quick Reference Sheet” (e.g., “Intervention - Quick Reference Sheet”). The [canonical_topic] is HTML-entity-encoded as needed (e.g., & for &) |
🟢 | <title>Akarkara for Health & Longevity - Quick Reference Sheet</title> (line 22). |
| 6.2 | [header_topic] is set to the [canonical_topic] of the ER frontmatter, with HTML entities encoded as needed (e.g., & for &) |
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| 6.3 | [header_subline_date] is set to [qrs_creation_date reformatted as MM/DD/YYYY] | 🟢 | qrs_creation_date 2026-0922-1556 → 09/22/2026 (line 421). |
| 6.4 | [header_subline_model] is set to [qrs_creator_ai_fullname] | 🟢 | |
| 6.5 | No additional header content appears: no badge, version stamp, AKA / alternate names line, source-AI attribution, audit date, or QRS variant marker. | 🟢 | Subline carries only date, ER link, AI4L link and model name; no AKA line, badge, or version stamp. |
7. At-A-Glance Section
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.1 | [at_a_glance] opens by saying what the intervention is — its kind (e.g., dietary supplement, prescription medication, peptide, plant, procedure, practice) — and what it is used for, in plain language, before any verdict on the evidence | 🟢 | |
| 7.2 | [at_a_glance] is dense, execution-oriented summary of the ER Conclusion section |
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| 7.3 | [at_a_glance] is no longer than 70 words | 🟢 | 68 words. |
| 7.4 | Every fact in [at_a_glance] is supported by a distinct passage in the ER. | 🟢 | |
| 7.5 | It DOES NOT use acronyms or technical classifications that require specialist knowledge, uses plain-language terms instead | 🟢 | No acronyms; “dried root of a Mediterranean daisy”, “dietary supplement”, “animal and laboratory work”. |
| 7.6 | It DOES NOT cite specific trials (names, years, sample sizes, p-values) | 🟢 | |
| 7.7 | It DOES NOT cite effect sizes, relative risks, or statistical results | 🟢 |
8. Contraindications
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.1 | The section is derived from the ER Key Interactions & Contraindications section |
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| 8.2 | [stop_items] represent the Contraindications from the ER | 🟢 | All seven ER “Populations who should avoid Akarkara” entries are present (ER lines 316-322). |
| 8.3 | Individual [stop_items] are formatted as <li></li> | 🟢 | |
| 8.4 | Items are as concise as possible. No trailing explanations, no elaborations, no mechanistic rationale, no attributions, no citations, no study details. No content after an em-dash, en-dash, or hyphen-dash (e.g., “— dose reduction required”, “— reduced efficacy”) — these trailing clauses are stripped. Just the key fact. | 🟢 | The ER em-dash tails (“— no reproductive-toxicity or lactation data of any kind”, “— no safety data at any dose”) and the “given the animal enzyme-elevation signal” / “given documented immunostimulation” rationales are stripped. |
| 8.5 | Parenthetical qualifiers from the ER bullet — time windows, severity classes, threshold values, clinical staging — ARE preserved as part of the item, kept as concise as possible (shortened or trimmed where needed to fit the one-page budget, but never dropped entirely). | 🟢 | Daisy-family example list and the BPH severity qualifier are retained: “(ragweed, chamomile, arnica, feverfew)”, “untreated benign prostatic hyperplasia above moderate symptom score”. |
| 8.6 | When the ER uses ranking notation inside parens (e.g., “>” for severity ordering) that depends on an explanatory phrase to interpret, normalize the items to a plain comma-separated list rather than carrying through the bare symbol. | 🟢 | The ER uses no ranking notation inside parentheses in this section; the items are already plain comma-separated lists. |
| 8.7 | The section is left empty ONLY IF the ER’s Key Interactions & Contraindications section identifies no population, condition, or scenario for which the intervention should be avoided, deferred, or used only under specialist supervision. |
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| 8.8 | If the section is left empty, an HTML comment inside the [stop_items] span records the ER basis for the absence, naming or quoting the ER text relied on. E.g. | N/A | The Contraindications section is not empty — seven items are present. |
9. Key Interactions
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.1 | The section is derived from the ER Key Interactions & Contraindications section |
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| 9.2 | [caution_items] represent the Key Interactions from the ER, excluding any that are already listed as Contraindications | 🟢 | All ten ER interaction bullets are present; none duplicates a Contraindication. |
| 9.3 | Individual [caution_items] are formatted as <li></li> | 🟢 | |
| 9.4 | Items are as concise as possible. No trailing explanations, no elaborations, no mechanistic rationale, no attributions, no citations, no study details. No content after an em-dash, en-dash, or hyphen-dash (e.g., “— dose reduction required”, “— reduced efficacy”) — these trailing clauses are stripped. Just the key fact. | 🟢 | Caution/Monitor verdicts and the mechanistic sentences are stripped; no dash-trailing clauses remain. |
| 9.5 | Parenthetical qualifiers from the ER bullet — example drug lists, time windows, severity classes, threshold values, clinical staging — ARE preserved as part of the item, kept as concise as possible (shortened or trimmed where needed to fit the one-page budget, but never dropped entirely). | 🟢 | Named example drugs preserved for every bullet, condensed where the ER used class glosses (e.g. “statins such as simvastatin” → “simvastatin”). |
| 9.6 | When the ER uses ranking notation inside parens (e.g., “>” for severity ordering) that depends on an explanatory phrase to interpret, normalize the items to a plain comma-separated list rather than carrying through the bare symbol. | 🟢 | The ER uses no ranking notation inside parentheses in this section. |
| 9.7 | The section is left empty ONLY IF the ER’s Key Interactions & Contraindications section identifies no interaction, additive effect, or exposure that changes how the intervention is used. |
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| 9.8 | If the section is left empty, an HTML comment inside the [caution_items] span records the ER basis for the absence, naming or quoting the ER text relied on. E.g. | N/A | The Key Interactions section is not empty — ten items are present. |
10. Protocol
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10.1 | The section is derived from the ER Protocol section |
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| 10.2 | The three sets of [action] items cover the three most important actionable implementation aspects from the ER Protocol section |
🟢 | Daily amount, dose timing and dose splitting — the three aspects that determine how the root is actually taken. |
| 10.3 | If less that three distinct actionable implementation aspects are mentioned in the ER the unused sets are left empty and made invisible, not filled with placeholder text or empty-state phrasing. | N/A | The ER Therapeutic Protocol section mentions ten actionable aspects, well above three. |
| 10.4 | All used [action_#label], [action#value], [action#_sub] items are filled with meaningful content derived from the ER Protocol section. |
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11. Time to Effect
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11.1 | The three sets of [time] items cover the three most important time-to-effect aspects from the ER | 🟢 | Systemic effects (ER line 390), facial skin measures (ER line 180), and the immediate oral response (ER lines 236, 390). |
| 11.2 | The sets are picked and ordered by the magnitude of the related benefit | 🟢 | Ordered by benefit magnitude: systemic androgenic/spermatogenic effects first, the human skin study second, the non-benefit sensory response last. |
| 11.3 | If less that three distinct time-to-effect aspects are mentioned in the ER the unused sets are left empty and made invisible, not filled with placeholder text or empty-state phrasing. | N/A | The ER provides three distinct time-to-effect aspects, so no set is unused. |
| 11.4 | All used [time_#label], [time#value], [time#_sub] items are filled with meaningful content derived from the ER. | 🟢 | All nine time cells carry ER-derived content. |
| 11.5 | If the ER does not provide any information on time to effect, the section is removed completely from the Protocol Panel |
N/A | The ER Practical Considerations section provides time-to-effect information. |
12. Benefits
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12.1 | The section is derived from the ER Expected Benefits section |
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| 12.2 | Key variables are [benefits_high], [benefits_medium], [benefits_low], [benefits_speculative] | 🟢 | |
| 12.3 | Items are as concise as possible. No explanations, no elaborations, no effect sizes, no qualifiers, no attributions, no citations, no study details, no mechanistic explanations, etc. Just the key fact. | 🟢 | Each tier is a semicolon-separated list of the ER benefit headings with no magnitudes, citations or mechanisms. |
| 12.4 | Parenthetical content — including effect sizes, sample notes, mechanistic hints, and example studies — is stripped, NOT preserved. | 🟢 | |
| 12.5 | If no items of a specific sub-section (high, medium, low, speculative) are present the respective is set to “display=none”, not filled with “None documented in human trials to date” or similar empty-state phrasing. | 🟢 | benefits_high and benefits_medium spans carry style=”display: none” and no empty-state text (lines 545-546). |
13. Risks
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13.1 | The section is derived from the ER Potential Risks & Side Effects section |
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| 13.2 | Key variables are [risks_high], [risks_medium], [risks_low], [risks_speculative] | 🟢 | |
| 13.3 | Items are as concise as possible. No explanations, no elaborations, no effect sizes, no qualifiers, no attributions, no citations, no study details, no mechanistic explanations, etc. Just the key fact. | 🟢 | Tier lists carry the ER risk headings only. |
| 13.4 | Parenthetical content — including frequencies, severity grades, sample notes, mechanistic hints, and example studies — is stripped, NOT preserved. | 🟢 | |
| 13.5 | If no items of a specific sub-section (high, medium, low, speculative) are present the respective is set to “display=none”, not filled with “None documented in human trials to date” or similar empty-state phrasing. | 🟢 | risks_high span carries style=”display: none” and no empty-state text (line 614). |
14. Monitoring
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14.1 | The section is derived from the ER Monitoring section |
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| 14.2 | All measurable/quantifiable biomarkers from the Monitoring section are listed |
🟢 | All eight biomarkers of the ER table (ER lines 422-429) are present with their targets and rationales. |
| 14.3 | [monitoring_cadence] is populated with the monitoring cadence/frequency derived from the ER Monitoring section. It is not left with placeholder text or empty. |
🟢 | “Baseline panel before starting; liver panel repeats at eight weeks; hormones and, where relevant, semen analysis at twelve weeks; every six to twelve months while use continues” — matches ER line 418. |
15. Qualitative Assessment
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15.1 | The section is derived from the ER Monitoring section |
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| 15.2 | All subjective/qualitative biomarkers from the Monitoring section are listed |
🟢 | All five ER qualitative markers (ER lines 433-437) are present verbatim. |
Issues 22/09/2026 16:12
Pass rate 100.00%. No issues found.
Issues 22/09/2026 16:04
- 1.2 — Dropped “almost entirely” hedge: [at_a_glance] at line 436 asserts “Everything else rests on animal and laboratory work”, whereas the ER Conclusion (line 459) hedges as “a research base made up almost entirely of animal and laboratory work”; the absolute form also contradicts the QRS’s own [time_2] human skin-gel entry at line 519.
- 2.15 — Lay phrasing for oral route: [at_a_glance] at line 435 says “Contact with the mouth produces tingling”, using consumer-grade phrasing where both the ER (line 236) and the QRS’s own [time_3_sub] (line 533) use the formal term “oral contact”.
Fixes 22/09/2026 16:04
- 1.2 — Restored “almost entirely” hedge: Changed [at_a_glance] from “Everything else rests on animal and laboratory work” to “Almost everything else rests on animal and laboratory work”, matching the ER Conclusion’s hedged phrasing.
- 2.15 — Formal term for oral route: Replaced “Contact with the mouth produces tingling” in [at_a_glance] with “Oral contact produces tingling”, aligning with the ER and the QRS’s own [time_3_sub].
Issues 22/09/2026 15:59
- 4.2 / 4.3 — Protocol labels not ER labels: The Protocol cell labels “Daily Dose” (line 450), “Timing” (line 464), and “Dose Splitting” (line 478) are invented or abbreviated instead of the ER’s bold bullet labels “Traditional whole-root approach”, “Timing within the day”, and “Half-life and dose splitting” (ER lines 344, 350, 352).
- 1.1 — Time-to-effect claim over-broadened: [time_1_sub] (line 505) reads “Every effect reported in animals required this long”, dropping the ER’s qualifier “systemic” (ER line 390) and thereby contradicting the immediate oral effect shown in the same panel.
Fixes 22/09/2026 15:59
- 4.2 / 4.3 — Protocol labels restored to ER wording: Replaced the invented and abbreviated Protocol cell labels “Daily Dose”, “Timing”, and “Dose Splitting” with the ER’s verbatim bold bullet labels “Traditional whole-root approach”, “Timing within the day”, and “Half-life and dose splitting”; [action_1_sub] was reworded to carry the dosing frequency and the Ayurvedic-practice basis without duplicating the new label.
- 1.1 — Systemic qualifier restored: [time_1_sub] now reads “Every systemic effect reported in animals required this long”, matching the ER’s qualifier and no longer contradicting the immediate oral effect shown in the same panel.