Audit: QRS - Avoiding Carrageenan for Health & Longevity
Audit conducted on 20/09/2026 01:32 using AI4L / Opus 5
Summary
| Items | Count |
|---|---|
| Total | 93 |
| Passed | 84 |
| Failed | 0 |
| N/A | 9 |
| 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 populated span against the ER; all supported (e.g. action_1 vs ER Therapeutic Protocol “Standard elimination protocol”, marker rows vs the ER biomarker table). |
| 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. | 🟢 | Cautious framing carried: “lean healthy adults showed no change” (at_a_glance), marker_8_target “No established target: track the direction of change…”. |
| 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”). | 🟢 | No strengthening or softening detected; tier assignments match the ER exactly. |
| 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. | 🟢 | Benefits, risks, contraindications and interactions each map back to the matching ER section; no Benefit- or Risk-Modifying Factor is surfaced as a gate. |
| 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. | 🟢 | Only brand names present are Carragelose and Coldamaris, both named in the ER for the same fact; no PMIDs, NCT IDs or author names appear. |
| 1.6 | The QRS does not introduce new attributions. | 🟢 | No attributions on the sheet; the ER’s “University of Illinois Chicago group” attribution was dropped rather than reworded. |
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. | 🟢 | Matches the ER’s measured, contested-evidence register. |
| 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 | 🟢 | No second-person pronouns anywhere in the populated spans. |
| 2.7 | The QRS is written in plain language, avoiding unnecessary medical jargon | 🟢 | Technical terms are limited to biomarker names, which are unavoidable. |
| 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. | 🟢 | at_a_glance states the benefit is confined to those already metabolically or intestinally affected, matching the ER. |
| 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. |
| 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. | 🟢 | No colloquial route-of-administration or consumer-grade substitutions; “blood sugar” phrasing in at_a_glance mirrors the ER Conclusion wording. |
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, gate headings, tier labels and table column headers are byte-identical to the template. |
| 3.2 | All “…” from the [qrs_template] are present in the the QRS. | 🟢 | All 34 template span names present; marker_#* and qualitative_item# expanded to marker_1-8 and qualitative_item_1-6. |
| 3.3 | Spans that are not addressed in a checklist item are left unchanged | 🟢 | Diff against the template shows changes only inside data-qrs-var spans and the title; the website=”…” spans, CSS and footer are untouched. |
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 | No source ER section is empty. The ER Expected Benefits High tier carries explanatory prose rather than an empty-state phrase, and is handled under 12.5. |
| 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. | 🟢 | caution_items reuse the ER bold labels verbatim (“Prescription liquid and diagnostic preparations”, “Supplements with additive effects”, etc.). |
| 4.3 | Labels are not paraphrased, abbreviated, or invented. | 🟢 | Protocol labels match the ER bullet labels verbatim; time labels are drawn from the ER Practical Considerations “Time to effect” bullet. |
| 4.4 | The QRS DOES NOT use emoji indicators (no 🟩, 🟥, 🟨, etc.). Color and emphasis are conveyed through CSS and bold labels. | 🟢 | No emoji characters in the file. |
| 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. | 🟢 | Every section is condensed relative to the ER (magnitudes, mechanisms, attributions and citations all stripped); the element counts that drive length are those mandated by 8.5, 9.5, 14.2 and 15.2. |
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. | 🟢 | Comment block occupies lines 2-14, immediately after <!doctype html>. |
| 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. | 🟢 | Opening “—” on line 3, closing “—” on line 13; the descriptive line before it is not parsed. |
| 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. | 🟢 | Inside an HTML comment; no element repeats the values 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: "00:03" is quoted, which is required because the value contains a colon. |
| 5.5 | The filename of the source ER is stated as “er_filename: [er_filename]” | 🟢 | er_filename: avoiding_carrageenan_2026-0920-0004_Opus_ER.md |
| 5.6 | Version of the QRS.md file used to create the document is stated as “qrs_prompt_version: [Version of QRS.md]” | 🟢 | qrs_prompt_version: 26.9.11, matching the QRS.md version badge. |
| 5.7 | Creation date and time of the document is stated as “qrs_creation_date: [YYYY-MMDD-HHMM]” (e.g., 2026-0501-1430) | 🟢 | qrs_creation_date: 2026-0920-0126 |
| 5.8 | The nickname of the AI used to create the document is stated as “qrs_creator_ai_nickname: [qrs_creator_ai_nickname]” | 🟢 | qrs_creator_ai_nickname: Opus |
| 5.9 | The nickname of the AI is just a single word model name without version, etc. (e.g., Opus, Sonnet, Grok, Gemini, ChatGPT) | 🟢 | Single word, no version. |
| 5.10 | The full name of the AI used to create the document is stated as “qrs_creator_ai_fullname: [qrs_creator_ai_fullname]” | 🟢 | qrs_creator_ai_fullname: Opus 5 |
| 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) | 🟢 | Nickname plus version number, no qualifier. |
| 5.12 | The filename of the document is stated as “qrs_filename: [filename of this document]” | 🟢 | qrs_filename matches the file on disk. |
| 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. | 🟢 | No stray whitespace or unnecessary 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 &) |
🟢 | “Avoiding Carrageenan for Health & Longevity - Quick Reference Sheet”, with & entity-encoded. |
| 6.2 | [header_topic] is set to the [canonical_topic] of the ER frontmatter, with HTML entities encoded as needed (e.g., & for &) |
🟢 | “Avoiding Carrageenan for Health & Longevity”, matching the ER canonical_topic. |
| 6.3 | [header_subline_date] is set to [qrs_creation_date reformatted as MM/DD/YYYY] | 🟢 | 09/20/2026, matching qrs_creation_date 2026-0920. |
| 6.4 | [header_subline_model] is set to [qrs_creator_ai_fullname] | 🟢 | “Opus 5” |
| 6.5 | No additional header content appears: no badge, version stamp, AKA / alternate names line, source-AI attribution, audit date, or QRS variant marker. | 🟢 | Header is identical to the template; no AKA line, badge or audit stamp added. |
7. At-A-Glance Section
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.1 | [at_a_glance] is dense, execution-oriented summary of the ER Conclusion section |
🟢 | Condenses the ER Conclusion: who benefits, who does not, and what removal costs. |
| 7.2 | [at_a_glance] is no longer than 60 words | 🟢 | Exactly 60 words. |
| 7.3 | Every fact in [at_a_glance] is supported by a distinct passage in the ER. | 🟢 | Each clause traces to a distinct Conclusion passage (non-absorption, subgroup benefit, no change in lean adults, the three named costs). |
| 7.4 | It DOES NOT use acronyms or technical classifications that require specialist knowledge, uses plain-language terms instead | 🟢 | No acronyms; “blood sugar handling”, “inflammation markers” and “bowel flares” replace the clinical terms. |
| 7.5 | It DOES NOT cite specific trials (names, years, sample sizes, p-values) | 🟢 | No trial names, years, sample sizes or p-values. |
| 7.6 | It DOES NOT cite effect sizes, relative risks, or statistical results | 🟢 | No hazard ratios, confidence intervals or percentages. |
8. Contraindications
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.1 | The section is derived from the ER Key Interactions & Contraindications section |
🟢 | Taken from the ER “Populations who should avoid Avoiding Carrageenan” list within Key Interactions & Contraindications. |
| 8.2 | [stop_items] represent the Contraindications from the ER | 🟢 | All five ER populations are represented, one per item. |
| 8.3 | Individual [stop_items] are formatted as <li></li> | 🟢 | Five <li> elements inside the stop_items span. |
| 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. | 🟢 | No mechanistic rationale, citations or post-dash trailing clauses; each item is the bare qualifying condition. |
| 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). | 🟢 | Severity and threshold qualifiers preserved: “(International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative Level 3-4)”, “above 5% in six months”, “below 20 kg/m2”, “(anorexia nervosa, avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder)”. |
| 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 in this list, and none was carried through. |
| 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. |
N/A | Section is not empty: five populations are carried from the ER. |
| 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 | Section is not empty. |
9. Key Interactions
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.1 | The section is derived from the ER Key Interactions & Contraindications section |
🟢 | Taken from the ER Key Interactions & Contraindications bullet list. |
| 9.2 | [caution_items] represent the Key Interactions from the ER, excluding any that are already listed as Contraindications | 🟢 | Five of the seven ER interaction bullets appear; “Texture-modified diets” and “Other intervention interactions” are correctly omitted because both already appear as contraindications. |
| 9.3 | Individual [caution_items] are formatted as <li></li> | 🟢 | Five <li> elements inside the caution_items span. |
| 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. | 🟢 | Severity/consequence/mitigation prose from the ER bullets is stripped; only the label plus the named examples 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). | 🟢 | All ER example lists preserved in full (barium sulfate enema solutions and oral suspensions; Carragelose and Coldamaris; the four supplement categories; the five additive-effect supplements). |
| 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 in these bullets. |
| 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. |
N/A | Section is not empty: five interactions are carried from the ER. |
| 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 | Section is not empty. |
10. Protocol
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10.1 | The section is derived from the ER Protocol section |
🟢 | Derived from the ER Therapeutic Protocol section. |
| 10.2 | The three sets of [action] items cover the three most important actionable implementation aspects from the ER Protocol section |
🟢 | Covers duration (12 weeks minimum), scope (carrageenan alone) and consistency (every meal) - the three aspects that determine how the exclusion is actually executed. |
| 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 supplies more than three actionable aspects; all three action sets are used. |
| 10.4 | All used [action_#label], [action#value], [action#_sub] items are filled with meaningful content derived from the ER Protocol section. |
🟢 | All nine action fields carry ER-derived content. |
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 | 🟢 | Glucose regulation, digestive symptoms and total cholesterol are the only three time-to-effect aspects the ER states. |
| 11.2 | The sets are picked and ordered by the magnitude of the related benefit | 🟢 | Ordered Medium (glucose regulation), Medium (digestive symptoms / ulcerative colitis relapse) then Low (total cholesterol), matching the ER benefit tiers. |
| 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 | Three distinct time-to-effect aspects are present; all three time sets are used. |
| 11.4 | All used [time_#label], [time#value], [time#_sub] items are filled with meaningful content derived from the ER. | 🟢 | All nine time fields carry ER-derived content; the sub-lines echo the ER “Time to effect” bullet. |
| 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 data, so the row is correctly retained. |
12. Benefits
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12.1 | The section is derived from the ER Expected Benefits section |
🟢 | Derived from the ER Expected Benefits section. |
| 12.2 | Key variables are [benefits_high], [benefits_medium], [benefits_low], [benefits_speculative] | 🟢 | All four tier spans present. |
| 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 bare benefit statements; no magnitudes, p-values or mechanisms. |
| 12.4 | Parenthetical content — including effect sizes, sample notes, mechanistic hints, and example studies — is stripped, NOT preserved. | 🟢 | No parenthetical content carried over. |
| 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 carries style=”display: none” because the ER states no benefit reaches High; no empty-state phrasing was inserted. |
13. Risks
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13.1 | The section is derived from the ER Potential Risks & Side Effects section |
🟢 | Derived from the ER Potential Risks & Side Effects section. |
| 13.2 | Key variables are [risks_high], [risks_medium], [risks_low], [risks_speculative] | 🟢 | All four tier spans present. |
| 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. | 🟢 | Each tier is a bare risk statement; the ER magnitudes, hazard ratios and sponsorship notes are stripped. |
| 13.4 | Parenthetical content — including frequencies, severity grades, sample notes, mechanistic hints, and example studies — is stripped, NOT preserved. | 🟢 | No parenthetical content carried over. |
| 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. | N/A | All four risk tiers carry items in the ER, so no span needs hiding. |
14. Monitoring
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14.1 | The section is derived from the ER Monitoring section |
🟢 | Derived from the ER Monitoring Protocol & Defining Success section. |
| 14.2 | All measurable/quantifiable biomarkers from the Monitoring section are listed |
🟢 | All eight ER biomarkers listed with targets and rationale verbatim: faecal calprotectin, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, HbA1c, fasting insulin, HOMA-IR, interleukin-6, total and LDL cholesterol, serum zonulin. |
| 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. |
🟢 | Populated with baseline, 12 weeks, every 6-12 months thereafter, plus the 4-week calprotectin repeat, matching the ER paragraph. |
15. Qualitative Assessment
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15.1 | The section is derived from the ER Monitoring section |
🟢 | Derived from the ER Monitoring Protocol & Defining Success qualitative list. |
| 15.2 | All subjective/qualitative biomarkers from the Monitoring section are listed |
🟢 | All six ER qualitative markers listed in ER order. |
Issues 20/09/2026 01:32
Pass rate 100.00%. No issues found.