Audit: QRS - Goldenseal for Health & Longevity
Audit conducted on 26/07/2026 06:32 using AI4L / Opus 4.8
Summary
| Items | Count |
|---|---|
| Total | 91 |
| Passed | 82 |
| 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. | 🟢 | Protocol, time-to-effect, benefits, risks, contraindications, interactions, and monitoring targets all trace to ER content. |
| 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. | 🟢 | At-a-glance preserves “unlikely” and “weak evidence”; speculative tiers retained. |
| 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”). | 🟢 | Pregnancy/nursing/infant contraindications kept absolute; no strengthening/softening. |
| 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. | 🟢 | Interactions and contraindications drawn from the matching ER section; no cross-category relabeling. |
| 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. | 🟢 | QRS contains no citations, NCT IDs, expert names, or brands. |
| 1.6 | The QRS does not introduce new attributions. | 🟢 | No attributions introduced. |
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. | 🟢 | Cautious, evidence-first tone mirrors the ER. |
| 2.2 | The tone of the QRS is simultaneously expert, accessible, objective, and data-driven, but also empowering and encouraging | 🟢 | Balanced, informative framing consistent with the ER. |
| 2.3 | The QRS reads as a trusted, knowledgeable guide rather than a prescriptive doctor | 🟢 | Presents evidence; not prescriptive. |
| 2.4 | The QRS avoids language that implies medical or clinical advice | 🟢 | Information-presenting voice; footer carries the fixed disclaimer. |
| 2.5 | The QRS “presents information” instead of “providing guidance”, “recommending”, or “advising” | 🟢 | No recommending/advising verbs in authored content. |
| 2.6 | The QRS never addresses “the reader” directly — it presents evidence, not guidance | 🟢 | No second-person address in authored content. |
| 2.7 | The QRS is written in plain language, avoiding unnecessary medical jargon | 🟢 | Technical terms are plain-language or contextually clear. |
| 2.8 | Information is presented in a concise and very compact manner | 🟢 | Compact bullet/cell format throughout. |
| 2.9 | It DOES NOT address the reader directly | 🟢 | No direct reader address. |
| 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. | 🟢 | Framing suits a proactive, risk-aware audience. |
| 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. | 🟢 | Protocol/sourcing framing assumes an effort-willing audience. |
| 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. | 🟢 | Not written for the general population. |
| 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. | 🟢 | Longevity-oriented risk/benefit weighting preserved. |
| 2.14 | The document’s own voice frames usage in longevity terms, not “anti-aging”. Proper names that contain “anti-aging” are quoted verbatim. | 🟢 | No “anti-aging” language present. |
| 2.15 | The document’s own voice uses formal clinical and scientific terminology, not colloquial or consumer-grade language. Direct quotes from sources are exempt. | 🟢 | Formal terminology; wording mirrors the ER. |
3. Template Integrity
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | The following labels and headings on the QRS are fixed and not modified: Card/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 and labels intact. |
| 3.2 | All “…” from the [qrs_template] are present in the the QRS. | 🟢 | All expected data-qrs-var spans present. |
| 3.3 | Spans that are not addressed in a checklist item are left unchanged | 🟢 | Untouched spans left unchanged. |
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 in a way requiring empty-state phrasing; absent benefit tiers are handled via display:none per 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. | 🟢 | Tier and monitoring labels used verbatim. |
| 4.3 | Labels are not paraphrased, abbreviated, or invented. | 🟢 | No paraphrased or invented labels. |
| 4.4 | The QRS DOES NOT use emoji indicators (no 🟩, 🟥, 🟨, etc.). Color and emphasis are conveyed through CSS and bold labels. | 🟢 | No emoji indicators; color via CSS. |
| 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. | 🟢 | Content condensed to a single 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. | 🟢 | Metadata comment is first element (lines 2–14). |
| 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. | 🟢 | YAML delimited by — (lines 3 and 13). |
| 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 HTML comment; not rendered. |
| 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. | 🟢 | Values trimmed; duration quoted (contains colon). |
| 5.5 | The filename of the source ER is stated as “er_filename: [er_filename]” | 🟢 | er_filename: goldenseal_2026-0726-0432_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: 26.7.02. |
| 5.7 | Creation date and time of the document is stated as “qrs_creation_date: [YYYY-MMDD-HHMM]” | 🟢 | qrs_creation_date: 2026-0726-0620. |
| 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. | 🟢 | Single word “Opus”. |
| 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 4.8. |
| 5.11 | The full name of the AI consists of the [qrs_creator_ai_nickname] and the model version number and no additional qualifier | 🟢 | “Opus 4.8” — nickname + version only. |
| 5.12 | The filename of the document is stated as “qrs_filename: [filename of this document]” | 🟢 | qrs_filename: goldenseal_2026-0726-0432_Opus_QRS.html. |
| 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. | 🟢 | Values clean and correctly quoted. |
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”. The [canonical_topic] is HTML-entity-encoded as needed. | 🟢 | “Goldenseal for Health & Longevity - Quick Reference Sheet”. |
| 6.2 | [header_topic] is set to the [canonical_topic] of the ER frontmatter, with HTML entities encoded as needed. | 🟢 | “Goldenseal for Health & Longevity”. |
| 6.3 | [header_subline_date] is set to [qrs_creation_date reformatted as MM/DD/YYYY] | 🟢 | 07/26/2026 from 2026-0726. |
| 6.4 | [header_subline_model] is set to [qrs_creator_ai_fullname] | 🟢 | “Opus 4.8”. |
| 6.5 | No additional header content appears: no badge, version stamp, AKA / alternate names line, source-AI attribution, audit date, or QRS variant marker. | 🟢 | Only standard subline content present. |
7. At-A-Glance Section
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.1 | [at_a_glance] is dense, execution-oriented summary of the ER Conclusion section |
🟢 | Distills the ER Conclusion into a compact summary. |
| 7.2 | [at_a_glance] is no longer than 60 words | 🟢 | Approximately 51 words. |
| 7.3 | Every fact in [at_a_glance] is supported by a distinct passage in the ER. | 🟢 | Poor absorption, local benefits, drug clearance, contamination all traced to the Conclusion. |
| 7.4 | It DOES NOT use acronyms or technical classifications that require specialist knowledge, uses plain-language terms instead | 🟢 | Plain language; “natural antibiotic” quoted. |
| 7.5 | It DOES NOT cite specific trials (names, years, sample sizes, p-values) | 🟢 | No trial citations. |
| 7.6 | It DOES NOT cite effect sizes, relative risks, or statistical results | 🟢 | No effect sizes or statistics. |
8. Contraindications
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.1 | The section is derived from the ER Key Interactions & Contraindications section |
🟢 | Drawn from the “Populations who should avoid” bullet. |
| 8.2 | [stop_items] represent the Contraindications from the ER | 🟢 | Pregnancy, nursing/neonates/infants, liver disease, narrow-margin meds all represented. |
| 8.3 | Individual [stop_items] are formatted as <li></li> | 🟢 | Four <li> items. |
| 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. | 🟢 | Mechanistic parentheticals stripped; no trailing clauses. |
| 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. | 🟢 | No time-window/severity/threshold qualifiers to preserve. |
| 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. | N/A | ER contraindications use no ranking notation. |
| 8.7 | If no [stop_items] are present the section is left empty | N/A | [stop_items] are present. |
9. Key Interactions
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.1 | The section is derived from the ER Key Interactions & Contraindications section |
🟢 | Drawn from the ER interaction bullets. |
| 9.2 | [caution_items] represent the Key Interactions from the ER, excluding any that are already listed as Contraindications | 🟢 | CYP3A4, CYP2D6, metformin, OTC, additive supplements, enzyme-modifying botanicals represented; the digoxin null-finding (ER: no meaningful change) is appropriately omitted. |
| 9.3 | Individual [caution_items] are formatted as <li></li> | 🟢 | Six <li> items. |
| 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. | 🟢 | Concise; no trailing clauses. |
| 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. | 🟢 | Example drug lists preserved (statins condensed from simvastatin/lovastatin). |
| 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. | N/A | ER interactions use no ranking notation. |
| 9.7 | If no [caution_items] are present the section is left empty | N/A | [caution_items] are present. |
10. Protocol
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10.1 | The section is derived from the ER Protocol section |
🟢 | Dose/frequency/timing from the ER Therapeutic Protocol. |
| 10.2 | The three sets of [action] items cover the three most important actionable implementation aspects from the ER Protocol section |
🟢 | Dose, Frequency, Timing. |
| 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 | Three actionable aspects present. |
| 10.4 | All used [action_#label], [action#value], [action#_sub] items are filled with meaningful content derived from the ER Protocol section. |
🟢 | All action cells populated from the ER. |
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 | 🟢 | Local relief, loading period, systemic benefit. |
| 11.2 | The sets are picked and ordered by the magnitude of the related benefit | 🟢 | Ordered local (highest) → loading → systemic. |
| 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 aspects present. |
| 11.4 | All used [time_#label], [time#value], [time#_sub] items are filled with meaningful content derived from the ER. | 🟢 | All time cells populated from ER Practical Considerations. |
| 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 | ER provides time-to-effect information. |
12. Benefits
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12.1 | The section is derived from the ER Expected Benefits section |
🟢 | Low and Speculative tiers from Expected Benefits. |
| 12.2 | Key variables are [benefits_high], [benefits_medium], [benefits_low], [benefits_speculative] | 🟢 | All four variables 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. | 🟢 | Condensed to benefit headings. |
| 12.4 | Parenthetical content — including effect sizes, sample notes, mechanistic hints, and example studies — is stripped, NOT preserved. | 🟢 | “(via Berberine)” stripped. |
| 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 correctly set to display:none (no such tiers in ER). |
13. Risks
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13.1 | The section is derived from the ER Potential Risks & Side Effects section |
🟢 | All four tiers from Potential Risks. |
| 13.2 | Key variables are [risks_high], [risks_medium], [risks_low], [risks_speculative] | 🟢 | All four variables 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. | 🟢 | Condensed to risk headings. |
| 13.4 | Parenthetical content — including frequencies, severity grades, sample notes, mechanistic hints, and example studies — is stripped, NOT preserved. | 🟢 | “(Enzyme Inhibition)” stripped from High. |
| 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 contain items; no empty subsection. |
14. Monitoring
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14.1 | The section is derived from the ER Monitoring section |
🟢 | Biomarker table from the ER Monitoring Protocol. |
| 14.2 | All measurable/quantifiable biomarkers from the Monitoring section are listed |
🟢 | ALT/AST, bilirubin, fasting glucose, lipid panel, interacting-drug levels — all five listed. |
| 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. |
🟢 | Cadence populated from ER (short course, 4–8 weeks, 6–12 months). |
15. Qualitative Assessment
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15.1 | The section is derived from the ER Monitoring section |
🟢 | From the qualitative markers in the Monitoring Protocol. |
| 15.2 | All subjective/qualitative biomarkers from the Monitoring section are listed |
🟢 | All four qualitative markers listed. |
Issues 26/07/2026 06:32
Pass rate 100.00%. No issues found.
Issues 26/07/2026 06:26
- 13.3 / 13.4 — Mechanistic hint retained in risks_high: [risks_high] (line 567) reads “Herb–drug interactions from enzyme inhibition”; the ER heading’s parenthetical “(Enzyme Inhibition)” (line 204) is a mechanistic hint that must be stripped, not reworded and preserved.
Fixes 26/07/2026 06:26
- 13.3 / 13.4 — Mechanistic hint retained in risks_high: Changed [risks_high] from “Herb–drug interactions from enzyme inhibition” to “Herb–drug interactions”, stripping the mechanistic hint carried over from the ER heading’s “(Enzyme Inhibition)” parenthetical.