Audit: QRS - L-Tryptophan for Health & Longevity
Audit conducted on 10/23/2026 02:34 using AI4L / Opus 5.5
Summary
| Items | Count |
|---|---|
| Total | 94 |
| Passed | 85 |
| 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. | 🟢 | Lede, Protocol, Time to effect, gates, tiers, markers and cadence all trace to ER passages (Conclusion, Therapeutic Protocol, Practical Considerations, Key Interactions, Monitoring). |
| 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. | 🟢 | ER hedges kept: “(theoretical)” on interactions, “No established target”, “use usually stopped”, “lingering uncertainty” in the lede. |
| 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 found; pregnancy kept as “except under medical supervision”, benefits for long life “unproven”. |
| 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, interactions, benefits and risks each come from their own ER sections. |
| 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, NCT IDs, expert or brand names appear on the sheet. |
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. | 🟢 | Measured, evidence-weighted tone matches the ER. |
| 2.2 | The tone of the QRS is expert, accessible, objective, and data-driven | 🟢 | |
| 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” | 🟢 | “label advises after food” reports the label, not the sheet’s own advice. |
| 2.6 | The QRS never addresses the reader directly — it presents evidence, not guidance | 🟢 | No second-person address. |
| 2.7 | The QRS is written in plain language, avoiding unnecessary medical jargon | 🟢 | Technical terms (MAOIs, SNRIs, EMS, CBC, ALT/AST) are ER labels or marker names carried verbatim. |
| 2.8 | Information is presented in a concise and very compact manner | 🟢 | |
| 2.9 | 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. | 🟢 | |
| 2.10 | The target audience is willing to employ lifestyle and behavioral changes as well as follow protocols that may be inconvenient, costly, or require effort. | 🟢 | |
| 2.11 | 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. | 🟢 | |
| 2.12 | 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. | 🟢 | |
| 2.13 | 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” wording. |
| 2.14 | 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. | 🟢 | “oral supplement” in lede; no colloquial route or event terms. |
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 column headers unchanged. |
| 3.2 | Every element carrying a data-qrs-var attribute in [qrs_template] is present in the QRS with the same name | 🟢 | All template variables present; marker_# and qualitative_item_# expanded to numbered names per 14.2/15.2. |
| 3.3 | Everything outside the data-qrs-var spans — markup, text, styles, comments — is as in the template; spans that no checklist item addresses are left unchanged as well | 🟢 | Diff against template shows changes only inside data-qrs-var spans and the metadata block (workflow keys duration, git_user, git_issue). |
4. Formatting
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.1 | An empty ER section never produces visible empty-state text in the QRS: the corresponding region is hidden or left empty. Phrases such as “None documented in human trials to date” or “Not formally studied” appear only where the ER uses them for a fact the QRS carries over. | 🟢 | No empty-state text; empty High tiers hidden; “Not specified in the ER” used as 14.3 requires. |
| 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 labels (Sleep, Premenstrual dysphoric disorder, With or without food) and interaction labels use ER bold labels, with only glosses/examples trimmed. |
| 4.3 | Labels are not paraphrased, abbreviated, or invented. | 🟢 | Labels trimmed, not paraphrased; kept words are the ER’s own. |
| 4.4 | The QRS DOES NOT use emoji indicators (no 🟩, 🟥, 🟨, etc.). Color and emphasis are conveyed through CSS and bold labels. | 🟢 | No emoji indicators. |
| 4.5 | The QRS is designed to render on one A4 page. It fails this item only for one of four things: a trailing clause after a dash, an optional gloss, an example list left untrimmed, or a repetition. Nothing else is cut to fit. | 🟢 | No trailing dash clauses, untrimmed example lists, optional glosses or repetitions found. |
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. | 🟢 | duration is quoted because it contains a colon. |
| 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]” | 🟢 | 26.10.22 matches 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) | 🟢 | 2026-1023-0225 |
| 5.8 | The nickname of the AI used to create the document is stated as “qrs_creator_ai_nickname: [qrs_creator_ai_nickname]” | 🟢 | Opus |
| 5.9 | The nickname of the AI is the full name without the version number, with all remaining words joined by hyphens (e.g., Opus, Sonnet, Grok, Gemini-Flash, GPT); when the full name has no version number or is “Unknown”, the nickname equals the full name | 🟢 | |
| 5.10 | The full name of the AI used to create the document is stated as “qrs_creator_ai_fullname: [qrs_creator_ai_fullname]” | 🟢 | Opus 5.5 |
| 5.11 | The full name of the AI consists of the model name (the word or words directly before the version number, leaving out the first if there is more than one, e.g., Claude Opus 5.5 → Opus 5.5), the model version number and the variant (if any) as stated in the system prompt or developer instructions of the creating model, with every word capitalized and without product, effort or pricing names (e.g., Opus X.Y, Sonnet X.Y, Grok X.Y, Gemini X.Y Flash, GPT X.Y), the model name alone when the system prompt or developer instructions name a model without a version number (e.g., Grok), or “Unknown” when neither the system prompt nor the developer instructions of the creating model name a model | 🟢 | |
| 5.12 | The filename of the document is stated as “qrs_filename: [filename of this document]” | 🟢 |
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 &) |
🟢 | “L-Tryptophan 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 (e.g., & for &) |
🟢 | |
| 6.3 | [header_subline_date] is set to [qrs_creation_date reformatted as MM/DD/YYYY] | 🟢 | 10/23/2026 |
| 6.4 | [header_subline_model] is set to [qrs_creator_ai_fullname] | 🟢 | Opus 5.5 |
| 6.5 | No additional header content appears: no badge, version stamp, AKA / alternate names line, source-AI attribution, audit date, or QRS variant marker. | 🟢 |
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 | 🟢 | Opens “L-tryptophan, a protein building block from everyday foods sold as an oral supplement mainly for sleep and mood”. |
| 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 | 🟢 | 67 words. |
| 7.4 | Every fact in [at_a_glance] is supported by a distinct passage in the ER. | 🟢 | Each fact matches the ER Motivation/Conclusion. |
| 7.5 | It DOES NOT use acronyms or technical classifications that require specialist knowledge, uses plain-language terms instead | 🟢 | No acronyms or specialist terms. |
| 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 five ER populations listed. |
| 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. | 🟢 | “Children” drops the ER’s trailing rationale; no dash 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 (shortened or trimmed where needed to fit the one-page budget, but never dropped entirely). | 🟢 | EMS threshold and “except under medical supervision” kept. |
| 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 uses no ranking notation. |
| 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. |
🟢 | Section populated; ER names five populations. |
| 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 not empty. |
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 14 non-MAOI interactions listed; MAOIs sit in Contraindications only. |
| 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. | 🟢 | Each item reduced to label plus severity class. |
| 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). | 🟢 | Example drugs and “(theoretical)” qualifiers kept. |
| 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 uses no ranking notation. |
| 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. |
🟢 | Section populated. |
| 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 not empty. |
10. Protocol
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10.1 | The section is derived from the ER Therapeutic Protocol section |
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| 10.2 | The three sets of [action] items cover the three most important actionable implementation aspects from that section | 🟢 | Sleep dose, PMDD regimen and food timing. |
| 10.3 | If fewer than three distinct actionable implementation aspects are mentioned in the ER, the unused sets are left empty and hidden with style="display:none", not filled with placeholder text or empty-state phrasing. |
N/A | The ER gives more than three aspects. |
| 10.4 | All used [action_#label], [action#value], [action#_sub] items are filled with meaningful content derived from that section. | 🟢 |
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 | 🟢 | Uses the three ER time-to-effect statements (Practical Considerations). |
| 11.2 | The sets are picked and ordered by the magnitude of the related benefit | 🟢 | Sleep (Medium benefit) first, then the two Low-tier mood-related effects. |
| 11.3 | If fewer than three distinct time-to-effect aspects are mentioned in the ER, the unused sets are left empty and hidden with style="display:none", not filled with placeholder text or empty-state phrasing. |
N/A | ER gives three aspects. |
| 11.4 | All used [time_#label], [time#value], [time#_sub] items are filled with meaningful content derived from the ER. | 🟢 | |
| 11.5 | If the ER provides no information on time to effect at all, the whole Time to effect block (its subhead and all three sets) is hidden with style="display:none", not removed: its spans stay in place, empty. |
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 |
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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. | 🟢 | Items match the ER benefit headings, with no figures or qualifiers added. |
| 12.4 | Parenthetical content — including effect sizes, sample notes, mechanistic hints, and example studies — is stripped, NOT preserved. | 🟢 | No parentheticals. |
| 12.5 | If a tier (high, medium, low, speculative) has no items, its span is hidden with style="display:none", not filled with “None documented in human trials to date” or similar empty-state phrasing. |
🟢 | Empty High tier hidden with display:none. |
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. | 🟢 | Items match the ER risk headings. |
| 13.4 | Parenthetical content — including frequencies, severity grades, sample notes, mechanistic hints, and example studies — is stripped, NOT preserved. | 🟢 | No parentheticals. |
| 13.5 | If a tier (high, medium, low, speculative) has no items, its span is hidden with style="display:none", not filled with “None documented in human trials to date” or similar empty-state phrasing. |
🟢 | Empty High tier hidden with display:none. |
14. Monitoring
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14.1 | The section is derived from the ER Monitoring Protocol & Defining Success section |
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| 14.2 | All measurable/quantifiable biomarkers from that section are listed, one table row per marker; the template’s # row is the pattern, repeated with # replaced by 1, 2, 3 … in the data-qrs-var names |
🟢 | Eosinophils, ALT/AST, plasma tryptophan, kynurenine-to-tryptophan ratio, C-reactive protein. |
| 14.3 | [marker_#name] is the marker, [marker#target] its target value or range as given in the ER, [marker#_why] its purpose in a few words; a target the ER does not give is written “Not specified in the ER” | 🟢 | CRP target written “Not specified in the ER”. |
| 14.4 | [monitoring_cadence] is populated with the monitoring cadence/frequency derived from that section. It is not left with placeholder text or empty. | 🟢 | |
| 14.5 | If the ER names no measurable biomarker, the table is hidden with style="display:none" and the single # row is left as in the template |
N/A | ER names measurable biomarkers. |
15. Qualitative Assessment
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15.1 | The section is derived from the ER Monitoring Protocol & Defining Success section |
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| 15.2 | All subjective/qualitative markers from that section are listed, one <li> per marker; the template’s # item is the pattern, repeated with # replaced by 1, 2, 3 … |
🟢 | All six ER qualitative markers listed. |
| 15.3 | If the ER names no qualitative marker, the card’s list is hidden with style="display:none" and the single # item is left as in the template |
N/A | ER names qualitative markers. |
Issues 10/23/2026 02:34
Pass rate 100.00%. No issues found.
Issues 10/23/2026 02:30
- 4.5 — Time-to-effect subs repeat labels: time_2_sub “Add-on effect with an antidepressant” (line 498) restates the label “Antidepressant add-on”, and time_3_sub “Shifts in emotional processing” (line 509) restates the label “Emotional processing”.
Fixes 10/23/2026 02:30
- 4.5 — Time-to-effect subs repeat labels: Changed time_2_sub from “Add-on effect with an antidepressant” to “In a trial with fluoxetine” and time_3_sub from “Shifts in emotional processing” to “Positive shifts in women, not men”, both per the ER.
Issues 10/23/2026 02:28
- 14.2 — C-reactive protein row missing: The ER monitoring table (ER line 415) names C-reactive protein as a marker to pair with the kynurenine-to-tryptophan ratio, but the QRS Monitoring table (lines 604–647) has no row for it.
Fixes 10/23/2026 02:28
- 14.2 — C-reactive protein row added: Added a fifth Monitoring row (marker_5) for C-reactive protein with target “Not specified in the ER” and why “Inflammation context for the kynurenine-to-tryptophan ratio”.