Audit: QRS - Policosanol for Health & Longevity
Audit conducted on 11/06/2026 15:22 using AI4L / Opus 5.5
Summary
| Items | Count |
|---|---|
| Total | 97 |
| Passed | 87 |
| Failed | 0 |
| N/A | 10 |
| 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 text (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. | 🟢 | Hedges kept on carrier surfaces: “Cuban trials” on dose and time cells, “independent trials found no LDL-C reduction” on time_3_sub, “possible …” on theoretical interactions. |
| 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 claim strengthened or softened; contraindications and interaction consequences carry ER wording. |
| 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 from “Populations who should avoid”, interactions from the documented/theoretical lists, tiers from Expected Benefits / Potential Risks; no modifying factor relabeled. |
| 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, citations, NCT IDs, expert or brand names in the QRS. |
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. | 🟢 | Follows the ER’s provenance-aware, cautious framing (developer vs. independent trials). |
| 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” | 🟢 | Lede presents outcomes (“leaves high cholesterol untreated; alongside it, a low-risk add-on”) rather than advising. |
| 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 (P2Y12 inhibitor, intermittent claudication, LDL-C) are parts of ER labels 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. | 🟢 | Lede weighs replacement vs. add-on use, matching the ER Conclusion’s framing for health-focused adults. |
| 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. | 🟢 | No colloquial terms (pill, by mouth, shot, bad reaction). |
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 | 🟢 | Every template data-qrs-var present; marker_# and qualitative_item_# expanded to 1..n. |
| 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, the permitted display:none attributes, and the metadata block. |
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. | 🟢 | Empty tiers (benefits High, risks High/Speculative) hidden; no empty-state text. |
| 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 (“Standard dose (Cuban trials)”, “Time of day”, “Claudication protocol”) and interaction labels taken from ER bold labels. |
| 4.3 | Labels are not paraphrased, abbreviated, or invented. | 🟢 | Labels only trimmed (example names and glosses dropped, at least one example kept), not paraphrased. |
| 4.4 | The QRS DOES NOT use emoji indicators (no 🟩, 🟥, 🟨, etc.). Color and emphasis are conveyed through CSS and bold labels. | 🟢 | No emoji in the QRS. |
| 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 dash trailing clauses; long example lists trimmed; glosses removed from labels. |
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 is quoted (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]” | 🟢 | 26.10.25 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) | 🟢 | 2026-1106-1510 |
| 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 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 | 🟢 | 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]” | 🟢 | |
| 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 | 🟢 | Opus 5.5 |
| 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 &) |
🟢 | “Policosanol 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] | 🟢 | 11/06/2026 |
| 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. | 🟢 |
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 “Policosanol, an inexpensive dietary supplement of waxy alcohols from sugarcane, is promoted as a natural way to lower cholesterol.” |
| 7.2 | [at_a_glance] is dense, execution-oriented summary of the ER Conclusion section |
🟢 | Condenses all Conclusion paragraphs into source split, safety and replacement-vs-add-on use. |
| 7.3 | [at_a_glance] is no longer than 70 words | 🟢 | 69 words. |
| 7.4 | Every fact in [at_a_glance] is supported by a distinct passage in the ER. | 🟢 | Each sentence maps to a Conclusion passage. |
| 7.5 | It DOES NOT use acronyms or technical classifications that require specialist knowledge, uses plain-language terms instead | 🟢 | No acronyms; “placebo” glossed as “inactive placebo”. |
| 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 |
🟢 | |
| 8.2 | [stop_items] represent the Contraindications from the ER | 🟢 | All four “Populations who should avoid Policosanol” items. |
| 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. | 🟢 | Bold labels only; rationale and citations 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). | 🟢 | “within 7 days” and “LDL-C ≥190 mg/dL” preserved. |
| 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 populations to avoid. |
| 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 |
🟢 | |
| 9.2 | [caution_items] represent the ER’s documented interactions — the items under its “Documented interactions:” label — excluding any that are already listed as Contraindications and any entry phrased as no interaction found | 🟢 | Aspirin, clopidogrel with aspirin, beta-blockers, omega-3 included; warfarin, statins and fenofibrate (no interaction found) excluded. |
| 9.3 | [caution_theoretical_items] represent the ER’s theoretical interactions — the items under its “Theoretical interactions (inferred from mechanism, not studied in humans):” label | 🟢 | All six theoretical items present. |
| 9.4 | The ER placeholder “None identified” is never an item: it means that group is empty | 🟢 | |
| 9.5 | Individual [caution_items] and [caution_theoretical_items] are formatted as <li></li>. The template’s bold “Theoretical (inferred from mechanism)” sub-heading is the only marker of the second list’s status: no item carries “(theoretical)”, “inferred from” or a mechanism clause | 🟢 | No “inferred from” or “(theoretical)” on items. |
| 9.6 | 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. | 🟢 | Label plus consequence only; mitigations and study details stripped. |
| 9.7 | 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). | 🟢 | At least one example kept per class (e.g., apixaban, enoxaparin, metformin, insulin). |
| 9.8 | 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. |
| 9.9 | If the ER’s theoretical group is empty, the whole Theoretical block — the caution_theoretical span with its sub-heading and list — is hidden with style="display:none", not removed: its spans stay in place, empty. |
N/A | Theoretical group not empty. |
| 9.10 | 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. |
| 9.11 | 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, and the Theoretical block is hidden per 9.9. E.g. | N/A | Section not empty. |
10. Protocol
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10.1 | The section is derived from the ER Therapeutic Protocol section |
🟢 | |
| 10.2 | The three sets of [action] items cover the three most important actionable implementation aspects from that section | 🟢 | Standard dose, time of day, claudication protocol. |
| 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 | Three aspects available. |
| 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 | 🟢 | Walking distance, blood pressure, LDL-C, from Practical Considerations. |
| 11.2 | The sets are picked and ordered by the magnitude of the related benefit | 🟢 | Medium walking (largest magnitude), Medium blood pressure, then Low LDL-C. |
| 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 time-to-effect 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 data. |
12. Benefits
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12.1 | The section is derived from the ER Expected Benefits section |
🟢 | |
| 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. | 🟢 | Bare headings; “Slightly” qualifier dropped from glucose; Conflicted flags stripped. |
| 12.4 | Parenthetical content — including effect sizes, sample notes, mechanistic hints, and example studies — is stripped, NOT preserved. | 🟢 | |
| 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. |
🟢 | benefits_high hidden with style=”display:none”. |
13. Risks
| # | Description | Result | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13.1 | The section is derived from the ER Potential Risks & Side Effects section |
🟢 | |
| 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. | 🟢 | |
| 13.4 | Parenthetical content — including frequencies, severity grades, sample notes, mechanistic hints, and example studies — is stripped, NOT preserved. | 🟢 | |
| 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. |
🟢 | risks_high and risks_speculative hidden. |
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 |
🟢 | LDL-C, HDL-C, triglycerides, blood pressure, ALT, AST, INR; one row each. |
| 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” | 🟢 | ER targets carried; triglycerides and AST marked “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. | 🟢 | Baseline and follow-up intervals from the section’s prose. |
| 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 |
🟢 | |
| 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 four qualitative markers present. |
| 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 11/06/2026 15:22
Pass rate 100.00%. No issues found.
Issues 11/06/2026 15:18
- 12.3 — Magnitude qualifier in benefit: The Medium benefit at line 531 keeps “slightly” in “slightly lower fasting glucose”; the tier carries strength, and effect-size qualifiers are to be stripped.
Fixes 11/06/2026 15:18
- 12.3 — Magnitude qualifier removed: Changed the Medium benefit “slightly lower fasting glucose” to “lower fasting glucose” in benefits_medium.
Issues 11/06/2026 15:13
- 4.5 — Example lists left untrimmed: The theoretical interactions at lines 572-577 carry the full ER example lists, e.g. “(apixaban, rivaroxaban, dabigatran) and heparins (heparin, enoxaparin)”, “(Ginkgo biloba, garlic extract, high-dose vitamin E, pine bark extract)” and “(metformin, sulfonylureas such as glipizide, insulin)”, instead of trimming them for the one-page budget.
Fixes 11/06/2026 15:13
- 4.5 — Trimmed theoretical example lists: Shortened the theoretical-interaction example lists to the ER’s own words, e.g. “(apixaban, rivaroxaban, dabigatran) and heparins (heparin, enoxaparin)” to “(apixaban) and heparins (enoxaparin)”, blood pressure drugs to “(lisinopril, amlodipine)”, platelet-active supplements to “(Ginkgo biloba, garlic extract)” and glucose-lowering drugs to “(metformin, insulin)”.