Manuscript Provenance Audit

Pipeline position: Phase 2a (grounding audit). Runs in parallel with manuscript-typography. Depends on: content settled after Phase 1 fixes. Produces macro manifest consumed by manuscript-review Pass 13 (Cross-Element Coherence).

Purpose

Verify that a manuscript is a faithful rendering of computational outputs. Every number, table, figure, category label, ordering, and threshold in the document must trace to a specific script, config file, or pipeline output. Manual data entry in a manuscript is a reproducibility defect.

This skill produces a provenance map — a structured report linking each manuscript artifact to its generating code — and flags every break in the chain.

Companion skill: manuscript-review audits the document as prose (structure, argumentation, citations). This skill audits whether the document content is computationally grounded. Run both for complete pre-publication coverage.