/audit — Citation & Numerical Accuracy Audit

You're about to submit a paper citing a figure you haven't verified against the original source in weeks.

When you need this

• You've been editing a document and want to confirm every number still matches its cited source
• A collaborator added citations you haven't personally verified
• You're about to print, submit, or present anything with cited numerical values

What it does — and what it won't

/audit scans every citation and numerical value in your document, then grep-searches the source .txt files on disk to confirm each number appears on the page you cited. It reports VERIFIED, MISMATCH (with what the paper actually says), or NOT ON DISK. It does not produce a pass/fail verdict — you decide what to fix based on the findings.

Unlike /review, which evaluates the quality of an argument, /audit focuses solely on numerical accuracy — whether the figures match their sources.

Prerequisite: Run /readable on your source PDFs first to generate the .txt files /audit searches. If a paper shows NOT ON DISK, that's your signal to run /readable on it before re-auditing.

Worked example

Maya is submitting her dissertation chapter on childhood vaccine coverage disparities. She's cited seven WHO and CDC reports with specific cost-per-DALY figures.

/audit "dissertation/chapters/chapter2_costs.qmd"

/audit finds 12 citations and 9 numerical values. It returns: 8 VERIFIED with line numbers, 1 MISMATCH (her draft says "$340" but the paper says "$310 at 2020 prices"), and 1 NOT ON DISK (she needs to run /readable on that PDF first). She fixes the mismatch before submission. Left uncaught, a committee member would likely flag it during defense review — triggering a revision request that delays the whole timeline.

Try it

/audit your_document.qmd
/audit your_document.qmd --sources papers/