draft-gate

Draft Gate — consolidated Step-1-close verification skill

Setup note: This is a template skeleton. Replace [Candidate Name], [Candidate First Name] and [Workspace Folder Path]. Build references/sweep-checklist.md from your own Section 7 register as it grows — that file is the only part of this gate that is candidate-specific.

One invocation, four checks, one report. This gate replaces the Step-1-close trio (length-check, watchouts-sweep, matrix-row-traceability) under the V6 structure: matrix rows now live at Matrix_Rows/<ID>.md, and length bands are keyed by channel, overlaying document types.

The gate exists because each check catches a real, recurring pre-delivery failure. Job boards truncate screening answers at their character limit silently. The watch-outs register carries the framework's hardest-earned overclaim discipline — every entry was added after a real overclaim was caught. And a draft that quietly swaps the matched row's tested body stack for ad-hoc evidence selection throws away the calibration the row encodes. The fourth is newer and the most brutal: a Selection Criteria Response that drops, merges or paraphrases one of the advertisement's criteria scores zero against that criterion no matter how good the prose is, because the panel scores the instrument, not the document.

MANDATORY — emit the verification checklist table

This gate is not run until its checklist is written down. Load references/checklist.md and emit that table in full in the report: one row per checklist item, each with an explicit verdict and the evidence that produced it. Never summarise. Never omit a row. Never write "all pass" without the table. If a row cannot be evidenced, its verdict is UNVERIFIED — and UNVERIFIED is treated as a FAIL for blocking purposes.