Proposal: a clinical/medical discipline module (EQUATOR gates + medical disclosure venues + Chinese-literature resolver)

[ktao732084-arch]

Thanks for building ARS — we read the code, not just the README (the fail-closed verification_gate, the gold/ ↔ heldout/ eval split, the compliance_agent PRISMA-trAIce/RAISE framework). It's the most engineering-mature project of its kind we found.

We're a small non-commercial effort building AI-assisted-research support for clinical medicine (our end users are hospital clinicians, mostly writing in Chinese). Rather than rebuild a pipeline that already exists and is better than ours would be, we'd like to explore contributing a clinical discipline module upstream — prompted by CONTRIBUTING's "discipline-specific modules are encouraged."

Pieces that seem to fit your existing architecture:

1. EQUATOR clinical reporting-standard gates (STROBE / CARE / STARD / CONSORT / TRIPOD) as additional compliance_mode branches alongside your PRISMA-trAIce path.
2. Medical disclosure venues + a 中华医学会 (Chinese Medical Association) GenAI-policy anchor, in the same shape as nature_policy.md.
3. A Chinese-literature resolver (CNKI / Wanfang / CSTR) — semi-automatic with human confirmation; on a lookup miss it returns "unresolvable, pending human check", never "fabricated" (consistent with your precision-over-recall stance, e.g. the title-only-unmatched → unresolvable narrowing).

Per your POSITIONING "recorded non-goals", we'd keep anything institution/venue-specific (a hospital's promotion criteria, a journal's numeric AIGC threshold, predatory-journal lists) out of tree as user-supplied profiles — not in a PR.

Two questions: (1) would you want a medical module upstream, or as a sibling distribution? (2) if upstream, any preferred sequencing to keep PRs reviewable? We're fine with CC BY-NC and happy to meet the tests / eval / CI / CHANGELOG bar and start small. Thanks!

[Imbad0202]

Thank you for the proposal, and for your kind recognition of ARS.

My suggestion would be to take the sibling route. The main consideration is that features for a specialized discipline are best maintained and judged by experts in that field, while ARS intends to remain on its general-purpose path. I would be glad to list your project in THIRD_PARTY.md once it is up.

If, as you build and maintain the module, you find areas where the ARS core could be strengthened, you are always welcome to open an issue or ask questions here.

Looking forward to seeing what you build.