The Quality Gate
Every generated line passes an automatic acoustic check before it's considered done — near-silent, clipped, or duration-drifted audio gets automatically re-recorded (up to a fixed retry budget) before the chapter assembles. A line that still doesn't pass after its retries ships anyway with the best take kept, and the chapter is marked "Suspect" so you know to take a listen.
Expanding a completed chapter's row shows this per-character, alongside a "Narrative order" strip and the chapter's waveform — any flagged stretch of audio shows up there as an amber band, with an "N issues to review" caption above it.
The Coalfall Commission's Chapter One rendered clean on this pass — no "Suspect" badge, no amber bands, every character row reads "Done" straight through. That's the gate working quietly in the common case: nothing to review because nothing needed a re-record. A real flagged-and-re-recorded example wasn't available from this run; capturing one is tracked as a follow-up.
Next: Listening & Revising.