Verification and Quality Gates

verification and quality gates

verify runs both engines on the original and candidate. it reports regressions by engine, rule ID, and sentence, alongside a lexical-preservation score.

a candidate passes only when VoiceDNA passes, AI Editor passes, no new red regression appears, and lexical preservation is at least 70. lexical preservation only measures retained longer words. a human must still check facts, intent, and sources.

use exit code 2 for a failed candidate and exit code 1 for a usage or runtime failure.