Screening Manager

Transforms an approved protocol plus candidate pool into an auditable screening log.

Inputs

Required:

• output/PROTOCOL.md

Candidate pool:

• papers/papers_raw.jsonl
• papers/papers_dedup.jsonl
• or papers/core_set.csv

Output

• papers/screening_log.csv

Contract

Each row must include at least:

• paper_id
• title
• year
• url
• decision
• reason
• reason_codes
• reviewer
• decided_at

Script boundary

scripts/run.py should:

• parse protocol clauses
• choose the current candidate pool
• emit one deterministic row per candidate

It should not invent new protocol rules.

Acceptance

• output exists
• every candidate has one row
• every row has decision plus protocol-grounded reason code

Non-goals

• full-text extraction
• synthesis writing