email-quality-auditor Checked

Read ../../../references/auditor-runbook.md, scoring-semantics.md, send-benchmark.md, and the SEND catalog entry. Standalone installs use bundled immutable references/auditor-runtime.md; never fetch mutable main. Before deterministic calls, follow runtime-invocation.md (../../../references/runtime-invocation.md), resolve AARON_SKILLS_ROOT="${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null || true)}", and require the scorer, validator, and typed catalogs. If unavailable, return score_state: NOT_SCORED / score_confidence: not_scored with no gate verdict or persistent artifact.

Declare profile (promotional|retention|cold-outbound|newsletter), target/program, provider, market, normalized window, list age, MPP share, and observation date.

### Evidence and Scoring

1. Freeze evidence and reconcile provider cohorts/windows before comparing rates.

2. Score all 20 S1..D5 criteria. Every observed state requires source/date/type/confidence.

3. E2 is N/A with reason when opens/CTOR are not used. N3/N5 are conditional by program design. Missing records or exports are Unknown, not N/A.

4. Verify vetoes:

• SEND-S1: required authentication is demonstrably broken/unaligned.
• SEND-S2: a purchased/scraped/unlawful list is verified; missing provenance is Unknown.
• SEND-N1: opt-out is broken/absent or a recorded suppression is not honored.
• SEND-D1: material claim/disclosure/offer term fails approved evidence.

5. Run the typed scorer. Use clicks/replies/downstream actions as primary engagement evidence where available; opens/CTOR remain caveated proxy evidence.

For a send-only review without enough program evidence, report the verified red-line checks and exact gaps but return NOT_SCORED/UNDECIDED; “no blocker observed in supplied evidence” is not a full SEND SHIP verdict.

§2 SEND Worked Examples

• Complete newsletter profile, raw 81, no veto/fail: DONE/SHIP, final 81.
• Complete promotional profile, raw 76, one verified S1 failure: DONE_WITH_CONCERNS/FIX, final 59.
• Complete profile, verified S2 and N1 failures: DONE/BLOCK, no final score.
• Consent provenance absent: S2 Unknown, NEEDS_INPUT/UNDECIDED, no score.

§3 SEND Guardrails

• DMARC p=none with aligned SPF/DKIM and active monitoring is not automatically an S1 failure.
• Provider one-click-unsubscribe policy and statutory duties must be named separately.
• Opens and CTOR require MPP segmentation/proxy caveat; they cannot establish human attention alone.
• A newsletter need not have cart/post-purchase flows; score only journeys applicable to its declared program.
• Over-frequency is a serious E4/E5 finding, not an automatic veto.

§5 SEND Translation

Explain channel and recipient risk in plain language. On trace request, qualify SEND-S1/S2/N1/D1 and show the underlying DNS/event/rendered evidence.

Report and Verdict

Begin with the auditor-runbook's exact typed conversation header. Never replace status, verdict, or score_state with prose; list each explicitly missing qualified item as `ID: unknown``` before findings.

Show verdict, profile/context, score or coverage/interval, confidence, S/E/N/D detail, outcome truth set, verified critical controls, Unknown inputs, and fix owners. Do not claim deliverability/inbox placement from DNS alone and do not execute a send.

Validation Checkpoints

• Program/profile/provider/window/list age/market/MPP share are declared.
• Live suppression state was verified by replay, not a stale projection or pending proposal.
• All 20 states are valid; conditional N/A has a reason.
• Provider metrics and reconciled outcome truth are separated.
• No email/provider mutation occurred without separate explicit approval.

Persistence

Persist only after explicit authorization to memory/audits/email/YYYY-MM-DD-<topic>.md. Preserve the scorer's orthogonal status and verdict; validate the complete v3 draft with validate-audit-artifact.py against the intended --relative-path, persist only through one full-content Write, and revalidate the target per the auditor runbook. Edit/shell/MCP mutations of the reserved sink are unsupported. Do not autonomously modify consent, claims, provider settings, or hot cache.

Reference Materials

• SEND benchmark (../../../references/send-benchmark.md)
• Measurement protocol (../../../references/measurement-protocol.md)
• Auditor runbook (../../../references/auditor-runbook.md)
• Scoring semantics (../../../references/scoring-semantics.md)

Next Best Skill

• **Authentication/placement:** deliverability-qa (../../setup/deliverability-qa/SKILL.md)
• **Consent/suppression:** consent-registry (../../../protocol/consent-registry/SKILL.md)
• **Lifecycle:** email-sequence-designer (../../nurture/email-sequence-designer/SKILL.md)
• **Experiment:** send-experiment-designer (../send-experiment-designer/SKILL.md)