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    {
      "id": "G1_receipt_refs_real",
      "severity": "BLOCKER",
      "status": "PASS",
      "detail": "shots citing a non-existent factbase line: none"
    },
    {
      "id": "G2_assertions_sourced",
      "severity": "BLOCKER",
      "status": "PASS",
      "detail": "receipt/quote cards with no source: none"
    },
    {
      "id": "G3_no_model_urls",
      "severity": "BLOCKER",
      "status": "PASS",
      "detail": "generated text containing a URL: none"
    },
    {
      "id": "G4_receipts_verified",
      "severity": "WARN",
      "status": "PASS",
      "detail": "0 shot(s) cite a non-VERIFIED receipt"
    },
    {
      "id": "G6_receipt_density",
      "severity": "WARN",
      "status": "PASS",
      "detail": "6 distinct receipt(s) across 17 evidence shots (want >=3 for this runtime)"
    },
    {
      "id": "G7_no_dead_source",
      "severity": "BLOCKER",
      "status": "PASS",
      "detail": "0 shot(s) cite a url proven 404: none"
    },
    {
      "id": "G5_no_placeholder_receipts",
      "severity": "BLOCKER",
      "status": "PASS",
      "detail": "0 shot(s) cite a placeholder/unfetched source: none"
    },
    {
      "id": "T1_picture_covers_voice",
      "severity": "BLOCKER",
      "status": "PASS",
      "detail": "picture 186.10s vs voice 186.10s (delta 0.00s)"
    },
    {
      "id": "T2_no_flash_frames",
      "severity": "WARN",
      "status": "PASS",
      "detail": "shots under 3.5s: none"
    },
    {
      "id": "T3_no_dead_slides",
      "severity": "WARN",
      "status": "PASS",
      "detail": "shots over 14.0s: none"
    },
    {
      "id": "T4_timeline_contiguous",
      "severity": "BLOCKER",
      "status": "PASS",
      "detail": "gaps/overlaps after: none"
    },
    {
      "id": "P1_short_has_shot_plan",
      "severity": "WARN",
      "status": "PASS",
      "detail": "9:16 cut: 3 shots (claim -> doc_zoom -> verdict_stamp), 26.0s"
    },
    {
      "id": "P5_captions_written",
      "severity": "WARN",
      "status": "PASS",
      "detail": "26 caption cues -> EP08.srt"
    },
    {
      "id": "A1_audio_assets_present",
      "severity": "WARN",
      "status": "PASS",
      "detail": "audio cues missing from disk: none"
    },
    {
      "id": "D1b_receipts_have_highlight",
      "severity": "WARN",
      "status": "PASS",
      "detail": "0 receipt shot(s) with no highlighted line"
    },
    {
      "id": "P2_title_present",
      "severity": "WARN",
      "status": "PASS",
      "detail": "publish title set"
    },
    {
      "id": "P3_chapters",
      "severity": "WARN",
      "status": "PASS",
      "detail": "7 chapters"
    },
    {
      "id": "B1_broll_provenance",
      "severity": "BLOCKER",
      "status": "PASS",
      "detail": "3 b-roll shot(s); unprovenanced: none"
    },
    {
      "id": "P4_no_stock_footage",
      "severity": "BLOCKER",
      "status": "PASS",
      "detail": "shots not from receipts/presenter/provenanced-broll: none"
    },
    {
      "id": "R1_every_card_renderable",
      "severity": "BLOCKER",
      "status": "PASS",
      "detail": "cards whose data cannot be drawn: none"
    },
    {
      "id": "X1_shots_are_ours",
      "severity": "WARN",
      "status": "PASS",
      "detail": "shots with a card this frontend does not define: none"
    }
  ],
  "qc_summary": {
    "blockers_failed": [],
    "warnings_failed": [],
    "buildable": true
  }
}