---
name: undominated-reasoning-trace-redundancy-audit
description: "Audits reasoning trace self-correction loops and verbosity redundancy to prune repetitive reflection tokens. Recomputed fields must match the other inputs. A pass is not a compliance, safety, or price verdict."
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: Undominated.ai
  version: "1.1.0"
---

# Reasoning trace redundancy audit

## Description
Audits reasoning trace self-correction loops and verbosity redundancy to prune repetitive reflection tokens.

## Category
`evaluation`

## Tags
`evaluation`, `reasoning`, `verbosity`, `redundancy`, `compression`

## When to Use
Audit reasoning model outputs to detect repetitive circular loops and wasteful reflection tokens.

## Operational Limitations
Evaluates trace redundancy percentages and fidelity preservation; does not generate answers.

## Verification Script
Run the deterministic verification checker:
```bash
python3 scripts/check.py examples/synthetic.json
```
Exit codes:
- `0`: Check passed and thresholds satisfied.
- `1`: Threshold breach or operational violation detected.
- `2`: Schema error or invalid usage.

## What the checker recomputes

These declared fields must match the other inputs. The tolerance is 0.02, or 0.1% of the recomputed value when that is larger.

- `redundancy_percent` = pct_drop(raw_reasoning_tokens, compressed_reasoning_tokens)

- Bound: `compressed_reasoning_tokens` <= `raw_reasoning_tokens`.

The original threshold checks still apply:

- `fidelity_score` must not be < `min_fidelity`.

Every other declared field is type-checked. A negative value is rejected except for deltas, drifts, and gains. A type check does not, by itself, prove the measurement.

`population` and `observedAt` are required. The bundled examples are synthetic fixtures, not market measurements.

```bash
python3 scripts/check.py examples/synthetic.json
python3 scripts/check.py examples/contradiction.json
python3 scripts/check.py examples/broken.json
```

Exit 0 is a pass, exit 1 is a review, and exit 2 is invalid input. A pass does not certify a provider, a regulation, a release, or a price.