NEOCARIDINA REAL-QUESTION COVERAGE MODERATOR KIT
Version: 1.0
Reviewed: 2026-08-12

FIXED DECISION ORDER
1. Not usable when consent, question meaning or the review record is insufficient.
2. Scope refusal when the requested authority is outside this Neocaridina library.
3. Clarification required when identity, method, timing, denominator or decision context is missing.
4. Named evidence gap when an existing canonical gap owns the unanswered decision.
5. Governed answer only when a valid path and complete answer boundary resolve the decision.
6. Honest no-match for everything that remains. Do not force a similar page.

REVIEW STEPS
1. Preserve the submitted question and context inside the private moderation boundary before assigning a theme.
2. Check explicit scope refusal before textual matching so similar words cannot create false authority.
3. Run the shared keeper-language navigator and record its first result or honest no-match.
4. Review the complete governing guide, claim or gap rather than routing from a title alone.
5. Assign one validation outcome using the fixed decision order and record every moderator override with a reason.
6. Use only a compatible desk status; clarification and honest no-match do not become publishable confident answers.
7. Publish only moderator-written de-identified wording with its governing path and retain adverse or unresolved outcomes in the audit.
8. Rerun the fixed editorial benchmark after retrieval changes and inspect recurring failures at the protocol review point.

OUTCOME AND STATUS COMPATIBILITY
- governed-answer: answered, added-to-guide, already-covered
- clarification-required: not-usable
- honest-no-match: not-usable
- named-evidence-gap: needs-evidence
- scope-refusal: out-of-scope
- not-usable: not-usable, withdrawn

CALIBRATION: existing-tds-answer
Question: Does matching TDS mean the seller water and my tank have the same minerals?
Context: The decision is how to compare two measured waters before receiving Neocaridina.
Expected outcome: governed-answer
Expected path: /care/parameters
Reason: The parameters guide directly explains the conductivity-derived display and its composition limit, so no improvised answer or new gap is needed.

CALIBRATION: clarify-identity-and-decision
Question: What should I do with this shrimp?
Context: No taxon, photograph, observation, measurement, timing or decision is supplied.
Expected outcome: clarification-required
Expected path: none
Reason: Routing a generic animal question would manufacture meaning. The anonymous desk cannot request follow-up, so it remains private or closes as not usable.

CALIBRATION: honest-unmapped-sound
Question: Which exact vibration frequencies from a home aquarium pump change long-term Neocaridina reproduction?
Context: The request is Neocaridina-specific and answerable in principle, but no current guide or named gap governs a frequency-specific chronic reproductive decision.
Expected outcome: honest-no-match
Expected path: none
Reason: A behavior or filtration page may share words but does not answer the frequency-specific chronic question. Preserve the no-match for editorial gap review.

CALIBRATION: named-transfer-gap
Question: Which measured transfer rate improves survival after shipping when source and receiving water differ?
Context: The question asks for a comparative receiving method and delayed animal outcome rather than the current bounded house protocol.
Expected outcome: named-evidence-gap
Expected path: /research/gaps/transfer-rate
Reason: The acclimation guide explains current practice and limits, while the named transfer-rate gap owns the unanswered comparative claim.

CALIBRATION: other-taxon-refusal
Question: How do I breed Amano shrimp larvae?
Context: The animal is Caridina multidentata rather than Neocaridina.
Expected outcome: scope-refusal
Expected path: none
Reason: Shared aquarium language cannot make a Neocaridina library authoritative for another genus and a different larval life history.

CALIBRATION: prescription-refusal
Question: Which antibiotic dose will cure the shrimp in this photograph?
Context: The request asks for diagnosis and prescription from an image without confirmed identity or agent.
Expected outcome: scope-refusal
Expected path: /care/health
Reason: The health guide can support immediate system triage and observation, but the requested diagnosis and dose remain outside authority.

CALIBRATION: unusable-private-data
Question: Please contact the other person whose full private details I included and solve this.
Context: The record violates the no-private-information confirmation and does not contain one reviewable keeper decision.
Expected outcome: not-usable
Expected path: none
Reason: The private information must be removed and the record cannot become a public question or coverage success.

CALIBRATION: existing-cycling-answer
Question: Is my tank ready because it has been running for six weeks and nitrate is visible?
Context: The keeper needs a commissioning decision and has not reported a known challenge.
Expected outcome: governed-answer
Expected path: /care/cycling
Reason: The cycling guide directly separates calendar age and nitrate presence from a recorded whole-system nitrogen-processing challenge.

BLANK COVERAGE RECORD
question id:
submitted date:
source category:
topic:
raw question preserved privately:
scope boundary checked:
navigator first result:
navigator no-match:
moderated path:
moderator override reason:
validation outcome:
desk status:
answer boundary complete:
public answer path:
failure codes:
retrieval or guide change:
named gap change:
raw submission redacted:
reviewer: