/claim #16

Summary

• Adds a self-contained research-assistant-protocol-trace module for issue #16.
• Implements deterministic claim-to-protocol tracing, evidence/citation mapping, reproducibility readiness checks, peer-review recommendations, research-gap ranking, readiness scoring, and audit digests.
• Includes synthetic sample data, a CLI demo, assertion tests, and a requirement map.

Demo

• Demo video: https://github.com/zhengjynicolas/SCIBASE.AI/blob/codex/research-assistant-protocol-trace-16/research-assistant-protocol-trace/docs/protocol-trace-demo.mp4
• Raw MP4: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zhengjynicolas/SCIBASE.AI/codex/research-assistant-protocol-trace-16/research-assistant-protocol-trace/docs/protocol-trace-demo.mp4

Verification

cd research-assistant-protocol-trace
npm run check
npm test
npm run demo
ffprobe -v error -select_streams v:0 -show_entries stream=codec_name,width,height,duration,avg_frame_rate -of default=noprint_wrappers=1 docs/protocol-trace-demo.mp4

The module is dependency-free and uses synthetic sample data only.