All scoring rubrics, inclusion gates, severity classifications, and quality-assurance checks applied to Patriot University documents, profiles, and content — spanning Skills, Agents, and Cursor Rules.

Agents

Rules (.cursor/rules/*.mdc)

Score & Gate Type Reference

P0 / P1 / P2 Severity Definitions

Defined in patriot-accountability-profile-standards.mdc. Priority must be anchored to documented evidence, not network affiliation or political position alone.

• P0 — Documented direct participation in constitutional violations, seditious conspiracy, or fraud in office. Requires a court record or congressional finding. DMA scoring mandatory.
• P1 — Documented pattern of conduct that materially advanced democratic erosion (e.g., signed false certification, directed vote suppression, convicted of related crime). DMA scoring mandatory.
• P2 — Network-level amplifiers, political operatives, and enablers with documented but not individually criminal roles. DMA scoring recommended if ideology-malice boundary is in question.

DMS (Democratic Malice Score) Scale

Defined in the malice-evaluator skill. Scores ideology-vs-malice on a 1–5 rubric:

Ideology vs. Malice Gate (3-of-5 Distinguishing Factors)

Runs FIRST in the malice-evaluator skill, before any DMS score is assigned. Each action is classified as Ideology (legitimate policy, no score) or Malice (scoring eligible). In the borderline zone, any three of five distinguishing factors tip the classification to Malice:

1. Process subversion — Did the actor bypass normal process, oversight, or transparency requirements?
2. Targeted asymmetry — Did the action disproportionately burden a specific protected group or political opponent?
3. Expert rejection — Did the actor ignore expert, nonpartisan, or career-staff warnings?
4. Pattern context — Has the actor or institution previously been enjoined, reversed, or sanctioned for similar conduct?
5. Stated intent — Does the documented record (statements, communications, memos) show explicit intent to undermine democratic mechanisms?

Actions passed through legitimate legislative, executive, or judicial process are always classified as Ideology regardless of policy harm.

DMA Cumulative Actor-Level Designation

When an actor accumulates multiple qualifying actions (DMS 1+), they earn a cumulative designation. Defined in the malice-evaluator skill, Section 5:

DMS 3+ requires Tier 1 (Documented) evidence. Alleged-tier claims are not eligible for scoring.

Subject Classification Framework (Inclusion Gate)

Defined in the patriot-private-citizen-inclusion-gate skill, Section 1. Determines which inclusion threshold applies before any private-citizen profile is drafted:

Non-Speech Anchor Criteria (A–E)

A private citizen or limited-purpose public figure may be included only if they independently satisfy at least ONE of the following five anchors, documented with Tier 1 or Tier 2 evidence. Defined in patriot-accountability-profile-standards.mdc §5A and the patriot-private-citizen-inclusion-gate skill:

Never sufficient on their own: political positions, political affiliation, social media posts, rally attendance, organizational membership without documented leadership, or being listed in any external taxonomy (One6Project, SPLC, ADL, etc.).

Speech Taint Strip Test

A diagnostic applied during the inclusion gate: remove all speech and social-media evidence from the case. If only journalism, commentary, or expressive activity remains, the test fails and the subject cannot be included. If non-speech conduct (documented financial relationship, organizational role established by official records, direct coordination documented in court records) remains, the anchor may be met.

Federal Judge Inclusion Gate (J1–J5)

Defined in patriot-accountability-profile-standards.mdc §5C. Article III federal judges (district, circuit, Supreme Court) may only receive a personal accountability profile if the evidence record satisfies at least one of:

Never sufficient on their own: erroneous rulings (even unanimously reversed), rulings that benefit the appointing president, being a particular president’s appointee, patterns of case management absent a Judicial Council finding, mere judicial complaints, or minority/unpopular legal theories.

When a judge’s rulings have significant structural impact but the personal-misconduct threshold is not met, the appropriate format is a Judicial Impact Analysis document (category: legal) — see aileen-cannon-judicial-impact.md as the precedent and deliberation record.

Evidence Tier System

Defined in patriot-accountability-profile-standards.mdc §1. Every factual claim in any accountability profile must be labeled with — and trace to — one of these four tiers:

One6Project is an excluded source. If it was the sole basis for a person’s inclusion, the profile must either be substantiated with independent Tier 1/2 sources or be removed.

P0 / P1 / P2 / Media Priority — Cross-Reference

The accountability-profile-builder skill adds a fourth classification used to scope coverage of media personalities. The base rule is defined in patriot-accountability-profile-standards.mdc §4.

Private citizens are capped at P1 absent a criminal conviction; P0 is reserved for sitting or former officials with documented constitutional violations.

Sanity Check 5-Level Audit

Defined in patriot-sanity-check. Run last in the accountability profile pipeline. Each level is a discrete pass; the overall audit verdict aggregates the level results.

Overall verdict: PASS / PASS WITH CAVEATS / NEEDS REVISION / FAIL. A FAIL blocks publication.

Citation Quality Tiers

Defined in the citation-checker skill. Output tier depends on intended use:

Citator/Shepard’s signals applied during verification: Red flag / Red stop sign (overruled or superseded — STOP); Orange Q / Yellow flag / Yellow triangle (negative or questioning treatment — investigate); Green signal (no negative treatment).

Election Threat Score — Composite Formula and Tiers

Defined in election-threat-scoring. Three independent 1–5 dimensions feed a normalized composite.

Composite Threat Score = (Likelihood × Impact × Urgency) / 25, normalized to a 1–5 scale.

State Vulnerability Tiers (May 2026 baseline)

Three scoring levels run independently: Level 1 Actor, Level 2 State Vulnerability, Level 3 Federal. Each produces its own composite that feeds the Prevent / Prepare / Mitigate / Respond / Recover action framework.

Democratic Health Severity (5-Level)

Defined in democratic-health-monitoring. Each indicator across the electoral, civic-liberties, accountability, and civic-life domains is rated on a 5-level severity scale.

Scoring rules: Score on actions and outcomes, not rhetoric alone (rhetoric is capped at Level 2 unless paired with action). Any score above 2 requires at least 3 corroborating sources. Distinguish isolated incidents from systemic patterns. Score changes require explicit evidence-cited justification.

Velocity index: Rate of change in severity scores over a rolling 90-day window; sustained acceleration is itself a leading indicator.

Education Only Profile — Extra Scrutiny Rule

Defined in patriot-accountability-profile-standards.mdc §7. Profiles containing the investigative-trail pointer block (the phrase Education only — verify independently. Absence of hits is not proof.) are flagged as requiring independent verification of every negative claim.

For these profiles:

• All negative claims must be sourced to Tier 1 or Tier 2 evidence.
• If One6Project (or a similar excluded source) was the only source, the negative claim must be removed or reclassified as “alleged pending independent verification.”
• The investigative trail block itself is appropriate and should be retained — it documents research pathways, not findings.