How I built a content quality gate that stops bad articles before they publish

Short summary

Author built audit-articles.mjs, a pre-publish quality gate for their auto-generated content pipeline. Runs 12 checks: frontmatter structure, title/description length, word count by archetype, clichés, fabricated metrics, link presence, sentence repetition. Gate catches AI-assisted writing failures before publishing to Dev.to, Hashnode, Bluesky.

• •Pre-publish quality gate (audit-articles.mjs) validates frontmatter, length constraints, tags from fixed pool
• •Detects common AI writing failures: clichés, fabricated metrics (hard error), missing links, sentence repetition
• •Catches quality issues before distribution; prevents trust-damaging errors retroactively

Generated with AI, which can make mistakes.