researchclaw-gate-stages-oracle-hermes-acts-as-hitl-proxy

AutoResearchClaw has 3 gate stages (5: problem formulation, 9: methodology, 20: final review) that require human-in-the-loop approval before the pipeline continues. When AutoResearchClaw is running autonomously inside the Oracle stack, ORACLE Hermes acts as the HITL proxy — it evaluates gate content against research criteria and calls researchclaw_approve_gate or researchclaw_reject_gate programmatically. This requires ORACLE Hermes’s AGENTS.md to include explicit gate evaluation logic.