Premise audit
Verdicts and auditsalso: the premise · what the question takes for granted · premise status · reformulationsA check of the assertion a gap question makes on its way to asking something, since that assertion was written by an earlier stage and carries no guarantee.
The premise gets a status worded as a statement about the search, not a verdict on the science: supported, partly supported, not found in what was read, contradicted, no premise, or could not be determined. When the premise is not established the audit offers one to three reformulations, the same question asked without the unestablished part, because a question resting on an unestablished claim is not worthless, it is asked wrongly.