What it does: Refuses to publish a draft that fails any of five checks: word count (600 by default), at least two internal links, an image direction, cosine similarity against your existing posts (0.85 maximum, so the plugin does not quietly rewrite a post you already have), and the AI-slop lint described in the next section. How to access: It runs on every generated draft and every refresh. wp draftforge gate runs it against a live post and spends nothing. Notes:

• A refresh skips the similarity check by definition — a rewrite is supposed to resemble the post it rewrites. It does not skip the lint: of the two bodies, the one being rewritten is the one that already has readers.
• Every threshold is filterable via draftforge_quality_thresholds, and the lint’s numbers arrive in the same array, so a site can move one number without adopting a whole preset.
• What the gate held back, and why, is written into the queue row’s report rather than left as a verdict.