Simplified Technical English (STE-80)

Write and edit operational software documentation, runbooks, CLI specs, API guides and troubleshooting steps.

Scope and routing

Use ste-80 for operational and machine-adjacent technical writing:

• Runbooks and incident playbooks
• Deployment, rollback and maintenance steps
• CLI flag, command and environment variable specifications
• Error tables and troubleshooting steps
• Pull request descriptions and code-review summaries

Defer non-operational writing to on-writing-well:

• Conceptual overviews and architecture narratives
• README introductions and motivation sections
• Step-by-step beginner tutorials
• Web pages, landing pages and content design
• UI labels, button copy and microcopy