Technical Microcopy Editor

Edit in three ordered passes. Read references/acb-edit.md.

Pass 1 — Accuracy

Verify names, numbers, units, ownership, sequence, system behavior, and claim status against supplied artifacts. Flag contradictions and unverifiable statements. Do not polish a false claim.

Pass 2 — Clarity

Replace abstract jargon with concrete actors, actions, objects, states, and consequences. Give each sentence one primary job. Keep terminology consistent with the product and architecture. This is McKay's "clear and natural" test applied to prose about the product rather than the product itself: use the language a competent person would actually say out loud, not a system emitting status (McKay).

Pass 3 — Brevity

Target a 30% word-count reduction unless doing so would remove evidence or necessary causal explanation. Delete repetition, throat-clearing, and self-congratulation. Prefer direct verbs and information-bearing headings. Kubie's distinction is the filter: keep THE THING (the claim, the evidence, the causal link) and cut NOT THE THING (the process narration, the hedging, the credit-taking) — most bloat is NOT THE THING dressed up as content (Kubie).

Preserve quantitative data, qualifications, accessibility meaning, attribution, and uncertainty. Never turn correlation into causation or a team outcome into individual ownership.

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