Writing Standards

Every document you write, edit, or review must comply with these rules. A document is any prose deliverable: a README, a spec, a rule, a skill, a design doc, a guide, a review, release notes. This skill does not govern normal conversation — only the deliverable.

The rules come in two sets, both applied on every document task:

• references/common/source-to-deliverable.md — how to turn a source (code you read, or a discussion you had) into a deliverable without dragging the source into the output.
• references/common/anti-slop.md — the patterns that make a document read as machine-padded filler, each with a rule code and a fix.

All paths in this document are relative to this SKILL.md file, so they resolve wherever the skill is installed.

Step 0 — Bootstrap the reminder hooks (once per session, only if needed)