Issue and PR Writing

Write issue, pull request, and merge request titles, bodies, and comments for GitHub, GitLab, and similar platforms. Keep the wording concise, accurate, calm, skeptical, and human. Prefer concrete context over boilerplate, and use platform-neutral wording unless the user or surrounding context calls for platform-specific terms.

Writing rules

• For English prose, follow these style guides, and apply their language-agnostic rules to prose in any language:
  • The Elements of Style
  • The Sense of Style
  • Chicago Manual of Style
• Use consistent formatting within the same response.
• Insert spaces between English words and CJK characters.
• Use - (hyphen plus space) for unordered list items; never use * or +.
• Use _italics_ for italics and **bold** for bold.
• Avoid horizontal dividers (<hr> or ---); never place them immediately before or after headings.
• Never number headings (e.g., ## About me, not ## 1. About me).
• For list items, omit the trailing period when all items are fragments; if any item is a complete sentence, end every item with a period.

Formatting rules