The complete editorial standards file in Markdown. Five sections covering voice, cadence, prose rules, content structure, and a pre-publish checklist.
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The editorial standards document is a single Markdown file designed to be dropped into any LLM system prompt, editorial workflow, or CI linting pipeline. It is self-contained and has no external dependencies.
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Document structure
01
Voice and Tone
Objective authority, attribution of value judgments
02
Prose Cadence
Six antipatterns with before/after examples
03
General Prose Rules
Six principles for connected writing
04
Content Structure
Article format, table of contents conventions
05
Checklist
Seven-item pre-publish verification
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Interactive tree viewer
This document is freely available for use in any editorial workflow.