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TL;DR: this repo's writing rules now match the updated setup-guplem-standard skill. Documentation only, no behavior change.

What changed

AGENTS.md: the "Communicating with users" section became "Writing style" and now states two layers.

  • Layer 1, every piece of prose: Zinsser's four principles, which are simplicity, brevity, clarity, humanity. These are the bullets the section already had.
  • Layer 2, technical documents only (AGENTS.md, ADRs, README.md, skills, subagents, code comments): ASD-STE100, Simplified Technical English. Active voice, one meaning per word, verb-first instructions, no -ing form as a noun, about 20 words per sentence.

The replacement also restores a Layer 1 bullet this file was missing: "Assume junior-level knowledge of the area."

The skills

write-ai-instructions, write-commit, review-pr, implement-issue, and create-issue each named the old heading. Each now names "Writing style". Their partial copies of the rules are gone, because AGENTS.md is the one home for them.

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dart format covers *.dart files only, so no markdown needed reformatting. The analyze-and-test job is untouched.

Align this repo with the updated setup-guplem-standard skill. The
"Communicating with users" section becomes "Writing style" and states two
layers: Zinsser's four principles for all prose, and ASD-STE100 on top for
technical documents.

The skills that referenced the old heading now name the new section. Their
partial copies of the rules are gone, because AGENTS.md is the one home for
them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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