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feat(doc-standards): documentation tiers, budgets, and the ceiling gate Standing docs accrete a paragraph per PR with nothing pushing back; the root AGENTS.md reached 8,130 words in 50 commits with the same rule stated two and three times. This encodes the counter-pressure: - docs/AGENTS.md becomes the documentation standard: the tier taxonomy (one home per fact), target word budgets, and the slop checklist. - verify-doc-budgets joins doc-sync: word ceilings for the six accretion-prone standing docs, manifest-driven, frozen at current sizes and ratcheted down as each doc is brought to target. - .agents/skills/dsh-doc-standards: the thin placement/audit/red-gate workflow over the standard, mirroring the dsh-translate-docs split. - RFC (implemented/process) records the decision, alternatives, and the first audit cycle's deferred work list. The gate's first catch was the standard itself (1,057 > 1,000); it ships condensed to 984 words rather than with a raised ceiling.
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name: dsh-doc-standards
description: 'Use when writing, moving, reviewing, or auditing documentation in the deepseek-harness repo — choosing where content belongs, trimming doc slop, responding to a verify-doc-budgets gate failure, or requests like "improve the docs", "audit the docs for slop", "where should this be documented", "this doc is too long".'
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# Applying the DeepSeek Harness Documentation Standard
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into codex/trim-ai-prose # Conflicts: # docs/config-catalog.md # docs/event-producer-consumer.md # docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-07-05-dynamic-workflows.md # examples/acp-agent/tests/acp.snapshot.ts # packages/code-runtime/code-runtime-worker/tests/built-lib.e2e.ts # packages/code-runtime/code-runtime-worker/tsdown.config.ts
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The contract lives in [docs/AGENTS.md](../../../docs/AGENTS.md). This workflow covers placement, corpus audits, budgets, and validation across Markdown, JSDoc, and code comments. It is guidance, not a script; use [dsh-prose-standard](../dsh-prose-standard/SKILL.md) for required coverage and editorial judgment, and never treat length alone as a defect.
feat(doc-standards): documentation tiers, budgets, and the ceiling gate Standing docs accrete a paragraph per PR with nothing pushing back; the root AGENTS.md reached 8,130 words in 50 commits with the same rule stated two and three times. This encodes the counter-pressure: - docs/AGENTS.md becomes the documentation standard: the tier taxonomy (one home per fact), target word budgets, and the slop checklist. - verify-doc-budgets joins doc-sync: word ceilings for the six accretion-prone standing docs, manifest-driven, frozen at current sizes and ratcheted down as each doc is brought to target. - .agents/skills/dsh-doc-standards: the thin placement/audit/red-gate workflow over the standard, mirroring the dsh-translate-docs split. - RFC (implemented/process) records the decision, alternatives, and the first audit cycle's deferred work list. The gate's first catch was the standard itself (1,057 > 1,000); it ships condensed to 984 words rather than with a raised ceiling.
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## Sources of truth (read, don't re-summarize)
- [docs/AGENTS.md](../../../docs/AGENTS.md) — the taxonomy ("one home per fact"), budgets, slop checklist.
docs(rfc): define and enforce a uniform RFC format; adopt it across the corpus Define the in-file RFC contract in docs/rfc/README.md § The file format: the header block (`# RFC: <title>` plus a dateless Status enum cross-checked against the lifecycle folder), the per-lifecycle body skeleton (a Problem opener everywhere; Proposal/Alternatives considered/ Acceptance criteria/Risks in proposed/; present-tense Decision/ Consequences with proposal-era headings banned in implemented/; the frozen proposal shape in rejected/), and a mandatory Alternatives considered section with a date-fenced grandfather comment for pre-format RFCs whose alternatives are not reconstructible from the record. Enforce it with a new doc-sync gate, scripts/verify-rfc-format.ts, and normalize all 112 RFCs to it: ~15 Status-line spellings collapse to the enum, 29 Context openers become Problem, the 39 legacy-format XXX debt markers are resolved and banned from reappearing, proposal-era sections in implemented RFCs are rewritten to shipped reality (including the web/fs/subagent seam RFCs' migration plans and test checklists, closing the doc-tiers deferred-work item on the web seam), every RFC gains an Alternatives considered section or the grandfather comment, and the bilingual pair is re-mirrored and re-recorded. Move the generated index tables out of README.md into a fully generated docs/rfc/INDEX.md — gen-rfc-index now writes the whole file, and verify-rfc-classification checks its freshness and rejects index-shaped rows in the curated README — which makes room for the format contract to live in the README front door instead of a separate FORMAT.md. The decision record, and the first RFC written in the new format, is docs/rfc/implemented/process/2026-07-05-uniform-rfc-format.md.
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- [docs/rfc/README.md](../../../docs/rfc/README.md) — when a decision earns an RFC, how to file it, and what goes inside one (the header block, per-lifecycle skeleton, and Alternatives-considered mandate, gated by `verify-rfc-format`); [docs/postmortem/README.md](../../../docs/postmortem/README.md) — when an incident earns a postmortem.
feat(doc-standards): documentation tiers, budgets, and the ceiling gate Standing docs accrete a paragraph per PR with nothing pushing back; the root AGENTS.md reached 8,130 words in 50 commits with the same rule stated two and three times. This encodes the counter-pressure: - docs/AGENTS.md becomes the documentation standard: the tier taxonomy (one home per fact), target word budgets, and the slop checklist. - verify-doc-budgets joins doc-sync: word ceilings for the six accretion-prone standing docs, manifest-driven, frozen at current sizes and ratcheted down as each doc is brought to target. - .agents/skills/dsh-doc-standards: the thin placement/audit/red-gate workflow over the standard, mirroring the dsh-translate-docs split. - RFC (implemented/process) records the decision, alternatives, and the first audit cycle's deferred work list. The gate's first catch was the standard itself (1,057 > 1,000); it ships condensed to 984 words rather than with a raised ceiling.
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- [docs/i18n/README.md](../../../docs/i18n/README.md) — the bilingual pairing contract; editing either side of a pair obligates the counterpart in the same change.
- Root [AGENTS.md](../../../AGENTS.md) — the standing orders whose budget discipline this skill protects.
## Placing content
Run the placement test in the standard's taxonomy table, then check the constraints that make a placement expensive or wrong:
- Paired docs (`pnpm run verify-translation-pairing --list`) cost a zh counterpart update and a `--write` re-record on every edit — prefer an unpaired home for content that will churn.
- Generated catalogs are never hand-edited; if the fact belongs there, change the generator's source.
- Before renaming or moving any doc, grep for inbound references: `verify-md-links` catches Markdown links, `verify-doc-refs` catches `docs/*.md` citations in TypeScript comments, but nothing catches heading-anchor fragments — grep `#the-heading` across the repo yourself (one anchor is hardcoded in `scripts/gen-cordis-catalog.ts`).
- A move is atomic: remove from the old home, add to the new home, and fix every inbound link in the same change.
## Auditing the corpus
docs: tighten prose audit after master retarget
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The audit is a hunt for the standard's slop checklist, cheapest probes first. Establish the PR's current base first; after a retarget or base merge, repeat the audit for prose introduced by the new base rather than relying on the earlier result.
feat(doc-standards): documentation tiers, budgets, and the ceiling gate Standing docs accrete a paragraph per PR with nothing pushing back; the root AGENTS.md reached 8,130 words in 50 commits with the same rule stated two and three times. This encodes the counter-pressure: - docs/AGENTS.md becomes the documentation standard: the tier taxonomy (one home per fact), target word budgets, and the slop checklist. - verify-doc-budgets joins doc-sync: word ceilings for the six accretion-prone standing docs, manifest-driven, frozen at current sizes and ratcheted down as each doc is brought to target. - .agents/skills/dsh-doc-standards: the thin placement/audit/red-gate workflow over the standard, mirroring the dsh-translate-docs split. - RFC (implemented/process) records the decision, alternatives, and the first audit cycle's deferred work list. The gate's first catch was the standard itself (1,057 > 1,000); it ships condensed to 984 words rather than with a raised ceiling.
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docs: rebalance prose cleanup and add trimming skill
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1. Measure: `pnpm run verify-doc-budgets --list`, then `git ls-files '*.md' ':(exclude)vendor/**' | xargs wc -w | sort -rn | head -30` to spot unbudgeted outliers.
2. Hunt narrated history: `rg -n "no longer|used to|previously|was moved|renamed" --glob '*.md' --glob '*.ts' --glob '!vendor/**'` and keep only contrasts against a live alternative. Keep the vendor exclusion last so include globs cannot override it.
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3. Inspect long comments for reasoning transcripts: control-flow narration, test walkthroughs, proof of obvious branches, review findings, rejected local alternatives, and the same rationale repeated beside sibling methods. Preserve only a non-obvious contract or durable rationale; otherwise delete the comment.
docs: trim generated prose
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4. Hunt duplication by grepping distinctive phrases. Keep one home and replace other copies with links.
docs: tighten prose audit after master retarget
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5. Replace hand-written catalogs, test/status inventories, and JSDoc restatements with the authoritative tree, script, or generated reference.
docs: rebalance prose cleanup and add trimming skill
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6. In `implemented/` RFCs, remove migration plans, acceptance-task checklists, and future-tense spec language. Keep concise verification contracts that identify the behaviors and tiers pinning the shipped decision, plus named coverage gaps.
docs: trim generated prose
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7. If removing prose changes a promised behavior rather than its explanation, use a proposed RFC first (follow [dsh-find-simplifications](../dsh-find-simplifications/SKILL.md)).
feat(doc-standards): documentation tiers, budgets, and the ceiling gate Standing docs accrete a paragraph per PR with nothing pushing back; the root AGENTS.md reached 8,130 words in 50 commits with the same rule stated two and three times. This encodes the counter-pressure: - docs/AGENTS.md becomes the documentation standard: the tier taxonomy (one home per fact), target word budgets, and the slop checklist. - verify-doc-budgets joins doc-sync: word ceilings for the six accretion-prone standing docs, manifest-driven, frozen at current sizes and ratcheted down as each doc is brought to target. - .agents/skills/dsh-doc-standards: the thin placement/audit/red-gate workflow over the standard, mirroring the dsh-translate-docs split. - RFC (implemented/process) records the decision, alternatives, and the first audit cycle's deferred work list. The gate's first catch was the standard itself (1,057 > 1,000); it ships condensed to 984 words rather than with a raised ceiling.
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docs: trim generated prose
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Keep every load-bearing rule, preferably as one to three lines plus a link to its rationale. Cut stories, duplicates, status notes, and the path used to derive the rule. Do not create a new explanation merely to relocate disposable reasoning.
feat(doc-standards): documentation tiers, budgets, and the ceiling gate Standing docs accrete a paragraph per PR with nothing pushing back; the root AGENTS.md reached 8,130 words in 50 commits with the same rule stated two and three times. This encodes the counter-pressure: - docs/AGENTS.md becomes the documentation standard: the tier taxonomy (one home per fact), target word budgets, and the slop checklist. - verify-doc-budgets joins doc-sync: word ceilings for the six accretion-prone standing docs, manifest-driven, frozen at current sizes and ratcheted down as each doc is brought to target. - .agents/skills/dsh-doc-standards: the thin placement/audit/red-gate workflow over the standard, mirroring the dsh-translate-docs split. - RFC (implemented/process) records the decision, alternatives, and the first audit cycle's deferred work list. The gate's first catch was the standard itself (1,057 > 1,000); it ships condensed to 984 words rather than with a raised ceiling.
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## When verify-doc-budgets goes red
make wordcount budget guidance clearer and dedup docs
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Apply the ordered relocate-condense-raise policy in [docs/AGENTS.md](../../../docs/AGENTS.md); this skill only supplies the workflow probes above.
feat(doc-standards): documentation tiers, budgets, and the ceiling gate Standing docs accrete a paragraph per PR with nothing pushing back; the root AGENTS.md reached 8,130 words in 50 commits with the same rule stated two and three times. This encodes the counter-pressure: - docs/AGENTS.md becomes the documentation standard: the tier taxonomy (one home per fact), target word budgets, and the slop checklist. - verify-doc-budgets joins doc-sync: word ceilings for the six accretion-prone standing docs, manifest-driven, frozen at current sizes and ratcheted down as each doc is brought to target. - .agents/skills/dsh-doc-standards: the thin placement/audit/red-gate workflow over the standard, mirroring the dsh-translate-docs split. - RFC (implemented/process) records the decision, alternatives, and the first audit cycle's deferred work list. The gate's first catch was the standard itself (1,057 > 1,000); it ships condensed to 984 words rather than with a raised ceiling.
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## Validation and PR hygiene
docs: trim generated prose
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Run at least `pnpm run doc-sync`, `pnpm run lint`, and `git diff --check`; JSDoc changes may regenerate catalogs. If a paired doc changed, follow [dsh-translate-docs](../dsh-translate-docs/SKILL.md) and run `pnpm run verify-translation-pairing --write`. The PR body should give word deltas, explain any deliberately long exception, and list checks.
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