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{
"schema_version": "2.2.0",
"standard_version": "2.2.0",
"package_version": "2.2.0",
"layers": [
"INTEGRITY",
"READER",
"MESSAGE",
"COMPREHENSION",
"VOICE_AND_FORM"
],
"modes": [
"general",
"status_update",
"technical_explanation",
"decision_recommendation",
"professional_document",
"readme_release",
"resume_portfolio",
"conversation_reply"
],
"rules": [
{
"id": "VOICE-EMDASH-001",
"domain": "GENERAL_CORE",
"layer": "VOICE_AND_FORM",
"effect": "fix",
"severity": "P0",
"default_scope": "token",
"modes": ["all"],
"description": "Hard ban: never write an em dash (— or Chinese ——) in human-facing output in any language. Readers treat it as the strongest AI fingerprint (field-verified 2026-08). Replace with period, comma, colon, parentheses, or split the sentence. Em dashes inside verbatim quotations may stay."
},
{
"id": "INTEGRITY-001",
"domain": "GENERAL_CORE",
"layer": "INTEGRITY",
"effect": "fix",
"severity": "P0",
"default_scope": "block",
"modes": ["all"],
"description": "Do not add unsupported facts, results, numbers, causes, approval, or confidence."
},
{
"id": "INTEGRITY-002",
"domain": "GENERAL_CORE",
"layer": "INTEGRITY",
"effect": "fix",
"severity": "P0",
"default_scope": "token",
"modes": ["all"],
"description": "Respect the exposure level and do not disclose credentials, private data, or internal details to an unauthorized reader."
},
{
"id": "INTEGRITY-003",
"domain": "GENERAL_CORE",
"layer": "INTEGRITY",
"effect": "fix",
"severity": "P0",
"default_scope": "block",
"modes": ["all"],
"description": "Preserve the speaker's stance, identity, obligations, and value judgments; do not manufacture them."
},
{
"id": "INTEGRITY-004",
"domain": "GENERAL_CORE",
"layer": "INTEGRITY",
"effect": "fix",
"severity": "P1",
"default_scope": "block",
"modes": ["all"],
"description": "Keep known facts, inferences, and unknowns distinguishable."
},
{
"id": "INTEGRITY-005",
"domain": "GENERAL_CORE",
"layer": "INTEGRITY",
"effect": "keep_guard",
"severity": "P1",
"default_scope": "none",
"modes": ["all"],
"description": "Preserve functional terminology, commands, commitments, dates, and limitations."
},
{
"id": "READER-001",
"domain": "GENERAL_CORE",
"layer": "READER",
"effect": "fix",
"severity": "P1",
"default_scope": "structure",
"modes": ["all"],
"description": "Identify the actual reader, their current knowledge, their question, and the desired outcome."
},
{
"id": "READER-002",
"domain": "GENERAL_CORE",
"layer": "READER",
"effect": "fix",
"severity": "P1",
"default_scope": "block",
"modes": ["all"],
"description": "Answer the reader's real question instead of the writer's preferred framework."
},
{
"id": "READER-003",
"domain": "GENERAL_CORE",
"layer": "READER",
"effect": "fix",
"severity": "P2",
"default_scope": "block",
"modes": ["all"],
"description": "Assume expertise is domain-specific; bridge missing knowledge without treating the reader as unintelligent."
},
{
"id": "MESSAGE-001",
"domain": "GENERAL_CORE",
"layer": "MESSAGE",
"effect": "fix",
"severity": "P1",
"default_scope": "structure",
"modes": ["all"],
"description": "Give the piece one identifiable main answer, state, request, recommendation, or point."
},
{
"id": "MESSAGE-002",
"domain": "GENERAL_CORE",
"layer": "MESSAGE",
"effect": "fix",
"severity": "P2",
"default_scope": "sentence",
"modes": ["all"],
"description": "Put the answer, outcome, consequence, request, or recommendation before process narration when the form allows it."
},
{
"id": "MESSAGE-003",
"domain": "GENERAL_CORE",
"layer": "MESSAGE",
"effect": "fix",
"severity": "P1",
"default_scope": "block",
"modes": ["all"],
"description": "Supply the context required by the purpose, not a fixed event template or a complete history dump."
},
{
"id": "MESSAGE-004",
"domain": "GENERAL_CORE",
"layer": "MESSAGE",
"effect": "fix",
"severity": "P1",
"default_scope": "block",
"modes": ["all"],
"description": "Keep material evidence, source attribution, and validation scope attached to the claims they support."
},
{
"id": "MESSAGE-005",
"domain": "GENERAL_CORE",
"layer": "MESSAGE",
"effect": "fix",
"severity": "P1",
"default_scope": "block",
"modes": ["all"],
"description": "Stop when the communication purpose is complete; do not manufacture a lesson, recap, call to action, or tidy resolution."
},
{
"id": "COMPREHENSION-001",
"domain": "GENERAL_CORE",
"layer": "COMPREHENSION",
"effect": "fix",
"severity": "P1",
"default_scope": "block",
"modes": ["all"],
"description": "Translate compressed labels through concrete observation, meaning, practical effect, and next action or condition."
},
{
"id": "COMPREHENSION-002",
"domain": "GENERAL_CORE",
"layer": "COMPREHENSION",
"effect": "fix",
"severity": "P2",
"default_scope": "block",
"modes": ["technical_explanation", "readme_release", "professional_document", "general"],
"description": "Explain the needed mechanism, use, prerequisite, example, failure behavior, or scope boundary."
},
{
"id": "COMPREHENSION-003",
"domain": "GENERAL_CORE",
"layer": "COMPREHENSION",
"effect": "fix",
"severity": "P2",
"default_scope": "sentence",
"modes": ["all"],
"description": "Keep a useful term and add a bridge to its observable behavior or consequence instead of deleting the term."
},
{
"id": "COMPREHENSION-004",
"domain": "GENERAL_CORE",
"layer": "COMPREHENSION",
"effect": "fix",
"severity": "P2",
"default_scope": "sentence",
"modes": ["all"],
"description": "Support an abstract claim with a concrete object, actor, action, example, number, command, or observation."
},
{
"id": "COMPREHENSION-005",
"domain": "GENERAL_CORE",
"layer": "COMPREHENSION",
"effect": "fix",
"severity": "P2",
"default_scope": "block",
"modes": ["all"],
"description": "Do not replace missing depth with obvious common sense or a restatement of the label."
},
{
"id": "VOICE-001",
"domain": "GENERAL_CORE",
"layer": "VOICE_AND_FORM",
"effect": "fix",
"severity": "P2",
"default_scope": "sentence",
"modes": ["all"],
"description": "Prefer identifiable actors, verbs, and objects over stacked abstractions when accuracy permits."
},
{
"id": "VOICE-002",
"domain": "GENERAL_CORE",
"layer": "VOICE_AND_FORM",
"effect": "keep_guard",
"severity": "P1",
"default_scope": "none",
"modes": ["all"],
"description": "Preserve language that legitimately builds trust, expresses concern or disagreement, reassures, persuades, connects, or entertains."
},
{
"id": "VOICE-003",
"domain": "GENERAL_CORE",
"layer": "VOICE_AND_FORM",
"effect": "keep_guard",
"severity": "P2",
"default_scope": "none",
"modes": ["all"],
"description": "Preserve useful headings, lists, commands, terminology, qualifiers, and necessary formality."
},
{
"id": "VOICE-004",
"domain": "GENERAL_CORE",
"layer": "VOICE_AND_FORM",
"effect": "fix",
"severity": "P2",
"default_scope": "sentence",
"modes": ["all"],
"description": "Remove throat-clearing, canned praise, generic transitions, fake certainty, and meta-commentary with no communication function."
},
{
"id": "VOICE-005",
"domain": "GENERAL_CORE",
"layer": "VOICE_AND_FORM",
"effect": "fix",
"severity": "P2",
"default_scope": "block",
"modes": ["all"],
"description": "Make the speaker, reader, purpose, or concrete subject identifiable enough that the text is not universally replaceable."
},
{
"id": "VOICE-006",
"domain": "GENERAL_CORE",
"layer": "VOICE_AND_FORM",
"effect": "fix",
"severity": "P3",
"default_scope": "sentence",
"modes": ["all"],
"description": "Use language-specific style signals as prompts to rethink a sentence, not as mechanical forbidden-word rules."
},
{
"id": "VOICE-007",
"domain": "GENERAL_CORE",
"layer": "VOICE_AND_FORM",
"effect": "keep_guard",
"severity": "P3",
"default_scope": "none",
"modes": ["all"],
"description": "Return KEEP when the original already achieves the communication purpose; do not rewrite to demonstrate activity."
},
{
"id": "VOICE-008",
"domain": "GENERAL_CORE",
"layer": "VOICE_AND_FORM",
"effect": "fix",
"severity": "P1",
"default_scope": "block",
"modes": ["all"],
"description": "Keep constraints backstage unless the reader needs them; use one local qualifier instead of a stack of trailing disclaimers."
},
{
"id": "VOICE-009",
"domain": "GENERAL_CORE",
"layer": "VOICE_AND_FORM",
"effect": "keep_guard",
"severity": "P2",
"default_scope": "none",
"modes": ["all"],
"description": "Preserve supported sharpness, doubt, awkwardness, or an unfinished edge; do not neutralize it or imitate humanity with invented errors and tics."
}
]
}