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  "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."
    }
  ]
}