Stylebook

Background

Code ships through linters - a convention is written down once and enforced every time after. The writing agents produce has no such gate: house style lives in a reviewer's head, and every sentence that leaves it costs a rereading.

The first stylebook is a real convention - a Korean conglomerate's IR house style, the dense bilingual register of corporate decks, where the same term has to land the same way in both languages every time.

What it is

Three parts. A bilingual taxonomy of canonical English-Korean term pairs - finance first, 209 terms across 23 category shards - that agents look up on demand; the lookup index is generated from the shards, so it can never drift from its source.

The stylebook itself - the convention written as rules rather than taste. And a linter that judges agent writing against stylebook and taxonomy both - so style becomes a gate the writing passes, not a debt the reviewer pays.

Stylebooks are meant to shelve: the Korean IR convention is the first, and other stylebooks for different languages and documents are coming - one linter, a book of rules per style.

It closes the loop folio 01 opened. Doc Review is where I review what agents wrote; this holds how they wrote it. Style is enforced before review, and review spends where it should - on content.

In the works

In progress on the private side - the convention, the taxonomy, and the judge run against real deck work. Worked examples land here as they become shareable: before-and-after sentences, and the lint verdicts that moved them.