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title: The site's principles and content rules (including: no "rungs")
created: 2026-09-25T12:05:00Z
priority: high
type: task
owner: editor.desk
source: admin/inbox/2026-09-25__notes-from-the-flight.md
parent: 004-content-and-editorial
estimated_effort: small
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# The site's principles and content rules (including: no "rungs")

Write `brief/07-principles.md`: the reader (human or agent) first; the site scales communication and shared
memory across a growing team of people and agents; fact-based Journalist, perspective from the Historian,
maps from the Cartographer; shipped and proposed apart; every claim cited; words to avoid ("rung(s)":
say "level" or "step"). The validator warns on the banned words in desk files. Link it from About and the
desks' prompts.