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Writing Style

How we write technical texts — language, tone, and structure

A semantic contract: vocabulary your project supplies itself — ready to drop into your CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md.

    Writing follows Gutes Deutsch nach Wolf Schneider (or Plain English according to Strunk & White).

    Additionally:

  • Technical terms stay in English (LLM, Prompt, Token, Spec, etc.)
  • Address the reader directly, use first person sparingly but deliberately
  • Use analogies to human thinking to explain technical concepts
  • One thought per paragraph (5-8 sentences is fine)
  • Section headings are statements, not topic announcements
  • First sentence says what the paragraph is about
  • Show code and prompts, don't just claim things work
  • Conclusions make a clear statement — never end with 'it remains exciting'

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