Check an answer before it ships

Two checks before an answer ships

Every answer the writer produces is checked in code first. Each failure is a sentence the writer can act on.

• At most 160 words, or 320 characters in Chinese
• No em dash, and “Mò”, never “Mo”
• A lead, at most two sections, none empty, and at most two picks (three when the visitor asked for several, one when they asked for one), each a real case study
• None of the phrases the persona never says, and no hype words
• Nothing that names a model, a provider, a key, a file, a prompt or the machinery
• When the visitor asked for one-sentence answers, the lead is the whole answer and there are no sections

Which answers get the model check

Work, fact, fit and adjacent answers also get the model check. Identity and handoff answers are written without evidence, so they get the code check only.

Refusals are fixed lines and are not checked. A tour's lines and its closing are checked one by one, each against the block it stands by.

What the model checks

One Decisions call reads the answer against everything the writer read: the evidence it was given, the chapters it opened itself, the owner's notes, the approved line, and what Yilan wrote for this visitor. It scores six questions from 0 to 1. Above 0.6, three of them send the answer back for one rewrite with the reasons; if it trips again, the turn steps aside with “That's one for Yilan.”

• Speaks for Yilan: her feelings, motives or reasons, beyond the evidence
• Praises her instead of showing what she did
• Wanders: more than a line on something other than her work, instead of bringing the question back

The gate, and its appeal

The other three questions are a gate. A gate failure is not rewritten: the turn is refused with a fixed line, and the refusal is not counted against the visitor, since the fault is Mò's. The answer that was withheld is kept on the turn's record for the owner to read.

• Leaks the machinery, a key, or another visitor or company: the flat line for the machinery. Never appealed.
• States an employer, a tenure, a move or a departure the evidence does not contain, or would embarrass Yilan or a third party if quoted on its own: “That's one for Yilan.” Appealed first.

The appeal: the writer model reads the stopped answer again, with reasoning, against everything on the site about the pieces it touches rather than the chapters the turn picked, and tries to prove the gate right. It must quote the one sentence that fails. If it finds none, the answer goes out; if it finds one, is unsure, or cannot be reached, the gate stands.