Standards Index¶
Standards are concrete, checkable rules — naming conventions, required document sections, formatting requirements, baseline quality bars. Where a policy in docs/company/ or docs/governance/ states a principle, a standard here states the corresponding rule in a form that can be checked, ideally by tooling in scripts/.
Company-wide vs. venture-specific standards¶
The standards in this directory apply across every venture. They set a floor, not a ceiling: a venture may adopt additional, stricter, or more specific standards of its own, kept under ventures/<slug>/docs/standards/. A venture-specific standard may extend a company-wide one (for example, a Digital Products-specific product specification template that adds workbook-specific sections) but may not weaken or contradict it. If a venture-specific standard and a company-wide standard conflict, the company-wide standard governs — see docs/governance/authority-and-inheritance.md.
Documents¶
writing-and-documentation-standard.md— how documentation in this repository should be written.naming-standard.md— file naming, document IDs, ADR numbering, venture/product/component slugs.product-specification-standard.md— the required baseline structure for any product specification.component-specification-standard.md— the required structure for any reusable component specification.quality-assurance-standard.md— general QA expectations before a product is considered release-ready.accessibility-standard.md— baseline accessibility principles across ventures and formats.security-and-privacy-standard.md— baseline security and privacy rules.external-research-standard.md— how to cite external research and evidence.commercial-claims-standard.md— rules for making claims about product features and performance.dependency-and-tooling-standard.md— preference for minimal dependencies in repository tooling.archival-and-retention-standard.md— how superseded documents are archived, never silently deleted.