commons-writing

name	commons-writing
description	Write, revise, outline, or review The Commons Framework content. Use when Codex is working in the commons-framework repo or asked to draft or edit Commons chapters, shared-life moral framework prose, household/community/institutional stewardship content, repair and inheritance standards, or consistency with Ethosism house style.

Commons Writing

Core Workflow

When working in the Commons Framework repo, first read the available guidance in this order:

1. agents.md for the repo goal and agent-level direction.
2. docs/writing-guide.md for the moral method, voice, chapter pattern, and consistency checks.
3. chapters/00-introduction.md and any chapters adjacent to the requested topic for house style.
4. src/LINEAR-FRAMEWORK.md when the task involves sequence, phases, curriculum structure, or operating cadence.

If the repo root is unclear, locate it by finding a project with README.md, chapters/, and docs/writing-guide.md.

Writing Standard

Treat the Commons Framework as a secular, non-theological companion to Ethosism for shared life. Ground moral claims in:

• Objective reality: likely real-world consequences in households, communities, organizations, institutions, and civic life.
• Reciprocity: whether the rule remains fair under role reversal, especially for weaker or less powerful people.
• Stewardship: whether the shared good is maintained, improved, protected, and made usable by others.
• Repair: whether harm, negligence, conflict, or failure is addressed truthfully and proportionally.
• Inheritance: whether the pattern remains defensible across years, decades, and future generations.

Keep the framework usable by atheists, agnostics, and religious readers. Do not make the argument depend on divine command, scripture, clergy, afterlife, karma, supernatural reward, partisan loyalty, or any single theology.

Drafting Chapters

For new chapter drafts:

1. Define the shared-life domain and why it matters.
2. Name the common failure mode.
3. State the Commons standard for the domain.
4. Show why the standard follows from reality, reciprocity, stewardship, repair, and inheritance.
5. Address tradeoffs, edge cases, or predictable objections.
6. End with a concise behavioral expectation or decision standard.
7. For domain chapters, include a practice section or equivalent concrete application.

Use clear essay prose. Prefer concrete claims and practical judgment over slogans, self-help hype, civic romanticism, academic abstraction, partisan signaling, or sermon-like intensity.

Revising Chapters

For edits to existing prose:

• Preserve the author's core claim unless asked to rethink it.
• Tighten vague inspiration into concrete standards.
• Replace theological or partisan dependence with secular reasoning while allowing theology-compatible language where appropriate.
• Make unsupported moral claims explain consequences, reciprocity, stewardship, repair, and long-term inheritance.
• Calibrate empirical claims to the evidence, especially in chapters about institutions, parenting, technology, public attention, risk, education, or the environment.
• Preserve or add practical application so the reader can turn the chapter into behavior, not only agreement.
• Keep the manuscript voice sober, direct, morally serious, and adult.

Reviewing Chapters

For review-only requests, lead with the highest-impact issues:

• Theological dependence, partisan framing, or culture-war shorthand.
• Moral claims asserted without a reality or reciprocity argument.
• Contradictions with shared reality, stewardship, repair, or inheritance.
• Advice that rewards selfishness, exploitation, negligence, evasion, institutional opacity, or revenge.
• Tone drift into marketing, outrage, vague inspiration, or academic abstraction.

Give file and line references when reviewing local files. Keep suggested rewrites short unless the user asks for a full rewrite.

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