house-style

name	house-style
description	The editorial and finishing preferences this project's work is judged against — cut rhythm, shot selection, delivery conventions, and the corrections that have already been given. Load before assembling, restructuring, or refining any cut so the same note does not have to be given twice.
user-invocable	false

House Style

The craft guides in docs/guides/ describe editing in general. This file describes how this editor wants it done — the accumulated, specific corrections that would otherwise have to be repeated every session.

Read it before any edit task. Append to it whenever a correction is given.

The capture protocol

This file is only worth what gets written into it. When the user corrects an editorial decision — rejects a cut, changes a shot choice, adjusts a duration, says "not like that" — do not just fix it. Fix it, then add the rule here.

A useful entry has three parts:

• The rule, stated as an instruction, not an observation.
• Why, in the user's terms — what it was in service of.
• The trap, if there is one: what makes it easy to get wrong.

Write rules that are falsifiable. "Cut on motion" is a rule; "make it feel dynamic" is not. If a correction is one-off and situational, it does not belong here — this file is for what generalizes.

When an entry turns out to be wrong or too broad, edit it. A stale rule confidently followed is worse than no rule.

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Pacing and rhythm

Not yet captured.

Shot selection

Not yet captured.

Cut points