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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion book/README.md
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### docs/decisions/

- [ADR-001-adopt-bocode.md](docs/decisions/ADR-001-adopt-bocode.md) — We run this repository on the BoCode workflow — book drives code, code writes back, six phases gate every feature
- [ADR-002-adopt-bowrite.md](docs/decisions/ADR-002-adopt-bowrite.md) — We distill shuorenhua plus our own review patterns into bowrite (薄写), an in-repo writing skill — write thin, write well
- [ADR-002-adopt-bowrite.md](docs/decisions/ADR-002-adopt-bowrite.md) — We distill shuorenhua and human-writing plus our own review patterns into bowrite (薄写), an in-repo writing skill — write thin, write well
- [ADR-003-intent-gates-vs-distrust-gates.md](docs/decisions/ADR-003-intent-gates-vs-distrust-gates.md) — We classify workflow gates by justification — intent gates stay hard, distrust gates soften as models improve; Phase 2 approval becomes gap-based stopping
- [ADR-004-template-free-of-instance-records.md](docs/decisions/ADR-004-template-free-of-instance-records.md) — This repository ships template content only — instance working records (notes entries, plans, changelog months) never enter it; a release check enforces the boundary
- [README.md](docs/decisions/README.md) — How to write an ADR here — sections, naming, numbering, and when a decision needs a record
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description: We distill shuorenhua plus our own review patterns into bowrite (薄写), an in-repo writing skill — write thin, write well
description: We distill shuorenhua and human-writing plus our own review patterns into bowrite (薄写), an in-repo writing skill — write thin, write well
---

# ADR-002: Adopt the bowrite writing skill (薄写)
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- The project's review findings now compound into the skill instead of living in one-off fixes
- Three layers must stay distinct: skill = when/how for agents, guideline = what/why for humans, upstream = deep Chinese ruleset — duplication gets reconciled on sight
- The ledger needs curation; entries with no recurrences eventually get folded into the general rules

## Amendment — 2026-10: a second upstream distilled

bowrite now also distills [human-writing](https://github.com/KKKKhazix/human-writing)(MIT,by KKKKhazix), the living-voice creation ruleset. What moved in, each compressed to the skill's thin register:

- **The material gate** — padding is written when material runs out; a from-scratch long draft counts its concrete materials first, and shortage exits are research / ask (≤3 questions) / write shorter, never re-explanation. The 压缩试验 (cut a third, nothing lost ⇒ 注水) is its post-hoc twin.
- **段段有新货** — every paragraph pays new material; re-arguing the previous point in new words fails the deletion test one level up.
- **Voice-and-rhythm craft** — 主干早出, keyword repetition over elegant variation, sentence-length variance, 白话打底.
- **Hard bans scoped to from-scratch public prose only** — pivot scaffolding in any disguise, triple parallelism, lyric verbs on abstract nouns, dash/quote-colon rules, business jargon. Project documents keep their normal rules; the bans never apply to them.

What stays upstream, deliberately: fiction writing, reality-source verification, and the per-format playbooks(知乎 / 公众号 / 口播 / 诗歌……)— BoCode documents don't need them and the skill stays thin. Policy unchanged: reference third-party skills with attribution, never bundle them; the three-layer split holds.
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Everything under `book/` (summary, changelog, learn, issue, task, plans, guidelines, docs) is written the same way: like a specific person speaking in a specific situation — not like a model performing writing. Professional is fine; templated is not.

Three layers carry this standard: the **`bowrite` skill**(薄写 — write thin, write well)is the executable form for agents, distilling [shuorenhua](https://github.com/MrGeDiao/shuorenhua) (source, MIT, by MrGeDiao) together with patterns accumulated in this project's own reviews; the upstream shuorenhua skill goes deepest for Chinese and is worth installing if available; this file is the in-project prose fallback when neither skill is loaded.
Three layers carry this standard: the **`bowrite` skill**(薄写 — write thin, write well)is the executable form for agents, distilling [shuorenhua](https://github.com/MrGeDiao/shuorenhua) (MIT, by MrGeDiao) for cleanup and [human-writing](https://github.com/KKKKhazix/human-writing) (MIT, by KKKKhazix) for the from-scratch gates, together with patterns accumulated in this project's own reviews; the upstreams go deeper(shuorenhua for Chinese cleanup, human-writing for long-form creation)and are worth installing if available; this file is the in-project prose fallback when no skill is loaded.

## Fidelity contract — above any style

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| `bocode` | The entry skill(薄码): structure map and session discipline — read before coding, write back after | Session start in a BoCode repo; questions about where documents go or how the index works |
| `boscope` | The feature-development skill(薄界): Step-0 requirements brief + six hard-gated phases — scope it thin, gate it hard | "Implement / add / support / change X" with a sparse request |
| `book-writeback` | The write-back skill(返写): templates and quality gates for writing back to the book | Feature wrap-up; "write a summary / learn entry / issue" |
| `bowrite` | The writing skill(薄写): write documents thin and well — fewer words, same core, natural voice | Writing or revising any document; drafts that smell templated, translated, or strained |
| `bowrite` | The writing skill(薄写): write documents thin and well — fewer words, same core, natural voice; from-scratch drafts start at the material gate | Writing or revising any document; drafting a document or post from scratch; drafts that smell templated, translated, or strained |

Division of labor: **skills say when and how** (executable behavior for the agent); **`book/guidelines/` says what and why** (reference for humans). They reference each other and never duplicate rules.

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cp -r skills/bocode skills/boscope skills/book-writeback skills/bowrite <your-skills-dir>/
```

`bowrite` distills [shuorenhua](https://github.com/MrGeDiao/shuorenhua) (MIT, by MrGeDiao) together with patterns accumulated in this project's own reviews; for deep Chinese cleanups the upstream skill goes further and is worth installing alongside.
`bowrite` distills two upstreams with attribution kept: [shuorenhua](https://github.com/MrGeDiao/shuorenhua) (MIT, by MrGeDiao) for cleanup, and [human-writing](https://github.com/KKKKhazix/human-writing) (MIT, by KKKKhazix) for the from-scratch gates(材料门槛、段段有新货、成稿禁令)— together with patterns accumulated in this project's own reviews. For deep Chinese cleanups or full long-form creation the upstreams go further and are worth installing alongside.
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name: bowrite
description: BoCode's writing skill (中文名:薄写) — write documents thin and well. Use when writing or revising any book document, README, summary, learn entry, issue, or changelog; when a draft smells like template-speak, translation-ese, or strained cleverness; and whenever text must shrink without losing substance.
description: BoCode's writing skill (中文名:薄写) — write documents thin and well. Use when writing or revising any book document, README, summary, learn entry, issue, or changelog; when a draft smells like template-speak, translation-ese, or strained cleverness; whenever text must shrink without losing substance; and when drafting a document or public post from scratch — the material gate runs before writing.
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# BoWrite(薄写)
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1. **Thin(写薄)**: fewer words, zero information lost.
2. **Well(写好)**: natural, direct, in the reader's language — never clever at the cost of clear.

## The material gate — before any from-scratch draft

Padding is written when material runs out. So the first thinning happens before writing: count what you actually hold — facts, numbers, actions, quotes, links, first-hand results. A long draft (roughly 1,200+ 字) needs enough distinct material to form a real process, not five ways to restate three ideas.

Not enough material? Three exits, in order: research what is public; ask the source (at most three questions, once); write shorter. Never pay length with re-explanations, synonym rounds, or "significance" — that is padding being born. The same test works after drafting(压缩试验): cut a third; if nothing of substance is gone, the draft was 注水.

## The fidelity contract — before any thinning

No rewrite may add facts, drop core facts, or change who is responsible. The following never move:
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## How to write it thin — the method

把书读薄 is a reading craft: strip the book until its skeleton shows, then retell it with the book closed. Writing thin runs the same craft at writing time. Five moves, in order:
把书读薄 is a reading craft: strip the book until its skeleton shows, then retell it with the book closed. Writing thin runs the same craft at writing time. Six moves, in order:

### 1. 提骨架 — extract the skeleton

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Thin it, read it once, close it, retell the core. What you can retell is the core that survived; what you can't means you cut into it — put that back. **内容变少,核心没变——核心保没保住,复述说了算。** This is 把书读薄's own test, applied at writing time.

### 6. 段段有新货 — every paragraph pays new material

Each paragraph must add something the reader didn't have: a fact, an action, an example, a distinction, a consequence. A paragraph that re-argues the previous point in new words fails the deletion test one level up — cut it or merge it. Forward motion comes from material and cause, not from "going deeper" signposts.

### Worked example

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- Found: 引言说"每开一个新会话都从零开始",问题 1 又说"每个会话从零开始"——引言留钩子,事实归问题 1。

## Voice and rhythm — for from-scratch writing

- **Know who is speaking, and why now.** A document has an author with a position: what they did, what they checked, what they are still unsure of. State the load-bearing ones once each; don't perform an author.
- **Answer the reader's next question.** Write each section as the answer to what the previous section raised. Background arrives where it explains a choice — not up front to prove the writer knows a lot.
- **主干早出**: subject and verb before their modifiers. `在经历了长达数年的……以后,最终促使他改变方向的,是一次邀请` → 他折腾了几年没挣到钱;后来老同事找过来,他才换了方向。
- **Repeat the right word.** The keyword stays the keyword(`修表` stays `修表`)— upgrading it to `这门手艺` then `这项技能` is model-speak.
- **Let lengths breathe.** A ten-character sentence next to a forty-character one is human; all-even sentences sound like a machine keeping time. 白话打底 — plain speech carries it; ornate archaism doesn't.

## Hard bans — from-scratch public prose only

A public long-form piece(帖、公众号文章、知乎回答)drafted from scratch clears one stricter layer at delivery, and only there — project documents keep their normal rules(docs use colons and dashes legitimately):

- No pivot scaffolding in any disguise: `不是……而是……`、`并非……而是……`、`与其说……不如说……`、`看似……实则……`、`你以为……其实……` — give the judgment from the front, then the grounds (ledger #3 is the cleanup-side version).
- No parallel runs of three or more; two is the limit, the third changes shape or goes.
- No lyric verbs on abstract nouns — time doesn't 保管 details, anxiety has no shape.
- No `——`; colons only to introduce a direct quote(`一句话总结:` is banned).
- No business-report jargon: `赋能、抓手、闭环、底层逻辑、颗粒度、组合拳` → people, actions, money, time, consequences.

## Read-back — three passes before done

1. **Fidelity**: protected spans intact, no facts lost, terms stable, nothing reads broken after the cuts.
2. **Thinness**: what got removed — words, or information? Content shrinks, core doesn't. If the core shrank, put it back.
3. **Residue** (only if it still smells): openers, summary-closers, emphasis formulas, cleverness, over-even rhythm.
4. **From-scratch deliverables** (public prose drafted here): the material gate was passed before writing, forward motion holds(段段有新货), and the hard bans are clear.

The finish line is "ready to send" — not "sounds human". Stop there.

## Standing on shuorenhua
## Standing on shuorenhua and human-writing

BoWrite distills [shuorenhua](https://github.com/MrGeDiao/shuorenhua)(MIT,by MrGeDiao)— the fuller plain-language ruleset, especially for Chinese — together with patterns accumulated in this project's own reviews. For deep Chinese cleanups the upstream skill goes further; `book/guidelines/writing-style.md` is the prose fallback inside every project.
BoWrite distills two upstreams, attribution kept: [shuorenhua](https://github.com/MrGeDiao/shuorenhua)(MIT,by MrGeDiao)— the fuller plain-language ruleset, especially for Chinese cleanup — and [human-writing](https://github.com/KKKKhazix/human-writing)(MIT,by KKKKhazix)— the living-voice creation ruleset, from which the material gate, 段段有新货, voice-and-rhythm craft, and the from-scratch hard bans are distilled. Patterns from this project's own reviews ride on top. For deep Chinese cleanup or full long-form creation the upstreams go further and are worth installing alongside; `book/guidelines/writing-style.md` is the prose fallback inside every project.
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