brenbuilds1/skills/ste-audit

STE Audit

Audit text against ASD-STE100 (Issue 9, January 2025). A memory line or writer skill sets the style; this verifies it, with rule numbers and quotes.

Scope: structural rules only. Dictionary rules (1.2, 1.3: approved words, approved meanings) need the STE dictionary, which is ASD copyright and not bundled here. Free copy: request form on asd-ste100.org.

Modes

• Procedural (instructions to act): 20 words max per sentence.
• Descriptive (everything else): 25 words max per sentence.
• Ambiguous sentence: judge at 25 and mark it in the row.

Method

1. Collect the assistant's responses in order, or a file the user names.

Exempt from all checks: code blocks, commands, file paths, URLs, quoted error text.

1. Split into sentences and paragraphs. Words are whitespace tokens; a

hyphenated word counts as one.

1. Check each sentence against the table.
2. Report every violation: verbatim quote + rule number.
3. Trend violations per response, first to last.
4. Verdict, drift start point, worst sentence.

Checks

Report

| where | quote | rule | violation |
|---|---|---|---|
| r4 s2 | "the config that was being generated by the daemon" | 3.6 | passive, agent known |
| r7 s1 | 31 words | 6.3 | descriptive cap is 25 |
| r7 s4 | "long running background task execution queue" | 2.1 | five-word noun cluster |
| r9 s3 | "consider leveraging incremental checkpointing" | 3.5 | -ing verb, not a technical noun |

| response | sentences | violations | rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| r1 | 6 | 0 | 0% |
| r5 | 9 | 2 | 22% |
| r9 | 14 | 6 | 43% |

Verdicts: holding (rate flat, near zero), drifting (rate climbing), gone (violations in the majority). End with the response where drift started and the worst sentence in the session.

Hard Rules

• Report only. Never rewrite the audited text.
• Every violation quotes the text verbatim. No receipt, no row.
• Rule numbers cite Issue 9. Unsure means say unsure; never invent a rule

number.

• Never bundle, quote at length, or reconstruct the STE dictionary.
• Code, commands, error strings, quotes: always exempt.