Final wording: the reserved-directive refusal row, the adf:-alone fence, the changelog's carry and scope, the developer panel, the migration's empty shape

AGENTS.md

@@ -175,8 +175,8 @@ settle it; otherwise four more read, five of seven settle it, and less is a miss
 The verdict lands in `docs/decisions.md`.
 
 A writer panel settles every new or changed markdown or HTML spelling: a reader panel whose readers
-are the people who read and write that format (README `## Audience`). A question about what an app
-relies on goes to the developer personas instead.
+are the people who read and write that format (README `## Audience`). A panel of the developer
+personas settles a question about what an app relies on.
 
 ### Stated numbers
 

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -5,20 +5,18 @@
 - **Breaking:** directives, the inline opaque carry among them (now `!adf:carry{json="…"}`), are
   spelled under an `!adf:` prefix (`!adf:name … !adf:/name`, `!adf:name[content]{attrs}`,
   `!adf:name arg {attrs}`) in place of the `:::`/`::`/`:name` forms: text holding an unescaped
-  `!adf:` is claimed, and `adf` is an ordinary code block language. Convert stored markdown per
-  `MIGRATION.md`.
+  `!adf:` is claimed. Convert stored markdown per `MIGRATION.md`.
 - **Breaking:** the block carry is a code fence whose info string `adf:<type>` names the node's
   type, its body the node's JSON without `type`, and a code fence whose info string opens `adf:` is
-  claimed. Convert stored markdown per `MIGRATION.md`.
+  claimed, and `adf` is an ordinary code block language. Convert stored markdown per `MIGRATION.md`.
 - **Breaking:** `markdownToAdf` and `plainMarkdownToAdf` read markdown holding no block as a
   document whose `content` is empty, as Atlassian's schema requires; `!adf:doc {content=none}`
   spells a document holding no `content` key.
-- `markdownToAdf(adfToMarkdown(doc))` deep-equals `doc` as JSON, for a document of plain objects as
-  `JSON.parse` builds them: two adjacent text nodes CommonMark would read back as one are parted by
-  `!adf:textBreak{}`, an empty `attrs`, `content` or `marks` is spelled `{attrs=empty}`,
-  `{content=empty}` or `{marks=empty}`, `-0` is spelled `-0`, and a `codeBlock` of several text
-  nodes is a fence per node. A `codeBlock` holding other than plain text nodes rides the block
-  carry, where it was refused.
+- `markdownToAdf(adfToMarkdown(doc))` deep-equals `doc` as `JSON.parse` builds it: two adjacent text
+  nodes CommonMark would read back as one are parted by `!adf:textBreak{}`, an empty `attrs`,
+  `content` or `marks` is spelled `{attrs=empty}`, `{content=empty}` or `{marks=empty}`, `-0` is
+  spelled `-0`, and a `codeBlock` of several text nodes is a fence per node. A `codeBlock` holding
+  other than plain text nodes rides the block carry, where it was refused.
 - **Breaking:** `unspellable-link` leaves `ConvertErrorCode`; a link whose `href` or `title` no
   CommonMark escape spells is written as `!adf:link[text]{attrs}`.
 - **Breaking:** some directive refusals carry `malformed-directive` where they carried

MIGRATION.md

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ turning each directive into text and each carried node into an `adf` code block.
 reads any `0.1.0` markdown, convert what is stored or in flight (an open editor, a queue) with the
 recipe below, and rewrite markdown your code writes or matches (templates, prompts, patterns) by the
 tables below. Stored ADF needs one change: give a document holding no `content` key `content: []`.
-`0.1.0` read empty markdown to that shape, meaning the empty document.
+`0.1.0` built that shape from empty markdown, meaning the empty document.
 
 ### Convert markdown
 

README.md

@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ emit refuses:
 | `unspellable-line-start` | a paragraph line begins with a code span whose backticks would read back as a code fence | put any text before the code span |
 | `unspellable-whitespace` | an `emoji`, `mention` or `status` holds a newline in the text its inline directive spells in the content slot | replace it with a space — an inline directive never spans lines |
 | `unsupported-nesting-depth` | blocks, marks, an attribute's JSON or a carried node's JSON nest past 500 levels | keep the ADF and pass the document over, or show it read-only; flatten the input where you are the one who wrote it |
-| `unsupported-node-shape` | a node carries an attribute, value, argument or body its type does not take, or lacks one it needs — or markdown writes as a directive a node or mark the lossless flavour spells as CommonMark, or a reserved directive (`!adf:textBreak{}`, `!adf:listBreak`, `!adf:doc`) stands where it parts nothing | make the edit the message opens with; `spec/flavour.md` lists every type's attributes and body |
+| `unsupported-node-shape` | a node carries an attribute, value, argument or body its type does not take, or lacks one it needs — or markdown writes as a directive a node or mark the lossless flavour spells as CommonMark, or a reserved directive stands out of place: `!adf:textBreak{}` or `!adf:listBreak` parting nothing, `!adf:doc` beside another block | fix what the message names, or give the node the shape it names; `spec/flavour.md` lists every type's attributes and body |
 
 ## The guarantees
 

docs/decisions.md

@@ -110,9 +110,9 @@ node's JSON without `type`: ```` ```adf:blockCard ````. A type no info string ca
 rule a code language follows — leaves the info string `adf:` and keeps `type` in the body. Every
 info string opening `adf:` is reserved, so a `codeBlock` whose language opens so takes the
 `language` attribute, and `carry` is an ordinary language. A body holding `type` under a named type,
-or a bare `adf:` fence whose body's `type` an info string could carry, is `unsupported-node-shape`.
-The reservation claims a fence CommonMark reads as code until `todo.md` item 43 gives CommonMark its
-own reader.
+or a fence whose info string is `adf:` alone while its body's `type` could be spelled in the info
+string, is `unsupported-node-shape`. The reservation claims a fence CommonMark reads as code until
+`todo.md` item 43 gives CommonMark its own reader.
 
 ## A code block is a fence per text node
 

spec/flavour.md

@@ -181,8 +181,9 @@ product). Block and inline positions canonicalize differently, each fitting wher
 - **Block position**: a fenced code block with info string `adf:` and the node's type, body = the
   node's JSON without its `type` — two-space indent, object keys sorted: ```` ```adf:blockCard ````.
   A type no info string carries back, by the rule a `codeBlock`'s language follows, leaves the info
-  string `adf:` and keeps `type` in the body. A body holding `type` under a named type, or a bare
-  `adf:` fence whose body's `type` an info string could carry, is a named error.
+  string `adf:` and keeps `type` in the body. A body holding `type` under a named type, or a fence
+  whose info string is `adf:` alone while its body's `type` could be spelled in the info string, is
+  a named error.
 - **Inline position**: `!adf:carry{json="…"}` — compact serialization (keys sorted, no whitespace),
   JSON-string-escaped into the attribute.
 

src/conformance/property-harness.ts

@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ function heldAttributes(held: Readonly<Record<string, JsonValue | undefined>>):
   return attrs
 }
 
-// An empty attrs, content or marks key, and adjacent text a reader would merge, stay occasional: each takes a spelling outside CommonMark.
+// An empty attrs, content or marks key, and adjacent text CommonMark would read back as one, stay occasional: each takes a spelling outside CommonMark.
 // The copy gives fast-check's null-prototype records the prototype a parsed node has.
 function occasionallyEmpty<T extends AdfMark | AdfNode>(arbitrary: Arbitrary<T>): Arbitrary<T> {
   return fc.tuple(arbitrary, fc.nat({ max: 9 })).map(([held, roll]) => (roll === 0 ? { ...held } : withoutEmptyKeys(held)))