# EDITORIAL GUIDELINES — AI Enthusiast Daily

Derived from VISION_LOCK_V1.md and ADR-0007. These are the operating rules for every edition, human- or machine-assisted.

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## The One Test

> **What would an AI enthusiast DO after reading this?**

If the honest answer is **Nothing**, the story does not belong in the publication. No exceptions for "it's a big deal" or "everyone's talking about it."

## Publish Lean

Default toward stories where the reader walks away able to:
- **install** something (open-source tool, model, agent)
- **benchmark** something (real numbers, reproducible method)
- **run** something locally (Ollama, llama.cpp, GGUF, self-host)
- **replicate** a result (code, weights, config)
- **learn** a technique (production war story, failure post-mortem)
- **build with** it (agent infra, framework, pipeline)

## Reject Default

Reject by default when the story is:
- A lawsuit or legal filing (unless it changes what a builder can ship)
- A funding round or valuation (money moved, no capability changed)
- A CEO / exec opinion or take (someone said something)
- A celebrity or consumer AI culture piece (glasses, ads, vibes)
- A corporate feature announcement with no reproducible substance
- A pure market / stock / IPO item

## Section Fit (see SECTION_DEFINITIONS.md)

Every published story must map to exactly one section. If it fits none, it's either UNCATEGORIZED-by-design (hold) or a reject.

## Score Is Not Taste

The `final_score` from Sprint 1 is a **draft signal only**. It was built to be debugged, not trusted. Editorial judgment — the One Test — overrides any number. A 0.50 local-AI benchmark may ship; a 0.29 culture piece may not.

## Hand-Before-Machine

No automation may publish. Automation may *propose*; the human editor *confirms*. The founder rule stands: "Publish? [Y/N] — Not algorithmic. Human review only."

## Memory Rule

When future memory / knowledge-graph components land, they must record **what a reader can do** with a development — not a summary of the development. "Qwen3.6-27B runs on 4×5060Ti at INT8" is memory. "Qwen released a model" is not.
