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description: Enforce shape, scope, and success criterion for authoring convention files
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  - 'standards/**/*.md'
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# Standard authoring standards

## Authority

- Follow the standard-authoring standard for a standard's frontmatter, shape, scope, and success criterion. It is the single source. Read it with `aitk standards standard`.
- Read it before writing or editing a standard. Do not work the shape from memory.