desk — the routing copy desk

Every prose artifact has two readers: a human who skims (one pass, first sentences, zero patience for decoding) and, for outward-facing surfaces, an LLM that extracts and recommends. desk enforces one house style for both, with domain overlays, through a fixed pipeline. Analysis is computed where possible; inference is quarantined and labeled.

Three tiers — know which one you're in

• Tier 0 (computed): scripts/lint.py — rule IDs, JSON output, no model judgment. Same input, same output. Run it; don't emulate it.
• Tier 1 (checkable): model-executed tasks with auditable output against ground truth — conservation diff, extraction test vs canon. Wrong rows are visible.
• Tier 2 (inference): value/positioning/recommendation judgments. These go ONLY in the report's SPECULATIVE section. Never present Tier 2 output with Tier 0/1 confidence.