{
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "receipt_id": "par_public_writing_v0_3_2026_09_17",
  "supersedes": "par_public_writing_2026_09_17",
  "need": "Review every public human-readable surface while keeping imported prose, factual claims, and deterministic runtime behavior outside editorial-tool authority.",
  "artifact_role": "public_surface_editorial_review",
  "discovery": {
    "queries": [
      "First Reader context-free repository review",
      "ZeroSlop 2.12.1 local formal prose scorer",
      "public documentation surface inventory",
      "generated documentation and imported upstream prose boundary"
    ],
    "stop_condition": "The existing pinned tools covered first-impression, wayfinding, lexical, structural, copy-desk, read-aloud, and fresh-eyes review without adding a runtime dependency or hosted prose service."
  },
  "contenders": [
    {
      "name": "First Reader in Shubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps at f163bb5a92111cee4610ac98e5dce4c6a2a09c26",
      "disposition": "adopt-review-technique",
      "evidence": [
        "Apache-2.0 parent repository",
        "fresh skimmer, skeptical, sympathetic, recall, trust, and wayfinding roles",
        "the v0.3.0 README review found that readers understood the opening but left when audit machinery displaced a concrete next step",
        "no runtime or package dependency"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "ZeroSlop 2.12.1 at 98e34b5cddbafdb25bff385d046fe0cef4d05fad",
      "disposition": "adopt-review-technique",
      "evidence": [
        "MIT",
        "local formal-prose scorer plus required performed-register and fidelity passes",
        "baseline review showed low mechanical scores on authored pages but exposed delayed payoff and repeated audit-first structure",
        "no hosted rewrite call, runtime dependency, or score-based release gate"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Vale 3.21.0 and vale-action 3.0.0",
      "disposition": "retain",
      "evidence": [
        "deterministic offline project-owned rules",
        "expanded from a few entrypoints to every hand-authored public Markdown file",
        "generated pages remain bounded to project-owned frames rather than imported descriptions"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Model-authored facts or automatic rewriting",
      "disposition": "reject",
      "evidence": [
        "can weaken qualifiers or invent support",
        "cannot own receipts, hashes, statuses, or public claims",
        "would make prose tooling part of the product trust boundary"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "hard_gates": [
    "facts and qualifiers remain traceable to repository evidence",
    "First Reader sees no author intent, scores, or proposed revisions before reporting",
    "ZeroSlop runs locally in formal mode and its score is never presented as authorship probability",
    "imported upstream descriptions remain unchanged",
    "generated surfaces are reviewed at generator, schema, representative output, and deterministic diff boundaries",
    "the product runtime and canonical state remain model-free",
    "hosted rewriting services receive no unpublished repository prose"
  ],
  "unknowns": [
    "Simulated reader responses are hypotheses rather than measured user behavior.",
    "The current catalog audience spans casual browsers and evidence-focused operators, so one page cannot optimize equally for both.",
    "Additional reader testing may reveal that collection names or status labels need plainer alternatives."
  ],
  "decision_effect": "Use First Reader on first-contact and journey-level surfaces; use ZeroSlop on all hand-authored public prose, captured CLI help, and project-owned generator wording; retain Vale and deterministic rendering for repeatable checks. Lead with browse, try, or install outcomes and move operator evidence one layer deeper without removing it.",
  "reconsider_when": [
    "A new public surface has no route in the review matrix",
    "Reader reviews repeatedly fail to find the browse, no-authentication, or verified-install path",
    "ZeroSlop or Vale produces repeated false positives that encourage loss of precise technical meaning",
    "The generator begins importing prose from a new source class",
    "The editorial workflow can no longer run without sending unpublished prose to a hosted service"
  ],
  "observed_at": "2026-09-17T18:00:00Z"
}