Proves the style-guide set covers every prose-bearing artifact type in the workspace with the fewest guides. Source of truth for the taxonomy: conventions/artifact-classification.yaml (and artifact-registry.md). Each prose artifact maps to exactly one register guide. The three house profiles are audience specializations of the reference guide, not extra registers.

Covering set — five register guides

GuideRegister / Diátaxis typeGoverns (artifact types)
referenceEncyclopedic reference + explanation; neutralPROSE-TOPIC, PROSE-ARCHITECTURE, PROSE-RESEARCH, PROSE-TEXT, PROSE-README, PROSE-INVENTORY, changelog, DESIGN-RESEARCH
how-toOperational / procedural; Diátaxis how-toPROSE-GUIDE, RUNBOOK, PROSE-DIRECTIVE
communicationsInstitutional communicationsCOMMS-ANNOUNCEMENT, COMMS-PRESS, COMMS-CORPORATE, COMMS-EMAIL, COMMS-NOTES, PROSE-MEMO, chat, ticket-comment
legalPlain-language legal / governanceLEGAL-MANIFEST, LEGAL-DISCLAIMER, LEGAL-CORRECTIONS, contract, CLA, terms, policy, license-explainer
journalAcademic prose; peer-reviewed / self-published complete-idea papersJOURNAL

Three house profilesdocumentation, corporate, projects — specialize the reference guide for each wiki's audience and subject. They govern the wiki TOPIC/GUIDE/ARCHITECTURE work and point back to the reference and how-to guides for craft.

Full artifact enumeration (from artifact-classification.yaml)

Artifact typeProse?Assigned guide
PROSE-TOPIC (TOPIC-)yesreference (+ wiki house profile)
PROSE-ARCHITECTUREyesreference (+ documentation profile)
PROSE-GUIDE (GUIDE-)yeshow-to (+ documentation profile)
RUNBOOK-yeshow-to
PROSE-DIRECTIVEyeshow-to
PROSE-RESEARCHyesreference
PROSE-TEXT (TEXT-)yesreference
PROSE-READMEyesreference
PROSE-INVENTORYyesreference
PROSE-MEMOyescommunications
changelogyesreference
COMMS-ANNOUNCEMENT / -PRESS / -CORPORATE / -EMAIL / -NOTESyescommunications
chat, ticket-commentyescommunications
JOURNAL-yesjournal
LEGAL-MANIFEST / -DISCLAIMER / -CORRECTIONSyeslegal
contract, CLA, terms, policy, license-explaineryeslegal
TRANSLATE-ESyesgoverned by the source artifact's guide + the bilingual-adaptation note in house-core
DESIGN-RESEARCHyesreference
DESIGN-COMPONENTmicrocopy onlyout of scope — UI/ARIA text owned by project-design accessibility docs
DESIGN-TOKEN-* / DESIGN-WIREFRAME / ASSETnoout of scope — visual/binary
BIM-yes, but foreign gatewayadopts the reference guide; owned by project-bim (bim.woodfinegroup.com)
LICENSE-standard textout of scope as authored prose — canonical licence files; the explanation of a licence is license-explainer → legal
CODE-, SOFT-, DATA-, SCRIPT-, CONFIG-noout of scope — code / data / binary
CONVENTION-, DOCTRINE-AMENDMENT-yes, governance proseadopt the reference guide's craft; owned by Command Session (workspace docs), not published

Gaps and decisions

  • No prose artifact type is left ungoverned. Every yes row maps to exactly one guide.
  • JOURNAL is its own register — reversal, 2026-07-01. The earlier decision kept JOURNAL inside the reference guide as an academic-variant section to hold the set minimal; that is reversed as of 2026-07-01, because a JOURNAL is a distinct kind — a complete idea argued end to end for an external venue, not a lookup artifact. Its extra discipline (literature review, external submission, natural-person authors) still lives in conventions/journal-artifact-discipline.md, which the journal guide points to.
  • TRANSLATE-ES is not a register — a translated artifact follows its source artifact's guide plus the shared bilingual-adaptation note, so it needs no guide of its own.
  • CONVENTION / DOCTRINE-AMENDMENT are governance prose owned by the Command Session; they adopt the reference guide's craft but are not part of the published bundle set.
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