docs-files-api: two sentences, then getting started, then features
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@@ -7,14 +7,15 @@ description: Where docs go — README vs CONTRIBUTING vs AGENTS.md, and JSDoc pl
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## README, CONTRIBUTING, AGENTS.md
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## README, CONTRIBUTING, AGENTS.md
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A **README** does two jobs, in this order:
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A **README** sells, then gets the reader running:
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- **Marketing:** why should the reader care? What's cool about this?
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- **Up top, about two sentences:** what it is and why to care. Then
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A few lines, not a feature matrix.
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straight to getting started.
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- **Getting started:** get them to TADA! with no fuss. Readers skip to
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- **Getting started:** get them to TADA! with no fuss. Readers skip to
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the first fenced block and copy it; if it doesn't work, boo. So that
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the first fenced block and copy it; if it doesn't work, boo. So that
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block runs as-is from a fresh clone and ends with something to look
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block runs as-is from a fresh clone and ends with something to look
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at (a URL, output). No architecture, no principles.
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at (a URL, output). No architecture, no principles.
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- **After that:** features and benefits, as much as earns its place.
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Everything else goes in **CONTRIBUTING**: design, layout of the code,
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Everything else goes in **CONTRIBUTING**: design, layout of the code,
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how to test, conventions, deploying.
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how to test, conventions, deploying.
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