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+name: hypertext-links
+description: Writing style for links in markdown docs — use when writing or reviewing any doc with URLs to external pages, repo files, or intra-repo documents; enforces descriptive link text over bare/generic links.
+---
+
+# Hypertext Links
+
+Markdown link style, from the
+[Prism research doc style guide](https://github.com/dckc/prism/blob/master/docs/research/STYLE.md).
+
+## No bare URLs
+
+Every URL is wrapped: `[descriptive text](url)`. A raw URL pasted inline
+fails review, even in comments and commit messages.
+
+## Link text carries information scent
+
+Anchor text must be **descriptive**, **frontloaded** (first two words do
+the scanning work — users read those first), and **context-free**
+(intelligible without the surrounding sentence). Generic labels fail:
+"here", "read more", "click here", or a raw filename where a concept was
+meant.
+
+- Yes: `[the Passable datatype design](01-passable-datatype.md)`
+- No: `[01-passable-datatype.md](01-passable-datatype.md)`
+- No: `[read more](...)`
+
+## Citations: metadata outside the link
+
+Date/author/version goes outside the link text; reference lists sort
+newest first; the title (in quotes) is the primary link for papers.
+
+```markdown
+- [Introducing Prism](https://example.com/prism) — example.com, 2025
+- 2019 — Clebsch et al. ["Protocols for Concurrent Reference Counting"](https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2019.25). _OOPSLA 2019._
+```
+
+## Metadata headers are bullet lists
+
+Not `**Label**: [link](...)` — just bullets:
+
+```markdown
+- [Akka Core documentation](https://doc.akka.io/libraries/akka-core/current/)
+```
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