docs-standards

To enforce consistent documentation standards, apply the Microsoft Style Guide rules alongside Squad-specific formatting patterns. This ensures sentence-case headings, active voice, and scannable layouts across all product pages, guides, and references.

The Microsoft Style Guide for technical documentation defines writing conventions like sentence-case headings, active voice, second person, present tense, and no ampersands in prose. Applying these rules makes your docs predictable and easy to maintain.

Structure a SKILL.md file by enforcing frontmatter presence with name and description, plus a three-section description pattern. Add scannability-first layouts, experimental warnings, and cross-references at the bottom to improve onboarding.

Yes, this documentation style guide works for Squad project references and scenarios. It applies standardized patterns to all product docs pages, ensuring naming and structure conformance to improve discoverability across your project.

The best way to make technical documentation scannable is to apply a scannability-first layout using Squad-specific patterns. Include "Try this" prompts, experimental warnings, and cross-references at the bottom to accelerate authoring and review.

Squad project docs suffer from onboarding friction due to inconsistent documentation styles. Codifying Microsoft Style Guide conventions combined with Squad-specific patterns ensures docs are predictable, scannable, and easy to maintain.