https://mnstry.org/topics/honest-claims/ An honest claim is a harder document to write than either an evasion or a data dump, and it is the only one of the three that survives a second year. These articles walk what it contains, from the difference between a promise and a passing arrangement to the direction a system's failures fall. The order runs outward: what you say, whether anything backs it, where it stops, how it is presented, and what happens on the worst day. https://mnstry.org/writing/guarantees-not-shapes/ https://mnstry.org/writing/guarantees-not-shapes/ The test that separates a promise from machinery, and what it costs to publish the wrong one. The canonical treatment of the guarantee test. Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://mnstry.org/writing/candor-about-enforcement/ https://mnstry.org/writing/candor-about-enforcement/ Why an advisory rule said honestly outperforms an advisory rule said quietly, from two web protocols with the same architecture and opposite reputations. The canonical treatment of the requested constraint. Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://mnstry.org/writing/what-your-claim-excludes/ https://mnstry.org/writing/what-your-claim-excludes/ The case for stating the edge of a protection claim in the claim itself, drawn from a company's list of words it forbids its own marketing. The canonical treatment of prohibited vocabulary. Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://mnstry.org/writing/the-exclusions-are-the-taste/ https://mnstry.org/writing/the-exclusions-are-the-taste/ Why what a maker declines to build, and what a curator declines to include, is the only legible statement of what either believes. The canonical treatment of the exclusions. Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://mnstry.org/writing/limits-are-content/ https://mnstry.org/writing/limits-are-content/ The design difference between a limit that exists and a limit that is presented, and the template move that makes the second one structural. The canonical treatment of first-class limits. Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://mnstry.org/writing/which-way-failure-falls/ https://mnstry.org/writing/which-way-failure-falls/ How deny-by-default and never-refuse turn out to be the same rule, and what a disclosure that names its own failure direction tells a reader. The canonical treatment of the direction of failure. Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT