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Summary

Follow-up to #8288, covering the three items left open there.

  1. Generated error-reference pages. Their em dashes come from the upstream source files, so the fix is prisma/orm#30326 and prisma/prisma-cli#273; the daily sync brings the clean text in once those merge. The new CI check skips those two pages because a hit there cannot be fixed in this repo.
  2. Enforcement. New docs-prose.yml workflow runs check-ai-signs.sh on every docs page a pull request adds or changes. To make that pass on first contact, this PR also cleans the 29 hand-written pages the checker flagged: curly quotes and apostrophes, em dashes, Title Case headings, and machine vocabulary ("Additionally,", "utilize", "serves as", "invaluable", "It's crucial to understand"). Heading slugs are unchanged, so no links move. Blog posts are not linted in CI; the blog skill still runs the checker by hand.
  3. Word-list drift. The reference file now carries the date it was last reconciled with the Wikipedia page and says when to re-check; the skills README has a row pointing at it.

Also fixes one false positive found during the cleanup: the checker matched the literal noun "underscores" (as in "alphanumeric characters and underscores"). It now matches "underscore" only as a verb with an object.

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check-ai-signs.sh over every non-generated Prisma 8 docs page (find apps/docs/content/docs -name '*.mdx' -not -path '*/v6/*' -not -path '*/v7/*' -not -name error-reference.mdx) reports clean. Grepped the content and src trees for the old heading slugs; every existing link already used the lowercase slug that Fumadocs generates for both spellings.

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  • Documentation
    • Updated guidance across MongoDB, PostgreSQL, CLI, integrations, tutorials, Accelerate, Studio, and troubleshooting pages.
    • Improved wording, capitalization, punctuation, typography, and readability throughout the documentation.
    • Clarified Early Access feedback and support guidance.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Refined documentation vocabulary checks to avoid flagging valid “underscores that…” phrasing while continuing to identify relevant verb usage.
  • Chores
    • Added automated checks for eligible documentation changes in pull requests, excluding generated reference pages.

Adds the docs-prose workflow, which runs check-ai-signs.sh on every docs page a pull request changes (the generated error-reference pages are skipped; their text is fixed upstream in prisma/orm#30326 and prisma/prisma-cli#273). Cleans the 29 hand-written pages the checker flagged: curly quotes, em dashes, Title Case headings, and machine vocabulary. Dates the word list and records when to re-check it against Wikipedia. Stops the checker matching the literal noun "underscores".

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  • apps/docs/content/docs/studio/getting-started.mdx
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The change adds a CI workflow that checks changed hand-written documentation pages for flagged AI-style vocabulary. It updates checker guidance and vocabulary, and applies wording, capitalization, typography, and punctuation edits across documentation pages.

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Docs prose checker workflow
.claude/skills/README.md, .claude/skills/docs-reader-review/..., .github/workflows/docs-prose.yml
The checker narrows underscore verb matching. Its maintenance guidance records the reconciliation date and review interval. The workflow checks changed hand-written MDX pages and excludes generated ORM and CLI error-reference pages.
Documentation wording and punctuation normalization
apps/docs/content/docs/(index)/..., apps/docs/content/docs/accelerate/...
Documentation wording, apostrophes, quotations, and punctuation are revised without documented behavior changes.
Documentation section and sentence edits
apps/docs/content/docs/ai/..., apps/docs/content/docs/cli/..., apps/docs/content/docs/console/..., apps/docs/content/docs/guides/..., apps/docs/content/docs/local-development/...
Sentences, headings, terminology, and introductory text are revised across AI, CLI, console, integration, upgrade, and local-development documentation.
PostgreSQL and Prisma Studio copy edits
apps/docs/content/docs/orm/..., apps/docs/content/docs/postgres/..., apps/docs/content/docs/studio/...
Middleware, PostgreSQL, and Prisma Studio documentation receives punctuation, typography, heading, and introductory-sentence edits.

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…cker flags

The Prisma 8 sweep excluded every file named error-reference.mdx, but
postgres/error-reference.mdx is hand-written and the new docs-prose
workflow does not skip it, so the next PR touching it would fail on
five pre-existing hits ("Additionally, ...", "align with", "acts as a
protective measure"). Rewrite them the same way the Accelerate
troubleshooting twin was rewritten in this branch.
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Review of b296773 (fresh read, gates run locally).

What I checked. Full diff, the checker script, the workflow, and the 29 content edits. Ran check-ai-signs.sh myself over every non-generated Prisma 8 page: clean, as the description says. The 29 rewrites keep their meaning; heading slugs are unchanged. The underscores false-positive fix is correct. The workflow YAML parses, bash -n passes on the script, and the new CI job ran green on this PR against the right 29 files.

Two findings, one fixed and pushed, one I cannot push.

  1. apps/docs/content/docs/postgres/error-reference.mdx is hand-written but was never swept. The validation command excluded every file named error-reference.mdx, but only the orm/reference and cli ones are generated; the Postgres page is not in sync-error-reference-docs.yml, and the workflow does not skip it. It had five hits ("Additionally, use", "align with", "Additionally, consider", "Additionally, attempt", "It acts as a protective measure to safeguard"), so the next PR to touch it would have failed the new gate on text it did not write. Rewritten the same way this branch rewrote the Accelerate troubleshooting twin. Pushed as ac5ed65. The sweep with only the two generated pages excluded is now clean.

  2. The v6/v7 trees were not swept either, and the gate checks whole files. 126 of the 416 pages under orm/v6, orm/v7, cli/v7, guides/v7 and (index)/v7 fail the checker today (91 em dash / curly quote hits, 6 thematic breaks, 4 Title Case headings, plus vocabulary). Any PR that edits one of those frozen pages, including orm/v7/reference/error-reference.mdx, fails on pre-existing text. The fix I want is to skip those trees in docs-prose.yml the same way the generated pages are skipped, and note it in the header and the skills README, until someone cleans them. I could not push that: GitHub refused the push because the App has no workflows permission for .github/workflows/docs-prose.yml. The patch, tested against a synthetic file list and against this branch's own changed files (30 selected, 0 for a v7-only change):

--- a/.github/workflows/docs-prose.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/docs-prose.yml
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
 name: Docs Prose
 
 # Runs the AI-signs prose checker from .claude/skills/docs-reader-review over
-# every docs page a pull request adds or changes. The generated error-reference
-# pages are skipped: their text comes from prisma/prisma and prisma/prisma-cli,
-# so the fix for a hit there is upstream.
+# every current-version docs page a pull request adds or changes. Two kinds of
+# page are skipped. The generated error-reference pages: their text comes from
+# prisma/prisma and prisma/prisma-cli, so the fix for a hit there is upstream.
+# The frozen older-version trees (orm/v6, orm/v7, cli/v7, guides/v7,
+# (index)/v7): they were never cleaned, so a PR touching one would fail on
+# text it did not write. Drop that exclusion once those trees are clean.
 
 on:
   pull_request:
@@ -31,7 +34,8 @@ jobs:
           BASE: ${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }}
         run: |
           mapfile -t pages < <(git diff --name-only --diff-filter=AMR "$BASE"...HEAD -- 'apps/docs/content/docs/**/*.mdx' \
-            | grep -v -E '^apps/docs/content/docs/(orm/reference|cli)/error-reference\.mdx$' || true)
-          if [[ ${#pages[@]} -eq 0 ]]; then echo "No docs pages changed"; exit 0; fi
+            | grep -v -E '^apps/docs/content/docs/(orm/reference|cli)/error-reference\.mdx$' \
+            | grep -v -E '^apps/docs/content/docs/(orm/v6|orm/v7|cli/v7|guides/v7|\(index\)/v7)/' || true)
+          if [[ ${#pages[@]} -eq 0 ]]; then echo "No current-version docs pages changed"; exit 0; fi
           printf '%s\n' "${pages[@]}"
           .claude/skills/docs-reader-review/scripts/check-ai-signs.sh "${pages[@]}"

And in .claude/skills/README.md, the new row's first clause becomes "Runs in CI (docs-prose.yml) on every current-version docs page a pull request changes (the v6/v7 trees and the generated error references are skipped); ...".

I have asked in the run channel how you want the workflow change applied. I will re-review the head from scratch once it lands, or once you tell me to leave the gate as it is.

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Inline comments:
In @.claude/skills/docs-reader-review/references/ai-writing-signs.md:
- Line 37: Update the documentation around the docs-prose workflow to qualify
its coverage: state that it checks pull requests only when checked MDX pages
remain, and explicitly exclude generated ORM and CLI error-reference pages.
Preserve the existing guidance about refreshing the vocabulary table and
checker.

In @.claude/skills/docs-reader-review/scripts/check-ai-signs.sh:
- Line 19: The vocabulary pattern in the ai-sign detection script incorrectly
flags the noun phrase “underscores that.” Update the `vocab` rule to avoid
matching noun usage while still detecting verb usage, and add regression
coverage for both cases.

In @.claude/skills/README.md:
- Line 20: Update the documentation row for check-ai-signs.sh to state that it
runs on checked hand-written MDX pages, and explicitly name the generated ORM
and CLI error-reference pages excluded by docs-prose.yml.

In `@apps/docs/content/docs/accelerate/evaluating.mdx`:
- Around line 127-129: Update the edge-cache explanation in the evaluating
documentation so the sentence about non-blocking cache writes uses grammatical,
parallel wording for short bursts and sustained loads. Replace the phrase
introducing the modified script with the established “as follows” wording,
preserving the surrounding benchmark guidance.

In `@apps/docs/content/docs/ai/tutorials/typefully-clone.mdx`:
- Line 107: Update the heading “Create your next.js project” to preserve the
product name’s capitalization as “Create your Next.js project.”

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