cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use STE-Code in your research, please cite it as follows."
title: "STE-Code: Simplified Technical English for Code Documentation"
abstract: >-
  STE-Code adapts the ASD-STE100 Issue 9 aerospace technical writing standard
  (434 pages, fifty-three rules, nineteen technical-noun categories) into a
  code documentation domain, yielding 54 code-domain rules across 9 sections,
  4 General Rules, and 22 categories. It ships the standard at eight levels of
  strictness, from a 1.2K-token core to the full 134K-token specification, plus
  a controlled vocabulary, a synonym table, and consolidated llms.txt
  artifacts. The six-stage pipeline (extraction, refinement, grouping,
  adaptation, extension, artifacts) uses parallel LLM workers with
  deterministic verification between stages.
authors:
  - family-names: "Hristov"
    given-names: "Nikola R."
    orcid: ""
  - name: "STE-Code Contributors"
repository-code: "https://github.com/NikolaRHristov/STE-Code"
url: "https://github.com/NikolaRHristov/STE-Code"
license: MIT
version: 1.1.0
date-released: "2026-08-01"
keywords:
  - "simplified-technical-english"
  - "code-documentation"
  - "technical-writing"
  - "llm-system-prompt"
  - "asd-ste100"
references:
  - type: report
    title: "ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English, Issue 9"
    authors:
      - name: "Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD)"
    year: 2025
    url: "https://asd-ste100.org"
