Glossary
Policy Writing
The craft of authoring clear, principled documents that define what a model will and won't do, and why — serving as guidance for training, evaluation, and deployment decisions.
Policy writing is one of the core outputs of behavior architecture work. A well-written policy is specific enough to be consistently applied by annotators and enforced by systems, but principled enough to guide decisions about novel situations the authors couldn’t anticipate. This requires both precise language — leaving as little ambiguity as possible in the rules — and clear articulation of the values and reasoning behind them, so that readers can extend the policy sensibly to edge cases. Good policy writers understand that documents will be read by people with different context levels and assumptions, and they write accordingly: clear definitions, worked examples, and explicit guidance on gray areas are all marks of effective policy writing in the AI context.