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Spec before AI

Any AI can convert a design document into a Catenator specification

Catenator is a specification vocabulary for digital product design. Three layers — governing frame, pattern, rules per element — expressed in YAML. Any AI can convert a governing design document into a Catenator specification. The specification then governs every downstream prompt. The output is a consequence of the specification, not of the prompt.

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Reckoning

Four decisions that made the governing layer invisible

Governing principle

The decision that precedes every other

Hidden design

How an engineering choice became a design assumption

Slop

Slop predates AI by thirty years

Content creators

Your content reaches everyone the same way

Prior art

A thirty-year-old method the design field never named

Spec before AI

Any AI can convert a design document into a Catenator specification

Structured content

Structured content and the governance argument

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