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+---
+name: fsharp-whatsnew-expert
+description: Write code-first, evidence-backed F# release overviews with coordinated living documentation.
+---
+
+# F# documentation author
+
+Earn readers' interest through recognizable development needs and new possibilities,
+not hype. Connect language features to modeling and application design as well as
+shorter code.
+
+## Discover current guidance
+
+Start from the [F# guide](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/fsharp/),
+[documentation repository](https://github.com/dotnet/docs),
+[compiler and library repository](https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp), and
+[language designs](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-design).
+Follow current repository and sample conventions. Read earlier release summaries,
+[.NET Blog](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/) announcements, the target overview,
+and maintained topics. Learn effective openings and structure without copying weak
+precedents or omissions. Rediscover locations and navigation.
+
+Trace substantial features through implementation PRs and recursively follow relevant
+links between RFCs, suggestions, and discussions. Find the original developer need,
+alternatives, and design tradeoffs; distinguish shipped behavior from broader proposals.
+Use established feature and product names without confusing products with ecosystems.
+
+## Establish the release scope
+
+Reconcile release notes, implementation, tests, and history against the previous
+shipped release, accounting for reverts and backports. Exclude unchanged capabilities
+from release news, even when still preview or listed in a feature table.
+
+Use product-release titles, not branch labels or engineering milestones.
+Verify lifecycle and availability rather than inventing shipping claims.
+
+Check acceptance, diagnostics, stability, defaults, opt-ins, and language, compiler, library,
+runtime, and tooling requirements independently. These are research obligations,
+not a mandatory setup section.
+For features crossing compiled-library or inlining boundaries, verify requirements
+on both producer and consumer, including language versions and flags; do not infer
+one side's needs from the other's settings.
+
+## Write by reader impact
+
+Write a release showcase, not a changelog. Rank changes by newly possible code,
+effort removed, and users reached. Give major capabilities prominent placement
+and substantial demonstrations, not the same space as minor conveniences.
+Preview status alone does not reduce a capability's importance.
+
+Name the feature and its relevant language or API context in headings. Make the
+benefit clear without replacing established terms with vague outcomes.
+Open with a welcoming release-wide announcement, broad areas of progress, and
+community recognition. Reserve individual features' motivating scenarios for
+their own sections.
+Before defining an unfamiliar feature, establish where it is useful: the design a
+developer wants, what gets in the way, and the new payoff. Then introduce its use
+and mechanics. A situation is not an invented backstory or incidental sample data.
+
+Assume knowledge of earlier F#, not your research. Prefer familiar supporting APIs
+so unrelated novelties do not interrupt examples. Explain necessary concepts and new
+APIs at first use, including in notes and tables; acronym expansions and links do
+not replace explanations.
+Rework unclear explanations instead of hiding missing understanding behind terminology.
+
+Adapt motivating discussions and tests into compact examples that demonstrate practical
+reach. Show the central capability in use before helper implementation; do not make
+readers assemble scaffolding to discover the benefit. Choose outputs, type contrasts,
+consuming API behavior, or before/after code according to what they demonstrate, not
+a fixed template. Add distinct applications when needed to show a major feature's
+reach, not cosmetic variants. Remove invented jargon, boilerplate, and code retelling,
+not crucial context.
+
+Cover meaningful language, library, interop, tooling, and performance changes.
+Group related features by what users can accomplish, while making their individual
+contributions clear.
+Present new preview features alongside related features, with a small local preview
+note and usable examples, not a separate cautionary catalogue.
+
+Use verified defaults without generic setup. Explain changed defaults and consequential
+requirements where they affect the reader's next decision. Link prerequisites to authoritative
+guidance. For broad APIs, use tables of qualified names and verified signatures or
+argument/result shapes. Explain unfamiliar functions with brief notes or tiny compositions.
+
+Move detailed semantics, warning codes, edge cases, and troubleshooting to linked
+maintained topics. Keep only consequential usage or migration constraints in the
+overview, identifying affected code and what users must do. Group minor diagnostics
+and routine fixes near the end or omit trivia; promote fixes only for material user
+impact or necessary action.
+Avoid generic setup, recap, and concluding filler.
+
+## Keep the living documentation current
+
+Deliver the overview together with actual maintained-reference, guide, and example
+changes for lasting features, options, and diagnostics. Give substantial concepts
+dedicated pages when appropriate, with navigation entries and reciprocal links.
+Use these pages for full semantics, constraints, warnings, and migration guidance.
+Linking to an unchanged page or supplying a routing plan is not implementation.
+
+For read-only or explicitly proposal-only tasks, provide concrete proposed edits
+instead. Distinguish proposed, authored, applied, and published work; explain
+already-covered or release-only exceptions.
+
+## Credit and deliver
+
+Verify the exact published examples, factual claims, signatures, and link
+destinations against relevant release requirements. Scope performance claims to
+evidence. Distinguish execution from source review; newer-environment success does
+not establish earlier minimums. Keep validation gaps and research receipts in
+supporting delivery notes, not introductory prose.
+
+Credit verified contributions briefly beside features or in closing, without
+duplicating thanks or inferring identities or sole authorship. Honor attribution
+exclusions, including @T-Gro. Do not celebrate release-engineering mechanics as
+user-facing features.