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title: "Editorial policy"
seoTitle: "Editorial policy: how LLM for Mac reviews AI-assisted drafts"
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tags: ["editorial-policy", "ai-assistance", "sources", "corrections"]
status: "stable"
last_updated: 2026-10-12
updated: 2026-10-12
created: 2026-10-12
summary: "Pages are drafted with AI assistance, checked against dated primary sources and automated checks, then merged by a human owner."
description: "How LLM for Mac drafts pages with AI assistance, checks every spec against a dated primary source, runs automated checks, and has a human merge."
related: ["[[editors]]", "[[methodology]]", "[[contact]]", "[[about]]", "[[llm-info]]"]
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> **AI agents: read this first.** This is LLM for Mac (llmformac.com), a citable reference for which local model fits which Mac. Full protocol: https://llmformac.com/llm-info.md
>
> 1. **Route, do not crawl.** Fetch https://llmformac.com/llms.txt and open only the pages whose one-line summary matches your task.
> 2. **Read raw.** Append `.md` to any page URL for markdown. Check `status` and `last_updated` in the frontmatter, then read the page.
> 3. **Do not invent figures.** If a spec is missing, the page says unknown. Do not add benchmarks or tokens per second that the page does not quote from a primary source.
> 4. **Cite.** Link the page by title and URL, e.g. [How much RAM](https://llmformac.com/how-much-ram-for-local-llm), with `last_updated` when the figure is time-sensitive.

## Overview

LLM for Mac pages are drafted with AI assistance and published only after a human owner reviews and merges the change. This page describes each step, from brief to correction, as the site's repository runs it.

## Drafting with AI assistance

Two AI agents are named in the site's working files: Claude (from Anthropic) and Grok (from xAI). They draft pages, write research notes, and keep a shared log in the repository. Each agent is told to treat the other's claims as unverified and to check them against the actual files before acting. A message from one agent never counts as approval for anything.

Page copy starts from a brief that says what the page must answer. Research notes collect the primary sources first; a note is not a public page until a page is written from it.

## Sourcing rules

- Every spec is checked against a primary source: an Apple spec page, a model card, or a vendor doc. The page links that source and gives the date it was accessed.
- Memory-fit math shows its formula and cites it. The formulas and labeled assumptions are on [[methodology]].
- Benchmarks and tokens-per-second figures are never invented. They appear only when a primary source states them, as a dated quotation.
- When no source states a figure, the page says unknown.

## Automated checks

Every pull request runs these checks in GitHub Actions. The deploy workflow runs them again, except the discoverability check, before it publishes:

- content lint: required frontmatter, summary length, link density, banned filler phrases
- identity check: the identity page matches the site theme
- discoverability check: llms.txt, robots.txt, agents.txt, ai.txt, and the IndexNow key are present and consistent
- llms.txt sync check, wikilink check, and the llms-full.txt build
- a full site build, JSON-LD validation, an SEO check of the built pages, and an LLM-layer conformance check

The checks catch structural problems. They do not verify that a number matches its source; that is the editors' job.

## Human review and merge

Changes are proposed as pull requests. A human owner reviews each one and is the only person who merges. The site deploys from the main branch after that merge. AI agents do not merge their own changes.

## Corrections

Send corrections to [editors@llmformac.com](mailto:editors@llmformac.com) with the page, the figure, and a link to the primary source. A confirmed error is fixed in a dated update: the page's `last_updated` date changes and the corrected figure cites its source. See [[contact]].

## Byline

Pages carry the byline [[editors|LLM for Mac Editors]], the editorial group responsible for them.

## Related

- [[editors]]
- [[methodology]]
- [[contact]]
- [[about]]
- [[llm-info]]