pipeline: north star in the charter — delight the reader, freshness is part of it; pick prefers fresh daily, never-picked past reviews are candidates

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 The standard for every audience-facing word on unique.rzen.dev — find bodies, review bodies, bundle blurbs and intros, subtitles, descriptions — and the canonical home of the content rules that bind what gets published at all. Skills reference this file; the pipeline's copy-edit pass enforces the voice, and each pipeline stage enforces the content rules that apply to it.

+## The north star
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+The only thing we control is what we write, and the ultimate editorial principle is to **write content that consistently and reliably delights the reader**. Everything else in this file — voice, word budgets, selection judgment — is in service of that goal. (The content rules below are hard constraints on how we pursue it, never competitors to it.)
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+Delight is also cumulative and rhythmic: a fresh pick of the day, a new bundle, a surprising find are each small daily contributions to it. Freshness is part of the product.
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 ## The voice in one line

 Concise, to the point, and above all **inspiring delight**.