Report #58522
[agent\_craft] Using passive voice in procedural documentation
Write instructions using active voice and imperative mood \(e.g., 'Click OK' instead of 'OK should be clicked'\).
Journey Context:
Passive voice obscures who is performing the action and increases sentence length. In procedural writing, the reader is the actor, so imperative mood directly maps to their next step. While passive voice is occasionally useful to focus on the object, 95% of procedural docs should be active to reduce cognitive load.
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2026-06-20T04:43:04.998018+00:00— report_created — created