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docs: CLAUDE.md — Eleven is not gendered (#512)
Codify Paul's rule: Eleven is the product's voice, not a character with a gender. Never she/her (or he/him) in copy, changelogs, docs, prompts, or commits — name Eleven, or recast. Sits beside the app-icon rule: brand facts you don't reinvent. (The repo's only violations were today's two changelog entries, fixed in #511.)
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| @@ -247,6 +247,12 @@ open with the note itself) carry the 🤖 on their first line. |
| - **Images** are downscaled in the browser before upload (`processImage`, max |
| 2048px long edge) — there is no server-side image proxy (it only has |
| ciphertext). Re-encoding also strips EXIF/GPS. |
| +- 🤖 **Eleven is not gendered.** Eleven — the built-in helper persona — is the |
| + product's voice, not a character with a gender: never "she/her" (or |
| + "he/him") in any copy, changelog entry, doc, prompt, or commit message. |
| + Refer to Eleven by name, or as "it" where a pronoun is unavoidable (recast |
| + the sentence when "it" reads awkwardly). Audit Eleven-adjacent prose for |
| + stray pronouns before shipping. |
| - 🤖 **The Eleven app icon already exists — use it, don't invent a mark.** The |
| logo is a purple rounded tile with the white double-slash "11". Canonical PNGs: |
| `web/static/icon-{180,192,512}.png` (the PWA/web icons) and the native icon |