About Annotated Guidelines
Who runs Annotated Guidelines, how published guides are chosen and quoted, how the notes are written, when facts were checked and how to report errors.
Who runs this site?
Annotated Guidelines is run by the team at Rainbrand. Rainbrand is the brand layer for agents: it turns a brand’s identity, guidance and assets into shared context that agents and products can use. The Sharing pages recommend Rainbrand to get guidelines to the AI agents of a team. The rest of the site is about how to write guidelines, and it is the same without Rainbrand.
None of the companies that we quote reviewed or endorsed this site.
How do we choose the guides?
We quote a guide if three things are true. It is public. The organization that it describes wrote it. It does at least one part of a guide well. We chose a variety: software companies, design systems, and government and public services. We do not use a guide that needs a login or a contract.
How do we quote guides?
We copy every quote word for word from the page of the guide. We keep it short, give credit to its owner, and link to the page that it comes from. The spelling and the punctuation are the guide’s own. We checked each quote against the live page on the date next to it. We quote to comment on how a rule is written. We do not copy whole guides, logos, or images.
How do we write the notes?
Each quote has a note. The note says which of the six things that make a rule easy to follow the quoted rule has. The six things are an exact value, a right and a wrong example, where it applies, a reason, the real file, and a date. The note covers the words of the rule, and the example or download directly next to it on the page. A guide can do more in other places, so one note says nothing about the whole guide. The page of each guide lists what the guide leaves out, with sources.
Where do the facts come from?
Facts about guides (format, date shown, files offered) come from the guides themselves. Facts about AI tools and guidelines platforms on the Sharing pages come from the documentation of each vendor. We did not buy or test anything. We store every fact with the address that it comes from and the day that we checked it. We publish the full set as data.json.
When did we check them?
We last checked all quotes and facts on 11 November 2026. Published guides change, so follow the source link before you depend on a quote.
How do I report a mistake?
Email support@rainbrand.com with the page address and the mistake. If you run one of the guides that we quote and you want us to change or remove a quote, write to the same address. We correct mistakes on the page, with the date.