Here is an announcement I am considering building on: [paste the blog post, release notes or coverage].<br/><br/>Split it into three columns:<br/>1. SHIPPED - available to me today, with a link or an endpoint<br/>2. ANNOUNCED - described with a date or a timeframe<br/>3. IMPLIED - described without a commitment, or in future tense<br/><br/>Put each specific capability in exactly one column. Where the post is ambiguous, say so and put it in column 3.<br/><br/>Then tell me what I could start building this afternoon using only column 1.
For this model, tool or API: [name it, paste the availability section].<br/><br/>Tell me precisely who can access it today. Check for: waitlists, trusted-tester or early-access programmes, enterprise-only gating, regional restrictions, tier requirements, approval processes, and whether it is in the consumer product as well as the API.<br/><br/>Then tell me where I sit against those gates and what I would have to do or pay to pass them.<br/><br/>If access requires an application with no stated response time, say that plainly - that is not availability.
Here is the licence or terms for this model or tool: [paste, or name it and say what the post claims].<br/><br/>Tell me in plain language whether I can: self-host it, modify it, use it commercially, build it into a product I sell, use it above some revenue or user threshold, and use it in my sector.<br/><br/>Flag every field-of-use restriction, usage threshold, attribution requirement and acceptable-use clause.<br/><br/>If it is described as "open" but carries any of those, say which word is doing the misleading.
I am considering depending on: [name the model, API or tool].<br/><br/>Assess deprecation risk. Check: how long the vendor has run this product line, how it has handled previous deprecations, what notice period it gives, whether it names replacements, and whether the thing I would depend on is a preview, a beta or stable.<br/><br/>Then tell me what I would lose if it were withdrawn with ninety days notice, and what building differently now would cost me.<br/><br/>Use the vendor's own deprecation page if one exists, not its marketing.
For this announcement: [summarise it], list the specific observable events that would move it from announced to usable for me.<br/><br/>Things like: weights published to a named repository, general availability without a waitlist, a published price, a stable version tag, availability in my region, an SLA.<br/><br/>For each, tell me how I would find out it had happened without checking manually - a changelog, a repo, a status page, a mailing list.<br/><br/>I want triggers, not a reminder to go and look.
Write two short paragraphs about this announcement: [paste it].<br/><br/>The first is what is genuinely notable and why it matters.<br/>The second is what a reader should NOT conclude from it - what has not shipped, what is unverified, what is first-party only.<br/><br/>Be as specific in the second as in the first. If the second paragraph is longer, that tells me something about the announcement.<br/><br/>No hedging language. Plain statements of what is and is not the case.