Reviewing
How Stet Grades Changes
With Review signals on, Stet grades every incoming change: significant, normal, or trivial. The grade decides what you see. Significant changes lead the summary panel and trigger the accept-all warning. In Hybrid mode, significant changes wait for you while everything else lands on its own.
Grading is local, deterministic, and does not use AI. It's a fixed set of hand-written rules: the same change always gets the same grade, no model is consulted, no network call is made, and no text leaves your machine.
What makes a change significant
Any one of these signals promotes the whole change. When signals conflict, significant always wins.
| Signal | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| A number changed | We shipped 12 boxes. | We shipped 20 boxes. |
| A date changed | Launch on 2026-08-15. | Launch on 2026-09-01. |
| A dollar amount changed | Budget is $1,200. | Budget is $1,450. |
| A negation changed the meaning | We can meet the deadline. | We can't meet the deadline. |
| A sentence was deleted | Ship Friday. Tell the client. | Ship Friday. |
| A paragraph was deleted | (a whole paragraph) | (gone, nothing in its place) |
| A heading changed | ## Budget | ## Costs |
| Frontmatter changed | status: draft | status: final |
| A link target changed | docs | docs |
| A low-overlap rewrite | (a long passage) | (mostly new words on the same spot) |
What stays trivial
Only when no significant signal is present.
| Signal | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Whitespace only | (text) | (same text, blank line added) |
| Punctuation only | boxes this week | boxes, this week |
| Capitalization only | the quarter | the Quarter |
| A single word swapped | 12 boxes | 12 cartons |
Everything else is normal
Rewording a sentence, adding a new one, tightening a phrase. Nothing risky detected, but more than punctuation. In Hybrid mode, normal changes land like trivial ones.
One edit, two signals: "12 boxes" to "20 cartons" changes a number, so it is significant, not a word swap. The safe direction always wins.