Every editorial standards template on the market gives you the same thing: a topic list, sourcing, anonymity, corrections, conflicts of interest, and a plausible-sounding clause for each one. The Online News Association's own builder works through 45-plus modules across seven categories the same way, letting you pick clauses off a shelf. None of it checks whether a single clause matches what your desk has actually decided when the topic came up for real, which is the gap a written policy exists to close in the first place.
This pack reads the decisions first. The Corrigan Sentinel, an invented regional daily, logged 208 sourcing, anonymity, correction and conflict decisions across 24 months: 74 anonymity requests, 96 corrections, 38 disclosed conflicts. Checked against a standard 40-clause policy, 24 clauses had a supporting precedent, 11 had never been tested at all, and 5 were directly contradicted. One absolute anonymity clause required no other way to obtain the information; 8 of 51 real grants did not follow it, because the desk's actual line is a reasonably safe alternative, not the mere existence of any alternative.
Open the pack in River and the agent reads your own sourcing, correction and conflict history before it drafts a single clause, or download the blank sheets and docs and build the register yourself. Either way, the Precedent Register holds every decision the policy is drafted from. The Standards Policy states which clauses are supported, untested or rewritten, and the Escalation Path names who actually decides each kind of call rather than routing everything to the top by default.
Precedent Register