Tighten introduction and meta copy

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Project	Deployment	Review	Updated (UTC)
variable-design-standard	Ready	Preview, Comment	Jan 27, 2026 8:41pm

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Pull request overview

This PR tightens and clarifies introductory and meta documentation copy for the Variable Design Standard (VDS), with a focus on consistency, clearer scope statements, and alignment around the “JSON-as-API” and UDS positioning messages.

Changes:

• Refines status and change-log language to be more precise about version ranges, stability criteria, and future roadmap while standardizing punctuation and list styles.
• Tightens introductory docs (“Why Variables”, “Positioning”, “Comparison”) to clarify scope, failure modes if guidance is ignored, and how JSON file sets and UDS fit into the overall governance story.
• Updates the README and other meta documents (license, contributors, status-of-this-document) for consistent terminology (e.g., “UDS System”, “UI Library Integration”, colon-based list style) and emphasizes JSON-as-API and mode key consistency requirements.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 9 out of 9 changed files in this pull request and generated 1 comment.

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File	Description
docs/meta/status.md	Clarifies criteria for Candidate/Stable statuses, current draft messaging, and status indicators; introduces a small typo in the 0.1.0–0.3.7 history entry.
docs/meta/status-of-this-document.md	Makes editor and dependency lists more consistent with colon-based style and clarifies recent version descriptions.
docs/meta/contributors.md	Aligns editor line formatting with other meta documents.
docs/meta/change-log.md	Refines wording of documentation hardening changes and future-version description to more accurately describe 1.0.0 plans.
docs/license.md	Standardizes license bullets with sentence-style punctuation for clarity.
docs/introduction/why-variables.md	Reframes the introduction around explicit scope/failure statements and emphasizes shared “variables” terminology across tools and roles.
docs/introduction/positioning.md	Updates descriptions of VDS, adds JSON-as-API and file selection rule language, and renames “UDS Framework” to “UDS System” for consistency.
docs/introduction/comparison.md	Clarifies comparison scope/failure-if-ignored, softens competitive language, and refines Adobe Spectrum vs VDS positioning and reasons teams choose VDS.
README.md	Standardizes link descriptions, adds JSON-as-API requirements, refines mode key language, updates non-breaking change wording, and aligns UDS terminology and references list style.

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[Copilot]

The version range in this history entry appears to have an incorrect separator: changing 0.1.0 - 0.3.7 to 0.1.0: 0.3.7 reads like a typo and could confuse readers about the intended range; it should remain a dash-separated range (0.1.0 - 0.3.7).

Suggested change

	- **0.1.0: 0.3.7**: Draft
	- **0.1.0 - 0.3.7**: Draft