2025-09 monthly summary for riscv/riscv-isa-manual. Focused on delivering automation for normative rules and tightening documentation quality to improve maintainability and release readiness. Highlights include the Normative Rules Build System and extensive YAML/docs consistency work. These changes enable machine- and human-readable representations of RISC-V specifications, reduce PR churn, and strengthen pre-commit guarantees across the project, aligning tooling with build/test pipelines.

In August 2025, delivered a focused documentation modernization effort for the riscv/riscv-cheri repository, concentrating on normative rule tagging, naming normalization, and formatting across RV64I, RV32I, M-mode, and the Zilsd extension. The work enhanced accuracy, readability, and maintainability of the RISC-V ISA Manual, enabling more reliable verification and faster onboarding for contributors and users.

July 2025 monthly summary for riscv/riscv-cheri: Delivered foundational documentation enhancements to the RISC-V I-extension, focusing on navigability and precision for developers. Initiated anchors for normative rules and cross-references to instruction encodings and exception handling. This work improves onboarding, reduces ambiguity during ISA implementation, and sets the stage for complete cross-referencing across the I-extension manual. Ongoing efforts planned to complete anchor coverage and validate cross-references.

February 2025: Strengthened testability and traceability for RISC-V certification testing in riscv/riscv-cheri. Delivered standardization of how Certification Test Plans anchor normative ISA statements by introducing a 'manual:' prefix for anchors, enabling precise, testable references from tests to the standards. No major bugs fixed this month. This work lays the groundwork for scalable, automated test coverage and faster certification readiness across RISCV-CHERI.