Linguistic Qa

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name: linguistic-qa
description: Perform linguistic QA in rendered context for meaning, terminology, grammar, truncation, variables, directionality, formatting, cultural fit, and task completion.
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# Linguistic Qa

Use when this procedure is the primary professional method needed for the assignment.

## Procedure
1. Confirm the decision or outcome this work must support, its scope, owner, constraints, and definition of success.
2. Establish the evidence baseline using localized build, target locale, glossary, source intent, device/layout matrix, and test data. Do not fill material gaps with assumptions when they can change the result.
3. Test representative locale flows, compare against source intent, exercise dynamic values/plurals, inspect layout, log defects with locale/context, and retest fixes.
4. Exercise realistic edge, failure, transition, or exception cases that could invalidate the result; record unresolved uncertainty explicitly.
5. Validate the output against the original outcome and any neighboring professional contracts so this skill does not silently absorb another specialist's authority.
6. Record the resulting artifact, measurements, decisions, provenance, and handoff information needed for another owner to reproduce or continue the work.

## Quality gate
Critical workflows are understandable and functional in the locale, not merely translated in a spreadsheet.