Standards for plugins makes sense, because you're establishing a protocol that both sides need to follow to be able to work together. But I don't see why you n

Standards for plugins makes sense, because you're establishing a protocol that both sides need to follow to be able to work together. But I don't see why you need a strict standard for "an informal description of how to do a particular task". I say "informal" because it's necessarily written in prose -- if it were formal, it'd be a shell script.