diff --git a/templates/core/embedded-checks.md b/templates/core/embedded-checks.md
index 3888a650..1c342d21 100644
--- a/templates/core/embedded-checks.md
+++ b/templates/core/embedded-checks.md
@@ -3,57 +3,48 @@
 [ID: base-embedded-checks]
 [DEPENDS ON: templates/core/quality-gates.md]
 
-For a project whose own documents carry runnable checks: context files,
-runbooks, rule templates. A reader copies such a check out of the Markdown
-and runs it, so it has to survive the copy.
+For documents that carry checks a reader copies out and runs: context
+files, runbooks, rule templates.
 
 ## Extraction
 
 [ID: embedded-checks-extraction]
 
-- Never indent a fenced check deeper than the first indentation of its
-  code; put it flush and point to it from the step
-- Prefer a quoted heredoc to an inline `-c` string, and never write the
-  heredoc opener itself in prose
-- Confirm that a line continuation survived into the committed file
+- Never indent a fenced check deeper than its code's first indentation; put
+  it flush and point to it from the step
+- Prefer a quoted heredoc to an inline `-c` string
+- Never write a heredoc opener in prose
+- Confirm a line continuation survived into the committed file
 - Fold a command onto one line, or bind its parts to shell variables,
   rather than continue it (SHOULD)
-- Extract a check from the committed file and run it before merging the
-  rule that states it
-- Report how many checks a tool could not see, not only how many it ran
+- Extract a check from the committed file and run it before merging its rule
 
-Find a check stated outside a fence. It matches over the paragraph, not
-the line, because prose wraps:
+## Checks
+
+- Find every check stated outside a fence; the hook matches whole
+  paragraphs, since prose wraps:
 
 ```bash
 pre-commit run find-unfenced-checks --all-files --verbose
 ```
 
-Pass condition: the paragraph count is above zero and the
-`checks stated outside a fence` count is zero. Give the hook a `--root`
-argument for each directory holding rule documents; a paragraph count of
-zero means the roots named nothing, not that the tree is clean.
-
-Every embedded check MUST compile when extracted the way a reader extracts
-it:
+- Require paragraphs above zero and `checks stated outside a fence` zero
+- Pass a `--root` for each directory of rule documents; zero paragraphs
+  means the roots named nothing
+- Compile every embedded check as a reader extracts it (MUST):
 
 ```bash
 pre-commit run compile-embedded-checks --all-files --verbose
 ```
 
-Pass condition: the files-scanned and checks-found counts are above zero
-and `checks that do not compile` is zero; each line after the counts names
-a check that does not compile. `not applicable` means no Markdown file
-holds a heredoc check.
-
-List the lines where a continuation could be lost. The hook cannot detect
-one already lost, so read its list against the source:
+- Require files and checks above zero and `checks that do not compile`
+  zero; each later line names a failing check
+- Read `not applicable` as no heredoc check in any Markdown file
+- List each line where a continuation could be lost, and read it against
+  the source; the hook cannot see one already lost:
 
 ```bash
 pre-commit run find-line-continuations --all-files --verbose
 ```
 
-Pass condition: it reports the files scanned, the fenced blocks, those in a
-check language and the lines among them ending in a continuation, then
-lists those lines. A non-zero continuation count is a list to read, not a
-failure.
+- Read a non-zero continuation count as a list to review, not a failure
diff --git a/tests/baselines/template-quality.txt b/tests/baselines/template-quality.txt
index 968ad08a..a5b3a9a7 100644
--- a/tests/baselines/template-quality.txt
+++ b/tests/baselines/template-quality.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ templates/backend/webhooks.md 86.9
 templates/core/agents.md 100.0
 templates/core/config.md 99.3
 templates/core/docs.md 99.1
-templates/core/embedded-checks.md 83.6
+templates/core/embedded-checks.md 100.0
 templates/core/git.md 89.4
 templates/core/measurement.md 95.2
 templates/core/oop.md 96.0