diff --git a/docsrc/cli.rst b/docsrc/cli.rst
index 628ee290..f8e6685a 100644
--- a/docsrc/cli.rst
+++ b/docsrc/cli.rst
@@ -87,7 +87,9 @@ Option                                  Meaning
                                         * ``rockspec`` - globals allowed in rockspecs, by default added for files ending with ``.rockspec``;
                                         * ``luacheckrc`` - globals allowed in Luacheck configs, by default added for files ending with ``.luacheckrc``;
                                         * ``ldoc`` - globals allowed in LDoc config, by default added for files named ``config.ld``;
-                                        * ``pandoc`` - globals allowed in Pandoc Lua filters;
+                                        * ``pandoc`` - globals allowed in Pandoc Lua;
+                                        * ``pandoc_filters`` - globals allowed in Pandoc Lua, subset specific to filters;
+                                        * ``pandoc_custom`` - globals allowed in Pandoc Lua, subset specific to custom reader/writers;
                                         * ``sile`` - globals allowed in The SILE Typesetter and its package ecosystem;
                                         * ``none`` - no standard globals.
 
diff --git a/src/luacheck/builtin_standards/init.lua b/src/luacheck/builtin_standards/init.lua
index 159f766f..377d88d4 100644
--- a/src/luacheck/builtin_standards/init.lua
+++ b/src/luacheck/builtin_standards/init.lua
@@ -347,8 +347,7 @@ builtin_standards.sile = {
 
 builtin_standards.pandoc = pandoc.pandoc
 builtin_standards.pandoc_filter = pandoc.filter
-builtin_standards.pandoc_reader = pandoc.reader
-builtin_standards.pandoc_writer = pandoc.writer
+builtin_standards.pandoc_custom = pandoc.custom
 
 builtin_standards.none = {}
 
diff --git a/src/luacheck/builtin_standards/pandoc.lua b/src/luacheck/builtin_standards/pandoc.lua
index e03cffaa..ef37bd6b 100644
--- a/src/luacheck/builtin_standards/pandoc.lua
+++ b/src/luacheck/builtin_standards/pandoc.lua
@@ -33,25 +33,21 @@ local filter = {
 }
 
 -- https://pandoc.org/custom-readers.html
-local reader = {
-   globals = {
-      "Reader", "Extensions", "ByteStringReader"
-   },
-}
-
 -- https://pandoc.org/custom-writers.html
-local writer = {
+local custom = {
    globals = {
-      "PANDOC_DOCUMENT", "Writer", "Extensions", "Doc", "Template",
-      "Blocksep", "ByteStringWriter", "CaptionedImage", "DisplayMath", "DoubleQuoted", "InlineMath", "SingleQuoted",
+      -- custom scope
+      "PANDOC_DOCUMENT", "Reader", "Doc", "Template", "Writer", "ByteStringReader", "ByteStringWriter",
+      -- extra types applicable to readers/writers
+      "Blocksep", "CaptionedImage", "DisplayMath", "DoubleQuoted", "Extensions", "Extensions", "InlineMath",
+      "SingleQuoted",
    },
 }
 
 local variants = {
-    pandoc = { globals = combine(common, filter, reader, writer) },
+    pandoc = { globals = combine(common, filter, custom) },
     filter = { globals = combine(common, filter) },
-    reader = { globals = combine(common, reader) },
-    writer = { globals = combine(common, writer) },
+    custom = { globals = combine(common, custom) },
 }
 
 return variants