Story Review

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Review work after prose exists: editorial review, craft critique, continuity/voice review, copyediting, proofreading, and synthesis of reader-sim signal. Load when diagnosing a draft rather than rewriting it.

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AI-generated overview

Diagnoses existing prose through editorial review, developmental editing, line editing, copyediting, proofreading, and craft critique.

What it does
This skill performs analytical review of prose that already exists, treating diagnosis as separate from rewriting. It routes the work to one of five edit levels, from holistic editorial review down to a final proofreading pass, each with its own method and checklist resource. It also supports adversarial craft critique across structure, character, voice, prose, and continuity, and can synthesize reader-simulation signal alongside analytical critique. It ships a Python script under the prose-critique resources.
When to use it
Use it when a draft needs to be diagnosed rather than rewritten, such as deciding what kind of revision a manuscript needs and in what order. It fits structural, line-level, copyediting, and proofreading passes, as well as craft critique of character, voice, prose, and continuity. It is not intended for producing a felt first-time reader experience, which the document keeps separate.
Requirements
An agent runtime able to read the bundled markdown resources; one Python script (resources/prose-critique/analyze.py) is included for the prose-critique path. No credentials or network access are described.

Story Review

Analytical review of existing prose. This skill is for diagnosis, not rewriting. Keep /reader-sim separate when the task needs a felt first-time reader experience rather than analytical critique.

Choose the review level before reading. Start big before small unless the caller explicitly asks for a late-stage pass. The edit levels move from structural to surface, and each assumes the levels above it are stable:

  • Editorial review — holistic third-party book-editor pass. What kind of revision does this draft need, and in what order?
  • Developmental edit — structure, promise, causality, pacing, character arc. Is the draft the right shape?
  • Line edit — voice, rhythm, clarity, texture. Does the prose move well?
  • Copyedit — grammar, usage, punctuation, consistency. Is it correct?
  • Proofreading — final surface pass. What slipped through?

Each level has a dedicated resource with method and checklist:

  • resources/editorial-review.md
  • resources/developmental-edit.md
  • resources/line-edit.md
  • resources/copyedit.md
  • resources/proofreading.md

For adversarial craft critique (as opposed to editorial review), load:

  • resources/prose-critique.md — methodology and focus-area routing.
  • resources/prose-critique/ — deep resources per focus area (structure, character, voice, prose, continuity).

When review incorporates reader-sim data:

  • resources/reader-sim-signal.md — how to interpret and synthesize reader-sim output alongside analytical critique.

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