/story-review
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.
$ npx -y skills add haowjy/creative-writing-skills --skill story-review --agent claude-codeHow it fires
How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.
- Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
- You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
- Slash command
/story-review
Context preview
The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.
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.
SKILL.md
story-review.SKILL.mdname: story-review
type: mode-shift
description: >
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.
model-invocable: true
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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name: story-review type: mode-shift description: > 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. model-invocable: true
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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