/story-review

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.