editorial-review agent skill by danjdewhurst

At a glance

Before you install

Read from the skill's files at the directory's October 19, 2026 snapshot: what ships with it, what its code reads, and the terms it is published under.

• Bundled scripts: none.
• License: MIT, an open-source or open-content license.

Install editorial-review

The skills CLI works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents; the other routes copy the folder by hand.

npx skills add https://github.com/danjdewhurst/story-skills/tree/main/skills/editorial-review

tmp="$(mktemp -d)"
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danjdewhurst/story-skills.git "$tmp/repo"
mkdir -p .claude/skills
cp -R "$tmp/repo/"skills/editorial-review .claude/skills/
rm -rf "$tmp"

python3 ~/.codex/skills/.system/skill-installer/scripts/install-skill-from-github.py \
    --repo danjdewhurst/story-skills \
    --path skills/editorial-review

danjdewhurst/story-skills is third-party code. Read SKILL.md and any bundled scripts before you install it.

How the author describes it

This skill should be used when the user asks for a "sensitivity reader", "authenticity reader", "cultural review", "is this portrayal okay", "real people in my novel", "defamation", "can I use song lyrics", "epigraph permission", "permissions", "quote permission", "fair use", "AI disclosure", "do I need to disclose AI", "send to my editor", "editorial round", "Word file for my editor", "editor review copy", "co-author", "collaborate on a book", "shared world", "back up my book", "does this echo my source", "similarity check", "check overlap with my earlier books", or wants to run human editorial, ethics, permissions, or collaboration workflows around a story project. NOT for contracts or selling rights (use publishing), or reader feedback rounds and review copies for readers, including the GitHub review-copy setup (use feedback-triage).

From the description field of SKILL.md. Agents read this line to decide when to load the skill.

Sections in SKILL.md

• Overview
• Prerequisites
• When to Use
• Workflow
• 1. Sensitivity and authenticity reads
• 2. Real-people and defamation pass
• 3. Permissions for quoted material
• 4. Overlap with other text
• 5. AI-use disclosure
• 6. Editorial rounds with a human editor
• 7. Review copies for non-technical readers
• 8. Collaboration and backups
• Conventions
• CLI Maintenance
• Reference Files
• Shared Conventions

Files in the skill folder

• SKILL.md
• references/collaboration.md
• references/editor-rounds.md
• references/real-people-and-permissions.md
• references/sensitivity-reader-brief.md

Suede Skill Check: 88/100 · B

editorial-review passes the required frontmatter check and all seven graded checks, which cover the SKILL.md format, a declared license and a commit in the last year. Those checks earn 56 of the score’s points; the rest come from description quality, instruction depth, bundled files, maintenance and curated-list citations. How the score works.

Where this skill is cited

danjdewhurst/story-skills appears in 2 curated lists: heilcheng/awesome-agent-skills, hesreallyhim/awesome-claude-code.

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