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Editorial Review

Runs the human-in-the-loop pre-publication workflows: sensitivity reads, real-people/defamation flagging, quote permissions, AI disclosure, editor rounds, and co-author collaboration.

Content & WritingIntermediate★ 364⑂ 58AI score 8/10Last updated: Oct 27, 2026

What it does

This skill orchestrates the parts of publishing a book that require real people, not just the agent.

  • Sensitivity / authenticity reads: locates the chapters, characters, and research notes that touch lived experience the author lacks, builds a paid brief (specific questions, deadline, fee), and logs returned notes as a feedback round. It explicitly refuses to treat an AI reader-panel persona as a sensitivity read.
  • Real-people & defamation pass: lists every identifiable person or organisation, classifies portrayals, tags risky ones defamation/legal, and insists this is flagging, not legal advice — recommending a publishing lawyer.
  • Permissions: tracks permission (not-needed/pending/granted/public-domain), rights-holder, and exact credit lines in matter-file frontmatter; pending pages are left out of builds with a warning.
  • Overlap checks: story similarity . --against <file|folder|git-ref> reports shared word runs with both locations, while forbidding claims like "original" or "plagiarism-free".
  • AI-use disclosure: drafts a short, honest statement for story.md and includes it on the retailer metadata sheet.
  • Editor rounds: git snapshot tags (sent-to-editor-1), DOCX/Shunn builds, chapter-by-chapter transfer of accepted edits, and story compare --ref to show the depth of the round.
  • Review copies & collaboration: paragraph-anchored HTML copies for non-technical readers, plus per-author branches, PRs, CODEOWNERS and remote backups.

Who it's for

  • Novelists who keep a book as a markdown project driven by the Story CLI
  • Authors portraying cultures, identities, disabilities or faiths outside their own experience
  • Self-publishers dealing with lyrics, epigraphs, or real people in fiction
  • Co-author teams or shared-world collaborators

Example uses

  1. "I need a sensitivity reader for the Deaf community chapters" → it finds the affected chapters and research notes, drafts the brief, and builds a Word copy for the reader.
  2. "Can I use these song lyrics as an epigraph?" → warns that lyrics almost always need permission, records permission: pending plus rights-holder, and keeps the page out of builds until confirmed.
  3. "Does this passage echo book one too closely?" → runs story similarity . --against ../book-one --min-words 12 and lists each shared run with locations, leaving the judgement to the author.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
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Copy the skills/editorial-review folder from the GitHub repo danjdewhurst/story-skills into my ~/.claude/skills/editorial-review/.
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git clone https://github.com/danjdewhurst/story-skills.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r story-skills/skills/* ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Clone the skills repository: 
    git clone https://github.com/danjdewhurst/story-skills.git
  3. Create your Claude Code skills directory: 
    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy the skills across. Because this one references shared conventions and a fallback CLI inside story-maintenance, copy all of them: 
    cp -r story-skills/skills/* ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Verify: ls ~/.claude/skills/editorial-review should show SKILL.md and a references/ folder.
  6. (Recommended) Install Node.js. Without a global story command, the skill falls back to node .../story-maintenance/scripts/story.js.
  7. Start Claude Code inside your book folder (the one containing story.md); run git init if it isn't a repo yet, since snapshots and collaboration need git.
  8. Trigger it with prompts like "draft a sensitivity reader brief", "do I need permission for these lyrics", or "build a Word file for my editor".
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT