Editorial Review

What it does

This skill handles every workflow in a story project that involves people outside the agent:

• Sensitivity & authenticity reads — finds the chapters, characters and research notes that touch lived experience the author lacks, builds a paid-professional brief (specific questions, deadline, fee), exports DOCX/HTML for the reader, then records outcomes in reviewed-by
• Real-people & defamation pass — lists identifiable people and organisations, classifies each portrayal, flags risky ones with risk: [defamation], and explicitly says this is flagging, not legal advice
• Permissions — tracks epigraphs, lyrics, poems and extracts with permission, rights-holder and the exact credit line; warns that lyrics almost always need clearance and fair use is narrow
• AI-use disclosure — asks how AI was actually used, drafts a short honest statement into ai-disclosure, and surfaces it on the retailer metadata sheet
• Editor rounds — snapshot tags (sent-to-editor-1), Word/Shunn builds, chapter-by-chapter transfer of accepted edits back into markdown, and a diff of how deep the round went
• Review copies & collaboration — HTML with clickable paragraph anchors, GitHub Pages / issue templates, per-author branches, CODEOWNERS for shared worlds, remote pushes as backup

Guardrails are explicit: nothing is recorded, committed, pushed or published without your confirmation.

Who it's for

• Novelists portraying a culture, disability, faith or trade they don't share
• Authors whose fiction features real or recognisable people and organisations
• Writers wanting to quote lyrics or poetry and unsure about clearance
• Self-publishers sending manuscripts to a human editor and merging edits back
• Co-authors or shared-world teams managing a book in git

Examples

1. "Prepare a sensitivity reader brief for chapter 4 about the Deaf community in 1980s Glasgow" → research note with risk: cultural, a brief with questions/fee/deadline, plus a DOCX for the reader
2. "My novel features a real politician — is this okay?" → list of identifiable people, portrayal classification, risk flags, and a recommendation to get a publishing lawyer's review
3. "I need an AI disclosure statement for a retailer" → a short, confirmed statement written into story.md and included in story build . --format metadata

Read the instructions in this file and follow them to help me:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/danjdewhurst/story-skills/HEAD/skills/editorial-review/SKILL.md

What I want: (describe your task here)

Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the skills/editorial-review folder from the GitHub repo danjdewhurst/story-skills into my ~/.claude/skills/editorial-review/.
When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.