line-editing SKILL.md skillA
line-editing from danjdewhurst/story-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add danjdewhurst/story-skills/line-editing@git:20261014.4b8019dPins git:20261014.4b8019d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- danjdewhurst/story-skills
- Path
skills/line-editing/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 12
- Latest version
- git:20261014.4b8019d, committed Oct 14, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 24, 2026
- Size
- 12,674 bytes
- Repository stars
- 382
- License
- MIT
This skill should be used when the user asks to "line edit", "edit my prose", "polish this chapter", "tighten the prose", "improve the sentences", "copyedit", "proofread", "proof pass", "check grammar and punctuation", "dialogue punctuation", "make the voices distinct", "everyone sounds the same", "read it aloud", "read-aloud pass", "text to speech", or wants a sentence-level quality pass on drafted chapters that preserves the author's voice. NOT for creating the style sheet, recording…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Line Editing ## Overview Own the prose-quality passes that come after structure is settled: the line edit (sentence clarity, rhythm, precision, voice), character-voice differentiation, the copyedit against `style-sheet.md`, a read-aloud pass, and a proof pass on a built copy. Every change is proposed with a before/after and a one-line rationale so the author can accept or reject it. The author's voice is the standard, not the agent's taste. The `better-writing` skill, when installed, is an optional complement for anti-generic checks; this skill does not depend on it. ## Prerequisites A story project with `story.md` and drafted chapters (status `draft` or later). Read `style-sheet.md` if present; if it is missing or thin, build it first with the `voice-style` skill, because the copyedit checks against it. ## Language Read `language` in `story.md` (a BCP 47 tag such as `en-GB`, `fr`, or `ja`; a missing field means `en`). Edit in that language and to its grammar and conventions, and write edit notes in the language the user works in with you, quoting the prose exactly as written. The checklists' word-level advice (filter words, -ly adverbs, *said*, dialogue …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add danjdewhurst/story-skills/line-editing@sha256:8461f35253577854The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261014.4b8019d, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_3q2p3t4fvju2z4ea)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 12 versions of this file, between Sep 24, 2026 and Oct 14, 2026, about one every 2 days.
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| git:20261014.4b8019d latest | 2026-10-14 | 4b8019d | 12,674 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.0c797b9 | 2026-10-07 | 0c797b9 | 12,533 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.c7f46f2 | 2026-10-07 | c7f46f2 | 12,314 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.a8b3f01 | 2026-10-07 | a8b3f01 | 12,393 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.82fb53e | 2026-10-07 | 82fb53e | 12,359 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.a4a6a9b | 2026-10-07 | a4a6a9b | 12,294 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261002.880a47b | 2026-10-02 | 880a47b | 10,796 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260929.9ed97c2 | 2026-09-29 | 9ed97c2 | 9,530 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260927.9592192 | 2026-09-27 | 9592192 | 9,184 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260927.c5f59dc | 2026-09-27 | c5f59dc | 8,935 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260924.c43906b | 2026-09-24 | c43906b | 8,374 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260924.f9090b8 | 2026-09-24 | f9090b8 | 8,811 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (12674 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
danjdewhurst/story-skills · 382 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3q2p3t4fvju2z4ea GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=danjdewhurst/story-skills/line-editing GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8461f352535778542ae3579b87118ca49f9dbc8a72ee1cd688f621d92ff9690f
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