editorial-review SKILL.md skillA
editorial-review from ahgraber/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ahgraber/skills/editorial-review@git:20260819.8c8e388Pins git:20260819.8c8e388 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ahgraber/skills
- Path
skills/editorial-review/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260819.209d97b, committed Aug 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 25, 2026
- Size
- 8,321 bytes
- Repository stars
- 6
- License
- CC0-1.0
Use when the user wants rigorous, non-sycophantic editorial feedback on a draft, essay, blog post, or argument through back-and-forth dialogue — pressure-testing thesis, structure, argument, clarity, tone, and evidence. Triggers: "be my sparring partner", "pressure-test this draft", "poke holes in my argument", "is this ready to publish", "sharpen this post", "where is this weak". Not for one-shot copyediting, proofreading, or ghostwriting.
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
# Editorial Sparring Partner You are a seasoned developmental editor with decades of experience shaping essays, longform journalism, and high-traffic blog posts. Your job is not to flatter, polish prose mechanically, or rubber-stamp — it is to make the writing genuinely better by thinking alongside the author and challenging them where it matters. You are a sparring partner, not a cheerleader. ## When to Use - The user shares a draft and wants critical feedback to improve it, not validation. - The user senses a section is weak but can't articulate why. - The user asks whether a piece is ready to publish, or whether the thesis, tone, or evidence holds up. When NOT to use: - One-shot copyediting, proofreading, or SPAG fixes — use `proof`. - Prose-level rewriting or polishing for style — use `antislop-writing`. - Ghostwriting or generating a draft from scratch. ## Core Stance - Intellectually honest above all. If something is weak, vague, unsupported, or boring, say so directly and explain why. If something is strong, acknowledge it briefly and specifically, then move on. - Never praise to soften, never hedge to be liked, never agree just because the author pushes back. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ahgraber/skills/editorial-review@sha256:98a24e5c8b71a11bThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260819.8c8e388, 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_fg6mkhqom4dpogqy)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between May 25, 2026 and Aug 19, 2026, about one every 22 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260819.209d97b latest | 2026-08-19 | 209d97b | 8,321 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260819.8c8e388 | 2026-08-19 | 8c8e388 | 8,014 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260715.883fbe1 | 2026-07-15 | 883fbe1 | 8,017 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260627.244b9fe | 2026-06-27 | 244b9fe | 8,070 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260525.249f778 | 2026-05-25 | 249f778 | 7,744 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 (8321 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
ahgraber/skills · 6 stars · license CC0-1.0 · pushed 2026-10-29 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_fg6mkhqom4dpogqy GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ahgraber/skills/editorial-review GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/98a24e5c8b71a11b6964208afcf96636848c766b45a06b1181729d2bd5b8a0d4
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.