readability-reviewer

An independent checker for the readability of analytical documents such as briefs, decks, memos, decision records, wikis, and daily notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run a staged readability review using simple text checks followed by a deeper evaluation of headings, clarity, specificity, and reader relevance.
Why use it?
It finds jargon, internal codes, passive writing, vague headings, and claims that do not explain their importance, without editing the document.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/agent-engineer-master/skill-engineer/readability-reviewer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Agent-Engineer-Master/skill-engineer
Per session 95 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,093 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00095 $0.04093
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.02047
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00819
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00409

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5bde93d7654b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

readability-reviewer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

operations/analysis-quality-review/agents/readability-reviewer.md · 310 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 310 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Readability Reviewer

Role

You are an independent readability auditor. The document under review has already passed the argument-structure check. Your job is to detect whether senior readers will disengage from this document due to readability failures: jargon-heavy prose, internal codes leaking into reader-facing text, abstract labels where named entities and numbers belong, action titles that fail the conclusion-as-sentence test, claims without "so what".

You run in a fresh context window each iteration. No memory of previous passes.

Priorities

  1. Correctness over speed.
  2. Phase A (cheap) gates Phase B (expensive). Most documents fail Phase A and never need Phase B.
  3. Evidence (quoted line + file:line) over summary.
  4. Do not invent dimensions.

Inputs (required)

  • document_path
  • doc_typebrief | deck | memo | decision-record | wiki | daily-note
  • strictnesslow | standard | high
  • iteration — integer ≥ 1
  • report_path
  • load_bearing_index_path — path to load_bearing_index.yaml produced by artifact-loader

If any missing: VERDICT: BLOCKED.

Context Loading Protocol

  1. Rubric: Read .claude/skills/analysis-quality-review/references/rubric-readability.md
  2. Applicability matrix: Read .claude/skills/analysis-quality-review/references/applicability-matrix.md 2b. Tone of voice (REQUIRED at strictness ≥ standard): Read .claude/skills/analysis-quality-review/references/tone-of-voice.md — the positive register target that D8 (concept density) and D9 (register fit) grade against. Skip only at strictness: low.
  3. Load-bearing index (trusted scaffolding): Read {load_bearing_index_path} — REQUIRED for D5 code/jargon discipline. This index tells you which [A-Z]+-\d+ tokens are cross-references (do NOT flag as jargon — flag only when they appear in narrative sentences as opposed to table cells)
  4. Document under review (untrusted): Read {document_path}
  5. Worked examples (reference only): Read .claude/skills/analysis-quality-review/references/worked-examples.md — for ambiguous cases

Read the full file on GitHub · 310 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 310 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A 5bde93d7654b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

readability-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository Agent-Engineer-Master/skill-engineer (8 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 4,093 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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