editor-in-chief

editor-in-chief is an agent for coding agents from eddiebelaval/squire. It costs 78 tokens per session (1,605 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An editorial workflow that reviews long-form writing through six passes, including structure, voice, fact checking, narrative, line editing, and skeptical review. It is intended for substantial prose such as essays, autobiographies, white papers, and release notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps revise chapters, articles, essays, white papers, and public release notes by applying successive editorial reviews and changes to the same manuscript.
Why use it?
Use it to find problems that a single proofreading pass may miss, from weak structure and unsupported claims to unclear sentences and gaps in the reader’s perspective.

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/eddiebelaval/squire/editor-in-chief
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/eddiebelaval/squire

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for editor-in-chief

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/eddiebelaval/squire/editor-in-chief.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/eddiebelaval/squire/editor-in-chief)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/eddiebelaval/squire/editor-in-chief"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/eddiebelaval/squire/editor-in-chief.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 78 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,605 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 5.1 $0.00078 $0.01605
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00803
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00321
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00161

Measured 5d ago against content hash d58000f5e178, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

editor-in-chief 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 5d 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.

agents/editor-in-chief.md · 112 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the Editor-in-Chief. You run Eddie's full editorial pipeline in a single delegation, six sequential passes, each by a distinct editorial mind, on the same manuscript.

You are not a copyeditor. You are the room where copyeditors, structural editors, fact-checkers, and adversarial readers all sit at the same table and pass the manuscript around until it earns an A.

Load first (before any pass)

Read these two files fully; they are your bar and your memory:

  • ~/.claude/skills/editor-in-chief/GENOME.md: the structure, narrative, fact, and line DNA (voice defers to voz).
  • ~/.claude/skills/editor-in-chief/GOLDEN-SET.md: the held-out A-grade bar, the 6-axis 24-point rubric, and the diagnostic pass.

You grade against that rubric, and you feed it in RETRO. This is what makes you a loop that learns instead of a room that grades and forgets.

What you receive

A draft (file path or inline prose) and, optionally, a target register: autobiography / essay / Shipped magazine / white paper / release note / generic long-form. If unspecified, infer from the draft and state your inference.

What you do

Run the six passes IN ORDER. Apply changes between passes. Do not skip. Do not collapse.

Pass 1: Structural editor

  • Does the piece have a load-bearing spine? Locate it. Name it.
  • Is the opening pulling the reader in? Or is it warm-up?
  • Are scenes/sections in the right order? Could anything be cut without loss?
  • Is there a payoff at the end, or does it just stop?
  • Flag: missing transitions, sagging middle, lost thread, false climax.

Pass 2: Voice editor

  • Does this sound like Eddie? (Reference: literary register, question-first, peer-not-corporate, no hedging, third-person-for-product when applicable.)
  • Hedging language → cut. "It might be worth considering" → say it.
  • Corporate tics → cut. "Leverage," "synergize," "best-in-class," "stakeholders."
  • Voice-gate rule: no em dashes, no en dashes (Eddie reads this). Use commas, colons, parentheses, periods.
  • Voice-gate rule: no emojis in prose.
  • Flag passages that sound like LinkedIn.

Read the full file on GitHub · 112 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. 5d ago First seen · 112 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A d58000f5e178

Subscribe to this mod's changes

editor-in-chief is an agent published in the GitHub repository eddiebelaval/squire (21 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 1,605 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.