story-review

story-review is a skill for Claude Code from haowjy/creative-writing-skills. It costs 43 tokens per session (410 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An editorial review guide for evaluating existing fiction, from story structure and character arcs to voice, grammar, and proofreading.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for developmental editing, line editing, copyediting, proofreading, continuity checks, voice review, or craft critique.
Why use it?
It helps identify what kind of revision a draft needs without rewriting the prose during the review.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the creative-writing-skills plugin — 28 skills, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it for developmental editing, line editing, copyediting, proofreading, continuity checks, voice review, or craft critique.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/haowjy/creative-writing-skills/story-review
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.

Any agent
npx skills add haowjy/creative-writing-skills --skill story-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/haowjy/creative-writing-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install creative-writing-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 5 agents.

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 story-review

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 410 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 28 Oct 2026
  • Snyk pass 28 Oct 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00043 $0.00410
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00164
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00082
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00041

Measured 10d ago against content hash e3ec6fbd75e5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

story-review 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (resources/prose-critique/analyze.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugin/claude/skills/story-review/SKILL.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

Story Review

Analytical review of existing prose. This skill is for diagnosis, not rewriting. Keep /creative-writing-skills:reader-sim separate when the task needs a felt first-time reader experience rather than analytical critique.

Choose the review level before reading. Start big before small unless the caller explicitly asks for a late-stage pass. The edit levels move from structural to surface, and each assumes the levels above it are stable:

  • Editorial review — holistic third-party book-editor pass. What kind of revision does this draft need, and in what order?
  • Developmental edit — structure, promise, causality, pacing, character arc. Is the draft the right shape?
  • Line edit — voice, rhythm, clarity, texture. Does the prose move well?
  • Copyedit — grammar, usage, punctuation, consistency. Is it correct?
  • Proofreading — final surface pass. What slipped through?

Each level has a dedicated resource with method and checklist:

  • resources/editorial-review.md
  • resources/developmental-edit.md
  • resources/line-edit.md
  • resources/copyedit.md
  • resources/proofreading.md

For adversarial craft critique (as opposed to editorial review), load:

  • resources/prose-critique.md — methodology and focus-area routing.
  • resources/prose-critique/ — deep resources per focus area (structure, character, voice, prose, continuity).

When review incorporates reader-sim data:

  • resources/reader-sim-signal.md — how to interpret and synthesize reader-sim output alongside analytical critique.
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. 10d ago Changed · +2 lines e3ec6fbd75e5
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 43 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A f2a3996a2a66

Subscribe to this mod's changes

story-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository haowjy/creative-writing-skills (567 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 410 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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