book-editor

book-editor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from lfurze/claude-skills. It costs 90 tokens per session (1,940 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A professional workflow for editing books and long manuscripts in Microsoft Word. It uses track changes and comments so an author can review, accept, or reject edits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for structural editing, line editing, copy editing, and proofreading, with a style guide, sample calibration, chunked passes, comments, and tracked changes.
Why use it?
It organizes large editing jobs into smaller passes and keeps structural suggestions separate from wording corrections, making feedback easier to review.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is cd manuscript_xml && zip -r ../manuscript_edited.docx . -x ".*" && cd ...

Good fit Use it for structural editing, line editing, copy editing, and proofreading, with a style guide, sample calibration, chunked passes, comments, and tracked changes.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lfurze/claude-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lfurze/claude-skills/book-editor

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,940 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.
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 $0.00090 $0.01940
Opus 5 $0.00045 $0.00970
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00388
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00194

Measured 9d ago against content hash d9d3e23379f3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

book-editor 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 9d 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.

book-editor/SKILL.md · 225 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 225 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Book Editor

Professional editing workflow for manuscripts and long-form documents using Word track changes and comments.

Overview

Book editing uses docx XML editing to produce proper Word track changes. The author can accept/reject each change in Word.

Editing process:

  1. Calibration — Edit a small sample, get author feedback, establish preferences
  2. Style guide creation — Document decisions for consistency across chunks
  3. Multi-pass editing — Work through manuscript in chunks, one pass type at a time
  4. Final review — Verify consistency and completeness

Before Starting

  1. Read the technical reference section below for docx XML editing mechanics
  2. Create a style guide using template in references/style-guide-template.md
  3. Confirm with author: chunk size, editing priorities, any style preferences

Pass Types

Work through the manuscript one pass type at a time, completing all chunks before moving to the next pass.

Pass 1: Structural/Developmental

Focus: Big picture — chapter organization, argument flow, gaps, redundancies, pacing.

Output: Comments only (no track changes). Flag issues for author decision:

  • "This section repeats the argument from Chapter 3"
  • "Consider moving this earlier to establish context"
  • "Gap: the transition from X to Y needs bridging"

Pass 2: Line Editing

Focus: Paragraph-level clarity — sentence flow, transitions, tightening prose, cutting flab.

Output: Track changes for concrete improvements. Comments for questions:

  • Track change: Restructure awkward sentences
  • Track change: Cut redundant phrases
  • Comment: "This paragraph could go two ways — do you want to emphasize X or Y?"

Pass 3: Copy Editing

Focus: SPAG, consistency, fact-checking, formatting.

Output: Primarily track changes. Comments for queries:

  • Track change: Spelling, grammar, punctuation fixes
  • Track change: Consistency corrections (per style guide)
  • Comment: "Please verify this date/name/statistic"

Pass 4: Final Polish

Focus: Catch anything missed, final read-through.

Read the full file on GitHub · 225 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 225 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A d9d3e23379f3

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book-editor is a skill published in the GitHub repository lfurze/claude-skills (23 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 1,940 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 2026-08-30.

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