prose-edit

prose-edit is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Mikefluff/skills. It costs 73 tokens per session (2,476 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A fiction-focused editing workflow that rewrites existing scenes or passages and checks for artificial-sounding prose patterns.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps revise a chapter, scene, or passage using voice rules, artistic editing, and structural checks, with story consistency handled by a separate canon-check skill.
Why use it?
It helps improve voice and style without treating fiction like business writing or generating a new chapter from nothing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the mikefluff-skills plugin — 44 skills, 2 commands shipped together

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 skills/mikefluff/skills/prose-edit
Any agent
npx skills add Mikefluff/skills --skill prose-edit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mikefluff/skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install mikefluff-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 44 skills, 2 commands.

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 prose-edit

README.md
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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,476 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 $0.00073 $0.02476
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01238
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00495
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00248

Measured 5d ago against content hash 21f1b5efbf26, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prose-edit 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.

skills/prose-edit/SKILL.md · 151 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 151 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The skill does NOT write a chapter from scratch. It:

  • rewrites an existing fragment per fiction voice rules
  • catches what the generic writer pass misses (fiction-specific synthetic-prose patterns layered on top of universal ones)
  • defers story-bible consistency to the separate canon-check skill (compose them — see docs/COMPOSING.md)

DEPENDENCY ON writer

Все базовые правила (антинейрослоп regex 25 категорий, типографика, стаккато/отрицания/обрубки/инверсии/повторы, кальки) уже живут в writer/SKILL.md. Этот скилл их НЕ дублирует — он применяет их через writer 4-layer pass плюс добавляет художественный слой поверх.

При работе с фрагментом всегда заканчивай writer pass'ом до выдачи.

CRITICAL — что НЕ переносить из бизнес-редактирования

Художественная проза живёт по другим правилам. Не применять к ней:

  • filler trim — повторы и «лишние» слова часто работают как ритм/голос
  • восклицания — характерные для автора, не убирать
  • неполные предложения — могут быть художественным приёмом (НО! не путать с нейрослоп-стаккато: 3+ односоставных подряд по чужому шаблону — это всё равно правится через writer)
  • сжатие диалога — реплики персонажей имеют свою длину и ритм
  • «улучшение» метафор в сторону «правильности» — авторская образность важнее формальной чистоты

Если конфликт между правилом writer и художественной целесообразностью — оставляй авторский вариант и помечай в сводке.

Voice references (краткое резюме)

Ориентир — Пелевин + приёмы Мэнсона как вектор, не подражание. Перед правкой прогонять 10-пунктовый style drift checklist (штампы / пафос / проповеди / Netflix-моменты / резонёрство / морализаторство / гладкость / самоповтор / объяснительность / псевдоумность).

Полный список и пояснения — references/voice.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 151 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 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. 5d ago First seen · 151 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 21f1b5efbf26

Subscribe to this mod's changes

prose-edit is a skill published in the GitHub repository Mikefluff/skills (19 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 2,476 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.

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