editorial-qa

editorial-qa is a skill for Claude Code from rampstackco/claude-skills. It costs 190 tokens per session (4,754 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pre-publication review method for checking content before readers see it. It covers accuracy, brief fit, tone, structure, search requirements, links, and signs of machine-written text.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing individual articles, checking AI-generated drafts, and quality-checking large sets of search-focused pages. It helps verify facts, clarity, internal links, structured data, and compliance with content requirements.
Why use it?
It catches meaningful content problems that a quick spellcheck or an oversized checklist can miss. It also adapts the review method when many pieces must be checked.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the rampstack-skills plugin — 103 skills 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/rampstackco/claude-skills/editorial-qa
Any agent
npx skills add rampstackco/claude-skills --skill editorial-qa
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rampstackco/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rampstack-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 103 skills.

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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 editorial-qa

README.md
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Per session 190 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,754 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 $0.00190 $0.04754
Opus 5 $0.00095 $0.02377
Sonnet 5 $0.00038 $0.00951
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00475

Measured 6d ago against content hash 487b4f8a87f1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

editorial-qa 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 6d 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/editorial-qa/SKILL.md · 335 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 335 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Editorial QA

A senior editor's playbook for pre-publish content QA. The discipline that catches problems BEFORE content ships, not after.

Most content QA is broken in one of two directions. The thin version is "did I read it once and is the spelling OK," which catches typos but misses brief drift, voice inconsistency, hallucinated facts, AI tells, and structural problems that reach readers as "this is fine but not memorable." The thick version is a 47-item checklist that nobody completes honestly because it is process theater: checkboxes nobody actually believes catch problems.

This skill is the discipline of catch-problems QA. Each check earns its keep by catching a specific class of failure that would reach readers if missed. Checks that do not catch anything get cut. Checks the production volume cannot sustain get redesigned (sampling instead of full audit, automated instead of manual). The QA framework is what is left when you remove the theater.

The skill covers three production shapes: single editorial pieces (one at a time, full QA), AI-generated drafts (with the AI-content audit that did not exist as prominently 2 years ago), and programmatic SEO sets at scale (sampling discipline, threshold gating). Each needs its own QA shape; the underlying methodology composes across all three.

When to use this skill: building a content QA process from scratch, auditing an existing QA process that ships sloppy work or burns out the team, designing QA gates for an AI-assisted workflow, or building sampling discipline for programmatic SEO sets.


What this skill is for

This skill spans pre-publish quality control. It plugs in at the END of every other content skill's output. The six-skill content suite distinction:

  • content-strategy is program scope: what to produce.
  • pillar-content-architecture is hub scope: how the topical hub fits together.
  • content-brief-authoring is per-piece scope: briefs each piece.
  • content-and-copy is execution scope: writes each piece.
  • programmatic-seo is scaled scope: generates many pages from data.
  • This skill is gate scope: verifies before publish.

Read the full file on GitHub · 335 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. 6d ago First seen · 335 lines · 190 tokens per session scan A 487b4f8a87f1

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editorial-qa is a skill published in the GitHub repository rampstackco/claude-skills (822 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 190 tokens to every session and 4,754 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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