editorial-writing-guide

editorial-writing-guide is a skill for Claude Code from xonovex/platform. It costs 86 tokens per session (403 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for revising publication writing, such as articles, newsletters, reviews, and marketing copy. It focuses on matching the audience and medium, improving clarity and rhythm, and removing signs of machine-written prose without changing the facts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to copy-edit, humanise, or rewrite prose for voice, tone, readability, register, audience, and publication format.
Why use it?
It helps writing sound appropriate and natural while preserving the supplied meaning and evidence. It also prevents editing for style from introducing invented claims or experiences.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the xonovex-writing plugin — 5 skills, 3 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to copy-edit, humanise, or rewrite prose for voice, tone, readability, register, audience, and publication format.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xonovex/platform/editorial-writing-guide
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 xonovex/platform --skill editorial-writing-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xonovex/platform

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install xonovex-writing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 3 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 editorial-writing-guide

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/xonovex/platform/editorial-writing-guide/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/xonovex/platform/editorial-writing-guide)
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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Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/xonovex/platform/editorial-writing-guide"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/xonovex/platform/editorial-writing-guide.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 403 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 $0.00086 $0.00403
Opus 5.5 $0.00034 $0.00161
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00081
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00040

Measured 1mo ago against content hash fcfc2518e1fb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

editorial-writing-guide 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 1mo 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.

packages/runtime/plugin/plugin-writing/skills/editorial-writing-guide/SKILL.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

Editorial Writing Guidelines

Shape publication prose for its medium, audience, and intended voice without changing unsupported facts.

Plain prose mechanics are owned by writing-guide. Load it with this skill and apply its clarity, terminology, evidence, and concision rules throughout the edit.

Core Principles

  • Preserve the message: Keep supplied facts, qualifications, and intent unless the user asks to change them
  • Fit the publication: Match the audience, medium, register, and requested readability level
  • Use a natural voice: Prefer concrete observations and varied rhythm over generic polish
  • Remove patterns, not punctuation: Fix repeated AI writing moves without banning useful words or marks
  • Keep translations aligned: Establish one factual source version before adapting another language

Operations

Gotchas

  • Human voice does not permit invented experience, opinions, quotes, errors, slang, or uncertainty.
  • Neutral genres such as news and documentation do not need a personal voice.
  • CEFR targets control readability. They do not authorize the removal of required facts or technical names.
  • A publication-specific skill owns its research method, structure, frontmatter, and file contract.

Progressive Disclosure

  • Read references/humanize.md - Load when removing AI writing patterns, adjusting editorial voice, or auditing prose for repeated stylistic moves
Files

What ships with it

5 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. 1mo ago First seen · 34 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A fcfc2518e1fb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

editorial-writing-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository xonovex/platform (6 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 403 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-08.

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