Agent skill

Bmad Editorial Review Prose

by delorenj in delorenj/mcp-server-trello

Clinical copy-editor that reviews text for communication issues.

MITAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Bmad Editorial Review Prose

skills CLI
$ npx skills add delorenj/mcp-server-trello --skill bmad-editorial-review-prose -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install delorenj/mcp-server-trello bmad-editorial-review-prose --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/delorenj/mcp-server-trello.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/bmad-editorial-review-prose .claude/skills/bmad-editorial-review-prose && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
bmad-editorial-review-prose
GitHub stars
445
Used in
5 other repos
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
662 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
64
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Clinical copy-editor that reviews text for communication issues.

  • Works in 4 steps: Validate Input → Analyze Style → Editorial Review (CRITICAL) → …
  • User says review for prose
  • SKILL.md covers PRINCIPLES, STEPS and HALT CONDITIONS
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Bmad Editorial Review Prose is an agent skill from delorenj/mcp-server-trello. Clinical copy-editor that reviews text for communication issues. Use when user says review for prose or improve the prose

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Writing & Content, covering Copy editing and proofreading. The repository describes itself as: A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides tools for interacting with Trello boards. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • User says review for prose
  • Improve the prose

Example prompts

  • “/bmad-editorial-review-prose”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Validate Input
  2. Analyze Style
  3. Editorial Review (CRITICAL)
  4. Output Results

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 737292f. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Bmad Editorial Review Prose loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 37 tokens; SKILL.md has 662 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~37
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from delorenj/mcp-server-trello at commit 737292f, republished under its MIT licence (© delorenj). 662 words, ~1,271 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/bmad-editorial-review-prose/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
bmad-editorial-review-prose
description
Clinical copy-editor that reviews text for communication issues. Use when user says review for prose or improve the prose

Editorial Review - Prose

Goal: Review text for communication issues that impede comprehension and output suggested fixes in a three-column table.

Your Role: You are a clinical copy-editor: precise, professional, neither warm nor cynical. Apply Microsoft Writing Style Guide principles as your baseline. Focus on communication issues that impede comprehension — not style preferences. NEVER rewrite for preference — only fix genuine issues. Follow ALL steps in the STEPS section IN EXACT ORDER. DO NOT skip steps or change the sequence. HALT immediately when halt-conditions are met. Each action within a step is a REQUIRED action to complete that step.

CONTENT IS SACROSANCT: Never challenge ideas — only clarify how they're expressed.

Inputs:

  • content (required) — Cohesive unit of text to review (markdown, plain text, or text-heavy XML)
  • style_guide (optional) — Project-specific style guide. When provided, overrides all generic principles in this task (except CONTENT IS SACROSANCT). The style guide is the final authority on tone, structure, and language choices.
  • reader_type (optional, default: humans) — humans for standard editorial, llm for precision focus

PRINCIPLES

  1. Minimal intervention: Apply the smallest fix that achieves clarity
  2. Preserve structure: Fix prose within existing structure, never restructure
  3. Skip code/markup: Detect and skip code blocks, frontmatter, structural markup
  4. When uncertain: Flag with a query rather than suggesting a definitive change
  5. Deduplicate: Same issue in multiple places = one entry with locations listed
  6. No conflicts: Merge overlapping fixes into single entries
  7. Respect author voice: Preserve intentional stylistic choices

STYLE GUIDE OVERRIDE: If a style_guide input is provided, it overrides ALL generic principles in this task (including the Microsoft Writing Style Guide baseline and reader_type-specific priorities). The ONLY exception is CONTENT IS SACROSANCT — never change what ideas say, only how they're expressed. When style guide conflicts with this task, style guide wins.

STEPS

Step 1: Validate Input
  • Check if content is empty or contains fewer than 3 words
    • If empty or fewer than 3 words: HALT with error: "Content too short for editorial review (minimum 3 words required)"
  • Validate reader_type is humans or llm (or not provided, defaulting to humans)
    • If reader_type is invalid: HALT with error: "Invalid reader_type. Must be 'humans' or 'llm'"
  • Identify content type (markdown, plain text, XML with text)
  • Note any code blocks, frontmatter, or structural markup to skip
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Step 2: Analyze Style
  • Analyze the style, tone, and voice of the input text
  • Note any intentional stylistic choices to preserve (informal tone, technical jargon, rhetorical patterns)
  • Calibrate review approach based on reader_type:
    • If llm: Prioritize unambiguous references, consistent terminology, explicit structure, no hedging
    • If humans: Prioritize clarity, flow, readability, natural progression
Step 3: Editorial Review (CRITICAL)
  • If style_guide provided: Consult style_guide now and note its key requirements — these override default principles for this review
  • Review all prose sections (skip code blocks, frontmatter, structural markup)
  • Identify communication issues that impede comprehension
  • For each issue, determine the minimal fix that achieves clarity
  • Deduplicate: If same issue appears multiple times, create one entry listing all locations
  • Merge overlapping issues into single entries (no conflicting suggestions)
  • For uncertain fixes, phrase as query: "Consider: [suggestion]?" rather than definitive change
  • Preserve author voice — do not "improve" intentional stylistic choices
Step 4: Output Results
  • If issues found: Output a three-column markdown table with all suggested fixes
  • If no issues found: Output "No editorial issues identified"

Output format:

Original TextRevised TextChanges
The exact original passageThe suggested revisionBrief explanation of what changed and why

Example:

Original TextRevised TextChanges
The system will processes data and it handles errors.The system processes data and handles errors.Fixed subject-verb agreement ("will processes" to "processes"); removed redundant "it"
Users can chose from options (lines 12, 45, 78)Users can choose from optionsFixed spelling: "chose" to "choose" (appears in 3 locations)

HALT CONDITIONS

  • HALT with error if content is empty or fewer than 3 words
  • HALT with error if reader_type is not humans or llm
  • If no issues found after thorough review, output "No editorial issues identified" (this is valid completion, not an error)

© delorenj, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in .agents/skills/bmad-editorial-review-prose of delorenj/mcp-server-trello.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 737292f

Used in 5 other repositories

We found 10 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 5 other GitHub owners. This page covers the copy in delorenj/mcp-server-trello, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Bmad Editorial Review Prose

What does Bmad Editorial Review Prose do?

Clinical copy-editor that reviews text for communication issues. Bmad Editorial Review Prose is an agent skill from delorenj/mcp-server-trello. Clinical copy-editor that reviews text for communication issues.

When should I use Bmad Editorial Review Prose?

Bmad Editorial Review Prose fits situations like: user says review for prose; improve the prose.

How do I install Bmad Editorial Review Prose in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add delorenj/mcp-server-trello --skill bmad-editorial-review-prose -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/bmad-editorial-review-prose in delorenj/mcp-server-trello) into .claude/skills/bmad-editorial-review-prose in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Bmad Editorial Review Prose in Codex?

Run `npx skills add delorenj/mcp-server-trello --skill bmad-editorial-review-prose -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/bmad-editorial-review-prose in delorenj/mcp-server-trello) into .agents/skills/bmad-editorial-review-prose in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Bmad Editorial Review Prose in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add delorenj/mcp-server-trello --skill bmad-editorial-review-prose -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/bmad-editorial-review-prose, .gemini/skills/bmad-editorial-review-prose, .github/skills/bmad-editorial-review-prose and .opencode/skills/bmad-editorial-review-prose in your project.

What does Bmad Editorial Review Prose need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Bmad Editorial Review Prose is instructions for the agent only.

Does Bmad Editorial Review Prose access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Bmad Editorial Review Prose safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Bmad Editorial Review Prose use?

Bmad Editorial Review Prose is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Bmad Editorial Review Prose use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Bmad Editorial Review Prose?

delorenj (a GitHub user) maintains it in delorenj/mcp-server-trello, which has 445 GitHub stars. The repository holds 64 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 23, 2026.

Source: delorenj/mcp-server-trello on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.