User-Facing Text Cleanup
guillaumemeyer/watermarks-remover
Audits prose for invisible Unicode characters and rewrites it while keeping facts, citations, code and required disclosures unchanged and the writer's voice intact.
Guide the edit pass after drafting. An agent skill from jwynia/agent-skills.
$ npx skills add jwynia/agent-skills --skill revision -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install jwynia/agent-skills revision --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jwynia/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/creative/fiction/craft/revision .claude/skills/revision && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "revision" agent skill from https://github.com/jwynia/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/creative/fiction/craft/revision into .claude/skills/revision/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "revision", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/jwynia/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/creative/fiction/craft/revisionType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add jwynia/agent-skills --skill revision -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install jwynia/agent-skills revision --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jwynia/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/creative/fiction/craft/revision .agents/skills/revision && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "revision" agent skill from https://github.com/jwynia/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/creative/fiction/craft/revision into .agents/skills/revision/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "revision", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add jwynia/agent-skills --skill revision -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install jwynia/agent-skills revision --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jwynia/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/creative/fiction/craft/revision .cursor/skills/revision && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "revision" agent skill from https://github.com/jwynia/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/creative/fiction/craft/revision into .cursor/skills/revision/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "revision", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/jwynia/agent-skills.git --path skills/creative/fiction/craft/revision--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add jwynia/agent-skills --skill revision -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install jwynia/agent-skills revision --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jwynia/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/creative/fiction/craft/revision .gemini/skills/revision && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "revision" agent skill from https://github.com/jwynia/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/creative/fiction/craft/revision into .gemini/skills/revision/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "revision", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install jwynia/agent-skills revisionInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add jwynia/agent-skills --skill revision -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jwynia/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/creative/fiction/craft/revision .github/skills/revision && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "revision" agent skill from https://github.com/jwynia/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/creative/fiction/craft/revision into .github/skills/revision/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "revision", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add jwynia/agent-skills --skill revision -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install jwynia/agent-skills revision --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jwynia/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/creative/fiction/craft/revision .opencode/skills/revision && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "revision" agent skill from https://github.com/jwynia/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/creative/fiction/craft/revision into .opencode/skills/revision/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "revision", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
revisionGuide the edit pass after drafting. An agent skill from jwynia/agent-skills.
Revision is an agent skill from jwynia/agent-skills. Guide the edit pass after drafting. Use when revision feels overwhelming, when changes cascade unpredictably, when you can't see problems anymore, or when editing never ends.
Its SKILL.md is about 4.8k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including scripts (for example `scripts/revision-audit.ts`).
It sits in Writing & Content, covering Copy editing and proofreading. The licence is MIT.
4 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit e02ec7e. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
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.
Ships 1 file in scripts/ (TypeScript), which the agent can run.
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
denoFrom the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Revision loads about 4.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 46 tokens; SKILL.md has 2,387 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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.
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); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.
The full file from jwynia/agent-skills at commit e02ec7e, republished under its MIT licence (© jwynia). 2,387 words, ~4,783 tokens.
.claude/skills/revision/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.You diagnose revision-level problems and guide systematic manuscript improvement. Your role is to help writers work through revision efficiently and know when they're done.
Revision is not one activity but many, each operating at a different scale.
Work from largest scale to smallest:
Crucial insight: Polishing prose in a scene you'll later cut is wasted effort. Fix structure first.
Addresses the story itself—structure, character arcs, pacing, theme.
Questions:
What to look for:
When done: Story works at the structural level. Major changes complete.
Addresses the writing itself—sentences, paragraphs, flow.
Questions:
What to look for:
When done: Prose is clean and effective at the sentence level.
Addresses mechanics—grammar, spelling, consistency.
Questions:
What to look for:
When done: Manuscript is clean and consistent.
Symptoms: Draft is complete but revision feels paralyzing. Too many problems visible. No clear priority. Random fixing without strategy.
Key Questions:
Diagnostic Checklist:
Interventions:
Symptoms: You've read the manuscript too many times. Problems are invisible. You can't tell if sentences work. Everything feels the same.
Key Questions:
Diagnostic Checklist:
Interventions:
Symptoms: Can't declare done. Keep finding more to fix. Each pass reveals new problems. Perfectionism paralysis. Fear of shipping.
Key Questions:
Diagnostic Checklist:
Interventions:
Symptoms: Reader A says one thing, Reader B says opposite. Can't reconcile conflicting advice. Paralyzed by competing opinions.
Key Questions:
Diagnostic Checklist:
Interventions:
Symptoms: Refusing to cut material. Can't kill darlings. Every word feels precious. Resistance to removing scenes or characters.
Key Questions:
Diagnostic Checklist:
Interventions:
Symptoms: Polishing prose before structure is solid. Line editing before developmental. Fixing sentences in scenes that should be cut.
Key Questions:
Diagnostic Checklist:
Interventions:
Rather than fixing everything at once, use focused passes:
| Pass | Focus | Looking For |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Structural | Story logic | Plot holes, arc completion, pacing |
| 2. Scene | Individual scenes | Goal-conflict-disaster, necessity |
| 3. Character | Consistency | Voice, motivation, arc progress |
| 4. Dialogue | Conversation | Subtext, voice, function |
| 5. Prose | Sentence level | Clarity, flow, precision |
| 6. Polish | Mechanics | Grammar, spelling, formatting |
For each scene, ask:
Decision: Keep, cut, combine, or revise.
For protagonist:
For each scene:
Could this scene be:
For each major character action:
At key story points:
Each dialogue exchange should:
| Stage | Reader Type | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| After structural pass | Beta readers | Story-level problems, engagement |
| After prose pass | Critique partners | Craft-level issues |
| After prose pass | Sensitivity readers | Representation accuracy |
| After polish pass | Proofreaders | Mechanical errors |
Draft Complete
↓
[Rest Period - days/weeks]
↓
Structural Pass
↓
[Beta Readers - optional]
↓
Scene Pass
↓
Character Pass
↓
Dialogue Pass
↓
Prose Pass
↓
[Critique Partners - optional]
↓
Polish Pass
↓
[Proofreader - optional]
↓
DonePattern: Revising forever without declaring done. Problem: Perfect is enemy of shipped. Fix: Define pass goals, set limits, accept "good enough."
Pattern: Starting with prose when structure is broken. Problem: Wasted effort on scenes that get cut. Fix: Always work top-down. Structure first.
Pattern: Revising immediately after drafting. Problem: Too close to see clearly. Fix: Time away creates necessary distance.
Pattern: Implementing every piece of feedback. Problem: Loses authorial vision, creates Frankenstein. Fix: Look for patterns, distinguish preference from problem.
Pattern: Trying to catch everything alone. Problem: Author blindness is real. Fix: External readers see what you can't.
Pattern: Refusing to cut material. Problem: Story drowns in unnecessary weight. Fix: Save cuts, focus on strengthening what remains.
When a writer presents revision problems:
Based on where they are in the six-pass sequence.
Helps track revision pass progress and scene decisions.
deno run --allow-read scripts/revision-audit.ts --scenes manuscript.txt
deno run --allow-read scripts/revision-audit.ts --pass structuralOutputs:
| story-sense State | Maps to Revision |
|---|---|
| State 6: Draft Complete, Needs Revision | R1-R6 (diagnose which) |
Writer: "I finished my draft but I don't know where to start revising."
Your approach:
Writer: "I've revised this novel fifteen times and I still see problems."
Your approach:
Writer: "One reader says the pacing is too fast, another says it's too slow."
Your approach:
This skill writes primary output to files so work persists across sessions.
Before doing any other work:
context/output-config.md in the projectexplorations/revision/ or a sensible location for this projectcontext/output-config.md if context network exists.revision-output.md at project root otherwiseFor this skill, persist:
| Goes to File | Stays in Conversation |
|---|---|
| Revision state diagnosis | Clarifying questions |
| Pass plan and priorities | Discussion of specific feedback |
| Feedback pattern synthesis | Writer's revision decisions |
| Progress tracking | Real-time support |
Pattern: {story}-revision-{date}.md
Example: novel-revision-2025-01-15.md
Your role is diagnostic: identify where they are in the revision process, what's blocking them, and what the next step should be. They do the revising.
Revision is not "fixing the draft." It's building the final manuscript. The draft was exploration; revision is construction.
The most common revision failure is working at the wrong level—polishing sentences in a scene that should be cut, or trying to fix everything at once. The fix is always: work from large to small, one pass at a time, with clear definitions of done.
Revision ends when marginal returns diminish—when each pass finds less than the one before. At some point, the manuscript is done. Ship it.
© jwynia, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
SKILL.md and 1 other file (scripts) in skills/creative/fiction/craft/revision of jwynia/agent-skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit e02ec7e
Revision next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revision this skilljwynia/agent-skills | 170 | — | ~4.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| User-Facing Text Cleanupguillaumemeyer/watermarks-remover | 24k | — | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Story Multi-Perspective Reviewzenstory-ai/oh-story-claudecode | 7.4k | 3 repos | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Chinese Text Humanizerop7418/Humanizer-zh | 19k | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Baoyu TranslateJimLiu/baoyu-skills | 27k | 1 repos | ~3.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Natural Japanese Business Writingcoji/natural-japanese | 1.9k | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
guillaumemeyer/watermarks-remover
Audits prose for invisible Unicode characters and rewrites it while keeping facts, citations, code and required disclosures unchanged and the writer's voice intact.
zenstory-ai/oh-story-claudecode
Reviews Chinese web-novel text with several reviewer agents in parallel, falling back to a single-agent pass, and reports structure, character, prose and setting problems with fixes.
op7418/Humanizer-zh
Edits Chinese articles, comments and documents to remove filler, repetition and template phrasing while keeping the facts, the level of certainty and the author's voice.
JimLiu/baoyu-skills
Translates articles and files in quick, normal or refined mode, with a custom glossary, saved preferences and a review-and-polish workflow for publication quality.
coji/natural-japanese
Writes and edits Japanese business documents so they read clearly and naturally, removes AI-sounding phrasing and can score how AI-like a text reads.
lennney/stop-that-shit
Cuts defensive disclaimers, stacked hedging and self-protective narration from proposals and summaries, keeping only limits that affect the reader's decision.
jwynia/agent-skills
Diagnose devcontainer configuration problems and guide development environment setup.
jwynia/agent-skills
Create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces with high design quality.
jwynia/agent-skills
Orchestrate agile development workflows for Gitea repositories using the tea CLI.
jwynia/agent-skills
Generate game assets using AI image generation APIs (DALL-E, Replicate, fal.ai) and prepare them for Godot.
jwynia/agent-skills
Develop AI agents, tools, and workflows with Mastra v1 Beta and Hono servers.
jwynia/agent-skills
Create and manipulate PowerPoint PPTX files programmatically.
Categories
Guide the edit pass after drafting. An agent skill from jwynia/agent-skills. Revision is an agent skill from jwynia/agent-skills. Guide the edit pass after drafting.
Revision fits situations like: revision feels overwhelming; changes cascade unpredictably; you cant see problems anymore; editing never ends.
Run `npx skills add jwynia/agent-skills --skill revision -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/creative/fiction/craft/revision in jwynia/agent-skills) into .claude/skills/revision in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
Run `npx skills add jwynia/agent-skills --skill revision -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/creative/fiction/craft/revision in jwynia/agent-skills) into .agents/skills/revision in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add jwynia/agent-skills --skill revision -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/revision, .gemini/skills/revision, .github/skills/revision and .opencode/skills/revision in your project.
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Revision needs TypeScript for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (deno). Our summary lists: Node.js.
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.
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. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.
Revision is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
About 4.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 19k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Revision: User-Facing Text Cleanup (guillaumemeyer/watermarks-remover, 24k stars), Story Multi-Perspective Review (zenstory-ai/oh-story-claudecode, 7.4k stars), Chinese Text Humanizer (op7418/Humanizer-zh, 19k stars) and Baoyu Translate (JimLiu/baoyu-skills, 27k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
jwynia (a GitHub user) maintains it in jwynia/agent-skills, which has 170 GitHub stars. The repository holds 111 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on February 24, 2026.
Source: jwynia/agent-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.