Edit Article

Edit and improve articles by restructuring sections, improving clarity, and tightening prose. Use when user wants to edit, revise, or improve an article draft.

by mattpocock

Source

Install

Copy install prompt for AI

Natural-language prompt you can paste into any Claude conversation. Claude Code installs it to ~/.claude/skills/edit-article/; claude.ai and Claude Desktop adopt it for the current chat and tell you how to save it permanently.

Copy install command

curl -fsSL https://spellbook.build/i/edit-article | bash

Drops the file into ~/.claude/skills/edit-article/SKILL.md. The script is plain shell — inspect it by dropping the | bash.

Download skill folder

Download .zip

A edit-article/ folder with SKILL.md (and any supporting files) — unzip into ~/.claude/skills/.

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Skill content

---
name: edit-article
description: Edit and improve articles by restructuring sections, improving clarity, and tightening prose. Use when user wants to edit, revise, or improve an article draft.
disable-model-invocation: true
---

1. First, divide the article into sections based on its headings. Think about the main points you want to make during those sections.

Consider that information is a directed acyclic graph, and that pieces of information can depend on other pieces of information. Make sure that the order of the sections and their contents respects these dependencies.

Confirm the sections with the user.

2. For each section:

2a. Rewrite the section to improve clarity, coherence, and flow. Use maximum 240 characters per paragraph.

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