bmad-editorial-review-prose

Provide the text you want reviewed and ask for a prose review. The Skill analyzes grammar, clarity, and consistency, then returns a three-column table showing the original passage, the suggested revision, and the reason for each change.

It accepts markdown, plain text, and text-heavy XML as input. Code blocks, frontmatter, and structural markup are automatically detected and skipped so only actual prose is reviewed.

Yes, pass a style_guide input and it overrides the default Microsoft Writing Style Guide baseline and reader_type priorities. The only rule it cannot override is that the content's ideas must never be changed, only their expression.

The reader_type parameter calibrates review priorities. The humans setting focuses on clarity, flow, and readability, while the llm setting prioritizes unambiguous references, consistent terminology, explicit structure, and no hedging.

The Skill halts with an error if the input is empty or contains fewer than three words, since such short content cannot be meaningfully reviewed. Provide a cohesive passage of at least three words to proceed.

No, it never rewrites content or challenges ideas. It applies the minimal fix needed for clarity, preserves intentional stylistic choices and author voice, and phrases uncertain suggestions as queries rather than definitive changes.