mccloskey-prose-edit

What problem does it solve?

This Skill automates a structured McCloskey-style prose audit to detect economical writing violations, score sections, and produce actionable revision suggestions so authors can improve clarity and brevity without manual line-by-line edits.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Adversarial review loop: Runs a critic→fixer→critic pattern that scores text, proposes edits, and re-grades suggested revisions.
• Section-targeted or full-paper audits: Accepts a single section number or 'all' to process multiple sections iteratively.
• Safe I/O boundaries: Reads Overleaf manuscript files for analysis but never writes to Overleaf; final suggestions are written to the Quarto replication book.
• Use case: Run a pre-submission pass over section 3 to produce a bipartite problem/solution commentary for author revision tracking.

Quick Start

Run a McCloskey prose audit on section 2 and save the suggested revisions to replication_book/prose_revisions.qmd.