every-style-editor_skill

Overview

This skill performs systematic, line-by-line editing to ensure copy follows Every’s style guide for grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and voice. It turns a draft into clean, consistent copy ready for human editorial review. The focus is on precise, actionable corrections while preserving the author’s voice.

How this skill works

The skill inspects a document in four phases: initial assessment, detailed line edit, mechanical review, and recommendations. It flags every sentence-level error, cites the relevant style rule, and proposes corrected text and brief explanations. Output includes a summary, detailed corrections with locations, recurring issue patterns, a compliance checklist, and final actionable suggestions.

When to use it

• Reviewing articles, blog posts, newsletters, or long-form content
• Preparing copy before human editorial review
• Ensuring adherence to Every’s punctuation, capitalization, and number rules
• Checking formatting for lists, links, italics, and special elements
• Improving clarity, reducing passive voice, and eliminating overused words

Best practices

• Start with a full read to grasp document type, audience, and tone
• Provide exact quoted text for every flagged error
• Cite the specific style rule for each correction
• Preserve the author’s voice; prioritize minimal, clarity-focused edits
• Group recurring issues and suggest global fixes to apply across the document

Example use cases

• Clean up a draft article to match Every’s headline and number rules
• Line-edit a newsletter for punctuation, spacing, and link phrasing
• Audit a knowledge-base entry for capitalization and job-title consistency
• Prepare social posts by enforcing sentence case and concise link text
• Convert inconsistent list formatting and hyphenation to style-compliant forms