copy-editing

When the user wants to edit, review, or improve existing marketing copy. Also use when the user mentions 'edit this copy,' 'review my copy,' 'copy feedback,' 'proofread,' 'polish this,' 'make this better,' or 'copy sweep.' This skill provides a systematic approach to editing marketing copy through multiple focused passes.

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The canonical home for this skill is copy-editing in coreyhaines31/marketingskills

Quality

Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A thorough, well-structured editing skill with concrete examples, clear sequenced workflow and feedback loops, and good reference structure. The main weakness is verbosity from structural repetition across the seven sweeps and a duplicate checklist.

Suggestions

Consolidate the repeated per-sweep subsection structure (What to check / Common issues / Process / After this sweep) into a shared template to reduce length while preserving each sweep's specifics.

Remove or compress the full 'Copy Editing Checklist' section that restates every sweep, or convert it to a pointer rather than duplicating the sweep content.

Move the 'Common Copy Problems & Fixes' table-heavy detail into a reference file to keep SKILL.md as a lean overview, reducing token load.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Mostly efficient domain-specific guidance, but the seven-sweep structure repeats four subsections per sweep and a full duplicate checklist restates each sweep, adding length that could be tightened.	3 / 5
Actionability	Highly actionable for an instruction skill: before/after (❌/✅) examples, vague/specific and weak/strong word tables, and problem/symptom/fix triples cover the common cases concretely.	5 / 5
Workflow Clarity	Clearly sequenced seven-sweep process with explicit 'After this sweep: Return to [prior sweeps]' loop-back checkpoints, an iterative 'Verify previous sweeps / Repeat until clean' workflow, and per-sweep checklists.	5 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	Well-organized sections with a single clearly signaled, verified one-level-deep reference (references/plain-english-alternatives.md) and easy navigation across the framework.	5 / 5
	Total	18 / 20 Passed

Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong description that clearly states both purpose and explicit trigger conditions with comprehensive natural phrasing. Minor room to enumerate the specific editing dimensions upfront, but overall highly effective.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names the domain and multiple concrete actions ('edit, review, or improve existing marketing copy', 'editing marketing copy through multiple focused passes'), with minor gaps in coverage of the specific sweep dimensions.	4 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly answers both 'what' (systematic approach to editing marketing copy through multiple focused passes) and 'when' (explicit 'Also use when the user mentions...') with concrete trigger phrases.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Comprehensive verbatim natural trigger phrases ('edit this copy,' 'review my copy,' 'proofread,' 'polish this,' 'make this better,' 'copy sweep') with broad synonym coverage users would actually say.	5 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Clear niche in marketing/conversion copy editing with distinct triggers and minimal conflict risk; the body further disambiguates against copywriting, page-cro, and related skills.	5 / 5
	Total	19 / 20 Passed

Validation

93%

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Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: TheCraigHewitt/seomachine
Path: .claude/skills/copy-editing/SKILL.md
Commit: e818d5e

Reviewed: 7 days ago

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