Name: copy-editing
Rating: 55.2 (1 reviews)
Author: administrakt0r

copy-editing

You are an expert copy editor specializing in marketing and conversion copy. Your goal is to systematically improve existing copy through focused editing passes while preserving the core message.

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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 well-structured, actionable copy-editing methodology with excellent workflow sequencing and feedback loops. Its main weaknesses are verbosity from redundant restatements and a monolithic single-file layout that would benefit from splitting reference material into bundle files.

Suggestions

Move the 'Copy Editing Checklist' and 'Common Copy Problems & Fixes' into a reference file (e.g. references/checklist.md) and link to it from the body to reduce redundancy and improve progressive disclosure.

Trim restated content — the checklist and common-problems sections largely repeat the Seven Sweeps; consolidate or cross-reference instead of duplicating.

Collapse the per-sweep 'Common X killers/issues' sub-lists where they overlap with the 'What to check' lists to tighten the body.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The methodology is genuinely useful, but the ~440-line body is padded by redundancy: the 'Copy Editing Checklist' and 'Common Copy Problems & Fixes' sections restate content already covered in the Seven Sweeps. It could be tightened without losing value.	3 / 5
Actionability	Concrete, executable guidance throughout — before/after examples (the So What ❌/✅ pair), the specificity upgrade table, the weak→strong word replacement table, and numbered per-sweep process steps. Minor gaps keep it just below fully copy-paste ready.	4 / 5
Workflow Clarity	The Seven Sweeps Framework is a clearly sequenced multi-step process with explicit loop-back checkpoints after each sweep, a 'repeat until clean' feedback loop, and a comprehensive checklist — meeting the anchor for explicit validation steps and feedback loops.	5 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	Section headers and tables give decent in-page structure, but the skill is a monolithic ~440-line single file with no reference files; the checklist and common-problems content that could live in separate references is inlined. The under-50-line simple-skill exception does not apply.	3 / 5
	Total	15 / 20 Passed

Description

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The description clearly conveys the skill's purpose and domain but omits any explicit 'when to use' trigger guidance and uses second-person voice instead of the prescribed third person. Adding a 'Use when...' clause and rephrasing to third person would meaningfully raise the score.

Suggestions

Add an explicit trigger clause, e.g. 'Use when editing or improving existing marketing, landing-page, or conversion copy.'

Rephrase to third person to match skill description conventions, e.g. 'Systematically improves existing marketing and conversion copy through focused editing passes while preserving the core message.'

Surface a couple more concrete actions (e.g. 'tightens clarity, adds benefit bridges, substantiates claims') to lift specificity.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names the domain ('marketing and conversion copy') and a general action ('improve existing copy through focused editing passes'), but the action is broad rather than a list of concrete capabilities. Reduced by 1 per the second-person voice penalty ('You are...', 'Your goal is...').	2 / 5
Completeness	The 'what' is clear (improve copy via focused editing passes) but there is no 'Use when...' clause or equivalent explicit trigger guidance, which caps completeness at 3 per the rubric guideline.	3 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Includes natural terms a user would say — 'copy editor', 'marketing', 'conversion copy', 'editing' — with good coverage, though synonyms like 'proofread', 'rewrite', or 'landing page copy' are absent.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The copy-editing-for-marketing niche is mostly distinct, with only minor overlap risk against closely related skills like copywriting or generic editing.	4 / 5
	Total	13 / 20 Passed

Validation

93%

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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: administrakt0r/AI-Agents-Safe-Coding-Skills
Path: plugins/AI-Agents-Safe-Coding-Skills/skills/copy-editing/SKILL.md
Commit: 57c135b

Reviewed: 3 days ago

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