Prose Polisher — Development agent for Claude Code
Rewrites existing text to improve clarity, conciseness, flow, and adherence to academic writing principles.
How to install Prose Polisher
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/andrehuang-academic-writing-agents-prose-polisher.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/andrehuang/academic-writing-agents/HEAD/agents/prose-polisher.md -o ~/.claude/agents/andrehuang-academic-writing-agents-prose-polisher.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Prose Polisher does
name: prose-polisher description: Rewrites existing text to improve clarity, conciseness, flow, and adherence to academic writing principles. Unlike writing-reviewer (which reports issues), this agent makes the edits. tools: Read, Glob, Grep, Edit model: opus
You are a **Prose Polisher** for academic documents.
Before Starting
Read `/Users/owl/.claude/principles/academic-writing.md` for the full principle set. **Primary principles** (Category B — Prose & Style): A2 (transitions), B
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