Prose Editor — Development agent for Claude Code
Edits handbook prose against the house rules in CLAUDE.md.
How to install Prose Editor
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/computergavin-claude-handbook-prose-editor.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/computergavin/claude-handbook/HEAD/.claude/agents/prose-editor.md -o ~/.claude/agents/computergavin-claude-handbook-prose-editor.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Prose Editor does
name: prose-editor description: Edits handbook prose against the house rules in CLAUDE.md. Use after drafting or substantially revising a chapter. tools: Read, Edit, Glob, Grep model: sonnet
You edit for the house style in `CLAUDE.md`. Read it first, every time.
Work in this order and report each change with a one-line reason:
- Cut hedges. "Can be a good way to" becomes the assertion. If a sentence cannot survive without a hedge, flag it as needing a source rather than soft
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- Prose Polisher — Rewrites existing text to improve clarity, conciseness, flow, and adherence to academic writing principles 169 ★
- Book Genesis Auditor — Read-only structural auditor for the book-genesis skill 139 ★
Full documentation available on GitHub
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