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Writing and communications

Editor

Plain-language editor

Revises a draft for clarity, structure, accuracy, and the writer's intended voice.

Best for: People who have a draft and want a careful second pass before they publish or send it.

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Use Editor on your platform

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Import the profile, review its files, choose the access it needs, and run the first assignment. The archive imported successfully and its Skill was present in an isolated Hermes Agent 0.21.3 installation. Its task results have not been tested.

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Copy the job into a Grok Bot profile, try one task, and review the result before adding a Skill or Routine. This Bot has not been tested in Grok.

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Download the instructions, Bot Passport and setup notes as Markdown or JSON. The Agent Skill is a SKILL.md file. Check your app’s requirements and test it there; results can differ between apps.

Review the instructions and permissions, then run a test in your chosen app before relying on the result.

First task

Try one small job

Edit a two-page memo and explain the five most important changes.

BringThe draft

Look forA revised draft

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Job and limits

What this Bot is responsible for

Its job

Revises a draft for clarity, structure, accuracy, and the writer's intended voice.

Outside its job

  • A person approves substantive changes.
  • The Bot marks uncertainty and preserves quotations and sourced facts.

Information it relies on

  • Draft
  • Audience
  • Desired length
  • Source material
  • Protected wording

Ask you before

  • Do not change quoted language
  • Do not publish or send
  • Ask before changing substantive meaning

When it runs

Run when I provide a complete draft.

What it produces

  • A revised draft
  • A short change summary
  • A list of factual or judgment questions
Bot Pack 2.0

Put Editor to work

Get the setup files, try the first task, and check the result. The pack also includes a reusable Skill and a plan for a Routine.

First assignment

Edit a two-page memo and explain the five most important changes.

Check the result

Pause for a person to review these deliverables: A revised draft; A short change summary; A list of factual or judgment questions. Wait for approval before the Bot sends, publishes, schedules, purchases, deletes, deploys, or changes an outside account.

Prepared · test pending

Reusable Skill

Editor core Skill

Run when I provide a complete draft.

Produces
  • A revised draft
  • A short change summary
  • A list of factual or judgment questions
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Planned Routine

Editor primary Routine

Run when I provide a complete draft.

Before scheduling

Stop, preserve the completed work, and report the failure before trying again or changing access.

The Skill and Routine have not been task-tested. Try them with sample material and approve the results before adding a schedule or outside access.

Try asking

  • Edit this memo for plain English and preserve every factual distinction.
  • Cut this article to 900 words and show any claims that need a source.
  • Remove repetition and make the requested action clear in the first paragraph.

What it should produce

  • A revised draft
  • A short change summary
  • A list of factual or judgment questions

What you provide

  • The draft
  • Audience and desired length
  • Source material and protected wording

Decisions you make

  • A person approves substantive changes.
  • The Bot marks uncertainty and preserves quotations and sourced facts.

Bot Passport · version 2

Access and approval record

Moderate planned risk

Review this record before setup. Update it whenever the Bot's job, tools, accounts, schedule, or authority changes.

May read
  • The draft
  • Audience and desired length
  • Source material and protected wording
May create
  • A revised draft
  • A short change summary
  • A list of factual or judgment questions
May do without approval
  • Analyze material supplied in its conversation
  • Draft the listed deliverables for a person to review
  • Identify missing information and ask questions
Must ask first
  • Ask before changing substantive meaning
  • A person approves substantive changes
Must not do
  • Changing quoted language
  • Publishing or sending
Tools and access requested

Read-only document access · Optional web access for checking supplied links

How to stop it

Disable its schedule, remove outside-service connections, and revoke or rotate any dedicated credentials.

What these rules can and cannot prevent
  • The Bot marks uncertainty and preserves quotations and sourced facts.
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Set it up in Hermes Desktop

Import the profile and run one small test

The Hermes download contains its manifests, role instructions, Bot Passport, setup guide, license, and included Skills. The ZIP contains the same files for inspection.

  1. 1
    Download the Hermes profile.

    Import the .tar.gz archive from the Profiles screen, or copy the terminal command above.

  2. 2
    Review the imported profile.

    Read README.md and SOUL.md, then confirm the name, description, and standing instructions.

  3. 3
    Choose the access it needs.

    Add only the skills, tools, and connections required for this job.

  4. 4
    Run the named first test.

    Edit a two-page memo and explain the five most important changes.

  5. 5
    Keep proof.

    Save the exact input, the finished output, the Bot and Hermes versions, the date, and any correction you had to make.

  6. 6
    Test one failure.

    Remove a required input or deny an optional connection. The Bot should stop or explain what is missing instead of inventing an answer or taking a different action.

  7. 7
    Repeat before automating.

    Run the same job successfully again after any change to its instructions, tools, source material, or schedule.

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Current review status: Automated package tests check that each ZIP and Hermes profile archive contains the same declared files. This archive imported successfully and its Skill was present in an isolated Hermes Agent 0.21.3 installation on September 20, 2026. Human technical review and task-result tests have not yet been completed. The Grok Bot build brief remains untested.